Comments on: Sign of the Apocalypse: "The 700 Club" and I Agree

By: joel lee russell

joel lee russell — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:01:28 +0000

Hello,
My name is Joel Russell. I have a soul winning testimony on how I found my life become new in 1979 watching the 700 club. I am a Veteran of the Vietnam War at its worst time. I have now written my 2nd book called Angels under Fire. It is due to hit the stores sometime in June. I have the movie rights up for grabs now. I find myself in a situation that seems impossible for me to return back to the World after being in a fire fight that took our company from 250 men to only 79 men in only four hours. After realizing that coming home alive would almost be impossible. I cried out to God and made a deal with him that if he would let me make it home alive I would live the rest of my life for him. Being a Catholic I did not know what it meant to be saved, and that you had to be saved in order to get into heaven. It took a head banging car crash to finally wake me up and bring back to mind the deal I made with God in Vietnam.
Looking for the truth after a church of God minister prayed that my eyes and ears be open to hear the truth that I might find my way to God. After that prayer God began to send born again believers across my path to wittness to me. My testimony is a little to long, but I want to thank Pat Roberson for praying with me one night while watching the 700 club. I became born again that night and my life totally changed. I finally knew what it meant to have Jesus come into my heart. That was in 1979.
My new novel Angels under Fire is due to come out in the stores. This book takes you through a some what fictional part of my life. I tried to make up for all the really bad times I had which I wrote about in the Book Of Joel, Book II. My 1998 biography . Both of these books are non stop action of my life including my complete soul winning testimony and a vision of the 2nd coming of Christ.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:47:00 +0000

Of course they left out the best Q&A.

Q: Why did Jesus die on the cross?

A: He forgot the safeword.

I should probably turn off the computer. Looks like a lightning storm just started brewing outside.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:55:00 +0000

I like the fact that the title of the 700 Club page is “Bring It On: Love, Marriage, and Sex,” yet the “sex” part fails to make it into the permalink.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:11:00 +0000

If it’s of any value, I’m with the people who believe in archiving. You may not agree today, but you will tomorrow.

I think it’s clear to the world (and, more importantly, to yourselves)that both you and Wendy are committed to each other. And, unlike the 700 Club couple, you’re not insecure about evidence you weren’t virgins when you met.

As long as you don’t have a shrine of a past love in your bedroom, like Charlotte Haze in Lolita, I don’t see the problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:57:00 +0000

This is one thing that’s a personal decision.

BUT, I would have concerns about a relationship that didn’t allow for enough privacy for each partners’ personal artifacts. And, since past relationships are part of a person’s reality, I would be suspicious of a relationship that’s so flimsy that it’s threatened by a few, silly old love letters … within reason, it’s probably a good policy is to destroy anything that you’d be embarrased to see circulated on the internet.

I’ve seen stuff my parents and grandparents kept from past romances, it was fun and helped me relate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:53:00 +0000

I did write a short article subsequent to trackbacking, agreeing with the sentiment that it was a good idea to get rid of old love letters if, as in your case, you found the woman with whom you are going to spend the rest of your life with. What I didn't say in my little article was that I have a certain amount of regret in burning the cards and letters my ex gave me, since I've forgotten how she felt about me when we were friends and then whatever-it-was-we-were.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:43:00 +0000

You and Pat are both right, I think.

Plus: for the old-fashioned & gallant, it is considered decent to destroy correspondence from affairs that have ended, or to return it to the author.

The recipient is not the only one who may have moved on– or whose partner could be hurt by the stuff resurfacing someday.

Particularly if the exes have had the good fortune to remain close– I know there is stuff that my exes’ kids don’t need to find in their houses or in mine.