Ken Blue Ministries

By Ken Blue

The answer to that question can be clearly answered by asking you another question. Do you love bluegrass music? If the answer is yes, then your answer to the first question will be the same. I have discovered that people believe God loves what they love. This is why there is so much controversy and hypocrisy in the field of music. I hope God likes it, for I sure do.

However, many of the arguments about how we justify our preference in music crumble when put under the spotlight. I have heard just about every argument as to why we should condemn some music and defend what we like. For example, bluegrass music is the same music people dance to at a square dance. Note the following advertisement. “Oconee State Park
It’s Friday night and it’s time to dance! Grab your partner and two-step to Oconee State Park’s barn for a night of fun, music and square dancing. No experience necessary to have a grand ole time. Bluegrass music is performed by the Dixie Bluegrass Boys, led by Georgia Music Hall of Famer Curtis Blackwell. For over 40 years the Dixie Bluegrass Boys have performed for audiences and continue to energize the dance floor. Bring your friends, bring your family, or find a partner there!” Another ad reads: “ Gospel Singing, Bluegrass Music, and Square Dancing at Lawrence Prevette’s Rocky Acres Music Barn in Silver Valley.Date: Monday nights from 6:30pm – 10:30pm. Free covered dish supper at 6:30. Gospel singing starts at 7:30. Country and bluegrass music and dancing start about 8:15, and includes at least two square dances.”

Have you ever ridden a bicycle without brakes? No matter how hard or fast you “backpedal” you can’t get yourself out of the situation you’re in. The interesting thing is to observe those pastors and evangelist who try to justify their selection of music while condemning that of others. They “backpedal” with a vengeance, to save themselves, but to no avail. If you like bluegrass in church on Sunday, how do you disassociate it from the Saturday night square dance? I’m sure you will. Does Jesus like bluegrass? I sure hope so.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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By Ken Blue

Although God has blessed us with many great blessings in this dispensation, it is interesting to see how He blessed and equipped the early church. Several “great things” are found in Acts 4-5:16.

1. We have a record of a great many conversions. “4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.” “14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.”

2. They experienced great opposition. “6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.” “17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.”

3. They had great boldness. “13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”

4. They demonstrated great faith. “24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is.”

5. Great Bible knowledge. “25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?”

6. Great expectation. “30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.”

7. There was great unity. “32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.”

8. Great power. “33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.”

9. Great grace. “33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.”

10. Great sacrifice. “he apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,”

11. Great fear. “5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.” “11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.”

12. Great miracles. “16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.”

These are a few of the “Great things” in this section. You, no doubt, can find more. A pastor could build a great sermon, or a great series of messages from these.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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Muslims must be proud of a religion that can only keep their followers by killing all non Muslims, or execution any who convert to other religions. That mafia concept is so foreign from anything taught by Christianity, it is impossible for them to comprehend it. If you think Islam is a friend of America or any other religion on earth, you don’t understand their religion or culture.

Iranian Pastor Faces Execution for Refusing to Recant Christian Faith
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published September 28, 2011 | FoxNews.com

An undated photograph circulated by religious rights organizations shows Youcef Nadarkhani and his family.

An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an Iranian court.

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and therefore must recant his faith in Jesus Christ, the 11th branch of Iran’s Gilan Provincial Court ruled. Iran’s Supreme Court had ordered the trial court to determine whether Nadarkhani had been a Muslim prior to converting to Christianity.

An undated photograph provided by the American Center for Law & Justice shows Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who faces execution for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

The judges, according to the American Center for Law & Justice, demanded that Nadarkhani, 34, recant his Christian faith before submission of evidence. Though the judgment runs against current Iranian and international laws and is not codified in Iranian penal code, the judge stated that the court must uphold the decision of the 27th Branch of the Supreme Court in Qom.

When asked to repent, Nadarkhani stated: “Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?”

“To the religion of your ancestors, Islam,” the judge replied, according to the American Center for Law & Justice.

“I cannot,” Nadarkhani said.

Nadarkhani is the latest Christian cleric to be imprisoned in Iran for his religious beliefs. According to Elam Ministries, a United Kingdom-based organization that serves Christian churches in Iran, there was a significant increase in the number of Christians arrested solely for practicing their faith between June 2010 and January 2011. A total of 202 arrests occurred during that six-month period, including 33 people who remained in prison as of January, Elam reported.

