P.I.H.K. in the Perry County News
google.com, pub-2427795083793513, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
Reprinted with Permission
written by: VINCE LUECKE, Editor
from http://www.perrycountynews.com
story link
http://www.perrycountynews.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?045+article+Features+20100104102925045045001
Investigating the unknown
Couple shares stories of possible paranormal phenomena
By VINCE LUECKE, Editor
The gathering Bruce and Danielle Collins hosted at their home Tuesday evening was no ordinary house party. There were stories about toys the couple’s three children received from Santa, a pitch-in meal of finger foods and tours of the couple’s log home – whose inspiration and construction are credits to Bruce’s talents and hard work.
Less conventional activities included talks and demonstrations by ghost hunters, more suitably called paranormal investigators, dressed in black and yellow T-shirts and armed with audio recordings captured in the house they claim aren’t from the world of the living.
The assembly, spirited in the jovial sense but mindful of the spirits many of them believe in, marked the airing of “Paranormal State,” the A&E Television Network program that explores the world of the paranormal, from ghost sightings to demonic disturbances.
Bruce and Danielle’s home, between St. Meinrad and Bristow, was visited by the show’s investigatory team back in October and anticipation had built for months over what members of the Paranormal Research Society had discovered.
“The folks from the show didn’t fill us in on a lot of what they found,” Bruce said in an interview the week before the show aired. “We know they heard some things and they had given us some hints, but we’re not sure of the direction the show will take.”
Beliefs about the spirit realm range from certain belief to absolute denial and the couple stress that they aren’t sure what their experiences mean. They’re not trying to force beliefs on others or raise concern or suspicion in the community. However, they suspect many people believe there are times when the world of the dead collide with that of the living.
The couple began to consider their home might be home to one or more spirits after their son, Gavin, fell from a second-floor window in July 2008. Only 2 years old at the time, the child was alone in a sister’s room when he went tumbling out of a window.
The child was flown to Kosair’s Hospital in Louisville. He had to wear a brace for a time but recovered with no permanent injuries.
Soon after returning home, Bruce asked Gavin how he fell. The reply was unexpected and alarming.
“Boy pushed me,” Gavin told his dad.
Gavin has two sisters and was alone in the room at the time.
Not sure what to make of the remark, Bruce’s concern grew a few weeks later when Gavin screamed while alone in an upstairs room. Running through a hallway into his father’s arms, Gavin said a boy had scared him. Again, there was no other boy around.
There were other signs of possible paranormal activity, Bruce says.
While the couple saw no floating apparitions or anything that would concretely convince them without a doubt the house was inhabited by a spirit, Bruce and Danielle said they would occasionally glimpse something moving in the house.
“It was always at the corner of your eye, but it was enough to make you get up and check things out,” Bruce said. “I’d see something move, think it was Danielle and walk into the room and find no one there.”
The couple’s daughters sometimes reported seeing faces in windows and talked about cannibals living outside.
Not sure of his own beliefs about the paranormal, Bruce began looking for more information.
A friend at work told him about a group of paranormal investigators based in Henderson, Ky. They spent a night in the home and allegedly detected activity with the infrared cameras and sensitive recording equipment.
Two members of the group returned for a second visit and claimed to have recorded an ominous voice. The Kentucky group contacted “Paranormal State” and the Collinses were interviewed several times about their experiences. They learned last fall that the television show’s team, lead by Paranormal Research Society Director Ryan Buell, had chosen their case for an episode of the show.
Investigators and camera operators spent two days in the house in October. Based on the show that aired last week, they found signs of potential paranormal activity, including what sounded like footsteps in the woods and other sounds inside the house. A fog-like apparition captured by one camera also drew attention, but the team wasn’t able to conclude what the sighting was. A psychic who visited the house also claimed to have detected the presence of a spirit in the home.
The show made no certain conclusions about the home but raised the case of Ricky Thomas, the Bristow teen who went missing in 1997. The show tiptoed around theories of what might have happened to the 13-year-old. The Collinses hoped the show’s producers would avoid making allegations about the case.
Tuesday’s program concluded with the family planting a tree, a sign of respect for the land. Salt was also scattered around the home, offering a possible boundary of protection for the family from evil forces. Before the show aired, Bruce and Danielle raised the possibility that disturbing the land for their home might have disturbed a site sacred to Native Indians.
“That’s something we never thought about at first, but it makes sense,” Bruce said.
Since the show’s taping there have been fewer unexplainable events taking place in the home and the family is more at ease, Bruce and Danielle said.
For more information on “Paranormal State,” visit the show’s Web site at www. paranormalstate.com. The complete 30-minute broadcast of last week’s show can be viewed on the site.
For more information about Paranormal Investigators of Henderson Kentucky, call (270) 823-2519 or e-mail cases@kyghosthunters.net.
Categories: General Tags:
John Chapter 8
google.com, pub-2427795083793513, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
The Pharisees and the adulteress. (1-11) Christ’s discourse with the Pharisees. (12-59)
Verses 1-11: Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner’s guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the same thing. All who are any way called to blame the faults of others, are especially concerned to look to themselves, and keep themselves pure. In this matter Christ attended to the great work about which he came into the world, that was, to bring sinners to repentance; not to destroy, but to save. He aimed to bring, not only the accused to repentance, by showing her his mercy, but the prosecutors also, by showing them their sins; they thought to insnare him, he sought to convince and convert them. He declined to meddle with the magistrate’s office. Many crimes merit far more severe punishment than they meet with; but we should not leave our own work, to take that upon ourselves to which we are not called. When Christ sent her away, it was with this caution, Go, and sin no more. Those who help to save the life of a criminal, should help to save the soul with the same caution. Those are truly happy, whom Christ does not condemn. Christ’s favour to us in the forgiveness of past sins should prevail with us, Go then, and sin no more.
