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  1. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    In the old US Methodist revival of the 1800's they used to have exhortation, sometimes done by exhorters, and to describe a couple of them and a camp meeting named after Asbury.... THOUGH not an old man, my memory goes back for somewhat more than half a century. The things that happened then...
  2. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    This as I remember was an enjoyable read!
  3. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    As a teenager I had fell in with my generation and that was where my care lay... Attention Appreciation Acceptance I moved in with my grandmother and ended up away from my former cares. I would end up farming and attending revivals at the local Pentecostal Holiness church. At the end of that...
  4. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    John Wesley also frowned on the direction the American Methodist were taking the church after the Revolutionary War and in a letter he writes.... LONDON September 20, 1788 My Dear Brother: There is, indeed, a wide difference between the relation wherein you stand to the Americans and the...
  5. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    The yankee way is to receive religion with no change at all in heart, All I can do is remain thankful of the methods in which I received. One night after revival in my teenage years I felt a voice say 'put the book down' while laying in bed I am like what? The voice said again 'put the book...
  6. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    I don’t believe the Philadelphian church as US influenced.... But the Laodicean is! I believe we have many good ministries to arise out of Laodicea, and I am not saying it is all bad. But it is different than the Sardisean denomination and the Philadelphian revival before it.
  7. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    Not so! I believe the Philadelphian has strong roots in people like the English Methodist and German Moravian.
  8. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    I don’t believe sanctification was ever well defined and universally accepted. Am I Philadelphian? And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. - Revelation 5:4 I am aware there is a Book, and seven basic Christian movements in time...
  9. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    Some called the experience sanctification, which I believe neighbors salvation. When they would sense the Christ they would sense the sanctification and in the words of the Apostle Paul... And they glorified God in me. - Galatians 1:24 Otherwise they would tell you to come back tomorrow...
  10. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    I miss the old revival... 1. An evangelist come to town 2. Organizes a revival in a tent or a church 3. Heart felt worship service 4. Message with conviction 5. Altar service with many getting saved.
  11. rockytopva

    I consider myself Philadelphian

    I believe in seven church ages. One of the reasons the Catholic church does not bother me is because the spirit of Jezebel existed mainly in the Thyatiran time.... Ephesus - Messianic - Beginning with the Apostle to the Circumcision, Peter Smyrna - Martyr - Beginning with the Apostle to the...
  12. rockytopva

    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed. - psalms 2:1-2
  13. rockytopva

    Warmed Twice!

    Nice to get out to saw and split oak in these Virginia mountains. Warmed from the exercise, warmed again by the wood stove!
  14. rockytopva

    Our Ungodly Democratic Virginia Governor

    Article quotes Virginia’s Democratic Governor Ralph Northam as stating that an unwanted child that has already been delivered should be cared for only “if that’s what the mother and family desired.” Heritage Denounces Virginia’s Horrifying Late-Term Abortion Proposal | myHeritage Article...
  15. rockytopva

    When Churchianity fails you . . .

    An introduction to the Pilgrims Progress... 1. Wicket Gate - Salvation 2. Interpreters House - Sanctification 3. Porters House - Baptism in the Holy Spirit 4. Valleys - The valley of the shadow of death 5. Vanity Fair - Witnessing to this present world 6. Demas Silver Mines - The trap of...
  16. rockytopva

    Bummer Lambs

    Found this on my Facebook page.... Every once in a while, a ewe will give birth to a lamb and reject it. If the lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother may even kick the poor animal away. Once a ewe rejects one of her lambs, she will never change her mind. These little lambs will hang their...
  17. rockytopva

    I Would Prefer All-Hallows Over Halloween

    I would prefer painting and cutting images of saints than the alternative.
  18. rockytopva

    I Would Prefer All-Hallows Over Halloween

    I own two houses in which I let my dad live in the other. The second house I have a lot stored in buildings. My dad searched the buildings for Halloween decoration and complained over the fact that he could not find the first single ornament. I told him that if we were celebrating All-Hallows I...
  19. rockytopva

    False Spirits vs False Doctrines

    It is just as important to be right in the heart as well as the head.... Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the...
  20. rockytopva

    The GE Diesel Electric Motor

    I also put together a video of a NS engine pulling tons of coal up the mountain from West Virginia..You can see sand being put on the tracks as he labors up the mountain!..
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