LUTCHMAN FAMILY REUNION IN PARADISE....ER...PLANTATION, FLORIDA!

Mom's 75th birthday was most timely to bring all her children together! Coming in from all points - Boston, Illinois, London (England) and the Caribbean - we were all grayer and a bit overweight, but still in reverence and love and admiration for our dear mother. She (Cynthia Lutchman) raised us from the time my father died in April 1968, all by herself, on a teacher's salary and without taking public assistance from any government entity. This amazing prayer warrior, who is on her knees 3-4 hours per day, taught us loyalty, dedication, love, faith and sacrifice.

Those attributes stay with a person a lifetime. It has helped to make me the man I am today. What a marvellous time of love and unity from all her living children (brother Dr. Dinesh died in Chicago in 2001). I think one reason we always got along was growing up poor, Christian and depending on each other. So thank to my dear mom and all my brothers and sisters for the most memorable time ever in our family! Thank you "King Julian" Vinay, the Wallerfield Man Vin, sister Drin and Mo. May God bless us all and may we not wait another 20 years for another reunion!!
Amen.
UPDATE: Mom (Cynthia S. Lutchman, went on to be with the Lord in our presence on Thursday July 7, 2016, after a painful but God-honoring struggle of two years, with multiple myeloma. Even in her passing, she honored God. It was a privilege to preach her funeral sermon after which many were convicted and one person said she gave her life to the Lord, as I prayed. #GloryToHisName!

SHAME ON MILEY CYRUS (hannah montana)!!

Supposed Christian and teen "role model" Miley Cyrus has spoken out on the Miss California/Miss USA 2009 controversy.....and has chosen to come down on the side of those who ridicule a woman who has more Faith and Courage than either Cyrus or her achy-breaky father Billy Ray.

Here is what Cyrus, the Disney billion-dollar creation, said on her "Twitter" post about the poorly treated Carrie Prejean, who lost the Miss USA title for standing up for Biblical Truth on marriage. Miley wrote "Ya that's lame!" the "Hannah Montana" star wrote. "God's greatest commandment is to love. And judging is not loving. That's why Christians have such a bad rep."

The Hannah Montana role player is in good company with other "upstanding" Disney characters like Brittany Spears, who supported the pageant judge Perez Hilton and his foul-mouthed four letter word diatribe against Miss California......just for standing up for her Christian beliefs. No more from Billy Ray about his "christian" Hollywood family, thank you!

GOD BLESS MISS CALIFORNIA

In a perverted and corrupt world, thank God for young people like those at the Kansas City or the Springfield, Il. International House of Prayer, as well as the First Runner of the just concluded Miss USA contest - Carrie Prejean, the reigning Miss California.

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For standing up for her beliefs, in a decidedly anti-Christian Hollywood arena, Ms Prejean has been pilloried, insulted, verbally assaulted etc by those who preach their "gospel" of "tolerance". She lost the title because of her belief in Jesus and the God of the Bible, and in fact, has gone on to testify to her walk with Christ here.

Carrie Prejean is the true winner in all of this. She is a winner with Christ as well as the millions of decent God-fearing Christian Americans who now know about her and the religious bigotry that cost her the title of Miss USA!! Amen!

Lutchman Family vacation in Alabama

The Lutchman Family visit the Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival at Moulton, Alabama - April 18, 2009.


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SWEET HOME ALABAMA 2009

The Lutchman Family just returned from our dear Vicki's family reunion and visit to Northern Alabama (Huntsville, Al). Best Spring break ever!!

Great to touch back with her cousins, whom she had not seen for over 25 years and whom I got to know and become close buds with for the first time: Sam Howard and Edwin and Kerry Howard........both sons of her dad's brother Pastor Jimmy (Vic's dad was Pastor L. Wayne, a Southern Baptist preacher from Bama).

Highlight of the weekend - THE ALABAMA CHICKEN AND EGG FESTIVAL IN MOULTON, AL (!!!) nice bluegrass music by Dave Davis AND got to see Dale Jr's car (the No. 88 Chevy)!

Photos to follow!

THEN COMES SUNDAY

This is a great illustration of the Resurrection and how we should think of His Persecution and Crucifixion at the Hands of Evil men!

I used to wear crucifix necklaces with Jesus hanging on the Cross, until I came to a selfawareness that it was not right. He is NOT on the Cross anymore , He is not only Risen, but for the past almost 2000 years, He has been back on the Throne forever!

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ONLY 9% OF US WITH A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW

George Barna, the respected Christian pollster, just released his latest survey on Biblical Worldview's among Christians and it is a humdinger!

The annual and wideranging survey revealed that only 9% of American Adults....that is NINE PERCENT of a country where most people still say they are "christians", believe the Bible is inerrant and true and live according to its precepts!

Even worse, here is what Barna says about Pastors!! When you read this quote, you will see why people in the pews have no clue what God says, means and means to say! In 2009, only 51% of American Pastors - you heard right - ONLY HALF OF US PREACHERS - have a Biblical worldview! Barna says that a Biblical worldview (and I agree with him) means: "it includes a belief in absolute moral truth as defined by scripture, as well as acceptance of six core biblical beliefs: the accuracy of biblical teaching, the sinless nature of Jesus, the literal existence of Satan, the omnipotence and omniscience of God, salvation by grace alone, and the personal responsibility to evangelize 1".

