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October 31, 2006 marked my 12th year of freedom from homosexual behavior and embarked my journey to and in the Cross discovering the beauty and depths of purity! It has been an exciting and troublesome voyage. As I said a few weeks ago, a voyage well worth the cost: my life.
Some have screamed, “God requires too much!” Yet for those men and teenage boys who embrace Jesus’ Life that only comes by dying, victory is ours together in Christ.
This 12th year of freedom embarked me upon a new stream within this lifelong voyage – to reach the unbelieving Gay Community with Jesus, that they might know Him as Lamb, Lord, and LIFE! Since the 05 ‘accicdent’, I may be slower; I may fatigue easier; I may sleep many days away; but when awake, and in Christ ‘s energetic strength, and as long as I have breath I will voice His great LOVE to an unbelieving community so that those whom God would capture and lead out into “green meadows and beside calm streams”, may hear that Jesus is more than enough to met their ultimate, screaming, yet buried needs!
Join us next year!!!
October 31st EVERY Year
Freedom Celebration
NHE
Come join us in 2007
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Romans 5:10
Jesus died for us and
He lives for us too!!!
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Dear Faithful's From Pastor Ron and the NHE Board
To understand this E-News you will have to read every word in the order written. You can’t skim. You can’t just read the bold. You must read every word. My prayer is that you will read and that God will move you, COMPEL you to forward this to every person you know; to print it and pass it throughout your Church; to SHOUT this battle cry from your heart everywhere you journey.
The Student Becomes the Teacher
Recently, I spoke with one of POWER of Purity’s first students. The thought we conversed upon was – Can a teenager find the desperation to embrace the truths for freedom from gay sex, the gay life, and same sex attraction? The man I was speaking with is the youngest student we have ever walked with into victory. It was a privilege and still it is an honor to walk with him as he, the student, becomes the teacher.
He informed me that teenagers are the most difficult group to work with. This is not a new “Phantom of the Opera” but I have always chalked that fact up to the raging hormones igniting and ablaze during these years – full steam ahead. My student said, “No Ron, it is independence”. The very word “independence” chokes me. We were not created and designed for such self-centered thought. In my vast broken brain, I just can not embrace the word easily. We were created and made new creations to be dependant upon God.
My student said, “I agree”. However...
He really knows how to make the teacher feel good doesn't he? |
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...there is a dynamic I was forgetting and I heard him out to my benefit. Children are born dependant upon their parents. Day by day they cut the strings toward independence. Mom's cry; Dad's are proud; Sons and daughters one day grow to leave the nest. Teens and college men have embarked upon learning and strengthening this needed skill.
Every teen who has ever attended a POWER of Purity Workshop has done so with their parents. Most teens under the age of 16 have been required to include their parents in our Internet dialog in preparation and follow-up. The issue is that the freedom may be wished for by the teen but it is enforced by the parents. It is not a free act of their will – the teen is not making an independent choice, rather a choice meshed in the complexity of child dependence upon a parent or a respected adult. In the long run and for the most part, it just does not work.
As a young man graduates college and prepares for adulthood, the job force, and being responsible for his own decisions, he is far more prepared to make an independent choice for freedom from the gay life or same-sexed attractions. There is a transition period in all our lives from child-parent dependence to child-God dependence. This transition may last ten minutes, ten years, or ten decades. Regardless of its length, we all must walk through this transition called independence. We MUST!
My student reminded me of the weeks prior to the POP Workshop he attended; the rapids! This young man was faced with career choices. He had been offered a job with one of our nations leading Christian ministries. He approached his new boss before his start date and said I have a problem with Internet pornography and I need to go resolve this problem before I start to work. His new boss agreed and did not fire him before his job began but out of respect for the boy, who was acting like a man, allowed him to start the following week. He came to our very first POP because he was desperate for freedom from porn, homosexual behavior, and same sex attraction. DESPERATE! A man wanted freedom and by coming to POP he learned to be a child dependent upon Father God, the Spirit, and Christ LIFE.
This teacher has learned! Every adolescent must be an independent man facing these issues as an individual. Regardless of age, he must personally choose to dependently embrace Christ as his Life. I am not placing God in a box. Any man or boy may come to the Cross and discover the LIFE that comes by dying. Most discover this free LIFE as they realize they can not live the Christian Life; only Jesus can live His LIFE in, through, and for us!!!
