Posted in Church Life, Doctrine, faith, following christ, holiness, peace, sin, war, war on sin on Feb 19th, 2011
This is a very good question since we all want to be strong, healthy, and enjoy many good days of peace and comfort. Many a man has spent his whole life in the fight against indwelling sin, in a constant battle, and has never seen a day of comfort, and feel all the time [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, deception, discernment, Emergent, false teachers, following christ, hearing, hypocrisy, new age, Organized church, Preachers, prostitution, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war, war on sin on Feb 14th, 2011
Why does the idea of sin not take Christians by the neck and shake the Devil out of them? Because the vast majority of Believers care little about sin in their own lives, and give precious little thought about how and why sin deceives us and seeks to destroy us. Sin is the prevailing evil [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, discernment, following christ, hearing, Organized church, Preachers, seeing, sin, Truth, understanding on Feb 5th, 2011
It just recently occurred to me through a comment by a sister on another blog. The sheep are shepherding themselves. To peruse the Christian blogosphere, by and large (there are some notable exceptions) the ones blowing the trumpet and warning the flock of danger are the uncredentialed, unordained but Holy Spirit- sensitized sheep. The big name shepherds [...]
Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, Church Life, conscience, deception, discernment, encouragement, false teachers, following christ, hearing, holiness, humanism, hypocrisy, Organized church, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, sin, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 30th, 2011
There is a point of no return for believers when getting involved too heavily in matters of life in this world, especially where other people=s money is involved, or you have committed large amounts of other resources, like time and energy in things or opportunities, that you consider worthwhile. It is at these points, [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, Emergent, faith, false teachers, following christ, Government, hearing, humanism, Judgment, peace, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 14th, 2011
Definition of PACIFIST 2: strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war Does that definition describe Jesus? No! Although He never engaged in or even defended Himself against violence, and charged His followers to do the same, He did not strongly and actively oppose conflict or war by unbelieving nations or people. On the contrary the Bible [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, Emergent, entertainment, faith, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, hearing, humanism, hypocrisy, Judgment, Organized church, Preachers, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Dec 17th, 2010
I belong to a club of bass fishermen. In that club, there are some good and talented anglers. We all make a display of talent, even if we have only modest ability, and boast among ourselves about trophy catches, but at the end of the day it is the Kevin Van Dam=s and the [...]
Posted in adversity, church, Church Life, Communion, cross, encouragement, faith, following christ, offense, Organized church, Serving, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, understanding on Nov 13th, 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1930's, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, and the United States…… On Grace, the Cross, Our Cross, and Life Together "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. "Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, deception, discernment, false teachers, following christ, hearing, Nicolaitan, Organized church, understanding on Nov 5th, 2010
by glennchristopherson Friends of mine have recently been stood down from ministry. Their crime: doing a good deed without the pastors permission. This is one more example of the tsunami of Nicolaitan nonsense which is engulfing the institutional church. In case you need reminding, the Nicolaitan heresy was exposed and rejected several times by [...]
Posted in apostacy, Brian McLaren, church, conscience, deception, discernment, Emergent, false teachers, following christ, hearing, new age, Organized church, prophecy, Research and Discernment, seeing, Truth, understanding on Nov 2nd, 2010
I have written repeatedly in the past about how the end-time delusion, predicted in the Bible, is no longer a prediction, but a reality. Lighthouse Trails has been a valuable source of documented evidence, warning those who are concerned about the dismal failure of organized Christianity, spreading the light of truth in print and [...]
Posted in church, cross, deception, discernment, faith, following christ, hearing, offense, Organized church, sacrifice, seeing, sin, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Oct 30th, 2010
For the better part of my thirty plus years of calling myself a Christian I never comprehended or understood what was meant by the “offence of the Cross.” it seemed to me that this “offence” was an overstatement. Was Christ and His Cross really offensive or just mildly disturbing and controversial? And, all the persecution, [...]
