Hippie Voices To Gods Heart

Here is a phenomenological inquiry into the fruitful ministry of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s Sunday Morning Worship Service. The purpose was to uncover and explicate the quintessential elements of worship leading from the life experiences of those worship leaders who shared the platform with Pastor Chuck Smith, known as the father of the Jesus Movement. The book examines Calvary Chapel’s inauspicious beginnings in a senior citizen trailer park recreation center as it explores key elements of Kay and Chuck Smith’s ministry. The church and the couple combined in 1965. By 1968, the church and the Smiths became a spiritual home replete with a spiritual mama and papa, ministering to hippies seeking everlasting love and eternal peace. The fruitfulness of Calvary Chapel’s ministry is its ability to reproduce maturing Christians that reproduce maturing Christians. This replication occurred thousands of times as the movement blossomed and spread to new churches and new ministries across the United States and globally. The phenomenon spawned a megachurch movement and birthed the modern Christian worship music industry. The hippies were alternately loathed and loved in their era. Perhaps the hippies’ most enduring and endearing contributions to twenty-first-century culture are traced to the Jesus movement.

Here is a phenomenological inquiry into the fruitful ministry of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s Sunday Morning Worship Service. The purpose was to uncover and explicate the quintessential elements of worship leading from the life experiences of those worship leaders who shared the platform with Pastor Chuck Smith, known as the father of the Jesus Movement. The book examines Calvary Chapel’s inauspicious beginnings in a senior citizen trailer park recreation center as it explores key elements of Kay and Chuck Smith’s ministry. The church and the couple combined in 1965. By 1968, the church and the Smiths became a spiritual home replete with a spiritual mama and papa, ministering to hippies seeking everlasting love and eternal peace. The fruitfulness of Calvary Chapel’s ministry is its ability to reproduce maturing Christians that reproduce maturing Christians. This replication occurred thousands of times as the movement blossomed and spread to new churches and new ministries across the United States and globally. The phenomenon spawned a megachurch movement and birthed the modern Christian worship music industry. The hippies were alternately loathed and loved in their era. Perhaps the hippies’ most enduring and endearing contributions to twenty-first-century culture are traced to the Jesus movement.

"But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear." Matthew 13:16 You can hear the voice of your Lord. He is always speaking to you. In fact, every believer is called to have a one-on-one relationship with God because He longs to share sweet times of intimacy with all His children. How to Hear God's Voice will teach you to discern His voice from all the other voices that clamor for your attention. This book: Gives vital keys to increase the intimacy of your prayer time, Teaches you how to be still before the Lord, Helps you recognize His speech as spontaneous thoughts, Encourages you to seek vision while praying, and use a journal to record revelation. Your communion with God will become a flow of His words springing forth from your heart. You will experience a depth of relationship you never thought possible!

Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life. But who were these longhaired dissenters bent on peace, love and equality? What did they believe? What did they want? Are their values still relevant today? Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 "old hippies," this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about the often misunderstood movement of ordinary young people who faced an era of escalating war, civil turmoil and political assassinations with faith in humanity and a belief in the power of ideas.

"I have for many years been deeply spiritually touched, fed and challenged by Bill's poems that he writes as his own heart is moved by God." -Bill Thrall, former pastor/elder at Open Door Fellowship Church in Phoenix Az, currently part of the leadership& author at Trueface Ministries in Phoenix, Az "Bill Folz, a passionate, mature, and trusted follower of Jesus has for 40 plus years pointed people to the heart and character of God through his poems. Bill spends long hours and short minutes with God, waits for His voice, then pens words of encouragement and hope that woo the reader to trust and to live in God's Sabbath rest. He never offers platitudes because he knows that it is in the real world of everyday life where God wants to meet us and gently call us to lean into Him. All of us that have read his poetry through the years have been built up in our faith, comforted in our pain, and blessed by God's care through his words. Many years ago Bill heard God call him to be a "doctor to His people," and his poems have been a part of the living out of this calling. I am honored and privileged to know Bill and get to do life with him." -Louise Sedgwick, Pastor of Adult Ministries at Open Door Fellowship Church in Phoenix, Az "Bill is a present day King David. A mighty man who writes our every season of life with God in profound beauty. And if you walked around with him for a few days, you'd discover he is not only a gifted writer but an authentic human. That's what makes these poems so important." -John Lynch, former elder at Open Door Fellowship Church, co-author of "The Cure", from Trueface Ministries in Phoenix, Az.

A group of Hippies, assisted by The Alien Alliance of Andromeda thwart the bilderberg bankers, politicians, military, and the religious 'God Deluded', by stealing all of the worlds gold deposit. The action moves rapidly from Namibia, to the space island of the approaching race of Mong. Then on to the underground lairs of Reptilian Atlantean Warlocks who lurk under The Vatican, Jerusalem and Washington, where Jovian Moth Probes are used as deadly weapons. Allies from Hollow Middle Earth are found, who heal Earth's global volcanic dimming with the stolen golden treasure. The narrative culminates in 2012 at The Black Cube, where the fallen angels of The Fifth Planet are forgiven, and the captured souls of mankind are set free. End of world theories become reality when The Four Horses of The Apocalypse rise in sun flare, earth quake, tsunami, and 'The Thrice Night Darkly', leaving the Hippy Osaian communities of the Southern Hemisphere at deadlock with the old controlling regimes of a sick planet. With scenes of violence, tears, laughter, and a dreamy alien love affair; this tale will take you to a reality which you often dream of.

Based on the highly popular and successful book, How to Hear God’s Voice, this exciting new book emphasizes the 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice. “When I learned to hear God’s voice after 11 years as a believer without it, every part of me was radically transformed. Thousands have told me they have had this same metamorphosis, and I believe that this will become your testimony also,” writes co-author, Mark Virkler. The keys that are examined, discussed in detail, and can be immediately applied to your life are: How to recognize God’s voice as spontaneous thoughts. Learning how to become still before the Lord. Looking for vision as you pray. Realizing the importance of two-way journaling. Filled with insights from years of hearing from God, 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice also includes visual aids that enhance the teaching and learning experience. Very reader-friendly, you will find that the concepts and principles are easily adapted to your personal circumstances and lifestyle. Designed to bring even more depth to your relationship with God, this book is part of an integrated package that includes a DVD and seminar guide for either individual or group study. Either as a stand-alone book or as part of a package, you are sure to gain valuable encouragement and motivation to seek intimate communication with God, your heavenly Father.

Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

First published in 1982 as part of the Crass record album Christ: The Album, Penny Rimbaud’s The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution. Wally Hope was a visionary and a freethinker, whose life had a profound influence on many in the culture of the UK underground and beyond. He was an important figure in what may loosely be described as the organization of the Windsor Free Festival from 1972 to 1974, as well providing the impetus for the embryonic Stonehenge Free Festival. Wally was arrested and incarcerated in a mental institution after having been found in possession of a small amount of LSD. He was later released, and subsequently died. The official verdict was that Russell committed suicide, although Rimbaud uncovered strong evidence that he was murdered. Rimbaud’s anger over unanswered questions surrounding his friend’s death inspired him in 1977 to form the anarchist punk band Crass. In the space of seven short years, from 1977 to their breakup in 1984, Crass almost single-handedly breathed life back into the then moribund peace and anarchist movements. The Last of the Hippies fast became the seminal text of what was then known as anarcho-punk and which later blossomed into the anti-globalization movement. This revised edition comes complete with a new introduction in which Rimbaud questions some of the premises that he laid down in the original.