Me and Jessie
Hi, I’m a forty something, married guy living in Moray, Scotland. A scouser by birth me and my wife Pat sold up and moved up here from Liverpool, North West England in 2005, in answer to a call of God. I have followed Jesus since 1999 when he just seemed to reveal Himself to me and am keen to do whatever He wants. I am not religious, sanctimonious or judgemental about anyone else but I am passionate about Biblical truth and so use this blog to point out error and deception within the church. I have a very real but simple faith in Jesus and without striving to ‘do things’ I live what I like to describe as a ‘real’ Christian life, without all those man made rules and regulations, and the burdens they bring.
We bought an old farmhouse a couple of years ago and are still refurbishing it. I love all things to do with the countryside, I keep bees, chickens and ducks, grow my own fruit and veg and make jams and chutneys and stuff. Just about have time to work part time in the local factory as a Security Officer(ex Police you see- what else can you do to earn a crust!).
Hi Pat / Tony
Great to hear from you again , how is the farmhouse coming on.
I enjoyed reading about you on the site, keep it up
Love Carol and Richie
By: Richie on September 3, 2007
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hey dad
how r u and pat? im ok, got over my morning sickness now but me and gary have split up so not to good, im going to be a single mum!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! anyway can’t wait to see u if ur still coming to liverpool. i think u should pray for me and also that the baby is ok as im constantly worring incase i mess up
love you x x
By: vicki on September 5, 2007
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Hi Richie and Carol, Nice to hear from you. The farmhouse is coming on very slowly as we ran out of money. We’ve been saving up and plan to get lots done in the dark winter months when there isn’t much else to do up here. Hope to get more photos on the blog when I get my head around it. lots of love, Tony & Pat
By: ajtony on September 5, 2007
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Hi Tony and Pat
Love the website, great to see you living “the good life”, a world away from the life you had down here. It seems to be agreeing with you! Keep it up.
Hope to hear from you soon..
Lots of love to you both from
Linda and Dave xxx
By: Linda and Dave on October 23, 2007
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Somehow stumbled on you site, found your story kind of interesting,especially since you became christians not that long ago, I’msending this e-mail from north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I work on a Christian camp ,Camp Arnes, { http://www.camparnes.com} The camp has school kids staying here in band ,choirs, as well as christian retreats. Summer months of July and august are week long where the kids learn about God and do a lot of activities located on the cam p arnes site. We’re about one hour north of winnipeg. I became a christian in 1989,may, when my marriage broke up, it was then I turned to Jesus. It has been very excitingas well as have had some very tough times, but the Lord is faithful. I’ve always been interested in Scotland and Ireland, seen pictures,looks like a beautiful land . I’ sure the people are friendly and very interesting . My prayer is God’s blessing on you and the peace of Christ in your hearts to rule and leaqd you in your journey. in Christ’s love Kel
By: kel on November 20, 2007
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Hey Kel, Thank you so much for your kind words of blessing and prayer, they have really encouraged us. It is a beautiful part of the world here (I’ll put more pictures of the scenery on my blog site soon) and we are so thankful that the Lord has brought us here. It can, however, be lonely, and we haven’t as yet made any really close Christian friends. We are just waiting on the Lord – to lead us to the right church, or to bring people here. Checked out the camp you work on – it seems a fun place to be. Our prayer for you Kel, is that you also will be filled with the love, joy and peace of Jesus, and that He will use you for His purpose amongst the young people that attend the camp. Love in Jesus, Tony & Pat
By: ajtony on November 21, 2007
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Hello from Texas. I found your website by accident while studying scriptures with my husband, David, and friend.
I keep thinking about the scripture that says, “Come Out Of Her My People” and I think we are.
I agree with most of what you say. I do believe the lie about Sunday as the day we are suppose to worship. We are to read and study daily but I have found that the real day to worship is the Sabbath (sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday).
God talks about His appointed times and the Sabbath is one of those times He has asked us to meet with Him. Also, Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and the Sabbath is a sign between God and His People.
I have also found that those who believe are Isreal. Gentiles are grafted into the branch, not part of the root but we are promised the same as Abraham’s seed.
My family came from Scotland. We seem to have a pretty colorful history. Many of the Lost Tribes were scattered into Scotland, England etc area from what I have read in History.
Hope to hear from you soon.
By: Ttracey Matthews on July 26, 2008
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Hey Tracy, Thank you for reading and commenting on my blog. When we were new Christians we were members of an Anglican church in England and at the time we thought it was cool. However, the Lord removed us from that fellowship and has moved us on several times since. The churches around where we live noware either following false teachings or are so compromised with a watered down Gospel that they are indistinguishable from the world. The Lord has told us to ‘Come out of her’ and we always obey what we feel the Lord is saying to us, even if that means it can be a bit lonely.
