Baptised in Jesus Name and coming up speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance

Found this video on a new blog:  Apostolic Contender.  A lady receives the Holy Ghost baptism as she comes up out of the water after being baptised in Jesus’ Name. 

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Principle Driven blog

I also like this Apostolic Pentecostal blog: Principle Driven, a nice alternative to being ‘purpose driven’.

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Quite like the Apostolic Pentecostal Study Group blog right now.

Discovered a nice blog by Ryan Gustason a young UPC minister:  Apostolic Pentecostal Study Group. The blog is focused on discussing Bible and Philosophy from an Apostolic Pentecostal perspective, there’s some good content on it – well worth a read.  You can also follow Ryan on Twitter @fireandsalt

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The Jesus Blog listed #63 in WordPress Growing Blogs on 21/02/09

A bit of chest beating. 
The Jesus Blog got listed as no. 63 in the WordPress.com growing blogs list for 21/02/09.  I noticed a massive uplift in traffic to the post on The Church of Google, supported by a healthy stream of visitors who saw the news posted on The Jesus Blog Twitter feed.
Boast over.  I’ll [...]

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Twitter is shrinking the length of my blog posts.

Since starting the Twitter edition of the Jesus Blog my posts on WordPress seem to be getting shorter and shorter.  Is anyone else struck by this phenomenon?  Big shout out to the 32 people now following!  Including, one of the best on Twitter – What Would Jesus Tweet - check it out sometime.

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Charles Darwin’s racist views of the coloured man

I was suprised to learn that Darwin viewed the black man as being an intermediate state between ape and the white man.  He held views which were racist and promoted a view that the white man was a superior, ‘more evolved’ race than the coloured people of the world.
The full detail and accompanying quotes can [...]

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The Jesus Blog launches a micro-edition on Twitter (@jesusblogger)

The Jesus Blog is now available on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jesusblogger

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A growing blog: 26 types of visitors and rising

I nearly didn’t start writing this blog. After all who’d want to listen to the musings of me?
Well, the blog is one year old this month and seems people have been reading, we even made no.55 on WordPress’ list of growing blogs. Not bad when you consider there’s over 2 million blogs on the site.
So, [...]

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The Athiest Bus Campaign

The Guardian Newspaper, has launched an advertising campaign to promote Athiest views. The campaign has been based on voluntary donations, akin to a political movement, and in 2 days smashed records on donation site JustGiving raising £83,000 (prior to Gift Aid).

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The 10 Commandments of Blogging

A group of Christian’s recently developed 10 blogging commandments which they aim to publish to make bloggers aware of the social impact of their blogs and also to blog responsibly.  This is a novel idea, I particularly like the 2nd commandment: “you shall not make an idol of your blog”.   I guess this means not spending [...]

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What’s love got to do with it: can you re-purpose a love song and offer it to God?

A friend sent me this clip today of Bishop Lester Love of Greater Anticoch church.  
He is singing a medley of love songs written by sinners, for sinners and has re-edited them to sing to Jesus. 
His argument is that the songs are love songs and what matters is who you sing them to.  So, when [...]

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