Posted in adversity, apostasy, Christian, Church Life, discernment, faith, false teachers, following christ, Freedom, Gospel, history, martyrdom, NonResistance, Organized church, peace, persecution, Politics, Reformation, Religion, sacrifice, suffering, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, violence, war on Nov 12th, 2018
You don’t have to be Catholic to be a martyr. As I was researching the subject for this article I noticed that overwhelmingly the references were to Catholic priest and saints. Let me be clear from the start, you do not have to be Catholic to be a martyr. On the contrary, the definition of […]
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Posted in adversity, Christian, church, cross, discernment, faith, Freedom, Gospel, martyrdom, NonResistance, peace, persecution, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2018
Risk The truly free man lives a life of risk. He leaves his home armed only with truth and with no guarantees. Every day he is presented with newness and starts each sunrise at zero; no script or earthly armor and no dictates of tradition; he is a pilgrim and a stranger and draws others […]
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Posted in apostasy, Christian, Church Life, deception, discernment, faith, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, heresy, holiness, humanism, hypocrisy, Marketing, martyrdom, NonResistance, Organized church, Religion, Truth, Uncategorized, violence, war on Jul 9th, 2018
The warnings are clear to our young people against going to dens of iniquity, even out of curiosity, because no one knows what might happen. And, just as terrible, however, is the danger of going along with the crowd. In truth, there is no place where a human being is more easily corrupted – than […]
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Posted in Anabaptist, Christian, church, cross, deception, following christ, Gospel, history, Judgment, martyrdom, NonResistance, Patriotism, peace, persecution, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, sacrifice, suffering, Uncategorized, violence, war on Jun 14th, 2018
This controversy did not start here and will no doubt end only at the coming of the Lord. Having said that, there are some points that need to be considered. The first major error is to use the O.T. to interpret the N.T. and the second mistake is to follow conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom will […]
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Posted in church, cross, deception, discernment, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, martyrdom, NonResistance, persecution, prophecy, Religion, Revival, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, war on Jan 14th, 2018
Are we, i.e. Christians, forever to consider with praise and respect, the technological proficiency of modern warfare, which channels the intellect to acquire the skill to murder on a mass scale? Are Christians to look with pleasure upon all the methods employed to mutilate mankind and to enable the work of destruction? Are Christian parents […]
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Posted in Anabaptist, apostasy, Catholic, church, Church Life, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, history, hypocrisy, martyrdom, NonResistance, Organized church, Patriotism, persecution, Politics, Pope, prophecy, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, sacrifice, sin, suffering, trials, Uncategorized, war on Oct 1st, 2017
We here at IndyWatchman are celebrating the 500th year of the Radical Reformation while others are celebrating just the regular Reformation which has given us the greater part of the apostasy we are witnessing today. While it was the Radicals who gave us “believers baptism” and “separation of Church and state” all the credit was […]
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Posted in apostasy, church, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, following christ, Gospel, hypocrisy, martyrdom, NonResistance, peace, persecution, Protestantism, Reformation, sacrifice, Uncategorized, violence, war on Sep 12th, 2017
Why is it that discernment ministries are afraid to address the topic of nonresistance even though I believe that some of them are nonresistant, at least in principle? During the Reformation there were three things that caused great distress to the Reformers Zwingli, Luther, and Calvin, and they were: 1) The separation of Church […]
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Posted in Catholic, church, cross, Doctrine, faith, following christ, Gospel, Government, heresy, history, hypocrisy, martyrdom, NonResistance, persecution, Politics, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, violence on Jul 20th, 2017
This paper is a little long but I think that you will be edified and learn information that commercial Christianity does not teach or want you to know. We are taught that the Reformation was the restoration of the Church which had been polluted by the Catholics and revitalized by Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin; […]
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Posted in church, following christ, Gospel, martyrdom, NonResistance, Patriotism, peace, persecution, Religion, sacrifice, suffering, Uncategorized, war on Feb 16th, 2015
Upon the news that twenty one Christians were brutally slain by ISIS I thought about Jesus on His fateful day . . . . If war were right for Christians today, it would have been right for the apostles and even Christ himself. But, blessed be God, we are not left in darkness and doubt […]
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