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Charla Virkler I want to introduce you to my wonderful daughter-in-law Charla Virkler. She has been making beautiful covers for our books, CD and DVD sets, and has also done the desktop publishing design for the inside content of many of our books. She has now found her passion is photography, and is offering her services and prints under the name CharlaArts. You can support small business, and a Spirit-anointed stay-at-home-mom, by purchasing greeting cards, posters or photo prints through her Etsy store. AlphaKids One of my favorite projects of hers is Scripture Photos.

  Question (from England): We have a friend who drinks too much soda pop and I had a really bad dream about him the other night. Do you have information on the concerns about soda pop? Answer: Yes: It is deadly. And diet soda is even more deadly. I gave up drinking soda about 15 – 20 years ago. In 1905, the average person consumed 5 pounds of sugar in a year. Today the average American consumes 155 pounds of sugar a year, every year! The sugar in a regular soda compromises the immune system for several hours after drinking it.

Question: A ministry I was learning from says that you are teaching visualization which is not scriptural. What is your response to this? Mary Answer: Mary, Thank you for your question. What we teach is that if man chooses what he wants to picture and visualizes that, then that is wrong. If God grants you a dream or a vision, or Jesus paints a parable, or the Bible tells a story, it is not wrong to picture these things.

What to say about Christian Leadership University?  Great, amazing, wonderful, organized, practical, you can do it, great subjects, and… “old fashioned”. Yes, that’s right,  I said “old fashioned”… Why??

            The Obama Administration recently opened a can of worms by insisting that Catholic institutions provide birth control services to women despite the official doctrine of the Church against birth control. Can the government tell the church that it must violate its own doctrine? Does a liberal interpretation of "women's rights" trump a longstanding church polity? Similar cases have recently arisen in which certain churches and church institutions have been forced to hire or retain staff members who are practicing homosexuals.

  A 30 year established Christian production company is seeking a godly individual or couple for puppeteer position with traveling show in midwest. Commission pay plus training expenses. Need good comedic and improvisational abilities, be able to perform elderly male voice and handle large equipment and fit well with rural, farm life, be in good health, have physical dexterity and a mature, professional personal presentation. Experience helpful in acting, theater or with hand puppets. Will train. Position requires travel, all equipment provided. Various tour lengths available.

The Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders met in late November to seek a word of the Lord for the coming year, as they have since 1999. Due to world-wide shaking, this was probably the most sobering council gathering to date. Many prophets around the world believe that the United States must make a major shift toward reformation in 2012 and that it will be a "do-or-die" year for the country to be re-established on the course of becoming the "city set on a hill" envisioned by our Founders.

When we laugh, we bring healing to our lives.    

Taking the course Communion with God has been one of the most transformational experiences of my entire Christian walk. My hunger to know God personally, powerfully, intimately had been a quest of mine for about ten years. Having come in contact with a wide variety of Christians through a citywide ministry I led, I saw that there was a depth of relationship with God that was much more than the conservative church background I had come from, and I wanted it.

If you are taking a group through the LEARN Prayers That Heal the Heart Notebook, or the "Contributing Strands Worksheet" we now have free a PowerPoint presentation which you can download to assist you as you teach. You may download it here. You can also download many additional free items including the LEARN Prayers That Heal the Heart Notebook.  Let's see as many restored and set free as we possibly can. Thanks for being part of this healing team!