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This is a chronological list.
Each of these are (somewhat) annual live worship albums by the Vineyard churches.

In 1987, when Leonard Ravenhill was 80, he led a series of revival meetings in the Anaheim Vineyard called “Holiness To The Lord.” The early albums of the Vineyard probably still have a remainder of the holiness anointing left as an influence. John Wimber had then published Power Evangelism (1986), Power Healing (1987), and Power Encounters (1988) with HarperCollins. Then came Wayne Grudem’s The Gift of Prophecy (1988). Ravenhill died in 1994. David Ravenhill, his son, has been involved with the Vineyard over the years.

1. Unto The King – 1989 (title theme: lordship salvation)
2. Holy And Anointed One – 1989 (title theme: lordship salvation)
3. We Exalt Your Name – 1989 (title theme: lordship salvation)
4. Holiness Unto The Lord – 1989 (title theme: lordship salvation)
5. King Of Saints – 1989 (title theme: lordship salvation)
6. Fire Of God – 1990 (title theme: holiness / zeal) (Mike Bickle joins Vineyard)
7. Hear Our Cry – 1990 (title theme: intercession)
8. We Behold You – 1990 (title theme: contemplation)
9. Take Our Lives – 1991 (title theme: lordship salvation)
10. Save Us Oh God – 1991 (title theme: lordship salvation)
11. I Bow Down – 1991 (title theme: lordship salvation)
12. Throne Of Grace – 1991 (title theme: lordship salvation)
13. Devoted To You – 1992 (title theme: lordship salvation)
14. Send Your Spirit – 1992 (title theme: Spirit-baptism)
15. Seek Righteousness – 1993 (Jack Deere’s Surprised by the Power of the Spirit)
16. Great Is Your Mercy – 1993 (John Wimber’s Power Points) (atonement)
17. Glory And Honor – 1994 (title theme: lordship salvation)
18. Light The Fire Again – 1994 (title theme: zeal) (Grudem’s Systematic Theology)
19. Everlasting Grace – 1994 (title theme: atonement)
20. The River is Here – 1994 (title theme: Spirit-baptism) (Toronto Blessing / animals)
21. Spirit of the Sovereign Lord – 1994 (Leonard Ravenhill died)
22. Hallelujah Glory – 1995 (title theme: praise) (Brownsville Revival / no animals*)
23. Before You Now – 1995 (title theme: worship) (Arnott’s The Father’s Blessing)
24. Blessed Be The Name – 1995 (title theme: worship) (Toronto Airport ousted)
25. For Your Mercy – 1996 (Jack Deere’s Surprised by the Voice of God) (atonement)
26. Faithful Father – 1996 (title theme: adoption) (Bickle’s Growing in the Prophetic)
27. Holy Is The Lord – 1996 (title theme: lordship salvation)
28. Jesus Lead On – 1996 (title theme: Spirit-led) (Mike Bickle leaves Vineyard)
29. I Will Lift My Hands – 1997 (title theme: worship)
30. Receive Our Praise – 1997 (title theme: praise)
31. You Are God – 1997 (title theme: worship)
32. I Love Loving You – 1997 (title theme: worship) (John Wimber died)
33. You Are In Control – 1997 (title theme: providence) (Rick Joyner / MorningStar)

* I believe the physical manifestations of shaking, spasms, laughing, crying, falling under the power of the Spirit, drunkenness in the Spirit, etc, all have Biblical basis, and historical basis in the lives of Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley (see Guy Chevreau’s Catch the Fire, 1994); and I believe that the Toronto Blessing started out in the Holy Spirit, with the conservative evangelical influence of Wimber, Grudem, and Deere, and was later sabotaged by unclean spirits of power animals, used by shamans. So far as I know, the Brownsville revivalists were careful to keep out the shamanistic animal manifestations, but they allowed the other traditional evangelical revival manifestations to appear, which is fine with me (see Vinson Synan’s The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition, pp. 275-278).