Regarding the Sabbath Day. At the beginning of this year me and Pat spent a considerable amount of time struggling with the Sabbath day, especially the question as whether it should be the 7th day (Sat) or Sunday. After studying the word and spending time in prayer we eventually decided that every day is a Sabbath for New Covenant believers. We don’t follow the Old Testament Jewish Sabbath from Friday to Saturday but neither do we attend any Sunday worship in a church building.
The main reasons for coming to our decision are best summed up in the following article.
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract8.html
I agree with your comments about the nation of israel. They are still the ‘chosen people’ and when the times of the gentiles has been fulfilled’ God will turn again to Israel. (See Luke 21:20, Rev 11:4).
Scotland is a beautiful country. We have absolutely no ties here at all but it is here that the Lord has brought us. We are now just living each day as it comes, praising Jesus and remaining watchful because I sincerely believe he is coming soon for His people. And when he does, WOW! It’s going to br great!! Love in Jesus, Tony
By: ajtony on July 26, 2008
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I have a question regarding the Sabbath. Was it removed from the 10 commandments? When God said:
1 John 5:2-3 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Revelation 14:12 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 22:14 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. ……………….
was He talking about all the commandments except the one concerning the Sabbath?
I have found that the Sabbath was the only day He set apart and sanctified but I have missed where it was the only one of the commandments fulfilled and no longer to be observed. Can you give me scriptures please
your confused sister in Christ
Linda
By: Linda on July 28, 2008
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Hi Linda, Thank you for reading and commenting on my blog. First of all, if you wish to keep the 7th day sabbath, thats fine with me. Similarly if I choose to accept every day as a Sabbath, then that shoiuld be fine with you. I say this because of these verses in Romans 14:5-6 where Paul is speaking to the church in Rome about Sabbath and what can be eaten etc and we would both accept that Paul’s writing were divinely inspired of God.
‘One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardethy not thye day, to the Lord he doth not regard it’
here is an explanation on the subject and some scripture to have a look at
God first gave the sabbath as a duty to man in the book of Exodus. It is true that the sabbath originated at the completion of the creation (Gen. 2:1-3), but that was God’s rest, not man’s. There is no record in Genesis that God gave the sabbath to man, and there is no record of men keeping the sabbath before Israel in the wilderness. Neh. 9:13,14 plainly states that the sabbath was first given to Israel. Some groups such as the Seventh-day Adventists teach that men kept the sabbath from the days of Adam onward, but this is contrary to the Bible’s own record.
Exod. 31:12-18 says the sabbath was a special sign between God and Israel. If mankind in general had been given the sabbath following creation, it could not have been a sign for Israel. The fact is that the sabbath belongs to the nation Israel and not to any other people. It is also important to note that the sabbath will be an eternal possession of Israel (Exod. 31:16).
This sign will never beannulled or transferred to another people. This explains why the prophets foretell that Israel will keep the sabbath even after the kingdom of Christ is established on earth (Isa. 66:23). It also explains why Jesus Christ mentioned the sabbath in His prophecies of the Tribulation (Matt. 24:20) . Rev 14:12 that you mention – this verse is speaking to the Jewish remnant/remaining Christians at the time of the Great tribulation telling them not to rise up against the Antichrist and his torture of them. ie. not to kill them. keep His commandments, this is the patience of the saints.
In their writings to the churches, the Apostles only mentioned the sabbath three times.
(1) The sabbath is a symbol of salvation rest in Christ (Heb. 4).
(2) The N.T. believer is not bound to keep the sabbath (Col. 2:9-17).
(3) The N.T. believer has liberty in the matter of holy days (Rom. 14).
Those who teach that the sabbath is binding upon the Christian, are going contrary to what the Apostles taught. (Romans 14:5-6)
Why, then, did Jesus keep the Sabbath? He kept the sabbath for the same reason He kept all the other Mosaic laws. He also observed the feasts. Jesus did these things because He was born a Jew, born under the law, that He might fulfill it and redeem His people from its penalty and bondage (Gal. 4:4; Rom. 9:5).
One final point on this subject is that we are not saved by keeping the commandments anyway. There was only one perfect man, Jesus, the rest of us are saved by grace alone.
When asked which is the greatest commandment, Jesus answered, ‘THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
By: Tony on July 31, 2008
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Hi Tony,
Just looking around the internet for a bit. And yes, I googled “Lord, what do you want me to do?” I’m struggling with a call to Christian counseling. I’m already a pastor, but I despise the political side of the Southern Baptist Church. I just want to be able to meet people where they are. For the most part, the counseling clients that I see are at their end and ready to take Christ at His Word. On the other hand, the “church people” that I deal with are hard hearted and cruel, as well as seeking their own benefits through political ploys within the church. I guess I’m just tired of the shenanigans with those who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. I’m searching for those who are downtrodden and desperate for Jesus.
