Daily Deprogramming

Today Ardith  entitles her Daily Devotional, “The Available Heart.”   Her writings had nothing to do with “The Available Heart” at all.  

Lately there has been an advertisement  on TV about some new jewelry the actress,  Jane Seymore , is introducing.  It is a combination of two hearts , one larger than the other,  hooked together that are tip to tip , and both are open on one side.   I really liked the idea of open hearts.  It reminded me of  two Christians being open to each other , with a differing viewpoint, heart to heart.  A heart stands for love, and this is Love.

It is easy for a Christian to close up our heart when we think we have all  our doctrines in order.  We can easily think we know everything about the Word of God, and about Him.  If we do  this, thinking we know it all ,and do not allow room for a fresh understanding,  or  someone elses opinion we are in serious trouble; also we might just miss out on something wonderful the Lord has for us , if we  do not have an open  available heart.

No one knows everything about the Kingdom of Heaven and the workings of the Holy Spirit.  This is why the Lord has given us brothers and sisters to not only encourage us, but to bring us up short when we need it.  We all need correction from time to time.   If we are not humble, no matter how wise we think we are, we will begin to close up our heart thinking , “How dare them tell me anything?” 

Then when we close up our heart, refuse to listen to others who might see things a little different then ourselves,  (perhaps they can see something we cannot see) we become prideful and arrogant , and the little box we live in gets smaller.  It’s as if we shut out the Light, the same as closing the lid of a box.   We are inside , thinking our little world is all that there is, when there are thousands of available Christians  who love the Lord with all their hearts on the outside with no admittance to our elite , proud , little  box of a “Christian” world. 

Our leaders will push us to work in our little box , and the sad part is we will make no advancement.  We will sadly  live a monotonous life filled with boredom and weariness from overwork,  but with  no fresh life, because we need other Christians with differing viewpoints to help bring in fresh food and drink from above.  All are parts of His body, and all have much to share with the rest.

So , one’s idea of an “Available Heart” might be simply old truth  from one who is stuck in a box, and  they are only  offering  the stale, stagnant pool of  old water and dry, hard bread,  instead of  the fresh, new , sweet life of the Holy Spirit  which is administered to us by  all  of the brethren , with their revelations,  understandings,  opinions, and thoughts on spiritual things.  If people are not allowed to bring in  a differing opinion, without censure,  we remain closed and our hearts remain unavailable  to anything the Lord would bring us  from outside  of the box.  We stay stuck in the mud of our own viewpoint.

To have “The Available Heart”  means being “accessible” and  “ready for use” according to Websters. You can’t be either of the above if you are closed up tight in a box.  Christian Cults have leaders that do this to people.  Jesus said, “When the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.”  John 8:36  To be available a person has to be free.

When a  cult/abusive church leader such as Ardith Keef tells her closed,  boxed-in ,  little elite flock, even true  things  such as,  ”He is able to reveal Himself, He is able to make Himself heard, He is able to soften the most hardened heart, He is able to forgive anything. And , He will” , it has no power because the box is closed  , and the hearts of the hearers aren’t free,  how can they be “Available?”

In the Webster’s Dictionary  a “Peon” is described as a Foot Soldier, a messenger or attendant, or a native soldier.  “Peonage”  means according to the same Dictionary, 1. The condition or service of a peon  2.  the practice of holding persons in servitude  or partial slavery, as to work off a debt or to serve a penal sentence.

I served under Ardith Keef’s idea of being a Soldier.  I was no more than a peon, a slave, and in servitude to her for seventeen years.  Oh she did a good job of making me think I was a good little  ”Soldier of The Cross” , and holding me up to her own false doctrines, but   I was only her own servant, and it had nothing to do with the Cross as Christians know it.   It was  all about her power and control  and her own “myopic” life purpose. 

( I was there for love and Christian values, but when push came to shove, it was all about Ardith’s power and control. There was no love on her part.  I quickly found out the truth;  I was only a pet prisoner , as long as I towed the line for her, and was available when she could use me, and she did use me to the fullest degree.   When I questioned her actions the mask came off , and the reality that I was only a peon, and  had been serving a penal sentence for 17 1/2 years surfaced.  Now I serve Christ alone.  I have learned some hard  but valuable lessons, that I would love to spare others from.)