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34. You Shelter Me – 1998 (title theme: providence)
35. I Love Your Ways (title theme: holiness)
36. I Just Want to Thank You (title theme: praise)
37. Your Love Reaches Me (title theme: praise)
38. It’s All About Jesus (title theme: worship)
39. Name Above All (title theme: worship)
40. Healing In Your Wings (title theme: presence of God)
41. Offering of Love (title theme: worship)
42. Jesus I Believe You (title theme: faith)
43. Unspoken Truth – 2001 (title theme: orthodoxy)

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Originally from here.

Above All Else – Beeching
All Who Are Thirsty – Brown, Robertson
Arms of Love – Musseau
Awesome God (Your Voice) – Beeching
Be the Centre – Frye
Better Than – Corum
Blessed Be the Name – Park
Blessed be the Name of the Lord – Prosch, Daniels
Breathe – Barnett
Change My Heart, O God – Espinosa
Come and Fill Me Up – Doerksen
Come, Now Is the Time to Worship – Doerksen
Cry of My Heart – Butler
Draw Me Close – Carpenter
Dwell – Corum
Eternity – Doerksen
Every Move I Make – Ruis
Exalt the Lord – Rethmeier
Faithful Father – Doerksen
Faithful One – Doerksen
Glorify – Barnhill
Good to Me – Musseau
Hallelujah (Shout to the Earth) – Reardon
Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing) – Brown, Doerksen
He Is Yahweh – Salyn
His Banner Over Me – Prosch
His Love – Ruis
Holy – Brown
Holy and Anointed One – Barnett
Holy Is the Lord – Searles
Home Again – Fhinn, Jeans, Tute
Humble King – Brown
Hungry (Falling on My Knees) – Scott
I Believe in Jesus – Nelson
I Give Thanks – Thiessen
I Lift My Eyes Up – Doerksen
I Love Your Presence – Clarke, Lane
I See the Cross – Doerksen
I Will Change Your Name – Butler
I Will Lift My Hands – Ellis
I Will Trust in You – Daniels
If You Say Go – Thiel
In the Secret (I Want to Know You) – Park
Invitacion Fountain – Pritzl
Isn’t He – Wimber
Jesus Lead On – Helming
Let It Rain – Park
Let My Life Be Like a Love Song – Slater, Brown
Let the Redeemed – Barnett
Let the River Flow – Evans
Let Your Glory Fall – Ruis
Light the Fire Again – Doerksen
The Lord Almighty Reigns – Butler
The Lord Is Gracious and Compassionate – Ord
Mercy Is Falling – Ruis
Mighty Savior – Daniels
More Love, More Power – Del Hierro
More Than a Friend – Riddle
My Redeemer Lives – Wilson
Nothing Is As Wonderful – Underwood
One Thing I Ask – Park
Only You – Park
Pour Out My Heart – Musseau
Refiner’s Fire – Doerksen
The River Is Here – Park
Set Me on Fire – Delmore
Shout to the Lord – Prosch
Show Your Power – Prosch
Spirit of the Sovereign Lord – Park
Spirit Song – Wimber
Surrender – James
Sweet Mercies – Ruis
Sweet Wind – Ruis
Take My Life – Underwood
Thank You for the Cross – Brown
There’s No One Like Our Lord – Beeching, Mitchinson
This Is Love – Butler, Young
We Will Dance – Ruis
Who Is Like Our God? – Duane, Doerksen, Thiessen
Yahweh – Park
You Are a Holy God – Duane, Scott
You Are God – Underwood
You Are in Control – Underwood
You Are Mighty – Musseau
You Are My King – Doerksen
You Are Still Holy – Springer
You Are the Vine – Daniels, Rigby
Your Beloved – Helming
Your Love Is Amazing – Corum, Estes
Your Love Reaches Me (Psalm 36) – Clarke
Your Name Is Holy – Doerksen

Originally from here.

