Comments for EPIC Perspectives http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com Perspectives on Spiritual, Intellectual and Pastoral Issues: Host - Lowell Qualls Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:25:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on I “CAN” Do All Things by Lowell Qualls http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/i-can-do-all-things/#comment-213 Lowell Qualls Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:25:35 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-213 Hey Ken, thanks for writing ... and for all you do. Hey Ken, thanks for writing … and for all you do.

]]> Comment on I “CAN” Do All Things by Ken Kendall http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/i-can-do-all-things/#comment-212 Ken Kendall Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:22:19 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-212 I have never been so humbled as I was by this demonstration of love. I write a blog about how men can better love their wives but I have never been close to this kind of love. http://whatsheneedsfromyou.wordpress.com Ken I have never been so humbled as I was by this demonstration of love.

I write a blog about how men can better love their wives but I have never been close to this kind of love.

http://whatsheneedsfromyou.wordpress.com

Ken

]]> Comment on www.Dancing-With-The-Healer.com IS UP AND RUNNING by Dejuanna http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/httpwwwdancing-with-the-healercom/#comment-208 Dejuanna Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:42:12 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=308#comment-208 Lowell, I finished Dancing With the Healer and have recommended it to a friend of mine who had leukemia. She just went through a bone marrow transplant and is doing great. Thank you for sharing. It was hard for me to read. It took about a month and I'm an avid reader. It was hard because I realized that in my youth and immaturity I had idolized you'll. Please don't take that in a bad way, I believed at the time that it was a good thing. You and Vicki were the "Ken and Barbie" that I wanted Kenny and I to be. "The perfect couple." Of course, now I know better. Dancing With the Healer revealed the "true" Lowell and Vicki to me. I still consider you my heros but now I feel that I've come to truly know the real you. God sent you to us for a short season as He as done with so many people in my life. I've also discovered that He brings them back later and I'm given an opportunity so examine how they have been instrumental in shaping and carving character and dimension into I am today. Once again, thank you. As much as I loved and admired you both then I even more thankful that I've been given a view of you that my youth would not nor could not have accepted. Sometimes, I think God allows us to see in pieces because we are not mature enough to see the full scale. I'm so happy that you have Becky. I know that I would love her immediately just as I did Vicki. I'm still going to "catch you up" on 1stAG. It's just a long story and my life has been a whirl wind this year. Brandi, our oldest, shot a movie during the first 5 months and I helped her with that. She is now editing it and it will premiere at our church later this year. Brittney, our youngest is getting married October 3rd and I'm helping her. Kenny and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary August 3rd and I turn 50 October 17th. Crazy! I'm only supposed to be 40! lol I apologize that I'm just now sending you a comment but timing.... God Bless You, Love, Dejuanna Albritton Lowell,
I finished Dancing With the Healer and have recommended it to a friend of mine who had leukemia. She just went through a bone marrow transplant and is doing great. Thank you for sharing.

It was hard for me to read. It took about a month and I’m an avid reader. It was hard because I realized that in my youth and immaturity I had idolized you’ll. Please don’t take that in a bad way, I believed at the time that it was a good thing. You and Vicki were the “Ken and Barbie” that I wanted Kenny and I to be. “The perfect couple.” Of course, now I know better.

Dancing With the Healer revealed the “true” Lowell and Vicki to me. I still consider you my heros but now I feel that I’ve come to truly know the real you. God sent you to us for a short season as He as done with so many people in my life. I’ve also discovered that He brings them back later and I’m given an opportunity so examine how they have been instrumental in shaping and carving character and dimension into I am today. Once again, thank you. As much as I loved and admired you both then I even more thankful that I’ve been given a view of you that my youth would not nor could not have accepted. Sometimes, I think God allows us to see in pieces because we are not mature enough to see the full scale.

I’m so happy that you have Becky. I know that I would love her immediately just as I did Vicki.

I’m still going to “catch you up” on 1stAG. It’s just a long story and my life has been a whirl wind this year. Brandi, our oldest, shot a movie during the first 5 months and I helped her with that. She is now editing it and it will premiere at our church later this year. Brittney, our youngest is getting married October 3rd and I’m helping her. Kenny and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary August 3rd and I turn 50 October 17th. Crazy! I’m only supposed to be 40! lol

I apologize that I’m just now sending you a comment but timing….