The Apostle Paul is the one who likened Christians to soldiers in only a few places.  It was simply an allegory,  and one description of many for the Christian life.  Jesus used many allegories.  Jesus said of Christians, “Ye are the light of the world.”  We don’t walk around with rays of light shining in peoples eyes.   We  as Christians are “chosen ones”  according to the Word, but unless we are in some kind of cult we don’t go around saying, “We are the chosen.”   Jesus told many parables of seeds, birds, trees, rocks, fish, and bread.   He called His people sheep, but we don’t go “baaa.”  The “soldier” symbolism is no different from any of the rest. 

 A parable is defined by Websters as 1. A short allegorical story designed to convey a truth or moral lesson. 2.  A statement or comment  that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy or the like.   Both of these meanings contain componants of the analogy, allegory, parable which Paul was using in comparing Christians  and their lives to foot soldiers.  It was not designed or meant  to be carried away by Christians as a “doctrine of the faith.”

A peon i.e.  a slave “is working off a debt, or serving a penal sentence.”  Those who serve Ardith are indeed peons.  We as Christians do not work off a debt.  What Jesus did for us was free.  We are not under works of Law but under Grace.  We may be Bond Servants to Christ, but not by a rule of Law, it is by our love and deep gratitude to Him and is not forced. 

Ardith asks today, “Why MUST you be a Soldier of the Cross?”   And she answers her own question by stating, “Because anything less constitutes a compromise that results in eternal regret.”  My response: Jesus Christ is not at all the kind of God indicated here.   Ardith Keef makes Him out to be demanding, cruel, unkind,  and He is not any of these things. He is Love, He is Humility Personified, He is  Merciful, He is Compassionate, and one could go on forever describing His goodness.  I serve the Lord Jesus Christ because I love Him, pure and simple!

Who is this “God” Ardith represents as cruel, mean, demanding to His own Children?   It certainly isn’t the True God, The One who humbly died for us ,and by Grace has adopted all  into His own family who believe upon His name , and freely!  The “God” she describes is full of himself, is a liar who said we were set free, but keeps us as slaves.  There is only one who said “I will set my throne above the stars of Heaven, I will be like God!”   Satan imitates God ,  and he is called the “slanderer” “deceiver” “father of lies.”  Isa 14:13-14 John 8:44  

The enemy is a poor imitation of The Most High God,  and you can always see an absence of  Genuine Love when looking at the fruit of someone who claims to be from the Kingdom of Heaven, but is really from the kingdom of darkness.  Sometimes it takes a while to see the disinguishing marks of evil, but eventually they show up much like a black oil spot will come through a pure white garment laid  over it as a facade to cover a stain .   The evil underneath seeps in and is clearly defined over time. 

Be careful whose “Soldier”  you are.  If you are following the doctrines of a person, that person could easily be deceived, and you might just be a “peon” in the worst sense of the word!  Be careful whose “word” you are abiding by. The enemy is like a roaring lion seeking to devour someone. 1Peter 5:8

“The best made plans of mice and men often go awry”  ,is a line from the poem “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns.  Today Ardith seems to be shaping up the troops and getting them to “buck up!” she says to be  “Christian men and not Christian mice.”  I have said before, when you must have such power and control  over others that you put weak , emotional cowards around yourself who run at your beck and call , and follow your leading, bowing to your knowledge  and wisdom, at any cost, you then must be satisfied with wimps and weasels even “mice” when the going gets tough , and you need them for their strength of character.  They have none, and you who have power and control over them have made them that way.  You have emasculated them  emotionally and spiritually just as surely as Jezebel’s eunuch’s were castrated and deprived of their manhood. 

These “yes men”  have no strength of character, or they would be standing on their own two feet.  You  who crave power , yourself removed their manhood.  In this case you have shaped them into scared little mice who only listen to your voice, not God’s!  You can’t have it both ways.  Either you put around yourself people who have the integrity to stand up for what is right even though you might not agree with them, or you surround yourself with cowards, and “yes men” who meekly bow to your every whim in agreement.

Today Ardith tells her followers all about “The Cross.”  She’s been doing this for years , but they never get it.  Only she gets it!  Why is this so?  This is because her words have no Holy Spirit Power to change a soul. They are empty words and fall flat. They go out into the air and dissipate.  Her words only puff up her own ego ,and make her feel good about herself , and all she thinks she knows. 