• Praise 1: The Praise Album (1974)
• Praise 2: Open Our Eyes (1976)
• Praise 3: Behold, Bless Ye the Lord (1979)
• Praise 4: In His Time (1980)
• Praise 5: Glorify Thy Name (1981)
• Praise 6: You Are My Hiding Place (1982)
• Praise 7: The Lord Reigns (1985)
• Praise 8: As the Deer (1986)
• Praise 9: Great Are You Lord (1987)
• Praise 10: O Lord, My Lord (1988)
• Praise 11: Let Us Worship the Lord, Jehovah (1989)
• Praise 12: He Is Able (1989)
• Praise 13: Meet Us Here (1990)
• Praise 14: I Will Celebrate (1991)
• Praise 15: He Has Made Me Glad (1992)
• Praise 16: The Power of Your Love (1997)
• Praise 17: In Your Presence (1997)
• Praise 18: Grace Alone (1998)
• Praise 19: Glorious Father (1999)
• Praise 20: Who Is Like the Lord (1999)

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Jesus, Name above all names
Beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us.
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.

Jesus, Name above all names.
Beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us.
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.

Emmanuel, God is with us.
Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.

Peter asked Jesus, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21-22). That’s 490 times. Of course, in keeping with the parabolic or symbolic nature of most of Jesus’ teachings, He was not really setting a number for how many times you should forgive someone. He meant that Christians need to be always willing to forgive their brothers and sisters when they are wronged by them and ask for forgiveness.

Notice the use of the word “brother,” however. This is not the same as the word “neighbor,” and definitely not “enemy.” Jesus teaches His disciples to relate to all three categories in different ways.  

The Biblical words “brother” and “sister” imply that they are real Christians—that is—in the New Testament sense, saints (Colossians 1:2, KJV). Going on to perfection, but not having yet attained it (Hebrews 6:1; Philippians 3:12). These are people who are serious, Bible obeying Christians; repentant, godly Christians. Not “perfect,” but Christians who are devout and hence children of God, and part of the body of Christ, the family of God (Galatians 3:26).

“Neighbor” does not imply a born again, saved Christian. In the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)—notice, to Jesus the Samaritans were not saved. He once said, “You Samaritans worship what you do not know” (John 4:22). Nevertheless, as an object lesson, Jesus used a Samaritan in His story to illustrate the good work of hospitality and charity to a “neighbor”: to a Jew who had been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road. Jesus says, “Love your neighbor” (Matthew 22:39). 

“Enemy” is another category of persons that Jesus addressed. These are obviously not born again, saved Christians either…at least in the eyes of Christ. These are adversarial, satanically inspired, mean-spirited people who are Hell-bent on destroying real Christians, ruining their lives, and their godly influence in the world. They are thorns in the flesh, tempters, and basically just, well, enemies of Christ, the Gospel, and true Christian disciples (Philippians 3:18; Colossians 1:21). Jesus says, “Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

When Jesus was walking the earth, His most notable enemies were the Pharisees. How did He treat them? With love, with patience:–there were occasions that He even ate with them when invited to do so (Luke 7:36; 11:38). When they asked Him embarrassing and tricky questions in front of His crowds, He dealt with them wisely and patiently, and with love; but He also rebuked them for their evil (Luke 20:19-26). No doubt, in His private times, He probably prayed that their blind eyes would be opened, that their hearts be filled with the Holy Spirit and bring them to repent, and that they would follow Him (Luke 6:12). But eventually His patience wore out with the Pharisees. On many occasions, the Pharisees were blatantly hardhearted and impenitent; and Jesus escaped from them, never to visit them again (John 10:39). And finally, just before the cross, He called down seven harsh woes and judgments on the Pharisees (Matthew 23). 

In today’s church I personally believe that traditional pastoral ministry has been discarded for the new Rick Warren model—aka the “seeker-sensitive” pastor idea. There are many things that I could go into detail about this. But I think John MacArthur is upholding the traditional Protestant vision of the pastor. You can study that in-depth some time. See John MacArthur’s Ashamed of the Gospel, Pastoral Ministry, and Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry. But how that bears on our present subject is this: most Protestant PASTORS ARE NOT PREACHING RIGHTEOUSNESS in their Sunday sermons; and as a result, most church goers are not being fed the holy Word of God in the way they should, and their spiritual eyes are blind. “Blind leaders of the blind” are abounding in the pulpits these days (Matthew 15:14). There is a famine of hearing the words of the Lord (Amos 8:11), because these people’s hearts have grown dull (Matthew 13:15).

