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Dear Friends Our culture of information overload, special effects, fast food, and everything geared to entertain has created a generation of people with short attention spans. People don’t read like they used to…especially if a post or article is long. For that reason, I usually try to make my posts to be relatively short and easy reading. This one, however, is a bit longer and is more of a Bible study or a teaching tool.  As you read keep in mind that in addition to wood and stone idols, there are also idols of the heart ( Ezekiel 14:3). Covetousness is also a form of idolatry (Colossians 3:5).    One purpose of this post is to show the foolishness of mankind in his attempts to avoid the God of the Bible. These paragraphs contain some very good lessons and speak to our current generation which is being flooded with New Age philosophy that is infiltrating the church and causing many to go astray. I encourage you to read the whole thing. Billy Long “You Might Be an Idol Wo...

Dear Friends, Below is an email I received from a dear friend, a young lady who received a very dramatic healing. This is a wonderful testimony of how she was healed when oppressing spirits were cast out of her during a prayer gathering at her parents’ home. This is New Testament Christianity. I hope you will take time to read this inspiring testimony. Billy Long AUTUMN’S TESTIMONY OF DELIVERANCE Mr. Long, I wanted to update you on what has been happening to my family. Attached is a copy of a letter I composed to send to My husband’s family and to anyone who is interested in what has happened to me. We are super excited here and want to see God glorified! Love you, Autumn Dear Family, Joel and I have some very exciting news we would like to share with you. You all know I have suffered from celiac disease for some time and I've also been dealing with some other health issues on and off for the past few years. July and August hit us particularly hard because I got a mystery infecti...

Dear Friends Not acknowledging God is one of the worse forms of ingratitude (Romans 1:21). The Lord has given us life and all things. We should not only recognize Him, but also be very thankful. This post gives some practical reasons why we know there is a God, and why evolution is so foolish. --- Billy Long GOD CREATED US “In the beginning God the heavens and the earth…” -Genesis 1:1. "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead..." -Romans 1: 20. LOOK AT YOUR NOSE Life is infinitely too complex to have come into being randomly and by itself. There are so many interdependent systems that are necessary for the existence of life on earth; and the degree of refinement, accuracy, and perfection in the coordinated performance of all these operations necessary for life are too complex to exist apart from design. They are independent yet dependent and interdependent,...

  [Below is a reprint of an article I first posted in March 2011. I believe it is appropriate for us today. Keep in mind this article was written almost 10 years ago. The virus, the riots and the unrest today confirm the truth of this message. ---Billy Long] “When the south wind blew softly, supposing they had obtained their desire, putting out to sea they sailed close to Crete…but not long after, a tempestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon…and all hope that we should be saved was finally given up.”  Acts 27: 13-14. The above verses describe the journey taken by the ship on which the Apostle Paul was traveling as a prisoner to Rome. The journey began peacefully with a warm, calm wind and beautiful weather. But then came Euroclydon, a tempestuous storm that destroyed the ship, and which would have taken the lives of all who sailed on it, had not Paul been there to hear from God and guide them to safety. A peaceful start followed by the storms of disaster is also illus...

WHY MODESTY People who are into porn and public nudity often proclaim that the human body is good and we should not be ashamed to show it. They also charge that Christians, because they believe in modesty, think the sexual aspect of the human body is evil. But to the contrary, Christians frown on public nudity and pornography because sex is sacred, not evil. After all, God created male and female, and said “it is good.” There are two things the scripture forbids us to flaunt in public—that which is evil and that which is sacred. The evil is forbidden because it is evil. The sacred is to be treasured. It is not for the public eye because it is precious and not to be treated as common. Sex should be reserved for the intimacy of a man and woman in marriage, and not displayed as a public spectacle. God is not an old fogy who sees sex as evil. A reading of Song of Solomon will show that the sexual aspect of marriage is God’s gift to mankind. Man did not create sex when God was not looking a...

Billy Long P.O. Box 147, Longs, SC 29568 broblong@gmail.com Dear Friends Christians are to demonstrate the kingdom of God in the midst of an ungodly society in perilous times. This post touches on the Christian’s influence in a society where there are forces that seek to silence that perspective. My wife Laurel recently heard a statement made by a leader in "The Good Club" (involving people such as Bill Gates and George Soros) who stated that in an upcoming summit meeting they will be discussing how to silence evangelical Christianity, which stands in the way of their one-world gobal government goals. Christians in the United States must at this time kindle the fires of personal revival and be "salt and light;" for the days are coming when we will be facing real persecution. –Billy Long CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT CHURCH AND GOVERNMENT The church as an organization should not control civil government, but Christian influence, however, should pervade the gov...

This was my prayer when going through a particularly difficult time: Aug 18, 1994, My prayer this morning: “That I engage the Lord properly in order to come through this situation…in faith…in love…in purity…pleasing the Lord…and that I come through it with a pure word. I do not want to proceed with a ‘chip on my shoulder,’ cynical, bitter, in self-pity, and thus risk this coloring and tainting my message and life henceforth. I want to engage the Lord in such a way as to minister and speak with attitudes and words of grace and purity that are such that ‘none fall to the ground.’ (1 Sam 3) Let my message, rather than being tainted, let it be refined as silver is refined in the fire. Let me know how to be full of grace and truth in facing this and all other situations I may encounter." ---B Long