An Assyrian evangelical pastor, Rev. Wilson Issavi, was imprisoned for 54 days for allegedly converting Muslims prior to his release in March 2010, Elam officials told FoxNews.com.
Nadarkhani, a pastor in the 400-member Church of Iran, has been held in that country’s Gilan Province since October 2009, after he protested to local education authorities that his son was forced to read from the Koran at school. His wife, Fatemeh Pasandideh, was also arrested in June 2010 in an apparent attempt to pressure him to renounce his faith. She was released in October 2010, according to Amnesty International.
Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for apostasy last September based on religious writings by Iranian clerics, including Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite the fact that there is no offense of “apostasy” in the nation’s penal code, Amnesty International reports.
In June, the Supreme Court of Iran ruled that a lower court should re-examine procedural flaws in the case, giving local judges the power to decide whether to release, execute or retry Nadarkhani. The verdict, according to Amnesty International, includes a provision for the sentence to be overturned should Nadarkhani renounce his faith.
Elise Auerbach, an Iranian analyst for Amnesty International USA, told FoxNews.com that an execution for apostasy has not been carried out in Iran since 1990. Nadarkhani’s sentence is a “clear violation of international law,” she said.
“The key is to keep up the pressure and to publicize the story because it obviously outrages most people,” Auerbach said. “It’s part of the pattern of persecution based on religion in Iran.”
Kiri Kankhwende, a spokeswoman for Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a human rights organization that specializes in religious freedom, told FoxNews.com that Nadarkhani was asked for the fourth time to renounce his faith during a hearing early Wednesday and he denied that request.
“We’re waiting to hear the final outcome,” she told FoxNews.com. We’re still waiting to hear what they’ve decided.”
Kankhwende said Nadarkhani could be executed Wednesday or Thursday.
“Iran is unpredictable,” she said. “We can’t say when it might happen. It’s a very real threat, but we can’t say when exactly.”
Officials at the U.S. State Department declined to comment when reached on Wednesday. Attempts to reach his attorney, Mohammed Ali Dadkhah, were not successful.
House Speaker John Boehner said Nadarkhani’s case is “distressing for people of every country and creed,” according to a statement released on Wednesday.
“While Iran’s government claims to promote tolerance, it continues to imprison many of its people because of their faith,” the statement read. “This goes beyond the law to an issue of fundamental respect for human dignity. I urge Iran’s leaders to abandon this dark path, spare [Nadarkhani’s] life, and grant him a full and unconditional release.”
Father Jonathan Morris, a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of New York and an analyst for Fox News Channel, said Nadarkhani’s case is “unmistakable evidence” that Iran is executing Christians simply because they refuse to become Muslims.
Morris continued: “Will President Obama, and the free world, allow the United Nations to continue in its cowardly silence on this matter?”

This was forwarded to us by Dr. Richard Flanders, a friend of our ministry. He was one of the key-note speakers in Kurdistan during our school for Pastors.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” 2 Cor. 11:14-15.

The above passage describes Harold Camping better than any other Scripture. He is a deceitful worker, and a minister of Satan. His interpretation of the Bible is like a backlash on a spinning reel. His allegorical method of interpretation leaves you with no way to correct him, or get a handle on his teaching.

He has already prophesied, and given dates for the rapture, and both of them failed. Now, he has set the date of October 21 as the end of the world. He was wrong on the others, and will be wrong on this one. It may be the end of the world for Camping’s ministry. As gullible as people are, I can’t imagine anyone being so stupid they would continue to follow him. Nor can I believe he will show his face again.

No one on this earth knows when the rapture will take place, when the Tribulation will begin, who the Antichrist is, who the false prophet is, or when the end of the world will come. None of these can be known from Scripture. Therefore, all who pretend to know these things, are lying, or deceived. Let them bring forth their PROOF. (Notice that on the side of the bus these words, “The Bible Guarantees it.” It does not! This is the damage Camping is doing. He is telling the world that the Bible tells when these events will happen. Then when they do not, people say, “See, the Bible is wrong.” Again, the Bible is not wrong. It NEVER gives the time of those events.)

If you are a Christian, I suggest you ignore Harold Camping and all teachers and preachers who mishandle the Word of God. The Bible should not be allegorized. If the Bible uses types, it will be clear from the context. The safe and right method is to read it naturally as you would read any other book. It will make sense to you when you do.

Don’t worry about October 21. That will not be the rapture or the end of the world. However, those things are coming in their time sequence as set by God. If you are not saved, you can accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior right now. Just tell Him that you are accepting Him as your Savior. Find a King James Bible and start reading the book of Romans. You will be glad you did.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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