The breakdown goes like this according to Barna "Southern Baptists scored the highest with 71% while United Methodists finished at the bottom with just 27%. In between were 57% of pastors of Baptist churches (other than Southern Baptist), 51% of pastors of non-denominational Protestant churches, 44% of pastors of charismatic or Pentecostal churches, 35% of pastors of black churches, and 28% of pastors of leading mainline denominations 2"

Who's to blame? - Churches, Seminaries, parents and Christian media! Christian Media??!! YES!! The purpose driven movement, broke up more churches and caused people to turn away from God, due to it being a man-made plan promoted by slick marketing techniques. One year ago, Bill Hybels, (who started the seeker-sensitive movement with Rick Warren) admitted that his philosophy had failed miserably to make disciples! Good for him....but what about the over 12,000 churches in 45 countries who follow this unbiblical and led countless thousands astray. How do you put this toothpaste back into the tube?!

The greatest fault lies deep within the soul of man, who has been a rebel since the Fall in the Garden. Mortal man has been trying to play God since that time and from the Aaron's sons - Nadab and Abihu - to the false prophets in the Book of Jeremiah - to the Gnostics - to the "angels" who gave the "revelation" to Joseph Smith - to the many mistranslations (Jehovah Witness and Message bibles) - they have all attempted to devalue the True, Holy Spirit Inspired Word of God!

I have an opportunity to visit many churches over the years in various states and things are getting worse. Preachers, following the example of their TV counterparts, don't use Bibles any more, and preach self-improvement Tony Robbins-like "messages" that bear no resemblance to God's Word! No wonder pewsitters are confused!

Here is what God's Word instructs parents, even if the church has gone apostate and is cooked like the frog in the boiling water: Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 (NASB) ~~"These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up" There are many other verses to back this up throughout His Word. Psalm 119 is a tome of Love to our Savior about His Word.

For the sake of brevity, we won't look at them all, but just thank God for His Holy and Precious Word. If you wish to know how fortunate we are to be given It, read all of the book of Romans. We were given the Oracles of God. Woe to all those pagans, secularists, rulers of the Earth and the modern Church who deny its Truth.

To the 9% of us who have the True Biblical worldview of Life, let's keep our noses to the grindstone and plow ahead even harder. This way, we can each one, reach one (or more) for Christ before they have to answer to Him! In Jesus' Name, Amen

Footnotes:
1. http://www.crosswalk.com/1240810/
2. Ibid

PRAISE HIS GREAT NAME! HOW THE LORD LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE ON MARCH 10, 2009!

2 Chronicles 16:9 (NASB) "For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His".

I am a living testimony to the Power and Presence of Almighty God! Praise His Great Name!

On March 6, I was at a Prayer Warrior Equipping Conference in Jacksonville, Il. led by Apostle Jim Chosa of the Montana Crow Nation. (Apostle Jim is one of my main mentors in the prayer movement). Later that evening, I began to feel ill and uncomfortable. Upon waking and returning to the conference the next day (about 45 minutes away), I found myself unable to walk or sit properly.

After getting home that afternoon, and doing my shift at an all day prayer vigil at church, I was again unable to walk and developed fevers. I later found out that a huge boil and cyst was developing in the area, where one sits! The fevers and chills soon followed with me being unable to go to church the next day or work the day after. After forcing myself to go to work the following Tuesday March 10, where I had some work to clean up, the pain was so intense, that I made an appointment to see my doctor later that day. By then, the cyst was about 6 square inches in area!

Once they got a look at this thing at the clinic, I was dispatched immediately to the Specialist, who fortunately was just across the street from Memorial Hospital! He took one more look at it and said we are off to surgery right away and he could not wait even 12 hours to work on it! Within 90 minutes, I went from sitting in a clinic office to laying on a gurney getting prepped for surgery at 10pm!

This was the providential Hand of the Almighty! A huge bacterial infection had developed in me where that cyst was and was three inches into my body. Had the abcess reached my organs within that 24 hours or the bloodstream, it was Goodnight forever! It's kind of like an appendix bursting and it was too late to make it to the hospital! Dr. Hoffman said it was the worse abcess he has ever seen in all his years of surgery! They poured a massive amount antibiotics into me because my fever was over 100 for most of the surgery. Again, the Lord Jesus kept me from getting hospitalized for days right after the surgery! I was discharged two hours later!

I don't know why the Lord let me live, but I am so grateful. A fast moving bacterial infection is nothing to joke with and am just blessed with how He lined up doctors and nurses etc to get this thing taken care of. I have a month to recover with a drainage tube preventing me from sitting for a long time, but it has led me to reevaluate not just my life, but how I can intensify my relationship with the One Who Saved me! It has been a painful and soulsearching process, but He restored not just the power of the prayer/encouragement ministry He has given me to work in, but the Joy of being in this blessed Kingdom assignment! It carries no riches on earth, just the treasure of being in that oh-so-close intense nearness with the Savior.

As I mentioned, these past weeks have been a walking/talking testimonial to the Power and Love of God....the God who not only GAVE IT ALL on the CROSS, but reached down and touched a nobody here in the cornfields of Illinois, who is just one of His footsoldiers. I love you Lord, and I praise Your Great Name!
"From the Rising of the Sun, to the setting of the same, the Name of the Lord is greatly to be praised!"
Thank you, Adonai.

ANOTHER LUTCHMAN IN MINISTRY - IN THE CARIBBEAN

Youngest Lutchman brother - Vinay (seen here at left with the black beret), heads up the Men's Ministry at his church in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He is seen here with two of the "DISCIPLES IN CHRIST" group from St. Joseph Presbyterian Church. This was at a recent Christian Youth Rally in the south of the tropical island. (Others in photo Dr. Ian Sammy, center and on the right Shane Bacchus, BP Engineer).