Verses 12-16: Christ is the Light of the world. God is light, and Christ is the image of the invisible God. One sun enlightens the whole world; so does one Christ, and there needs no more. What a dark dungeon would the world be without the sun! So would it be without Jesus, by whom light came into the world. Those who follow Christ shall not walk in darkness. They shall not be left without the truths which are necessary to keep them from destroying error, and the directions in the way of duty, necessary to keep them from condemning sin.
Verses 17-20: If we knew Christ better, we should know the Father better. Those become vain in their imaginations concerning God, who will not learn of Christ. Those who know not his glory and grace, know not the Father that sent him. The time of our departure out of the world, depends upon God. Our enemies cannot hasten it any sooner, nor can our friends delay it any longer, than the time appointed of the Father. Every true believer can look up and say with pleasure, My times are in thy hand, and better there than in my own. To all God’s purposes there is a time.
Verses 21-29: Those that live in unbelief, are for ever undone, if they die in unbelief. The Jews belonged to this present evil world, but Jesus was of a heavenly and Divine nature, so that his doctrine, kingdom, and blessings, would not suit their taste. But the curse of the law is done away to all that submit to the grace of the gospel. Nothing but the doctrine of Christ’s grace will be an argument powerful enough, and none but the Spirit of Christ’s grace will be an agent powerful enough, to turn us from sin to God; and that Spirit is given, and that doctrine is given, to work upon those only who believe in Christ. Some say, Who is this Jesus? They allow him to have been a Prophet, an excellent Teacher, and even more than a creature; but cannot acknowledge him as over all, God blessed for evermore. Will not this suffice? Jesus here answers the question. Is this to honour him as the Father? Does this admit his being the Light of the world, and the Life of men, one with the Father? All shall know by their conversion, or in their condemnation, that he always spake and did what pleased the Father, even when he claimed the highest honours to himself.
Verses 30-36: Such power attended our Lord’s words, that many were convinced, and professed to believe in him. He encouraged them to attend his teaching, rely on his promises, and obey his commands, notwithstanding all temptations to evil. Thus doing, they would be his disciples truly; and by the teaching of his word and Spirit, they would learn where their hope and strength lay. Christ spoke of spiritual liberty; but carnal hearts feel no other grievances than those that molest the body, and distress their worldly affairs. Talk to them of their liberty and property, tell them of waste committed upon their lands, or damage done to their houses, and they understand you very well; but speak of the bondage of sin, captivity to Satan, and liberty by Christ; tell of wrong done to their precious souls, and the hazard of their eternal welfare, then you bring strange things to their ears. Jesus plainly reminded them, that the man who practised any sin, was, in fact, a slave to that sin, which was the case with most of them. Christ in the gospel offers us freedom, he has power to do this, and those whom Christ makes free are really so. But often we see persons disputing about liberty of every kind, while they are slaves to some sinful lust.
Verses 37-40: Our Lord opposed the proud and vain confidence of these Jews, showing that their descent from Abraham could not profit those of a contrary spirit to him. Where the word of God has no place, no good is to be expected; room is left there for all wickedness. A sick person who turns from his physician, and will take neither remedies nor food, is past hope of recovery. The truth both heals and nourishes the hearts of those who receive it. The truth taught by philosophers has not this power and effect, but only the truth of God. Those who claim the privileges of Abraham, must do Abraham’s works; must be strangers and sojourners in this world; keep up the worship of God in their families, and always walk before God.
Verses 41-47: Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men’s souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin. He is the author of all lies; whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion for ever. The special lusts of the devil are spiritual wickedness, the lusts of the mind, and corrupt reasonings, pride and envy, wrath and malice, enmity to good, and enticing others to evil. By the truth, here understand the revealed will of God as to the salvation of men by Jesus Christ, the truth Christ was now preaching, and which the Jews opposed.
Verses 48-53: Observe Christ’s disregard of the applause of men. those who are dead to the praises of men can bear their contempt. God will seek the honour of all who do not seek their own. In these verses we have the doctrine of the everlasting happiness of believers. We have the character of a believer; he is one that keeps the sayings of the Lord Jesus. And the privilege of a believer; he shall by no means see death for ever. Though now they cannot avoid seeing death, and tasting it also, yet they shall shortly be where it will be no more forever, (Ex 14:13).
Verses 54-59: Christ and all that are his, depend upon God for honour. Men may be able to dispute about God, yet may not know him. Such as know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, are put together, (2Th 1:8). All who rightly know anything of Christ, earnestly desire to know more of him. Those who discern the dawn of the light of the Sun of Righteousness, wish to see his rising. “Before Abraham was, I AM.” This speaks Abraham a creature, and our Lord the Creator; well, therefore, might he make himself greater than Abraham. I AM, is the name of God, (Ex 3:14); it speaks his self-existence; he is the First and the Last, ever the same, (Re 1:8). Thus he was not only before Abraham, but before all worlds, (Pr 8:23; Joh 1:1). As Mediator, he was the appointed Messiah, long before Abraham; the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, (Re 13:8). The Lord Jesus was made of God Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption, to Adam, and Abel, and all that lived and died by faith in him, before Abraham. The Jews were about to stone Jesus for blasphemy, but he withdrew; by his miraculous power he passed through them unhurt. Let us stedfastly profess what we know and believe concerning God; and if heirs of Abraham’s faith, we shall rejoice in looking forward to that day when the Saviour shall appear in glory, to the confusion of his enemies, and to complete the salvation of all who believe in him.
Categories: Politics & Religion Tags:
