River of Life International, Coalmont, TN (2026)

06/16/2026

YEREVAN ARMENIA.

His name is Ildar,He is 37.

It is only for certain needs that I make a post like this one. Normally for the children’s Christmas in the poverty stricken areas close to the Turkish border of Armenia.
This is one of those times I believed such a need should be presented. Sister Veronica who along with her husband Arzo head up the House of Hope for widows and the Poor Children’s Center The House of Light, sent me this request recently. I’ll share in her own words.
“ At the same time I want to share with you about a young man who is converted into Christ from drug addiction.He lives in a rehab center in Yerevan, where my husband takes food for them.
Now he is in utter pain because of his leg . He needs a new prosthetic leg.
We are trying to help him. We need to raise 4500$.

With this pain he still worked in a construction to earn for living.

My husband started to minister them , he takes food and medication to this rehab center.”
His old prosthetic leg is keeping his body in a “bind”
Causing much pain.

If you or your church would like to bless and help this new Christian and former drug addict, you can send through our River of Life Tithley link or PayPal. You can also send by mail and if you would just message us it’s on the way, we will make sure every penny covers this need.
I keep thinking of this verse,
“1Jn 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
Yes, we will personally give ourselves.
God bless you in advance.
JDT

06/14/2026

WANTED TO SHARE THIS AGAIN FROM 2022.

OH FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING

Sitting here this morning in Northern Ireland…in prayer..in the precious Presence of God. I remembered an old hymn written by Charles Wesley. “Oh For Thousand Tongues To Sing”. I quickly looked up the words.

“O for a thousand tongues to sing�my great Redeemer’s praise,�the glories of my God and King,�the triumphs of his grace!
My gracious Master and my God,�assist me to proclaim,�to spread through all the earth abroad�the honors of thy name.
Jesus! the name that charms our fears,�that bids our sorrows cease;�’tis music in the sinner’s ears,�’tis life, and health, and peace.
He breaks the power of canceled sin,�he sets the prisoner free;�his blood can make the foulest clean;�his blood availed for me.
He speaks, and listening to his voice,�new life the dead receive;�the mournful, broken hearts rejoice,�the humble poor believe.
Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,�your loosened tongues employ;�ye blind, behold your savior come,�and leap, ye lame, for joy.
In Christ, your head, you then shall know,�shall feel your sins forgiven;�anticipate your heaven below,�and own that love is heaven.”

My heart was elevated in His Presence as I begin to say aloud those words, “Oh For A Thousand Tongues To Sing.” Then I remembered the like words from the song the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sang in 1988. “Oh For A Thousand Tongues To Sing, Praises Unto Thee, Oh For A Thousand Hands To Raise in Honor To The King.”
As I mediated and worshiped the only true and Living God, my soul was elevated…my cup as King David declared, “runneth over.”
In this time, when the beginnings of God’s judgment is surely noticed by discerning believers. In this time of evil and in a world filled with violence, hatred and perversion. There is a Peace, that can only be found in the Presence of God. Take the time daily…nightly…to be with Him. Tell Him…Oh For A Thousand Tongues To Sing, Praises Unto Thee, Oh For A Thousand Hands To Raise, In Honor To The King.”
His Presence Will be a place of “Revelation, Illumination, and Light. The Psalmist said, Psa 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

04/26/2026

WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS THIS?

I have lived over six and a half decades. And except the years as a teenager, living alienated from Christ, I have been around and “in” Christianity. While I say this with love, I say it with no vacillating. The terms Christian and Christianity have become so diluted and cheapened by the hodgepodge of “variant” extremes being manifested in our times. I have lived to see the day of the “embarrassment” of the so-called prophets to the cheapened summation of “Holy Scripture, and Holy Living”. Where has all this brought what the world considers the Christian Church too? A weakened religious entity made up of a multiplicity of Christian groups who have made Christianity in the mold of their version and branding. God forgive us. What a laughing stock much of it has now become. Most of this today is NOT the Christianity of the Apostles and the faithful early church believers (who were mostly Jewish in the beginning), nor the Christianity that found itself bringing the gospel of redemption to the pagan gentiles under Roman rule, who often found the martyrs death. Much of this, isn’t even the Christianity of our mothers and fathers who found Christ in the revivals of yesteryear. The message of Christ has been tainted and watered down until there has been a loss of the simplicity of the gospel (II Cor 11:3) and we are reaping the results.
Of course there is a “real”, there are exceptions to all I’ve stated...sadly, the exceptions are no longer the majority. T. Austin Sparks the old British preacher, long in heaven, stated it like this. “ Christ is the new dispensation. I am here, he said. You go through that gospel of John. He is centering everything in Himself. I am the Way; I am the Truth; I am the Life; I am the Shepherd; I am the Vine; I am the Resurrection. It is a PERSON. It is that which lies behind everything. Christianity is Christ. Christ is Christianity. That is where it all begins and it never departs from Him. The development of the Christian life is only the development of Jesus Christ in the life.” TAS

I am convinced the turbulent times ahead are going to bring the restoration of the “Christianity of Christ”. JDT
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04/19/2026

DIMMING OF THE LIGHT

I was looking over my sermon notes for this morning and I had handwritten these words. “For centuries and generations when the Life diminished in the Church, the Light dimmed”.
We are now in a “dimmed day” of spiritual light in our churches. There are some exceptions…they are NOT the rule…only exceptions.

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