Comments on: McCain-Palin, 2008

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:48:49 +0000

I found the link to Church on the Rock website. LOL. I searched with “AK” rather than “Alaska”.
http://www.churchontherockak.org/

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:30:53 +0000

Well I had a nice long post but it had too many links in it and the Throckmorton blog-system bear ate it…. ;~)
There was a SPLC article on Joel’s Army recently.
Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon -SPLC
Members of Joel’s Army are fighting to bring about the millennial reign of Christ.
http://www.alternet.org/story/96945/theocratic_sect_prays_for_real_armageddon/?page=entire
And this is a good article from more mainline, evangelical people.
Joel’s Army: Discernment~Ministries Inc.
http://www.discernment-ministries.org/JoelsArmy1.htm
There was a Daily Kos article on whether Palin was a associated with the Pentacostal sects but I don’t give it much shrift. But she did speak at a meeting of the Assemblies of God, Alaska “chapter” while she was governor and spoke highly of them (could she do otherwise?). The website of the Juneau Christian Center has this one ministry or such to kids with “Destiny” in its name. But that is conjecture.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:21:32 +0000

LOL…sorry about the weird spacing in my last comment. It was a copy and paste on my sister-in-laws computer and I don’t know what happened….

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:20:25 +0000

I got my info from an Associated Press article. It tends to concur with the Juneau Empire story.
“The 44-year-old mother of five, who led her high school chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, was baptized as a teenager at the Wasilla
Assembly of God Church, where she and her family were very active, according to
her then-pastor, Paul Riley.
She now sometimes worships at the Juneau Christian Center, which is also part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, said Brad Kesler, business administrator of the denomination’s Alaska District. But her home church is The Church on the
Rock, an independent congregation, Riley said.”
I really don’t know anything about The Church on the Rock–but, in Dallas, the
church by that name is huge and is most definitely ‘Charismatic/Pentecostal’.
Graduates of Christ for the Nations, my alma mater and featured in that thread
where we discussed the I-35 prophecies, often moved on to The Church on the
Rock. I’m also pretty sure that the Dallas area Church on the Rock was started
as a split-off from Beverly Hills Church of Dallas, who later changed their name
to “Church of the King”. Beverly Hills Church was a Baptist congregation that
experienced a notable ‘move of the Holy Spirit’ back in the 70’s and remains
Charismatic to this day.
I realize that the Alaska Church on the Rock may not have any affiliation
whatsoever with the Dallas area version…but it may be worth looking into. To
appeal to mainstream Evangelicals, I’m sure they would play down any
Charismatic/Pentecostal connections and hype the more traditional Baptist roots.
If the Assemblies of God connection is true, this doesn’t seem like much of a
stretch.
Lynn David: do you anything more about the groups that you wondered about her affiliation with? Dominion, Destiny, Joel’s Army, etc.?

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:26:16 +0000

http://juneauempire.com/stories/090108/sta_326213655.shtml
That article more or less explains it…