 Her words, “The Cross” this, and “The Cross” that, are like crosses on dead church buildings with no Christian life inside it’s  walls.  They have no true meaning.  One humble person who loves Jesus could  quietly mention the cross ,and a room full of people could be so moved they all fall on their knees and repent. This has happened to Billy Graham more than once.

Ardith Keef’s  words are death producing because they are  mixed with her own doctrines, and come out of her own human wisdom (the doctrines of men)  the words are only meaningless  letters, spaces and punctuation marks put together without any power from on High to move a heart.  They are no different than an athiest carving a cross and giving it to someone.  She repeats the words,  ”The Cross”  thirteen times today,  pounding her followers over the head with it,  to no avail.  She can capitalize it, set it apart, repeat it 13 times, add smooth spiritual words and phrases to it but her words are powerless, because there is no Holy Spirit,  there is another spirit. 

Her words, though some of them are true have done nothing to help the people she leads.  If anything they have caused harm, church splits, divisions of families, affliction of little children, dishonoring of parents, her words have fostered divorces, taking Christians to court, slander of people who have done nothing but good to the leaders, shunning  of whole families.   The Cross is about Jesus Love for mankind,  humility and surrender , a vast difference.

For all she says about “The Cross”,  she still has the mice around her and not the men.   I have the real men!  The men in my life are honest, true, open, integritous, ethical,  faithful, strong in whats right, they have strength of character, they are certainly not mice. Their children respect them.  They stand up for the truth , and what is right even if it is to their hurt or mine.   Two of them are Christian men.  They are  all  three hated by Ardith Keef  and Bill Keef , as am I because we  would not  quietly submit  to the lies , and lack of integrity and honesty in the Anchor Church leadership.  We  would not bow to Ardith Keef’s doctrines. 

And so, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.  Especially the plans of the cowardly mice.  My husband found a fat little mouse in his grain bucket the other day.  It was very cute.  Don kindly  let it go.   I prefer to think of  the “yes men”  around  Ardith as “Rats”.   Mice are way too cute to be put into their catagory.   Don has always said,  ”They’re like  a bunch of rats in the bathtub scratching to get out .”   I wonder if Jezebel had any pet rats?  I guess her emasculated men were enough to handle. 

I am especially disgusted and appalled by the emasculated man in Ardith Keef’s life  (the rat) who told a young 20 something ,unmarried, newly converted woman that he was the “scrotum on the body of Christ.”  I hesitate to even post it,  but the Word of God is candid and honest when relating even sordid facts, and  it is good for our readers to know the kind of personalities we are up against.  The one  I write of is the same  one of whom I told Ardith long ago to her horror, “He flies by the seat of his pants”  and that  it feels like, “playing church.”  

Now I understand a lot of things that were vague and mysterious to me before.  I have to bear some of the blame because I didn’t listen to my own instincts, my own conscience ,or my intuition, and supported what was a rediculous sham.  For instance Ardith’s telling the women’s group that Pastor (Reverand) Bill Keef  sucked his thumb until he was 12 years old, and his parents let him look at porn when he was just a boy.  I wonder if any of this was true or if it was Ardith’s way of putting him down and usurping his Pastoral authority for herself? 

Ardith said he beat her in his sleep, screamed all night and saw demons and glowing spiders over the years since marrying her.  What loving , dutiful , Pastor’s wife would ever reveal such things  publicly to the flock even if they were true ?!    All of these bizarre behaviors and accusations end in the same place;   The presumpuous self -appointment of two  self-willed people,  false shepherds,  wolves in sheeps clothing,  who had no business , and no right ever taking control over the Lord’s flock.   The fruit of “the rats” i.e. “their acts” (pun intended)  has come to harvest,  and it isn’t pretty.  

How wonderful It is to know the Truth that sets one free!  It is such a protection when we actually measure other things up against it ( Jesus is the Truth, His Word is Truth) testing by the Light of His Word teachings we might embrace, or even ministries that seem to be right and good.   When you hold something up to the Light you can see much clearer.  Jesus is The Light and The Truth.