God Bless You,
Love,
Dejuanna Albritton

]]> Comment on www.Dancing-With-The-Healer.com IS UP AND RUNNING by Glenda Mobley http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/httpwwwdancing-with-the-healercom/#comment-198 Glenda Mobley Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:17:20 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=308#comment-198 Hi Lowell, Today I was email conversing with Jan Brecheen (now Clay) and at the end of the email, she asked me if I knew that Vicki Qualls had died. I replied that yes I knew and that after I found out (way after the fact) that I had emailed you several times. I also told her that you had remarried and that several years ago I had seen a website about how you and your wife met. anyway...said that to say this...that conversation with Jan prompted me to do a web search to find out about you. I found the beautiful, new Dancing with the Healer website as well as one of your other websites. I paid and downloaded the PDF version of Dancing with the Healer, printed it and put it in a notebook. I plan to spend part of this beautiful weekend reading it (and I am sure crying and rejoicing also). I am really looking forward to reading the book and then going back to the website and looking at all the beautiful pictures. I send special love to you, your wife and all of your family. seems like just yesterday that Tim Mobley, Brandon, Michael Mobley, and Chris were born-- but it was a long time ago. I pray God's continued blessing on your life. Glenda Hi Lowell,
Today I was email conversing with Jan Brecheen (now Clay) and at the end of the email, she asked me if I knew that Vicki Qualls had died. I replied that yes I knew and that after I found out (way after the fact) that I had emailed you several times. I also told her that you had remarried and that several years ago I had seen a website about how you and your wife met. anyway…said that to say this…that conversation with Jan prompted me to do a web search to find out about you. I found the beautiful, new Dancing with the Healer website as well as one of your other websites. I paid and downloaded the PDF version of Dancing with the Healer, printed it and put it in a notebook. I plan to spend part of this beautiful weekend reading it (and I am sure crying and rejoicing also). I am really looking forward to reading the book and then going back to the website and looking at all the beautiful pictures. I send special love to you, your wife and all of your family. seems like just yesterday that Tim Mobley, Brandon, Michael Mobley, and Chris were born– but it was a long time ago. I pray God’s continued blessing on your life. Glenda

]]> Comment on Larry Norman – Dead at 60 – The Man Who Introduced Me to Christian Rock by Lowell Qualls http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/larry-norman-dead-at-60-the-man-who-introduced-me-to-christian-rock/#comment-189 Lowell Qualls Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:48:55 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/larry-norman-dead-at-60-the-man-who-introduced-me-to-christian-rock/#comment-189 Andrew wrote the above comment to bring information to light about an affair Larry Norman may have had in Australia that resulted in the birth of a son named Daniel. The boy and his mother are trying to have him recognized through legal channels as Larry's progeny. I understand that the matter will be decided in the courts sometime soon. I'm not going to make a judgement about Daniel's relationship to Larry in this column. My opinion won't amount to anything in this matter. I do want to write and say that I appreciate Andrew bringing this information to my attention. I really do. The YouTube movie trailer sited above got my attention. I followed some links in YouTube to the discussion about Larry's illegitimate son (if, in fact, he is Larry's son), and its impact on various lives. Here is my comment. It's very, very difficult to separate any man from his music and his message. Where do you attempt to draw a line in a soul? The man and the message he brings, while not "one and the same," are bound to each other with creatively imaginative spiritual cords. That is, when anyone is touched by a message, 99 times out of a hundred he or she will associate the message (and its music) with the messenger. For example, I've heard of people wondering if their relationship with Jesus was legitimate because they had come to Christ through the preaching of Jimmy Swaggart ... a fallen messenger. Others have had the same wonderment over the likes of Jim Bakker (of PTL fame) ... another prominent fallen messenger. When a man or woman receives and believes the message of a messenger, in this case the Good News, and that News changes their life and its direction, of course there will questions. That's the "human response." In my years of ministering to people who have experienced the emotional and spiritual turmoil that results from the moral failure of a messenger I have repeatedly counseled, "Try your best NOT to confuse the frailty of the messenger with the FACT of the message (especially the Good News about Jesus) - seeing that there are multitudes of messengers carrying the SAME message who have NOT failed." Larry Norman may have failed, may have fallen, and that is a shame. He was a good messenger. But he was not ... never, ever ... the PERFECT messenger. He was one of us. I'm not saying that to excuse him for alleged sinful behavior. (For that matter, I'm not suggesting that we excuse anyone charged with the task of sharing the Good News about Jesus from the consequences of a fall.) I am saying that I can guarantee you - even if he didn't father Daniel, Larry Norman was not sinless. He failed in other areas ... of that I am sure. And how can I be so sure? Because he was one of us. How should we handle a messenger of the Good News' sinful failure? Well, that depends on the actions taken by both the messenger and those who love and believe the Good News. First, I think the messenger should stop sharing the Good News so that its message will not be held in contempt. Second, if a messenger fails they should own up to it, like King David did when he confessed, "I am the man. Yep, I did it." It's never okay to cover up the sin of the messenger - he shouldn't do it, and neither should his friends ... or his agent. It's not about the money. It's not about the ministry. It's about the message!! Third, a fallen messenger should be restored by his believing friends. People in the family of God who understand such frailty but never excuse it should be recruited to lead the fallen messenger through a process that leads to SPIRITUAL restoration. (Whether or not the fallen return to bringing the message ever again will be determined over time. Humility, sorrow, repentance and a good track record of avoiding the failure that occurred should be factors that determine if the fallen messenger returns to ministry. Talent should NEVER be a factor in my opinion.) And that's my comment. Think about it. Andrew wrote the above comment to bring information to light about an affair Larry Norman may have had in Australia that resulted in the birth of a son named Daniel. The boy and his mother are trying to have him recognized through legal channels as Larry’s progeny. I understand that the matter will be decided in the courts sometime soon. I’m not going to make a judgement about Daniel’s relationship to Larry in this column. My opinion won’t amount to anything in this matter. I do want to write and say that I appreciate Andrew bringing this information to my attention. I really do.

