True Vine Branch Mission

10/04/2026

Are you "outside the camp" as a result of carrying your cross the way GOD would have you do so? Take heart you are in good company. Hebrew 13: 11-16
Berean Standard Bible
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11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

13 Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

14 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

16 And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Also rejoice outside the camp. It's a good place to receive of the "hidden manna" straight from the Tri-une GOD of true Christianity.

Here is a good article on this:

Ligonier Ministries, founded by R.C. Sproul, exists to proclaim, teach, and defend the holiness of God in all its fullness to as many people as possible.

10/04/2026

Gold has been purchased from Jesus by many saints over the centuries. St. Anthony is seen as being a great monastic seeker of GOD and honored more than any other saint as the founder of monasticism (Lifestyles of people that strive to be completely given over to GOD). Here below in the video speaks of him and the 8 warnings he taught about some of Satan's schemes.
Revelation 3:18.
New International Version
"I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see."

That fire is the spiritual purification that comes through faith and obedience which produces various works of faith in which faith becomes complete and is living in us having come from GOD.

"2 Cor. 4:17 King James Bible
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;"

A dead faith saves no one as James 2 clearly states. Jesus, Paul, James, Jude, etc. spoke clearly about these things. It's time to deprogram from decades of false teachings in the Church. Even the demons believe. It's time to seek the Lord. He is a good shepherd and desires the sheep to stay close.

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03/05/2026

Do we really want to behave as if we are experts about the things that we never did and are not doing and condescend toward other ministries? I see it is all too common that we do this as Christians.
Jesus said
Matthew 5:48 states, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect".
Clearly there are no perfect humans on earth, no not one, however Jesus clearly wants us to work toward perfection since Christ is perfect, when we try to become more like Him as He commands, we are striving for the perfection of Christlikeness as us explained in Ephesians 4. Hebrews 12:23 talks about encountering certain men in heaven “…to the spirits of just men made perfect…”
This type of message below while it is likely not perfect, and is very challenging, as a whole resonates with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is Written: "Behold the guilt of S***m: "Careless ease and abundant food..." What is the ruinous effect of our slack hand?
Proverbs 18:9 He who is slothful in his work
Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.

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02/22/2026

Oh Christians where are our crosses?
The "Benedictine Method" is an example of starting with small actions and building up our cooperation with following Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This requires/includes the reality of carrying our own crosses (as HE also carries our crosses with us by HIS strength for without HIM we can do nothing godly) by grace through faith working in us both to will and to do.
Matthew 16:24-26
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

You were not called into faith as a spectator. You were enlisted. If you have been living as if heaven exists to keep you comfortable, then you have misunder...

02/19/2026

Praying in the Spirit with a yielded and repentant heart opens the flow of the Spirit of GOD in and through us. Paul said "I will pray with my mind and I will pray with my spirit." I don't agree with 100% with the video but it is still a good video overall. Frequently there is a soveregn move of the Spirit so the unction of the prayer by the Spirit activates the gift first. But yes, it can and should be pressed into as well by the freewill activation with the Spirit of GOD, by grace through faith in Christ of the Christian. Yes we can show you the Holy Scriptures actually teach this.

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02/18/2026

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Multitudes have created their own "Jesus" in their own minds who would never say something like that...have they created a false Jesus? The Holy Scripture shows that the answer is yes.
Jesus clearly declares, that the degree to which one chooses a lifestyle of intimate communion with the Lord Jesus as our Savior and Lord, forsaking all manner of sin, is something used to measure us on the day of judgment. In fact, Jesus clearly says that many will be rejected by Him, and will be surprised who operate in the Spirit of God in Jesus name, and yet are Rejected on the day of judgement.
But for many of His faithful, they will seek for the promise of the Spirit of God, receive it, and operate in it; but with humility, reverence, and Godly fear.

02/15/2026

This is a video on the “Day of Pentecost!” of the 2008. Acknowledgment and Ordination of Michael Joseph Featherstone as a minister of the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, and as an elder to the body of Christ.
I am posting this video of he and I at the request of his spiritual family.
Mike functioned in Christ, and as part of True Vine Ministries and Church AND our marketplace ministry, from aprox. 2005 through 2008, full-time in Austin, TX prior to the ministry moving to Lubbock, Texas in 2008.
Mike went on to become the coordinating minister in charge of what used to be “Church under the Bridge” which was an open-air church in Austin, TX sponsored also mainly by “Mission Possible” in Austin, Texas. The church/outreach which met on Sundays under the I-35 Interstate bridge on the west side of downtown Austin, where many attended (usually around 175-250 including many homeless persons). That is also where the video is filmed.
Mike was a solid Christian, a godly man, and a fruitful minister of the Lord Jesus Christ “in the lion’s den” as well as a good friend. He has passed on to be with the Lord.
We love you Mike and will see you soon again, face-to-face.

02/12/2026

I hope this song blesses you, as it did me today. I know these boys somewhat. Landon and I did not agree on everything...bless his heart, but he sure has the worship anointing and loves GOD! I have not seen him in years. We did some ministry back in the day in DFW for a minute. He was a prophetic evangelist...the real thing. Wow. I just see on facebook he passed in 2020. Now his kids are carrying the praise music on… I love you brother!

He used to go down to Mardi Gra and street play and witness for the LORD and do that kind of thing…like showing up to a secular venu and playing a worship song as he did here:
(also remember you can speed it up on youtube by clicking on the “gear” icon a circle with rectangle gears around it.)

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12/13/2025

Only in GOD is our soul at rest:

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04/18/2025

A short excerpt from an abbreviated prayerbook:

A Prayer of the Optina Elders

O Lord, grant me strength to meet with serenity everything forthcoming today. Grant me to submit completely to Thy holy will. At every hour of this day guide and support me in all things. Whatsoever news may reach me in the course of this day, teach me to accept it with calmness and the conviction that all is subject to Thy holy will.

In all my words and actions direct my thoughts and feelings. In all unexpected occurances, do not let me forget that all is sent down by Thee. Teach me to deal straightforwardly and wisely with every member of my family, neither embarassing nor saddening anyone.

O Lord, grant me strength to endure the fatigue of the coming day and all the events that take place during it. Direct my will and teach me to pray, to believe, to hope, to be patient, to forgive and to love. Amen.

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