Eric Earhart Leads "Nothing Is Too Hard For God"

Eric Earhart led the service at the Carpenter's Shop Church Yesterday. Eric's story is a perfect example of the forgiveness of Jesus Chirst, the savior. I got a chance to meet Eric and his wife and son as I entered the church. They are a nice family.




The Assemby of God has used Eric's story as an example of the foregiveness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you can see their video by clicking on the title above. When the next page opens up, place your mouse over the video screen and click on the right arrow on the bar at the bottom to start the video.

The service started with worship and there was a very good crowd this day (shown below) who had come to hear Eric's message directly.





Reverend Willie Moore was the worship leader and he created a great mood for the congregation.




The great CSC choir provided the music background for the congretation's voices.






Eric's sermon for this day was on the things that will make us a candidate for forgiveness. The biblical refrence was taken from Luke 4;18, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."

What makes one a candidate for forgiveness? Eric insists that his story is actually a story of God's love and not about him. Hist story is about how we all qualify for God's forgiveness as taken from this list in Luke, the poor, borkenhearted, captives, blind and bruised. Is there anyone who is not one of these?

Eric's close was also a reminder that we are all sinners, 1 Timorthy 1;15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."





The sincerity of his message affected all who were there, and many came for personal guidance during the alter call.

Carpenter’s Tools - Is it too hard for God? . . . . .

By Pastor Wallace Phillips – August 20th, 2007


Well…here we go again. I’ll just bet that some of you are saying “Is he running this again?” Yep! He is. I’m excited because the “Nothing’s Too Hard For God” campaign is upon us. Carpenter’s Shop Church and nothingstoohardforgod.org are teaming up for Spirit Week ’07 – an exciting week of services geared to meet the challenges of today’s society. I have asked dynamic stories to be shared from some of the best speakers in this region. If you’re wondering what the subject matter will be, I have posted some information for you below. Tell your family. Tell your friends…your co-workers…your neighbors….tell’em to join you for a powerful experience at Spirit Week ’07 at The Carpenter’s Shop Church. Here’s the docket….


Day/Date/Time Service Speaker/Topic
Sunday / August 26th /10:30 AM --- Eric Earhart / Forgiveness
(view Eric's story by clicking here and then clicking on the right arrow at the bottom left of the box that says "Forgiveness" to start the great video)



Sunday / August 26th / 7:00 PM --- Sal Dibianca / Addiction & Deliverance

Monday / August 27th / 12 NOON --- Rich Burkett / Physical Healing
Monday / August 27th / 7:00 PM --- Willie Moore / Spiritual Oppression

Tuesday / August 28th / 12 NOON --- Larry Caldwell / Financial Provision
Tuesday / August 28th / 7:00 PM --- David Metz / Relationships

Wednesday / August 29th / 12 NOON --- Geneva Gladney / Loneliness
Wednesday / August 29th / 7:00 PM --- Angel Casiano / Grief & Loss



Please visit us on the web at http://www.cscministries.com/ or http://www.wallacephillips.org/

Easley Supports New County Taxes

There is an article posted on the Inner Banks Eagle about the attempt by North Carolina to raise your County taxes. It is politics so we posted the article in on the "Eagle". However some have asked me to make people who read the Patriot blogs aware of the article since it will affect so many middle class people who don't know they may have the value of their homes seized by government. Click on the title above to see what is being proposed.

Inner Banks Laughter - Technical Humor

This week I was showing a customer the pricing for a new laptop computer for their son to take to college. It included wireless Internet, a camera to take movies and allow picture phone calls to home and online backup. It was $1,000. The price was a concern.

It reminded me of how far we have come. Above is an ad for the PC that was the HOT, NEW THING IN LATE 1989. A Tandy Computer that did not include a Monitor, or a Mouse (those were an extra $1,000 by themselves) and if you wanted text only Internet it would set you back another $1,000 per month for a fractional T-1 line.

The inflation adjusted price for this pitifully slow, DOS based Tandy computer in 2007 dollars would be $30,000. Things have really changed!

Inner Banks Laughter - Religious Humor

Are you sure?

Inner Banks Laughter - Religious Humor

Two men crashed in their private plane on a South Pacific Island. Both survived. One of the men brushed himself off and then proceeded to run all over the island to see if they had any chance of survival. When he returned, he rushed up to the other man and screamed, "This island is uninhabited, there is no food, there is no water. We are going to die!"

The other man leaned back against the fuselage of the wrecked plane, folded his arms and responded, " No we're not. I make over $250,000 a week."

The first man grabbed his friend and shook him. "Listen, we are on an uninhabited island. There is no food, no water. We are going to die!" The other man, unruffled, again responded. " No, I make over $250,000 a week."

Mystified, the first man, taken aback with such an answer again repeated, "For the last time, I'm telling you we ARE doomed. There is NO one else on this island. There is NO food. There is NO water. We are, I repeat, we are going to die a slow death."

Still unfazed, the first man looked the other in the eyes and said, Do not make me say this again. I make over $250,000 per week... I am a Baptist and tithe. MY PASTOR WILL FIND US!"

Al-Pam Conservative Club

The Al-Pam Conservative Club met this month in Catherine's 1770 Restaurant in Ahoskie. It is a beautiful place, in an historic former home on the outskirts of Ahoskie. Catherine's is famous for their seafood buffet.




There was a very good turnout for last evenings event (shown below) and everyone tried out the famous buffet.





After the meal Chris East (shown below), President of the Al-Pam Conservative Club, welcomed the audience to Ahoskie. There was some discussion of the current status of the Hertford County Republican Party. As of yesterday, the needed organization report had not been filed with the State Party. The secretary of the Hertford County Republican Party was at the meeting and agreed she would find out what happened to the report and get it filed in a timely fashion.




Chris then introduced the speaker for the evening, Jeff Nixon from the Civitas Institute. Jeff first talked about the Civitas organization, a non-profit and therefore non-partisan organization based in Raleigh that promotes conservative values to the legislature and reports on legislative activities. Jeff described the Civitas goal as keeping the legislature from ambushing North Carolina citizens.




The focus of Jeff's talk; activities in this year's North Carolina legislature as it winds down its sessions. Jeff spoke about numerous issues, including the serious concern that we are rapidly approaching one party rule in North Carolina. The stolen elections based on illegal gerry mandered districts, a result of the Jim Black bribery of Decker, are still affecting our state. Though more citizens voted for Republicans in the last two elections than Democrats, the democrats still hold power because of this bribe and the district layouts that assure Democrat control even though they receive fewer votes. The Democrats have adopted an arrogant indifference to fair government and shut Republicans out of all decisions. They do this by constantly changing or ignoring the rules by which the legislature is supposed to work.

Some of the citizen opposed issues that are being jammed through? One stop registration and voting, tax-payer funded elections, killing the death penalty and changing the rules for "do not resuscitate" living wills.

Jeff gave an excellent presentation and the audience was very appreciative.