Jesus never hurt anyone while He was on this earth.  He told us to love one another.  I have two young grandsons today (Thanksgiving Day 2008) who have not seen their  little brothers in a whole year. These boys are 5 and 12 years old. They have not seen their brothers since they were 4 and 11.  Their brothers are 2 years old and 4 months old and are only six miles away at The Isaac House, supposedly a Christian Missionary Guest House.  

This  division is  because of the teachings of a ministry that does not measure up to the Truth,  Jesus Christ, or any of His ideals. In fact their behaviors are in direct contrast  with the Word of God in any shape or form.  Ardith says she is a Guardian Ad Litem. How horrible is that!  Bill’s grown daughter put it this way in an email she sent to our website, “It is especially frightening that she is a Guardian Ad Litem!”

Jesus said, “Let the little children come unto Me, for such is the Kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.  And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them.”  Mark  10:13-16  

 Bill and Ardith Keef hate me  because I have told them the Truth about their sinful behaviors , and they  take out this hatred on my grandsons.  Rest assured, they have no love for the two who are with them either, in a heartbeat those little ones could and probably will be at some point  cast aside  like so much trash when they are no longer useful.  Jesus loves the little children, satan hates them.  Bill Keef cast aside his own four children , and has almost no access to his grandchildren,  and Ardith Keef tried to destroy the lives of 14 stepchildren of her own. 

I believe now that the Anchor Church  is a den of demons ,  and demons especially hate children.   They have always targeted children just as Bill and Ardith Keef do.  There is no “Light From Above”  where they are,  only darkness and the one who transfers himself into an angel of light, satan.   He is the great deceiver ,and has gained a solid foothold because of  the pride and arrogance of the Anchor leadership. They trust in their own wisdom and knowledge.  He leads them into deeper darkness all the time, because they refuse to see the Truth.

And so Ardith tells her flock today , “Soldier of the Cross - be assured that the Lord will shed enough Light for the next step.”   When one is walking in the darkness, and thinks he is in the light, how dark that darkness is, says the Word of God.  If the Anchor Missionary Leaders  were not blind and could actually see, they would realize that they have crippled and maimed many  of the Lord’s children through the years by their spiritual and emotional abuse. 

They have destroyed whole families, broken up missionary homes, divided churches, encouraged divorces of Christians, dishonored parents, taken other Christians to court, and Ardith Keef  has been divorced at least 5 times, and continues to lead her spiritual wannabee’s ,creating mirror images  of spiritually corrupt child-abusing monsters just like herself..    Who will the next family or little children be to incur the wrath of the Jezebel spirit?  Rev 2:20-24

In view of the wicked (deeds) fruit of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship leadership,  and the lack of any Light or Truth when measured up with Jesus Word and teachings, may these words of the Apostle Paul help lead the poor followers away from their doomed religious den of wolves, or nest of snakes,  ”Let no man deceive you with vain words.  Be not ye partakers with them.  For ye were once darkness , but now ye are light in the Lord:  walk as children of light.  (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth);  Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.  but rather reprove them.  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.”  Ephesians 5:6;12  

Moral:  Be careful whose light you are walking in.  There is True “Light From Above” for those who love the Truth and there is  a deceptive false light for those who love the darkness. .  Examine the fruit.  Test the spirits!  Hold everything up to the Light!

As always  Ardith Keef , cult leader ,demands her followers to work!  “There is much to do.” ,she says.  “You have crossed the line.”   “Soldier, do not waste the hour. Or the minute. One step at a time according to His Word.”

Since when did “His Word tell us to divorce our mates without any Biblical reasons?  Since when did His Word tell us to dishonor our parents and leave aging mothers on their death beds to die alone?  Since when did His Word tell us to break up our families and deny little brothers the right to see one another?  Since when did His Word say to take other Christians to court?  Since when did the Word of God say it is right to lead a church when we have been divorced 5 times?  Every single sin mentioned here defies and denies  the Word of God, and the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church continue “Pressing On” engaging in every one of them.

The fruit of the Anchor Church leadership when examined in the Light of Truth , proves it to be disgusting, filled with vile filth, and totally against the Word of God.  Actions speak louder than words, and the actions of the Anchor Church leaders are dispicable. 

