The Bethel Rebel: Life according to Johnny Ginsberg

I just finished the Monvee assessment.  It is so spot on!  It totally agrees with what I already know about my life plan in my Personal Life Mandate.   The PLM is  what I took for Focus of a Warrior, which is Heart of a Warrior Stage two.  That also is in my life plan page [...]

I trust that the warm weather is appealing to everybody on this side of the Equator.  I’m definitely feeling the warmth, and loving it.  I take joy in the sunshine and the explosions of color erupting in this lovely spring season. This weekend at Eagle  Brook Church, Pastor Bob Merritt was speaking of how we [...]

I’d like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I wish you all to have a lot of joy in the times coming forward. It’s a  snowy day out there.  We’ve had a snowstorm to remember at this time.  Praise to God, I managed to get to church, and get [...]

I was at the Eagle Brook Church annual meeting tonight.  The church is growing, and it’s growing very quickly.  As the meeting progressed, I found myself asking (in my thoughts), “What is my role here in God’s big blue marble planet called Earth.”  (Title is taken from a TV show for kids in the 1970′s.)   [...]

Tonight at EBC, we saw a couple who have been married for 55 years give their testimony.  It’s interesting, because they shared their strategies and joys of being together for so long.  It was an eye opener for me, because I see in them a perfect match.  A mutually complementary family.  It’s not common in [...]

God has really been blessing me lately.  Thanks to Him, and also my conservator, I’ve been allowed to upgrade my camera, purchase a laptop, and had some good joy over the past few weeks. I would think I would be blessed but not being false and thinking I need to have stuff in a materialistic [...]

I actually learned something today in Gospels class this morning.  The Lord’s prayer, when it talks about forgiveness of sins (i.e. debts and trespasses), is pretty much saying that at the same time we forgive others who trespass against us, we are forgiven for our trespasses.  Also, the first parts of the prayer(hallowed name, coming [...]

One of my teachers threw me a bit of a curve when I discovered through the syllabus that I had as a required text the New American Standard Bible.  So…I ordered the new Bible via Northwestern Book Stores online.  For some reason, I decided to buy the Life Application Study Bible with the NASB version.  [...]

I liked Pastor Bob Merritt’s message for this weekend at Eagle Brook.  He pretty much says that there is no sin that is unforgivable, with the exception of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.   With God, you come to him messy, stinky, and full of blemishes, and He kindly and lovingly cleans us up and loves [...]

Last weekend, I had the honor and privilege to attend and serve at the Heart of a Warrior Advance III at Big Sandy Camp, McGregor, Minnesota.  We had about one hundred men who came and laughed, cried, played, worshipped God, bonded with each other, and otherwise experienced the wealth and benefits of God at work.  [...]