Apostle JoAnne Cremer reviews faith exploitation strategies that prey upon Christians, causing spiritual and psychological suffering as well as financial manipulation. In her series called "No Such Thing As" Apostle JoAnne identifies current merchandising techniques that extrapolate Old Covenant characters & events and shows how these things are paired with false predictions of God's blessings if the believer will send in their money to those ministries to "activate their faith." JoAnne compares these ever changing "patterns" to the one true pattern of Jesus Christ through His New Covenant and gives hope to the Church concerning how to come out of these systems of bondage and come into a real rewarding, intimate relationship with God through the simplicity of Christ. In this video Apostle JoAnne reviews a current exploitation theme called "The Thank Offering", a revision of the Wave/Heave offering from the Old Covenant. Showing how true thanksgiving to God is accomplished without money, without physical tools, JoAnne highlights the New Covenant spiritual, invisible tools Jesus provided through His covenant, the New Covenant for our contact, communion, fellowship and thanksgiving to God. As the Second 8th Week Apostles return the Church back to her first love, they will transition out of these systems that burdened them with false patterns and false promises and come into the truth of Christ, the simplicity of Christ, the legacy of Christ, the Headship of Christ, the priesthood of Christ and the FULLNESS of Christ, and the Liberty of Christ. Truyly this is the hour of deliverance where the Church will come into the Unity of the Faith as they leave behind the Journey and learn to "Abide" in Son of God.

Bible Scripture Reading April 13 2008

How does Christian culture influence pop culture, and should the Christian faith in turn be influenced by secular culture? This is the critical question tackled in Dick Staub’s though-provoking book, THE CULTURALLY SAVVY CHRISTIAN.