When men and boys struggle with sexual conflict, it encompasses all they are in thought, choice, belief, affection, and emotion. It is a difficult journey. The Scripture records that sexual sin is a sin within the body (1 Cor. 6:18); for so long I have danced around this verse without real understanding. Many have offered their polite options and some their loud theological essays. In the midst of my student becoming my teacher, I have heard the Spirit whisper, “the reason this is a sin ‘within the body’ and all other sin is from without is not because other sins do not physically enter the physical body; rather because sex, unlike other sin, involves our whole being – spirit, soul, and body.” Folk, it is the truth; sex ignites and burns every element within us. It is all-consuming. This is why sex is used in Scripture as a picture of our relationship with God. God is a consuming fire. Sex is a consuming fire; beautiful when held in God’s plan and deadly when embrace outside of God’s design.
NHE will be revisiting how we reach out to anyone under the age of 21. Thank you my faithful student for your spirit guided insight. You, the student, have become my teacher! |
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Guess what? The Lord blessed me with a phone call from my wife on October 26th. Hope! Yes, it was HOPE! Gin and I have many difficult roads to travel but there is hope.
Gin asked me to share with you her mailing address: 999 Mulligan Grove, Sevierville TN 37876 (this is not where she lives). She also shared with me that her living expenses are a little over $1500.00 each month. It is cheaper to live in Tennessee. If you would like to give toward Gin’s and the children’s needs you may do so by mail only, at NewHeart Expressions, PO Box 460455, Aurora CO 80046; memo the check BFF or the Benevolence Family Fund. NHE will see that Ginger receives all such funds and you receive a tax deduction receipt. God has given me an avenue to provide for my family, Hallelujah! |
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Your prayers and mine are being answered. Ginger returned home to Tennessee and immediately found counselors to help the children begin healing from all the damaged emotions. It seems that I have made a grave error in judgment. I thought that involving my family in NewHeart Expressions would be good. However, I was wrong! Recently, I was given an illustration of NewHeart Expressions by a former board member. He told me that he agreed that God had called and gifted me to be a warrior in this war for purity. He went as far as to say – when a man goes off to war he does not take his family with him. I did not grasp the importance of this perspective until I heard a similar concern from a counselor seeing my children. Now I understand and agree.
In the beginning of this work, Gin and I thought we could recreate the family atmosphere of Music with Heart, the school of arts we owned when we first married, with NewHeart Expressions. I was wrong, and Gin saw the warning signs long before I did. To complicate matters we have suffered the tragedy of a van roll-over, broken bodies, broken hearts, and multiple brain injuries. I thought we made right decisions. I was WRONG! “A man who goes to war NEVER takes his family with him” – instead he leaves home to return after the war is over or to rest in times of peace. When he gets home he may need to set some things in order but at least he is not repairing head on collisions from the war.
To you and even more so to my family – I am sorry! Please forgive me of not protecting you from me and this ministry of NewHeart Expressions? Dear Family, I love YOU! I miss YOU! Forgive me? I am praying for YOU!
To all of you who have stood with us over the last 5 years or more, I am sorry I did not do my job of protecting my family while reaching out to the sexually broken with our precious Lord’s freedom and Life! Please forgive me? I do not want a hundred or even one email, telling me I did a good job. I know I am called and gifted to walk with men out of the trenches of sexual muck. That is a given. But I have failed as a husband and father. When God, through Gin reopens the door for me to be that husband and father I will drop everything, including NewHeart Expressions, along with every student the Lord blesses me with and RUN, RUN home because our whole family needs a break from the war. A time to heal.
Some may feel this time of separation is a break. In some ways it is. However, I believe when the Lord heals the brokenness of our family we will need a time together. I do not mean to be family-centered instead of Christ-centered for that would be wrong. My heart is found in Ephesians 4:17 – 6:18. As new creations and beloved of Jesus we find in these three chapters what grace looks like in the normal Christian life, in family- life, in the work place, and in spiritual warfare. This is the rest I will teach and live out of. For now, I will continue in this war for purity and walk with as many as the Lord would provide. I know that is His calling and His calling and gifts do not change. When I RUN with those trapped in the muck of sexual sin and hopefully when the Lord allows me the greater privilege of walking with my family they will be my first to love, my first to protect. When the good Lord recalls me to ‘war’, I will leave my family at home in safety, and run in the trenches until He once again calls me back to RUN with my family. This will be my life-cycle, my race (Heb.12: 1-4), until the trump sounds for me that my race, here in time, is over.
Pray with me that our good Lord would allow me to run in this war for Purity and even more to RUN with my family in God’s unfailing LOVE! To always keep the two paths separate as the Lord graces me in His wisdom and discernment. Once again, as I thank Jesus for His daily forgiveness and healing; I will walk and run in His commands for He has set this captive's heart (me) free!!! |
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NewHeart Expressions is moving! We are unsure just where, except near Colfax. In Denver/Aurora Colfax is also 15th Ave’; it is the longest road in the United States and it covers all of the Denver metropolis. Colfax serves as a runway into the many diversified Gay Communities of the Denver area. It is interesting that NewHeart Expressions is moving into the heart of street people, thieves, liars, and every sexual activity one can imagine. My heart is to walk Colfax. I can’t do it in a day; maybe not in a lifetime. But it is my goal until the Lord changes my direction, learning how to reach the sexually broken and take that strategy into every city of our great land.