“Be careful for nothing (don’t worry about anything) but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving let your requests be made unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding , shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

The Apostle Paul  wrote the above verses in his letter to the Philippians while in a prison cell. Phil 4:7   It is interesting that  in the same chapter he mentions the two women, sisters in Christ, Euodias and Syntyche , and entreated them to be of the same mind as they had a broken relationship. Phil 4:2-3   In view of this, as I contemplate the past two and a half years, many months of trying without any response to meet with the  Pastor,  his wife,  and the Anchor Missionary Fellowship elders, I must conclude that we never were true yoke fellows as Paul called them.   When believers are lied about , shunned and cast away from the Church because of questioning the motives and values of Church leaders, the church has come into the hands of false shepherds , who destroy the flock of God.

When church leaders decide it is better to take fellow Christians to a secular Court of Law rather than reason together before the Church, something is wrong with the leadership. They are not following the guidelines of the Word of God. Paul said,  ”Dare any of you , having a matter against another , go to court before the unjust, and not before the saints?  I speak to your shame.  Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you?  No, not one who that shall be able to judge between his brethren?  But brother goeth to law with brother.”  1 Cor 6:1-8

What kind of false peace is there for leaders who break up churches, destroy families, divide small siblings from one another, desert their families, shun their brothers and sisters in Christ, divorce for the higher good, and help other  Christians to divorce their mates without grounds? These  actions are totally against the Word of God.   What kind of true peace is there for leaders who abuse and neglect their own mothers, dishonor fathers, and hatefully use and  disperse the flock of God?  Are they truly for the cause of Christ Jesus?  I don’t think so.  Are they even Christians?  Only God knows. 

Ardith Keef talks of “The Prince of Peace” today.  She talks of how bad it is to hold grudges, be hurt, easily agitated, or complain.  She says, “It is about choice. Choosing to stand upon God’s Word.  choosing to do the thing that does not seem possible.  Choosing to invest in eternity.  There is no reason to stand on shaky ground when we are able to stand on the Rock of Ages.”

Jesus words to the false shepherds confirm to me, there is no Rock for those to stand on who like wolves in sheeps clothing  maim and devour His sheep unless they repent and turn fron their ways.   Theres is eternity ahead, but a fearful one for those who cast aside His people (parts of His body)  like usless body parts. Matthew 23:13-35

When the Apostle said, “Don’t worry for anything” in verse 6 chapter 4 of Philippians, he wasn’t saying to think nothing about our treatment of His flock, especially if we happen to be in a leadership position. If the leaders of Anchor would take a glance back at all the people they have harmed over the years, they would be hopefully shocked and astounded.  How many are those whom Ardith and Bill Keef have destroyed their peace, and who have struggled for years because of the abuse. Even Bill Keefs own  young children were thrown aside like so much trash by the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church.  

Then they take other Christians  to court on charges of  ”Emotional Distress” for speaking out the truth.  Two times Ardith Keef and her Pastor husband have taken me to court rather than sit down and reason together.  You can’t have it both ways, either you practice what you preach ,and do not complain about your circumstances, or you tell others the same as you actually do yourselves. Short of these options you are a hypocrite.

Beware friends, the “Peace” Ardith Keef offers you today is a false peace and not at all from “The Prince of Peace.”  It is pretense, play acting, and only another  ploy to keep her followers reaching for her golden carrot.  True Peace comes from the Spirit.  It is a part of Love.  If there is no Love, there is no True Peace .  Without love all the rest of the teachings of a person or their ministry are NOTHING.   Galations 6:22

Today Ardith Keef begins her Daily D. with a  Bible verse:  ” John 21:1 says, After this, Jesus let Himself be seen and revealed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias.”  Amplified    After what? one might ask,  as she doesn’t tell us anything about the verse or what preceeded it in context.  Actually, in reading the previous verses this was after the resurrection of Jesus ,and after He had shown Himself to the Disciples in a locked room, and Had breathed the Holy Spirit upon them.  It was after doubting Thomas had to see the nail prints in His Hands. Then it was on another day, Jesus appeared to them at the Sea of Tiberias. thus begins Chapter 21:1 of John.