By: Al on October 29, 2008
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Hey Al, I have sent you a private message. I pray that you will listen to what I have said and more importantly to what the Holy Spirit says to you. Unfortunately, Christians who ‘walk the walk’ rather than just ‘talking the talk’ are very rare in my opinion. Love in Jesus, Tony
By: ajtony on October 31, 2008
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Hi Tony, I have a lot in common with you. I too am skeptical of “those man made rules and regulations, and the burdens they bring.” I walk with Jesus everyday. Sometimes I get really confused. Other times I feel the presents of the Holy Spirit. I stopped going to church because I learned the preacher has a problem counseling people one on one. He said he isn’t good “One on One.” He gets his staff to do those things. I pray for him, but don’t believe I will benefit in that setting.
Anyways, I look around the world and think to myself am I going crazy? It’s as if Satan has taken over almost every institution here in America. I mean that literally by the way. Our media is the official media arm for the prince of lies. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s as if they’ve all become possessed by some evil demons. The truth is of no concern to them. It’s the most amazing thing to watch.
God bless you and your wife.
By: Andy B on November 11, 2008
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Hi Andy, I really believe that there is only a
remnant of true believers remaining on this earth, the rest following ‘doctrines of demons’ or are what is known as ‘worldly’ Christians. We should be distinct from the world and have no attachment here.
I also look at what’s going on in the world and I see an ever increasing downwards spiral in the depravity of mankind.
It can be easy to despair but let’s remember that these things must happen before Jesus comes back for his people. So I say, ‘bring it on’.
These days I don’t pray for revival or for ‘the world’, I pray earnestly instead for Jesus to ‘Come Quickly’.
The Bible also tells me that it is going to get worse for true Christians, as well as the world.
We just have to keep our eyes focused on Jesus, realising that we are only pilgrims here.
It was nice to hear from a brother who is not deceived like the vast majority of ‘churchgoers’.
Love in Jesus, Tony
By: ajtony on November 12, 2008
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This was a wonderful message and your comments on the questions were right on.
I guess we just need to focus on the fact that God has a plan for our lives that was orchestrated BEFORE we were born. When we ask the Lord, What do you want me to do?, we are submitting our will to be used by the Holy Spirit as God intends. It is our surrender that allows God to do powerful works through us. I can’t even imagine why God would want to do anything through such a broken vessel as I, but then, his love covers all all my weaknesses.
Thanks for the great truth.
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By: Marianne Lordi on January 7, 2009
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I truly believe that the Lord leads as soon as you make the request. He opens doors both physically and emotionally through people and places and thoughts. I know this first hand. He may even send a vision as he did in my life. I am 49 years old. Grew up never really knowing where I was going. I became a christian at the age of 18 but never really was set in a church. I began meandering through life making mistakes at every turn. I began at the age of 22 asking God what he wanted me to do and I just kept the faith. I worked as a nursing assistant after answering an ad in the paper. I began my work and saw how the elderly were treated. I had a heart for there suffering. the thing that scared me was death. I prayed and asked the Lord if this was what he wanted me to do. I tossed around the thought of leaving this job. I had a dream that changed my life for ever. I would have to go in to detail about the dream but it would take a while. The dream was very profound and straight forward. I listened to that dream and knew that I was to remain working. Since then, the lord has trained me and brought me through many many trials with my work. I had to keep a compassionate heart and a bold heart in order for the Lord to take me where he wanted me. I am now in a place of authority with no degree running a program for elderly who suffer from Alzheimer’s. Amazing is his grace, I give all the glory to him. I have been touched by the lives I care for which is a true gift. Will the Lord lead me yet to another Place? I don’t know, but I continue to listen to him, and will go where he wants me to go. Blessings to all of you who are searching. Be open to what the Lord is trying to speak to you and be patient.
By: pamela fialho on February 6, 2009
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Hi Pamela, Thank you for your testimony. The Lord surely does guide us, in His timing, not ours! And sometimes He leads us to a place and we wonder why? That’s how I feel at the moment but it’s cool! Love in Jesus
By: Tony on February 15, 2009
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I have stumbled upon your website and feel a spiritual connection – we were involved in a very corrupt church that we poured our heart, soul and finances into – since leaving that church in 2000, we have not found any other church that we can fit into – we have always said that church is in our home. There is a sad part of me that misses the rituals of the former churches that I went to (childhood and adult) because I believe that no man is an island, and that the body of believers must stand strong together.
My husband, who grew up with no religion, is a very spiritual man, for when I introduced him to the Bible and he read it himself, it was easy for him to believe it and act upon its principles. I have struggled with fear, doubt and worry all of my life (having been raised Roman Catholic – can you relate at all?) and still work hard at dealing with consuming fears most of my days – the only thing that helps is to put on the Word of God and completely keep my mind immersed in Him and His Son.
I wanted to thank you for the information here and let you know that I will be praying for your family as you undertake the work of the Lord.
God Bless You,
Catherine Gray
Minneapolis, MN (USA)
By: Catherine Gray on October 16, 2009
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