Ex gay ministry has been around maybe 30 years or more – realistically and effectually 25 years. In those 25 years, many good ex gay ministries have been founded and today are ministering wonderfully. Most are very effective in walking with men and teens already grounded in the Church or those who embrace Jesus as Lord and Savior and come into the Church as new believers. However, not one ministry, though many have earnestly tried, has sparked revival in the heart of the Gay Community.
The epitome of insanity is when a man continues to achieve the same goals by doing the same failure again and again. Certainly there is only one gospel. This gospel has been repackaged thousands of ways yet revival has been sparked only on a few occasions. Why?
Every revival or ‘Great Awakening’ has begun in prayer. It is insane to use the same old thing once again, but NewHeart Expressions will ‘Sound the Battle Cry’ for prayer; prayer specifically for the Gay Community, even if such strugglers bring distaste to your heart! At the same time NewHeart Expressions will train warriors to march into battle with Truth – because Truth sets the captives free. Yes, I am insane!
However, it is time for creative strategy as we take Truth into the Gay Community without offense or getting the door slammed in our face. Yes, the gospel offends. But we do not have to be offensive. Just this month, a man striving for change from homosexuality, spoke words of encouragement to me about brain injury. Yet he closed his remarks with the following words – think of the universe. I wanted to scream out, ‘think about the Creator of the universe’. Many in the Gay Community are struggling with inner conflict between their spirituality and sexuality. It is these men, women, and teens that we want to share Truth with. We are not interested in those ‘happy’ to be Gay. May they “drink, eat, and be ‘gay’”. We are privileged to march and grip our way through the muck of sexual addiction and pull men and boys out of the pit; those who cry for a way out. This would entail walking the road these strugglers journey, carrying a welcome banner high and full of LOVE and LIFE. |
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Some have ridiculed the phrase – Jesus our Perfect Lover – because it cuts away at the heart of the matter. It is not a word game. It is not an easy salvation. It is the Truth that our God uses to cut through the grim of confusion and propaganda. It is the Truth that has rung for over 6000 years – God is LOVE; and that love is COMPELING! God’s LOVE, Jesus’ LOVE is a capturing Grace that chases us down until we are empowered to choose Jesus as our personal Lamb, Lord, LIFE, and Liberator.
So many times we want an easy way to introduce Jesus to the struggler and difficult wanderer that we lose the heart of the Gospel – Jesus died for us and He lives for us too! The strategy comes in the game of communication. This is war because it is about life and death. NewHeart Expressions is zealous to communicate Truth with a new strategic approach. I will do anything, ‘not sinful’, to win men and boys to Freedom in Christ – anything! Are you willing to be a part of this outreach?
How Can You Help?
- Pray!!! Pray!!! PRAY!!!
- Give!!! Give!!! GIVE!!! (We need to secure $10,000 in monthly gifts!)
- Train!!! Train!!! TRAIN!!!
Join us – will you? NewHeart Expressions will be releasing a plan of heavy action between now and the first of the year. We will capture many with the Grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! I, Pastor Ron, am called as a missionary to the Gay Community! Let’s go win the captives and watch Jesus set them free!!!
Baptist, Pentecostal, Reformed, Charismatic, Anglican, Independent, every Christian flavor, even those who are insane like me -- Let’s Go! While we sit by, the Gay Agenda makes political strides reducing Christian freedoms daily. They are four percent of the population and we are calculated at seventy percent. Why are they louder? Why do men die in sin and go to hell? How is it that they drown out the capturing Grace of the Gospel of Jesus, the Lover of our Souls; when we should be the whisper that shouts louder and resonates above their screams of sexual pleasures, games, and idolatry with real intimacy and LOVE – Jesus’ LIFE, full of LOVE!!!
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| 2007 Ministry Calendar will be Posted on the NHE website on December 21, 2006. |
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| Pastor's Wife and Children |
| Ginger Browning |
| 999 Muligan Grove, Sevierville TN 37976 |
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| Pastor |
| Ron Browning |
| 303.957.6080; Aurora CO |
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Blessings Faithful's
LET"S GO!!!
JOIN ME IN REACHING THE SEXUALLY BROKEN OF OUR WORLD; ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE GRIP OF THE GAY COMMUNITY!!!
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