The YouTube movie trailer sited above got my attention. I followed some links in YouTube to the discussion about Larry’s illegitimate son (if, in fact, he is Larry’s son), and its impact on various lives.

Here is my comment. It’s very, very difficult to separate any man from his music and his message. Where do you attempt to draw a line in a soul? The man and the message he brings, while not “one and the same,” are bound to each other with creatively imaginative spiritual cords. That is, when anyone is touched by a message, 99 times out of a hundred he or she will associate the message (and its music) with the messenger. For example, I’ve heard of people wondering if their relationship with Jesus was legitimate because they had come to Christ through the preaching of Jimmy Swaggart … a fallen messenger. Others have had the same wonderment over the likes of Jim Bakker (of PTL fame) … another prominent fallen messenger.

When a man or woman receives and believes the message of a messenger, in this case the Good News, and that News changes their life and its direction, of course there will questions. That’s the “human response.”

In my years of ministering to people who have experienced the emotional and spiritual turmoil that results from the moral failure of a messenger I have repeatedly counseled, “Try your best NOT to confuse the frailty of the messenger with the FACT of the message (especially the Good News about Jesus) – seeing that there are multitudes of messengers carrying the SAME message who have NOT failed.”

Larry Norman may have failed, may have fallen, and that is a shame. He was a good messenger. But he was not … never, ever … the PERFECT messenger. He was one of us. I’m not saying that to excuse him for alleged sinful behavior. (For that matter, I’m not suggesting that we excuse anyone charged with the task of sharing the Good News about Jesus from the consequences of a fall.) I am saying that I can guarantee you – even if he didn’t father Daniel, Larry Norman was not sinless. He failed in other areas … of that I am sure. And how can I be so sure? Because he was one of us.

How should we handle a messenger of the Good News’ sinful failure? Well, that depends on the actions taken by both the messenger and those who love and believe the Good News.

First, I think the messenger should stop sharing the Good News so that its message will not be held in contempt. Second, if a messenger fails they should own up to it, like King David did when he confessed, “I am the man. Yep, I did it.” It’s never okay to cover up the sin of the messenger – he shouldn’t do it, and neither should his friends … or his agent. It’s not about the money. It’s not about the ministry. It’s about the message!! Third, a fallen messenger should be restored by his believing friends. People in the family of God who understand such frailty but never excuse it should be recruited to lead the fallen messenger through a process that leads to SPIRITUAL restoration. (Whether or not the fallen return to bringing the message ever again will be determined over time. Humility, sorrow, repentance and a good track record of avoiding the failure that occurred should be factors that determine if the fallen messenger returns to ministry. Talent should NEVER be a factor in my opinion.)

And that’s my comment. Think about it.

]]> Comment on Larry Norman – Dead at 60 – The Man Who Introduced Me to Christian Rock by Andrew http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/larry-norman-dead-at-60-the-man-who-introduced-me-to-christian-rock/#comment-177 Andrew Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:07 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/larry-norman-dead-at-60-the-man-who-introduced-me-to-christian-rock/#comment-177 The following is a link to a trailer on youtube for the new documentary titled "Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Vc5G1gXTA The next public screening is in Late Feb at Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose California Thanks Andrew The following is a link to a trailer on youtube for the new documentary titled “Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Vc5G1gXTA

The next public screening is in Late Feb at Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose California

Thanks Andrew

]]> Comment on Rape and Abuse by Lowell Qualls http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/rape-and-abuse/#comment-176 Lowell Qualls Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:14:46 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=155#comment-176 Sure Sure

]]> Comment on Check Out Glorious Christmas Nights by L Johnson http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/check-out-glorious-christmas-nights/#comment-162 L Johnson Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:16:39 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=269#comment-162 I had to see it to believe it - and it is beyond words ! Now I wouldn't miss it for anything ! I had to see it to believe it – and it is beyond words ! Now I wouldn’t miss it for anything !

]]> Comment on Check Out Glorious Christmas Nights by Glorious Christmas Nights Richmond VA Christmas Play « Blogging on Life and Real Estate in Williamsburg and Hampton Roads Virginia http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/check-out-glorious-christmas-nights/#comment-148 Glorious Christmas Nights Richmond VA Christmas Play « Blogging on Life and Real Estate in Williamsburg and Hampton Roads Virginia Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:04:55 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=269#comment-148 [...] Thank you to Lowell Qualls and his informative blog posting  http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/check-out-glorious-christmas-nights/ [...] [...] Thank you to Lowell Qualls and his informative blog posting  http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/check-out-glorious-christmas-nights/ [...]

]]> Comment on Rape and Abuse by ueckie http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/rape-and-abuse/#comment-145 ueckie Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:39:42 +0000 http://lowellequalls.wordpress.com/?p=155#comment-145 I would like permission to use your No Means No image on my free newsletter aimed at rape victims. Please reply to marionu@telkomsa.net Thank you Marion I would like permission to use your No Means No image on my free newsletter aimed at rape victims.

Please reply to marionu@telkomsa.net
Thank you
Marion

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