The story of John chapter 21 used to be one of Bill Keef’s favorites. It is about how Jesus waited on shore and was cooking fish  on hot coals, while the disciples had  fished  all night long and caught  nothing.  They didn’t recognize Him at first and He yelled out to them, ” Boy’s have you caught any fish?”  They answered, “No.”  He said, “Cast your nets on the right side of the ship and you will find some.”  They then caught 153 “great fishes” the Bible says.

“Jesus said to them, “Come and dine.”  “And none of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are thou?”, knowing it was the Lord.”  John 21:1-12 

Yes, Jesus loves His Own. Later in this same chapter of John , Jesus asks Peter three times, “Do you Love Me?”   Three times Peter answered , “Yes” and Jesus said three times “Feed My sheep.”   Jesus was calling Peter to feed His sheep, even though Peter had three times denied Christ at His crucifixion. 

When I think of false shepherds who have denied Christ by harming  His sheep , these passages tell me that Jesus can and will forgive them, but  humility comes before honor.  Peter was humble, and Peter was forgiven.  All of God’s people  have a commission to Feed the Sheep.  Even if one finds out he is not able to be a “shepherd of the sheep” , and does not qualify for leadership, there is still much to be done for the Kingdom.   One of the qualifing stipulations for Christian Leadership is having only one wife.  If one has been married more than once there is much that can be done outside of being a Pastor, elder, deacon, leader of the Church.

Today Ardith Keef says, “You must leave aside the things not compatable with Discipleship.”  This could mean leaving aside leadership duties when you find they are in sharp contrast with the regulations and Guidelines of Gods Word, and you do not fit the qualities required by God  to be a shepherd of the sheep.  Perhaps you have been married too many times to have authority in His Church.  What humility it would take to step down and simply be a servant in another  capacity.  

It does not mean that we cast aside  our mates and children whom God has united us with to be a disciple.  One can surely serve the Lord in every walk of life, still caring for their  God - given responsibilities and obligations.

There are Prisons, Nursing Homes, Veterans Homes, and people everywhere who need to hear about Jesus. There are people at malls, schools, on the streets, in the grocery stores, who need to hear about Jesus. He is available , but His own need to bring Him to others everywhere. 

Ardith Keef ends her Daily D with , “Pray, then pray more, you are under the lights.”   Just a reminder that we don’t pray to be seen by men or angels. We pray because we love the Lord, and communication with Him is because  of that Love, because of His Grace to sinners like us , He is available.     What a grand privilege to speak to the Holy God of the Universe, Creator of all, The Almighty, The Faithful and True One!  We can repent and ask forgiveness when we fall, and He forgives.  We can ask Him anything in the name of Jesus and He hears us and will answer.  “He is Available” through Grace  to all who come to Him through the Name,  Blood, and Person of His son,  Jesus Christ!  Hallelujah!  What a Saviour!

A long time ago when I was a new Christian, I visited a Charismatic Church.  They were into “Abundant Life!”   I never researched the verses as to where the phrase “Abundant Life”  came from until today, because Ardith Keef uses the same phrase as her title.   Low and behold!   Jesus’ application  of “Abundant Life”  is  in the context of false shepherds who flee when the wolves come into the sheepfold, causing the sheep  to scatter , and how Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep.   His sheep  know Him and follow Him .  He promises them “Abundant Life.”

Jesus said,  ”The thief cometh not but for to steal, kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”   John 10:10  In my opinion self appointed leaders who presumptuously take their authoritative positions ,  lording it over His sheep even when not according to the Bibles guidelines, (for instance having been married 5 or six times when the Word clearly says a divorced person cannot lead) are those false shepherds, wolves in sheeps clothing, thieves and robbers whom Jesus spoke of who kill, steal, and destroy.  This is a serious position they are in before God.  Jesus spoke often with caution and warning:  about “the false shepherds which come to you in sheeps clothing.”  He said, “You will know them by their fruits.” Matthew 7:15-16

Case in point:  Today Cult/ abusive church  leader Ardith Keef gives the sheep all kinds of hoops to jump through to receive the “Abundant Life.”  She says nothing of the context of the verses. Of course not!  Jesus said, “I am the door:  by me if ANY MAN enter in, he shall be saved, AND SHALL GO IN AND OUT AND FIND PASTURE.”  John 10:9    It is as always, all about JESUS  and not about our works and efforts as cult leaders would portray. He is the Good Shepherd. 

The Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church which Ardith and Bill Keef lead, has  borne horrible fruit:  There are abuses of whole missionary families, and abuse of other whole families,  elitism,  children divided from parents, no growth,  divorces,  divided churches, dishonoring of parents and grandparents, aging mothers left to  die alone,  Ardith Keef has been divorced at least 4 to five times ,and leads the church contrary to the Word’s guidelines, Bill keef has been divorced as well,  they take Christians to court, promote divorce without Biblical reasons,  then Ardith tells them they can experience the “Abundant Life”, if they just do thus and so.  What a travesty!  What pretense!  What falsehood!

The only “abundant life”  is to the false shepherds who feed themselves at the flock’s  expense.  What do they  selfishly acquire as their rich supply from the poor victims,  as  they  like ravaging wolves, swindle and deceive?  Power and Control!  That is the secret agenda, friend.   There is no abundant life for their poor followers;  only pain, misery, confusion, chaos, fear and slavery.  Only the Faithful and True One, The Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ,  can set them free!

One person, Ardith Keef , controls everything in the Anchor church. 3 John 1:9-10   From the singing,  to the discipline of children, to the preaching , to the shunning  of good people.  “Like Diotrephese  who loved to have the preeminence among them” , Ardith Keef decides who, what, where, how, and when, and casts out the saints who question her authority.   She even leads her followers  to  believe that all of these evil doings are part of that  glorious “Abundant Life”  they can have if they simply obey her commands.  She holds out the proverbial golden carrot , and they go after it like guppies to whatever is thrown to them.  It seems like truth, sounds spiritual , so they don’t even check to see if it is for real.

I love the margin notes in the KJV concerning “the Abundant Life” passage.  It puts it all in perspective:  “In contrast to the thief who takes,  Jesus gives.  The life He gives now is abundantly richer and fuller.  It is eternal, yet it begins immediately.  Life in Him is lived on a higher plain because of His overflowing forgiveness , love, and guidance. A hired man tends the sheep for money, while the shepherd does it for love.  The shepherd owns the sheep and is committed to them.  Jesus is not merely  doing a job; He is committed to love us and even to lay down His life for us.  FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS do not have this committment.”   Jesus cautioned His people over and over again  to beware of false shepherds!  We would do well to listen and heed His words.

Ardith Keef begins her Daily Devotional today with the statement, “Soldier of the Cross, do not wish for the demise of the bad guy.”  

I have known for a long time that the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church, headed by Bill and Ardith Keef  have more than  likely  been praying for my husband to die.  Perhaps my self as well. Am I afraid?  Not one tiny little bit, although according to my Christian counselor, things could very well become violent.  Such is the nature of a cult.

Back in 1994 when Ardith Street fell in love with Bill Keef, a  married man and father of four young children, there was a “bad guy” standing in her way.  He was her husband and Pastor of the then Christian Outreach  Assn. Church.  Her husband / Pastor  was quickly ousted and dumped  when he began to see the truth of what was going on, and after the painful church split, those who remained with Ardith Street  began to pray for her husband’s  death.  Every time they met together  the group  prayed for the man  (her husband)  to die, until it was evident that it wasn’t going to happen, and they all stopped praying for it. 

I was there.  I also prayed for the man to die.  Were we  deeply spiritual, elite Soldiers of the Cross?  I don’t think so.  I think we followed a person, who would soon become Ardith Keef.  We were seriously wrong.  We caused horrible pain to four young children and divided a whole church!  We committed a reprehensible act toward both Ardith’s husband and Bill Keef’s wife and children!

A rumor began around his workplace that the  ousted pastor had Alzheimers, or a Brain Tumor.  He was reprobate, evil, etc.   His students who were associated with the church he pastored, abandoned him.  There was a huge scandal even for Ardith as she rode out the storm  at USM and the Portland Symphony, until she could get what she wanted; another womans husband, which included  the breaking up of the home of four young children.

This happened after months of ”secret prayer” between Ardith and her love interest at her USM office.  I now believe he was probably sincere at that time , but it was the second time around with the same m.o. for “Christian”  Ardith Freeman Blank Blank  Jones, Street, Keef.   Ten other children were disrupted and  emotionally harmed  fourteen years before.  One of them has been Ardith Keef’s “Yes Man”  and served as an “elder” at the Anchor Church for these 14 years, and even prayed for his own father to die.   The rest of his siblings understandably want nothing to do with Ardith Keef.

