Joni Eareckson Tada at Times Square Church

Here I am with my friend, Bryce, 

whose family set up my performance.

Joni Eareckson Tada spoke at Times Square Church on Sunday, and you can hear her inspiring and moving talk here: A Deeper Healing.



Her story of living with quadriplegia impacted me deeply as a young man, and the story of David Wilkerson moving to NYC and eventually founding Times Square Church (The Cross and the Switchblade), is one of the reasons this farm boy has lived here since 1993. So to hear her speak at TSC is a double blessing!



I was tremendously blessed to perform for a Joni and Friends retreat a couple of years ago: www.RichDrama.com/Joni.

Behold He Comes! Rosh Hashanah Service: Listen for the Sound of Hope

This morning I got to blow the shofar for our celebration of Rosh Hashanah at Westchester Chapel.

Dr. Linda Warren speaks of the Feast of Trumpets (literally "Sounding") from Lev. 23: 23-25 as Pastor Jim Warren leads the congregation in Scripture readings and spoken worship of the Lord.  Rachel Taylor opens the service and the message with prayer.  Scriptures include Psalm 98: 1-6; Psalm 24: 7-10; Psalm 81: 1-4; Psalm 47: 1-7; Psalm 150: 1-3a; Joel 2:1; 1 Thess. 4: 16-17; and Rev. 21: 1-7.

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If you want to more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

Recovering the Awe of God

This morning at Westchester Chapel Joyce puts recent events in the light of Scripture as she leads the congregation in a celebration of the Lord's Supper.

Pastor Jim Warren preaches on Recovering the Awe of God from Malachi, with references to Naaman and Jeremiah's letter to the exiles.   God will return to refine and judge His People out of His Great Love for them.



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If you want to know more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

"The Narrow Path"

Photo by Jan Carroll, used by permission

“The Narrow Path” 

by Jerry Carroll, used by permission

Satan had his way

I was living in sin

Taking me down time and time 

again

The “Word” was there

But I refuse to hear

Crying inside but never

Shedding a tear

But from a “Fisherman’s” Heart

A “Carpenter’s” Hand

The Power of the “Spirit”

Let me understand!!!

When “JESUS” Speaks,  You Must Obey

The Narrow Path Is the only Way

We shared this with Westchester Chapel this morning, and Jerry and Jan, not knowing we'd do this today, happened to show up wearing the same shirt:

If you want to more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

Expect a Holy Shaking!

Joyce opened today's service at Westchester Chapel praying on today's National Day of Prayer for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Houston and badly damaged many other communities in Texas and Louisiana. Joyce also prayed for those students and teachers starting new school years and for Dr. Linda's message.



Speaking from Haggai 2:20-23, Dr. Linda Warren shares that God's People are to expect Him to shake things up, overthrow evil power structures, destroy the enemy's weapons and rule in His Peoples' lives.



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If you want to more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

Weeping and Praising

Photo by Jan C.

I got to open the service this morning at Westchester Chapel talking about this photo of the Cross in the clouds.

Rachel Taylor preaches on Ezra 3:8-13. She shares her experience at the TAM Conservatory. Joyce prays over the sermon. Rachel mentions the final performance of Celebrity Confession August 28.



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If you want to more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.



Photo of Rachel courtesy of NicolettiPhoto.com.

Rich and Dr. Linda Warren talk about the Wailing Wall containing stones

from as far back as Solomon's Temple.

The Solar Eclipse of 2017

Joyce and I walked down to the Hudson River today and filmed the time-lapse footage of the solar eclipse below.

My father told me that my great-grandmother remembered the total eclipse of 1918. She remembered that it freaked out the chickens.  

Two of the folks who shared our

eclipse glasses.

For us it was a delightful time of sharing our eclipse glasses with over 20 strangers from all over the world (London, Hungary, Italy, Pakistan) and just a few neighborhoods away. 

The solar eclipse is proof of the miraculous three-hour darkness in the sky at the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The longest total eclipse in America today was in Makanda, IL, and it only lasted 2:41 seconds. In the path of total eclipse people saw stars and planets, as early historians recorded about the darkness at the time of the Crucifixion. Phlegon, a Greek historian wrote around AD 137:

In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad (i.e., AD 33) there was ‘the greatest eclipse of the sun’ and that ‘it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i.e., noon] so that stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Nicaea.’

But at Passover, when Jesus became the final Passover Lamb, the moon was in the wrong place for a solar eclipse. In AD 221 Africanus wrote in History of the World:

For the Hebrews celebrate the passover on the 14th day according to the moon, and the passion of our Savior falls on the day before the passover; but an eclipse of the sun takes place only when the moon comes under the sun. And it cannot happen at any other time but in the interval between the first day of the new moon and the last of the old, that is, at their junction: how then should an eclipse be supposed to happen when the moon is almost diametrically opposite the sun?

For more about the extra-biblical scholars who reported the darkness click here.

Because we're about 700 miles away from the path of a total eclipse we only had 71.4% obscuration.



If you're interested in a relationship with the One who blocked the sun longer than our moon can click here: www.RichDrama.com/MyPassion.



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A Clear Leading tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spoke against slavery a century before our Civil War.