michael rippie

Dear Michael,
I'm sure you are very busy but thank you so much for your reply. I
have always known in my heart and soul and mind that I didn't know the
REAL Truth about Jesus Christ. I know He said seek and you shall find.
I was raised catholic, forced to attend mass every Sat. or Sunday, my
dad was a deacon until my mom passed away and then he remarried so he
couldn't be one anymore, but guess what, after all that since I was a
baby, he had his wife to be move in with us before they were legally
married. My sister could have just strangled him, not literally, but
she is married to a Presbyterian minister who is now the senior pastor
at a big church down in Florida. My brother calls himself a
full-gospel Christian, takes everything in the bible literally.
Michael...THANK YOU SO MUCH for your site. I have been searching and
searching and searching my whole life and what you say is
sooooooooooooooooooo TRUE! I have a love unexplainable for Jesus
Christ and want to be like Him so much. I have never ever ever found
the answers in ANY physical building called a church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially the catholic church and I know that hurts my dad very much
because I'm the baby of three kids and his last hope that one of us
would remain catholic. I can't be in a church that calls the virgin
Mary the mother of God, I respect her, but she is not an
intercessor!!!!!! Every other kind of denomination I have tried, which
is allot, I have found nothing but hypocrites!!!!!! I just want to
bawl right now because my whole life I wanted to live for God, Christ,
but have been so confused from everything shoved at me by the
different beliefs of my family and have always been terrified I am
going to hell because I can't follow any of these beliefs so I ended
up going down the drain into alcohol and drugs but I still have such a
love for Christ and am searching for Him!!!!!!! I have been sober for
14 1/2 months now, I am a miracle through Christ who gave me the
strength to really really quit finally, my obsession is gone, my urge
is gone, I don't miss it a bit and I am a miracle to be alive, I was
dying from that poison, literally, no doctor told me that, I could
feel it in my physical body and I already knew I was spiritually dead.
My love and compassion is coming back finally, the kind I had as a kid
yet there is a wall because, as with everyone in the world, there are
allot of very very hurtful things in my past. I came across your site
because for some reason I was looking for something using Google
having to do with car stuff to see if I could possibly change my own
oil in my car! Thank you, thank you, thank you that someone else out
there really knows what Christ meant, I have read the bible, not all
of it, parts of it, but something just isn't right and that main
thing, that the kingdom is inside of us, has always been the thing
that has stuck out the most to me and my struggle with these places
called churches that just haven't shown me what I know I have finally
figured out because of your site! I am not alone in this now and it
feels so good and hope to really learn more because I don't want
resentments and regrets to rule my life because they only turn into
anger. I want to love people! I have learned so much in my 35 years
but know there is so much more out there to learn and I can't wait!
Kim
nobody@thelastchurch.org
http://www.thelastchurch.org
http://www.cafepress.com/the_last_church
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martin willett

It looks like a trap to me. She's trying to snare this "successful
author and businessman" living a reclusive life of spirituality in the
desert. How many of Michael's hot buttons has she pressed there? She has
laid the flattery and attention on with a trowel.
Big flashing light. Warning! Alert!
Is this the first gold-digger that part of Nevada has seen in over a
century?
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Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/