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  1. rockytopva

    The Lost Art of Exhortation

    And an example of the exhortors work at soul winning, and quoting from the book of George Clark Rankin.... After the team had been fed and we had been to supper we put the mules to the wagon, filled it with chairs and we were off to the meeting. When we reached the locality it was about dark...
  2. rockytopva

    The Lost Art of Exhortation

    In the old Methodist revival of the 1800's they used to have exhortation, sometimes done by exhorters. And to describe a couple of them.... THOUGH not an old man, my memory goes back for somewhat more than half a century. The things that happened then are as clear in my mind as if they took...
  3. rockytopva

    Endless Pet Doctrines

    I used to be a great fan of revival. It seems like most Christian gatherings these days focus on pet doctrines.
  4. rockytopva

    Have you seen the Light?

    I had a friend who had a girlfriend in Detroit Michigan who thought he was being chased on the way home. He enters a building to find a church in revival like the one below... Have you seen the Light?
  5. rockytopva

    WE ARE ALL ONE BREATH AWAY FROM ETERNITY!

    Don't Spoil Your Appetite! If E = mc2 then we can divide and conclude that... Mass (m) = Energy (E/c2) And there are three varieties... Natural E/c2 - All mass is basically cooled plasma Mental E/c2 - Mentally, A mathematical formula, but this has chemical and spiritual properties as well...
  6. rockytopva

    WE ARE ALL ONE BREATH AWAY FROM ETERNITY!

    Don't Spoil Your Appetite! If E = mc2 then we can divide and conclude that... Mass (m) = Energy (E/c2) And there are three varieties... Natural E/c2 - All mass is basically cooled plasma Mental E/c2 - Mentally, A mathematical formula, but this has chemical and spiritual properties as well...
  7. rockytopva

    Banned from ChristianForums (CF)

    My problem is that I am no denominational bird! With the denomination comes the ego, and the Apostle Paul says just a little of it makes the whole lump bad!
  8. rockytopva

    Remembering my old pastor

    GC Rankin also makes reference to the old Cripple Creek camp meeting. Our services were exactly like these 100 years before us... I passed my examinations and that year I was sent to the Wytheville Station and Circuit. That was adjoining my former charge. We reached the old parsonage on the...
  9. rockytopva

    Remembering my old pastor

    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...
  10. rockytopva

    Remembering my old pastor

    The old Pentecostal Holiness preserved the old Methodist revival that occurred 100 years before them. The man who tells this best was GC Rankin. George Clark Rankin was sent to Georgia after his grandfather could no longer care for him and tells his story. On his belongings in a satchel he had...
  11. Jsloss

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  13. rockytopva

    Remembering my old pastor

    I am working on a video to give tribute to our old pastor. I remember putting up hay with the local farmers and going to the revival, which seems like we had every month with our old pastor . Back in those days every ones spiritual experience was unique as were the evangelist. It was exciting...
  14. rockytopva

    Does Scripture Endorse Being Derisive?

    If E = mc2 then one can divide and say that m = E/c2. Therefore all of creation came into existence with the Fathers great Energy and Light... In which there are three varieties... Natural E/c2... The sun is E/c2 in the form of plasma... The Earth is cooled E/c2. Mental E/c2... Our ability to...
  15. rockytopva

    What is a Methodist?

    Back to the Cripple Creek Camp Meeting, which was a famous place in its time.... I passed my examinations and that year I was sent to the Wytheville Station and Circuit. That was adjoining my former charge. We reached the old parsonage on the pike just out of Wytheville as Rev. B. W. S. Bishop...
  16. rockytopva

    Jesus never said he was God Almighty

    Irish farmers trying to understand the mysteries of the trinity.
  17. rockytopva

    What is a Methodist?

    Early the next morning I was up and in a serious frame of mind. I went with the other hands to the cottonfield and at noon I slipped off in the barn and prayed. But the more I thought of the way those young people were moved in the meeting and with what glad hearts they had shouted their praises...
  18. rockytopva

    What is a Methodist?

    After the team had been fed and we had been to supper we put the mules to the wagon, filled it with chairs and we were off to the meeting. When we reached the locality it was about dark and the people were assembling. Their horses and wagons filled up the cleared spaces and the singing was...