The social implications of this are devastating. Gay marriage in the churches is increasing every year; the divorce rate is now 50% among church goers; and also, a great majority of Christians, at least of the liberal church going class, advocate abortion under some circumstances. But these are just political and civic issues. The more particular Biblical virtues are also being either ignored or distorted. One of these virtues is forgiveness.

I believe that forgiveness is supposed to be shown to brothers and sisters and Christ to an unlimited extent, because they are walking in “evangelical repentance,” or continual repentance, “bearing fruits worthy of repentance” (Matthew 3:8), which is not only the most central aspect of moral Christian living, but opens the door to living in a clear conscience before God (Acts 24:16), and doing good works (Matthew 25:31-46). The “seventy times seven” teaching of Christ (Matthew 18:22)—the doctrine of unlimited forgiveness—is only intended to be offered to brothers and sisters in Christ. As Peter said, “How many times should I forgive my brother?” And Jesus answered that question. Nowhere in the Bible is unlimited forgiveness taught by Jesus or any apostle other than in application to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Unlimited forgiveness is definitely not to be extended to pagan neighbors or to abusive enemies of Christians.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown comments on Matthew 18:22: “So long as it shall be needed and sought: you are never to come to the point of refusing forgiveness sincerely asked (See on Luke 17:3-4).” Key word: sincerely. Luke 17:3-4: “If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.” Notice: abusive people never GENUINELY ask for forgiveness, with a sincerely repentant heart, multiple times a day, planning on CHANGING THEIR WAYS. They only “apologize” in one, little small manner, and that with very much self-justification, and excuses: and that, only after you may have rebuked them for their evil conduct! The apologies never arise spontaneously from their hearts, because they are not sincerely sensitive or loving towards you. Jesus, therefore, in teaching “seventy times seven” forgiveness, is only applying it to the body of Christ, comprised of imperfect, yet genuinely repentant people. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown comments on Luke 17:4: this is “not a lower measure of the forgiving spirit than the ‘seventy times seven’ enjoined on Peter, which was occasioned by his asking if he was to stop at seven times. “No,” is the virtual answer, “though it come to seventy times that number, if only he ask forgiveness in sincerity.”

Pagan neighbors and enemies might be difficult to identify for some people, because so many church goers have been taught to “judge not lest you be judged” towards everyone in society (Matthew 7:1), including non-Christians.[1] How much more non-judgmental and “loving” do you think Christians are expected to be, towards all fellow church goers? But this is a distortion of Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness.

This distortion becomes especially relevant to clear up when a Christian is maybe confronted repeatedly by an abusive person. Verbal, emotional, and even physical abuse is also very common today. And it is a shocking truth that many church goers fall into the category of impenitent verbal and emotional abusers. Physical abusers are easy to identify, because they leave black eyes and marks on their victims. It’s not so easy to identify someone who is verbally abusive. It’s much easier for these people to play a sort of Jekyll-and-Hyde game of “two-face,” because they can hold their tongue in public gatherings, but around certain victims in a closed setting, they can unleash a torrent of verbal vomit. These people, even if they “go to church” are in no way born again Christians, especially if they are making no visible attempt at changing their abusive habit.

I simply don’t believe that Jesus advocates emotional or verbal abuse. Jesus wants us to forgive our brothers in the Lord. But when people are persistently abusive, I think it would be better to treat them as Christ treated His enemies: love them, pray for them, judge them, and escape from them!! It does not matter if an individual like this is a family member or not! It should not matter to those who, with Christ, can say, “Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother” (Mark 3:35). Don’t let yourself be guilted by abusive people into offering them unlimited forgiveness; they have no Biblical right to make such pleas!

