Fresh Flowers

Rose











Iris








Pansies








Pansie salad

Flora's on the couches

Lois calls the dog 'Flora'. I like the name 'Co Co'. From these pictures i think she should be called 'Coucha'.







Any suggestions on an easy way to keep the dog off of the furniture?








Christoffer came down and did some wiring at the cabin. I think Labs are bred to lay on couches.

Painting

Lois Ann is taping the windows in the entry for painting.








Co Co and i are fixing the floor.








I am watching an important World Cup Soccer game and supervising Lois at the same time.







She did an OK job! We only have one entrance to the house so it took 4 days to do 2 coats of floor paint.

Post-Charismatic

Found a great website about the history of the charismatic movement and about much of the churches' history for the last century. There are 40 webpages. The first 20 give the history and the second 20 show a good 'praxis' (practice). If you click on the above title you will go to it. I have seen a lot of what he describes.

"Broadly speaking, there are four major areas that come up repeatedly as reasons for post-charismatics pulling away from their Pentecostal, Charismatic, or Third Wave roots. The four areas are:

1. Abuses and elitism in prophetic ministry, coupled with a "carrot and stick" approach to holiness that many find legalistic, manipulative, and repressive

2. The excesses of Word Faith teachings (health and wealth, prosperity doctrine) which clash with the emerging generations' concern for a biblical approach to justice and ministry with the poor

3. Authoritarianism and hierarchical leadership structures that exist more to control people than to equip the saints for works of service

4. An approach to spiritual formation (discipleship) that depends on crisis events -- whether at "the altar" in a church service, or in a large conference setting -- but either neglects or deliberately belittles other means of spiritual growth

Post-Charismatic -- this phrase should not to be confused with being NON-charismatic, and certainly not as being ANTI-charismatic. The process of separating what is truly of the Holy Spirit and what is needless -- and often harmful -- baggage is the whole idea behind developing a post-charismatic understanding of how a supernatural God works supernaturally amongst and through the mystical gathering called the Body. In other words, post-charismatic, but not post-Spirit."

There are also many great photos, some by Wendy McAlpine, the authors wife.