I just wanted to let everyone know that starting next week I will begin my training for becoming a voice volunteer for Voice of the Martyrs.  Last Monday I was welcomed to join one of the VOM teams here in the Midwest.  It looks as if I will be representing a good sized area in Northern IL.  In less than 10 weeks I will be speaking, setting up displays and signing people up to the free monthly VOM magazine.  Having said this, and I do not say this to boast, I need a tremendous amount of prayer.  Spiritual demonic oppression has been very high since accepting this role.  Many people I know are under pressure as well.  On top of this, God seems to be directing even more men towards our ministry – this is an extremely important time to beware. 

We are also just begining to pray about hosting a men’s conference here in Stillman Valley, IL next year.  We are praying and will continue to pray about a special guest speaker to come up and spend two days with us.  If it is the Lord’s will, we will be extremely blessed.  More about this in the future.

I got to thinking the other day about spiritual warfare and Christianity today in America.  Here is what I was thinking:  The most dangerous demons, these ‘goat angels’ of death, appear in highly bleached costumes of wool, presenting themselves in such a way that entertains, appeases and brings glory to the flesh.  They confuse the soul and bring death to the person if intervention, God’s righteous conviction, does not intervene.  Many professing believers have danced and continues to interlude with sinful godless passion and do so willingly in the name of grace.  Perverted and blind are the ways of a person who does not consider their every willful step.  They essentially take the title of Christian, deny the Scriptures, crucify the Christ again and joyfully dance into eternal hell because they have not denied themselves and held fast to what is good.  Salvation they do not know.  Their very actions prove that they know not joy because they willfully chase down appetites that God hates yet feels so good to the flesh.  The most deceiving, blinding and heart-hardening demons cause a person to profess Christ and live as though they never heard the Word of God.  They profess freedom but in reality they run in the ways of the wicked.  Readers beware – is this you?  What case do you have to prove this is not true in your life?  Examine yourself.

Jeremy Strang

Strang’s Book, Urgency to Rise, a Call to the American Church, Calls for Commitment.   

Jeremy B. Strang writes book, Urgency to Rise, a Call to the American Church, to issue clarion call for commitment and accountability to Christ. Strang writes that commitment begins with an authentic desire to know God.

Rockford, Illinois—Sep 10, 2008—Holy Fire Publishing releases Urgency to Rise, a Call to the American Church, (Paperback, US$10.99, ISBN#978-1-60383-103-1). Strang calls professing Christians to examine their faith, understand their depravity apart from God, seek the Lord with all diligence, and put their faith into tangible action, because the “Urgency to Rise is upon us!”

Strang’s Urgency to Rise, a Call to the American Church, admonishes preachers, teachers, deacons, bishops, priests, and the Pope, to tell people the truth about their natural state or be in violation of God’s Word. Strang writes, “If you say you believe God’s Word, and yet refuse to teach these things, you are a hypocrite. If you truly believe God’s Word, then teach the deeper things of God to your people. Depravity does not go away with turning a blind eye, un-repentance, or disbelief. God’s complete Word needs to be preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, so that dead hearts of stone can be busted open and exposed to the healing light of Jesus Christ. The light of Christ demands repentance. The Urgency to Rise is knocking on America’s door.”

Strang acknowledges that the last thing Christians need is another book to tell them how to “quick fix” their lives. Instead, Urgency to Rise calls Christians to spend time on their knees, time in God’s Word, and time crying out to Him with an authentic desire to know Him. Strang writes, “Your choices are: Seek Him till you find him, or do nothing and accept eternal punishment. What will you do?”

“As I take a personal look at myself, I find some startling discoveries; and if I am willing to admit the truth to myself, then I find that I have fallen miserably short of the glory of God. I am startled to find that I am prideful, self centered, self-serving, sinful, deserving death, and not deserving of the sweet power of Grace that flowed from every drip of blood that Jesus willingly and painfully gave for my human failures and sinful rebellion. I have no one to blame but myself…The accountability starts with me. We need a revolution [of Christians] becoming intentional towards living out total victory in Christ Jesus.”—Jeremy B. Strang

Strang’s passion is for professing Christians to respond to God’s calling and understand the deeper truths found in Jesus Christ. He warns that “American Christians will face physical persecution, and the imminent righteous judgment of God will be fulfilled.” His desire is to “shock dead hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit into new life.”

Jeremy B. Strang, 36, is co-founder of Xtreme Vision Ministries and leads Time2Stand, a men’s ministry. He lives with his wife and two children in Rockford, IL. He is the author of Limiting God? (2005) and Limiting Spiritual Maturity? (2007)

Look for Strang’s fall book signing tour in coffee shops throughout Northern Illinois. All proceeds and royalties from Urgency to Rise will go to support persecuted Christians and missionaries around the world. Website: www.time2stand.net

Holy Fire Publishing (www.christianpublish.com), publishers of hundreds of Christian books, helps Christian writers reach the world through the printed word. **

All of the proceeds and royalites to this book goes to persecuted Christians and indigenous missionaries around the world!

www.persecutionblog.com www.persecution.com

Help Support persecuted Christians and indigenous missionaries around the world.  Urgency to Rise-a call to the American ‘church’is just that, a call to the American church to return to full biblical truth.  With the purchase of every book, all proceeds and royalties go to Voice of the Martyrs and HeartCry Missionary Society.

Jeremy will be teaming up with Katherine Kelly, author of the new book, “Only a Fragment”, as a part of a new book signing tour, ”Coffee with the Authors,”  Look for them at coffee shops and book stores around the Northern IL area in the upcoming months.

To purchase, click on the links below:

“Only a Fragment”

http://www.amazon.com/Only-Fragment-Katherine-Kelly/dp/1603830391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221500236&sr=1-1

“Urgency to Rise”

http://www.amazon.com/Urgency-Rise-Call-American-Church/dp/1603831037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221568730&sr=1-1

Below is the upcoming Coffee with the Authors at Three Sisters in Byron, IL. 

“Urgency to Rise” Press Release

http://fe39.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20080911/bs_prweb/prweb1312544

www.heartcrymissionary.com / www.persecution.com / www.persecutionblog.com

Time2Stand will be going out to Cedar Rapids, IA to be a part of Iron Sharpens Iron, a men’s conference geared towards all ages of men.  Earlier this year we were blessed to be a part of the conference that came to Rockford, IL.  There we prayed with men, gave out over 1,000 messages by Paul Washer and gave away more than 1,200 Time2Stand website stickers.  For more information on Iron Sharpens Iron go to: http://www.ironsharpensiron.net/conference-details.php?conference=73   If anyone would like to go with us, please leave us a comment and we will get back with you as to our departure time. 

God bless, Jeremy

Hello all and welcome to our first blog!  Be watching in the near future for upcoming blogs from both Dan and myself.  I will be bloging more on Christian persecution and time2stand our mens ministry.  Be sure to check out www.time2stand.net  

God bless, Jeremy Strang