However, if you find your heart remembering emotional wounds from certain people, whom you have hopefully removed from your life, due to their unchanging abuse, a prayer that a godly man taught me helps:

Lord, I thank You that you have forgiven my sins.
Now, I forgive this person again.
And, I pray that You would give them more of Your Holy Spirit.

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[1] Most Bible commentators, past and present, teach that Matthew 7:1-5 is only teaching against hypocrites judging people by their own hypocritical standards. Verse 5 especially establishes the doctrine of righteous judgment—or the validity of making right and proper judgments after having repented from that particular sin yourself; and especially after having repented from sins greater in severity than the lesser sins you are judging as wrong in other people. Jesus and the apostles nowhere preach the “non-judgmentalism” so popular in today’s churches. I believe the non-judgmental idea is an outgrowth of antinomianism (anti-law-of-God-ism).

Whether or not Dr. Hovind is truly guilty of tax evasion for Dinosaur Adventure Land, I don’t pretend to know. But this video is unlike any other in its presentation of the evidence against atheistic evolution. However, it appears by recent statements on his blog, that his thinking is still very anti-establishment or anti-government; in this, I think he is being foolish, seeing that he has been in federal prisons for several years. He would be wise to be a lot more respectful of the government according to Romans 13. Hovind’s ministry legacy is carried on by his son, Eric Hovind, and The Creation Store in Pensacola, Florida. Eric says his dad made the employees of Creation Science Evangelism to be missionaries, and not employees, and would pay people with cash under the table; in the eyes of the IRS, this was tax evasion.

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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.                  –1 Timothy 6:20-21, KJV

Recommended Books from the Video

• Biology by A Beka Books
• The Evolution Cruncher by Vance Ferrell
• Bob Jones Earth Science
• In The Beginning by Walt Brown
• Icons of Evolution (2000) by Jonathan Wells – Hovind: “a good book”
• Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe
• Darwin’s Enigma by Luther Sunderland
• The Case Against Darwin by James Perloff – Hovind: “a good book”

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Additional Books I Recommend

• Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial
• Michael Denton’s Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
• Jonathan Sarfati’s Refuting Evolution

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Outline of Evidences Against Evolution – From Bold Books:

Possible Book Project (12/28/14):
[Be careful to cite the SECULAR scientific journal articles from the footnotes].

Debunking Evolution:
And the Doctrine of Biblical Creation Established

Part 1:
Debunking Some Hoaxed-Up “Evidences” for Evolution

1. Primordial Soup–The Origin of Life?
2. The Evolutionary Tree of Life?
3. Similar Bones Prove Evolution?
4. Similar Embryos Prove Evolution?
5. Archaeopteryx Proves That Dinos Evolved Into Birds?
6. Peppered Moths Prove Evolution?
7. Different Finch Beaks Prove Evolution?
8. Wrinkled Four-Wing Flies Prove Evolution?
9. Different Horses Prove Evolution?
10. Similarity to Monkeys Proves Humans Evolved from Them?
11. The Fossil Record Proves Evolution?
12. Cells Prove Evolution?
13. Natural Selection Proves Evolution?
14. The Whale’s Pelvis Proves Evolution?
15. Evolutionary Astronomy Proves the Big Bang?

Part 2:
Practical Conclusions of Rejecting Evolution Theory

1. Biblical Creation: A Most Rejected Doctrine
2. Biblical History Indicates the World Is About 6,000 Years Old!
3. Popular Opinion Does Not Determine the Truth
4. The Use of the Word “Science”
5. A Summary of Missing Links
6. Why I Am Still Not Persuaded by Evolution Theory
7. Homeschool Your Kids to Protect Them From Atheistic Science

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Evolution Debate

December 19, 1997

Anti-Evolution: William F. Buckley Jr., Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, and David Berlinski

Pro-Evolution: Barry Lynn, Eugenie C. Scott, Michael Ruse, and Kenneth Miller

The one thing I don’t like about this debate is that GENESIS 1 IS NEVER MENTIONED!