If you don’t know what a seer is, or would like to learn more about spiritual seeing, I highly recommend Jim’s resources. Jim has a unique prophetic gift and operates at a pretty high level. Higher than anyone I know personally, anyway. More importantly, Jim has developed a way of helping others develop and grow in their prophetic gift.

If you think this is all just weird, leave me a comment and we’ll talk about it!

Being a Seer: Caught Between Heaven and Earth

This July, I’ll be 19 years old in Christ, but I’ve only been to church for about two thirds of that time. I can’t get into detail right now as to what happened. I’m not sure what the exact causes were myself, but the long and the short of it is that I dropped out of church life for about seven years. Don’t get me wrong: I didn’t entirely drop out—I was always around the church and its people—I just didn’t regularly attend any one house of worship consistently.

Last Fall, my wife and I began attending Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Norfolk, VA. There were a number of things that led us to this church, however, I guess the thing that pushed us over the tipping point was when I read an interview with Todd Hunter in Christianity Today in which he spoke about his spiritual journey. I haven’t reflected on anything long enough in the last couple of years (been too busy going to school and learning things like Greek and Hebrew) to be able to pinpoint exactly what it was about the article that resonated with me, but something did. I checked to see if there were any local Anglican Mission in the Americas churches and discovered Christ the Redeemer in my own backyard. We’ve been going ever since, albeit erratically due to my mother’s health and work/school conflicts. But we’ve been going, and it’s a start, and it is good!

Giving Church Another Chance: Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices

Enter Ping.fm. I can’t really remember who it was that first turned me on to this glorious website, but it was love at first sight. Like a lot of you, being a bleeding edge adopter of all things web 2.0 and social media, I had amassed more than my fair share of social networking accounts. I rarely, if ever, visited any of them. But I kept collecting these accounts every time a new service came out. Certainly there had to be an easy way to manage all of them?

Ping.fm allows you to cross-post status updates to most, if not all, of your social networking sites. The only social networking website I was visiting on an even semi-regular basis was Facebook.com. What Ping.fm allowed me to do was add all my social networking sites, including Twitter, and update all of them with a click of the mouse. Sweet!

How I started Twittering more is this: in late February, my 84-year-old mother (who lives with my wife and I in Chesapeake, VA) had a heart attack. As I sat in the hospital waiting for word from the doctors, all I could think to do was post updates to my social networking sites via Ping.fm on my iPhone. Imagine my surprise when I started receiving responses not only from my Facebook friends, but also from total strangers expressing empathy and concern on Twitter!

Since then, I’ve discovered the joys of Tweetdeck (via Chris J. and Donna A.) and life has never been the same! As you can see from the first chart, my Twitter use has gone through the roof in the months of February and March! And now, Tweetdeck has integrated the ability to update your Facebook status as well as read the status updates of your Facebook friends. It just doesn’t get much sweeter than that!

Yeah, I’m using Ping.fm less and less these days, but to tell you the truth, Facebook and Twitter are the only sites I really use anyway. It would be cool if Tweetdeck could do what Ping.fm does, but it doesn’t really matter all that much to me. Not really.

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In either case, this is my first blog post in over seven months. I’m hoping to get the creative juices flowing again!

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My wife and I are hitting the road tomorrow and heading to North Carolina to visit old friends from New Jersey and to check out the Todd Bentley event at MorningStar on Friday. As I’ve written elsewhere on this blog, we’ve been tuning in to the goings-on in Lakeland on GodTV on and off for the last couple of months.

It’s been interesting watching the debate on Todd rage back and forth on the internet. I have a friend at Regent whose opinion I respect and value highly who is very concerned for Todd and his ministry. While he’s certainly not in the camp of those calling Todd a heretic, he believes there are some theological "issues". Personally, while I appreciate Todd and his ministry, it’s not entirely my "style".

I’m looking forward to spending some time at MorningStar and ZHOP and checking things out up close and personal! I thought I’d post links to some interesting articles on the Lakeland Outpouring I’ve run across recently.

Pete Greig (of 24/7 Prayer fame) – Lakeland, Florida, Barack Obama & Burma: A Call to Respond to The Signs of the Time

Billy Kennedy – Rumours of Revival

Jason Clark – Navigating New Moves of the Spirit

Bonus Article!: Frank Viola – Stripping Down to Christ Alone: Rethinking the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

The last article by Viola isn’t really about the Lakeland Outpouring but has some good stuff to say and it somehow seems to "fit". Enjoy!

++Jesus be my everything!++