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  1. rockytopva

    China Rain Forecast

    Article states, “The water level at China's Three Gorges Dam has dropped from its record peak over the weekend, although the risk of flooding lingers as heavy rains continue.” https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Natural-disasters/Three-Gorges-Dam-waters-drop-from-peak-but-flood-risk-persists
  2. rockytopva

    The last face before the tragedy

    The last face before the tragedy…
  3. rockytopva

    China Rain Forecast

    This forecast is in the vicinity of the new Three River Gorges Dam...
  4. rockytopva

    China Rain Forecast

    Currently heavy rain with more on the way. This with already heavy flooding... https://www.accuweather.com/en/cn/three-gorges-dam/196633_poi/daily-weather-forecast/196633_poi
  5. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    I must say that I had no interest at all in Bible reading... Until I found Christ in what I would call an old fashion Altar in meetings as described by George Clark Rankin in the stories above. After true repentance and a sense of God's Holy Spirit Bible reading became a daily activity. And it...
  6. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    The Bob Jones University did a movie on the late Robert Sheffey, in which, I hope it was remembered, “He could say the oddest things, hold the most unique interviews with God, break forth in the most unexpected spasms of praise, use the homeliest illustrations, do the funniest things and go...
  7. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    Camp Meeting in Virginia around the old, Methodist Episcopal Church South mourners bench! Dear to me is this chapter of the book because I experienced so much of the wonderful things the author talks about in this work! The Life of George Clark Rankin, who himself became a circuit rider, and...
  8. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    As we drove home I did not have much to say, but I listened attentively to the conversation between my uncle and his wife. They were greatly impressed with the meeting, and they spoke first of this one and that one who had "come through" and what a change it would make in the community, as many...
  9. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    I have read of a George Clark Rankin who picked up his Christianity Message… Conviction… Altar call… The old Methodist called the altar a “Mourners Bench” and to tell the story… "Grandfather was kind to me and considerate of me, yet he was strict with me. I worked along with him in the field...
  10. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    And hearing the theme song from the Waltons while I meditate on these things.
  11. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    I made a video of a cassette tape from the 1970's that I bought while attending one of those GARBC revivals where there was a good message, conviction, and then the trip to the altar for prayer. I had invited a friend and he said that he had also went to the altar after the message where he had...
  12. rockytopva

    Message... Conviction... Altar Call

    I was born in Camp Lejeune NC and spent part of the 1970's in Michigan. When we moved there my dad bought me a motorcycle and I would spend my weekends trailblazing the countryside. One Sunday morning I was riding up the hill and turned around to almost run into a church bus. The bus doors open...
  13. rockytopva

    John Bunyan's Methods of a full salvation

    John Bunyan was an independent. I once read, I believe in Grace Abounding, him saying, “Some call me Ana-Baptist.” As far as Calvinism John Bunyan never mentioned the movement. A big difference is that John Bunyan would never threaten an enemy with his life for negating him.
  14. rockytopva

    John Bunyan's Methods of a full salvation

    Among Bunyan's many enjoyable works… A Few Sighs from Hell, or the Groans of a Damned Soul, 1658 A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and the Publican, 1685 A Holy Life Christ a Complete Saviour (The Intercession of Christ And Who Are Privileged in It), 1692 Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, 1678...
  15. rockytopva

    John Bunyan's Methods of a full salvation

    Especially the arrival at the cross as it deserved more explanation.
  16. rockytopva

    Why does God let us sin?

    19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to...
  17. rockytopva

    John Bunyan's Methods of a full salvation

    John Bunyan's Methods of a full salvation... In which the witness of the Spirit is picked up at the Porter's House. And how I would teach the doctrine.... 1. Salvation - As the Christian leaves the City of Destruction and makes his way to the Celestial City. 2. Sanctification - At the...
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