"The Last Confederate" battles

Morris does an excellent job while describing the battles to make you think you are there.  It makes me so sad to think of the civil war and all of the friends and relatives who fought on different sides. 
When Morris describes his characters, especially the lawyer, Harry, I can visualize them.  He's a good writer.

"The Last Confederate"

I'm kind of slow on my reading this week, I have been pretty busy.  I was kind of glad about him quoting Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  Thad was asking Pet what it means to be saved.  She never really came out and told him how to be saved though. 
A few pages later he said "d... yankee", and I was very upset about that.  He has never included a bad word before, so why start now? 
There is a lot of conflict about a yankee living in the south. 
I'll tell you more on Mon.  I shouldahave finished the book by then.

"The Last Confederate" by Gilbert Morris

I am now reading book 8 in "The House of Winslow Series".  This is a very funny book.  I read to go to sleep, but last night there was such a funny scene that I couldn't stop laughing!  My poor husband had to get up early to go to work.  Morris has finally stepped out of his mold and is writing with a different plot.  I'm still not sure what is going to happen.  I'm almost halfway through with this book.
I'm gonna start writing about every other day, unless I come across something that has to be shared now!  I need to take the weekends off though because my husband is home then and hogs the computer.
When I get done with this book I am going to read a book I got from the library:  "Sunday Clothes" by Thom Lemmons.  I'll probably start reading it in a couple of days, so if you are reading along with me be sure to go to your library or bookstore and pick it up.

"The Reluctant Bridegroom" by Gilbert Winslow

"The Reluctant Bridegroom is book 7 int "The House of Winslow Series" by Gilbert Morris.  It was one of his better books I think.  It still had the two girls, but not the same as last time.  This book is about Sky Winslow, the 1/4 Indian son of Chris and Dove Winslow.  He had a bad first marriage, I believe from what the book says he did not look for a Godly wife but a pretty, popular wife.  He and his son both were victims of her infedility and it scarred them for a long time.  This was a very good book and has the typical ending but I would still recommend reading it.

Busy, busy

Just wanted to let everyone know that I won't have time to blog this weekend.  I have three cake orders I need to get out.  I'll be back on Monday.  Right now I am reading "The Reluctant Bridegroom" by Gilbert Morris, number seven in The House of Winslow Series.  If you are reading along, I want you to think about a few things.  Why did Sky marry his first wife?  Do you think he prayed first for a Godly woman? How should a man choose a Godly wife?  Would you be a Godly wife for someone?  What could you do to become a Godly wife?  Do you think he should have left his son in someone else's care for almost a year?  What kind of repercussions do you think there will be?  I'll talk to you on Monday!

The Great Awakening's influence on the Winslows.

The last two books #four, five and six all talk about the Great Awakening and Whitfield, Edwards, and later Peter Cartwright.  One thing that I have found intersting is when he is talking about the Methodist style of preaching and the "fanaticism" that went on during the preaching.  People would start shaking, screaming, and sometimes just faint while there.  People would, shout, bark and run when they were converted.  They said the the Spirit was fighting for their souls.  Many had true conversions this way.  The Winslows (from the books) were divided about how they felt about it.  I can understand why.  I know that I have been to many revivals which have had people, laughing softly because they were so happy to find Jesus, crying because they were so convicted and even lifting up their hands in worship of our Lord, but I have never seen these kind of reactions.  Were those extreme reactions from God or Satan?  We just happened to have a sermon last Sunday on these kind of behaviours.
"But these speak evil of those things which they know not:  but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves."  Jude 1:10  Definiton of brute:  "brutus, irrational, senseless"
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord..."  Isaiah 1:18  How can you "reason togehter" if you are barking like a dog or in a faint?
Charles Parham and William J. Seymour started the Pentecostal movement.  Pentecostals have a lot of irrational behaviour like this. Here is a qoute from Frank Bartleman How Pentecost came to Los Angeles, 1925.  "Brother Seymour usually...kept his head inside the (shoebox) during the meeting...Men would fall all over the house...I was truly sealed in the forehead, ceasing from the works of my own natural mind fully...My mind had always been very active...Nothing hinders faith and the operation of the Spirit so much as..the wisdom, strength and self-sufficiency of the human mind...This phenomena violates human reason..."
Here is another article from the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Jan. 10, 2004  "Toronto-Ten years ago this month, worshippers at a small church a stone's throw from this city's airport began laughing uncontrollably.  They also made animal noises - braying, barking, howling and roaring.  They collapsed to the floor, staggered about as if drunk, shook and jerked; wept, wailed and yelped.  Faces contorted with tics.  Groans and guffaws hung in the air.  Bodies lay prone on the carpet.  To the unitiated, this was eerie stuff..."  This was obviously from Satan.
2 Peter 2:1  "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you...
2:2....the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2:3  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you...
2:12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not...
2:19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption...."
Isn't it scary how similar these circumstances are?  We all know the great Awakening had severall revivals that brought people to the Lord, but where did these strange behaviours come from?  Definitely something to think about!!
If you would like to hear the sermon, here is a link:

http://kingdombaptist.org/videoplayer/Video-player.cfm?media=http://sermon.kingdombaptist.org.s3.amazonaws.com/The-War-On-Reason-01102009.mov&videoID=821

If this link does not work, go to kingdombaptist.org and look under the videos, all videos, you want "The War On Reason! Part 1"  date 01/10/10

"Holy Warrior" Finished

I finished Holy Warrior today.  The book talked about the first missionaries to the Indians.  Can you imagine how scary that would have been?  As usual the main character has two women he needs to decide between.  However Morris changed it up a bit this time.  It is a quick read.  More to come later.