Yes friends,  the  teachings of Ardith Keef are divisive and damaging to whole families , her  ”path is narrow and her thorns are large.”   Do I wish for her demise?  Or Bill Keef’s?  Absolutely not!  Anyone can be deceived.   Every day I pray for God’s best for them.  I have prayed for them  every day since I realized the evil that they have done, and I supported.  Fourteen  step-children  have suffered greatly , and I simply want it to stop there, but it hasn’t . My own grandchildren, have been divided and four have had their homes destroyed because of the evil teachings of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church leadership. 

All I can do for all concerned is to let the truth be known.  I do it in love, albeit tough love.  Had there been a hearing ear, and a reasonable means of communication with the Anchor leaders, there would not have been the truth written on this web-site.  One does what one has to do.

Oh yes!  The man in question,  (the bad guy) !  The one whom we all prayed to die?  He is well.  He is 78 years old and in very good health.  He  is still a skilled craftsman, continues in the same employment, and he has prayed for the Anchor  Church, the  members , his students and their families, and even for me , these last 14 years.  He welcomed me and readily forgave me for my sins against him.  So did Bill Keef’s ex -wife.  They are good , kind, loving people.  We committed a terrible sin against them both.

These are the seven things that are an abomination unto the Lord:

1. A proud look

2. A lying tongue

3. Hands that shed innocent blood

4. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations

5. Feet that be swift in running to mischief

6. A false witness that speaketh lies

7. He that soweth discord amongst brethren

Proverbs 6:18-19

In the Bible God is spoken of as bouncing His people upon His knee as a mother, and comforting His own like a mother comforts her little ones. Isaiah 66:11-14  Also He describes Himself as a mother hen calling all her chicks together under her wings and covering them with her feathers so she can protect them.  Matthew 23:27   He has made it simple to understand His loving Heart and deep caring for His children.

When I was a young girl, often my mom would lay down beside me .  She was so comforting.  I knew for sure she loved me.  I would always take her arm and place it under my head and snuggle up close beside her.   She was a wonderful mother! 

The Lord as our Comforter is much like a loving mother in our most  difficult moments  or at any time when we reach out to Him.   It is so simple but profound that the Creator of the Universe and all in it, could love us so dearly.   Just one little nobody is as precious to Him as all the rest put together. 

It is sad that Religious Leaders who want Power and Control over people make it so difficult to know God.  They will pay a great price one day because they have come between His people and Himself.  Today Ardith Keef makes it a burden to lean on the Lord.  You have to jump through all of her hoops  and rules to simply lean on His everlasting Arms.  This is absolutely not the way it is.  He has made it all very simple through the death and resurrection of His Son, and belief upon Jesus Christ’s name.  The curtain was torn in half  (which divided  the people from the Holy of Holies), at the moment of Jesus’ death.  Matthew 27:50-51 JKV  The margin notes say, “The barrier between God and the people was  removed.  Now all people are free to approach God because of Christ’s sacrifice for our sins.”   Heb 9:1-14   God’s arms are since then open wide to the vilest of sinners.

In reality, God hears the tiniest whisper of prayer, He knows what we need before we ever ask, but He loves to hear from His children.  He is the Faithful One.  We are all  unfaithful, needy sinners at best , but  because of His great Love He has cleared the way for us to approach Him long ago at the Cross.  It is not hard to reach Him, to fellowship with Him, to draw near to Him as some would make it out to be.  There are no rules, but there is only one way, through the Blood of Jesus Christ.  He is still the Way, the Truth and the Life.  Jesus was The Way for the evildoer hanging  on the cross next to Him, and He is the Only Way for you and me.

“The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms:  And He shall thrust out the enemy  from before thee;  and shall say, Destroy them. ”  Deut 33:27   KJV Life Application Bible  The margin notes to this verse say, “Our only true refuge is the eternal God, who always holds out His arms to catch us when the shaky supports we trust in collapse and we fall.  No storm can destroy us when we take refuge in Him.  Because God is our refuge we can dare to be bold.”