I highly recommend this movie that is playing in theatres for a limited time. I think it's geared towards children maybe, but I saw adults in the theater more so than children aged kids. It is animated but actually good in presentation of the story being told to one of the children of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens. So, it captures the true essence of seeing the story of Jesus through the eyes of a child hearing the greatest story ever told.
When I left the theatre, I had such hope in my heart that our soon coming King of Kings will be coming to claim His people. The dead in Christ shall rise up and the true believers in Jesus will join them when He parts the eastern sky and the trumpet sounds to call us up. Such a glorious day to look towards as hope in our sin sick world. I am being shown so many false prophets, apostles, teachers, evangelists and pastors with many well-known names of them basically prostituting the name of Jesus to sell their wares. Sin sick world of religion nowadays and how did this ever get so out of control baffles me.
I was one of the hoodwinked believers that took the bait and gave to many ministries with faith in my heart and wanting to truly believe the stuff they were peddling under the guise of the gospel and THUS SAITH THE LORD dreams, visions, encounters. Folks I have shared so many aspects of my life with you, and I am sharing today as a warning since I learned it the hard way the truth by being duped big time.
I cleaned out the other day a few more authors of books I had acquired in my Christian book library. This time Kenneth E Hagin, Jeff Dollar, Jeff Jansen and yes, Don Finto. I was shocked to receive a recent email asking for donations to celebrate his 95th birthday this past week. I think it was appalling to use a birthday as a hook to get the people to donate when the average person does not have the audience/capacity to solicit donations to be given when they have an upcoming birthday. I am going to share with you what my email reply was that I sent to them if I may. How many times do I have to keep begging for the federal government to open up a department like DOGE to investigate these 501c3 nonprofits, ministries, churches that are possibly bilking trusting believers and somehow getting away with not paying taxes. If they would just create the office of investigating this alleged fraud/waste/shim shamming within the church, it would possibly stop this nonsense. I keep suggesting the title "DOMA" Department Of Ministerial/ministry Abuse. I wonder how much money the government would then be able to take in as revenue if the false were exposed and found out and they had to pay back taxes owed for the years of hoodwinking the people? There I go thinking out loud again.
Then there are the false that keep saying they're going to heaven getting divine insights from Jesus and writing books about this insight and making money off of the profits brought in from the sale of their books, ancillary products. It in my opinion it is a money-making scam and innocent people are feeding this wicked cancer within the church world so to speak. I often ask the Lord in my prayer time when is this going to stop and how they mock Jesus with some of their bizarre experiences they share on YouTube and other media outlets with people that actually subscribe to these people and buy their merchandise. This sort of stuff was not put up with in the bible and there was a very serious dealing with this in the bible. Caught lying=serious consequences to some. Read your bible and you will see this for yourself. Some of these so-called prophets denigrate the honor and glory and reverence for Jesus that died on the cross for the remission of our sins. To give us the opportunity to accept Jesus into our hearts to be the Lord of our lives and to spend all of eternity with Him in heaven. May I suggest looking up some of the videos drewbloom34 Friday Fruit Clips and you can view for yourself this utter nonsense going on out there. May I warn you that some of your favorites just may be featured in these videos. They are so ridiculous and when you view them you will find yourself laughing at this sheer nonsense being spewed by others under all the lovely titles, they like to give themselves. Church clean up your act and clean it up really good because you just never know if you and your alleged ministry will be exposed next. People are getting bolder in sharing their stories of alleged spiritual amongst other alleged abuses within the church/ministries.
Uh oh, I see a typo or two as you can see. Spelled Christians incorrectly and added a , when it was not needed.
"Hello,
I trust you are doing well today. This is a bit disturbing to read asking for birthday donations and the other day asking for donations for him being in the ministry so many years. The average person cannot just go out there and solicit birthday offerings for themselves, let alone offerings taken for all the years they ministered to people on a daily basis as a part of their lifestyle. Please stop shim shamming trusting Chridtians to take the bait. I truly thought you all were a good, responsible ministry that I gave to on occasion but maybe just maybe Holy Spirit is recently showing me a different perspective about churches and their scheming tactics. I recently have been cleaning out my library of Christian authors that are using books, constant visits to heaven/experiences they are having too they say, and always getting prophetic words from God on a regular basis. Holy Spirit is truly cleaning up the church and Christians are getting a bit more discerning than maybe so years ago.
Why can't you just celebrate his birthday quietly like most folks do and if someone wants to send a gift they will.
Not a gift sent via the power of suggestion via media outlets. I know about honoring and celebrating one's life for my mother lived to the age of 93 years old.
Sincerely,"
Oh, I never did receive a response back to the email I sent the other day. Do you think I ever will???