Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, holiness, hypocrisy, Judgment, NonResistance, Organized church, Preachers, repentence, Uncategorized, understanding on Apr 20th, 2013
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t The thief on the cross believed Jesus and was saved. Having been released from all that bound him to his former life he was ready to believe with all his heart and strength the simple truth [...]
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Posted in apostacy, Church Life, conscience, deception, encouragement, faith, false teachers, foolishness, Gospel, holiness, hypocrisy, Organized church, peace, Preachers, repentence, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Apr 9th, 2013
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t “And the disciples came and said to Him, ‘Why do You speak to them in parables?’ Jesus answered them, ‘To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, hypocrisy, Organized church, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Feb 26th, 2013
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t He also said, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, Doctrine, false teachers, heresy, hypocrisy, Organized church, repentence, Research and Discernment, Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, Uncategorized, understanding, Willow Creek on Feb 21st, 2013
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t Looking for the real Church may not be as easy as it sounds. It may be more akin to looking for buried treasure, or at least the finding of it would be. Some have found it [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, Dr. Robert Moyer, faith, false teachers, Gospel, Hell, heresy, hypocrisy, Judgment, NonResistance, Organized church, Patriotism, Politics, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Feb 11th, 2013
How important are the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount? If we knowingly or unknowingly disobey the commands of Jesus, should we be concerned regarding our salvation? How important is it that we understand what Jesus meant when He said, “Resist not an evil person,” and the other commands regulating our behavior [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, false teachers, following christ, foolishness, hypocrisy, Organized church, Preachers, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Feb 3rd, 2013
I have written a lot about the Christian’s view of war and violence, and how modern views are a rejection of the truth; but really the issue of war is only a single false position the Church takes that is based on presumption and tradition. Nearly the whole known Christian world now preaches in favor [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, heresy, Justice, NonResistance, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Prayer, Preachers, sin, war on Jan 31st, 2013
by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, discernment, Doctrine, following christ, Gospel, Government, heresy, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Preachers, Truth, war on Jan 11th, 2013
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War Continuing with the question of “Did Christ Teach Anything About War? Mr. Moyer continues to persist that Jesus taught war and violence in His Sermon on the Mount; he says, “Someone says, ‘yes, but look at the [...]
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Posted in apostacy, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, hearing, heresy, holiness, hypocrisy, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Preachers, prophecy, Research and Discernment, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 1st, 2013
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War As we have seen in the last article, the Book of Hebrews starts out with a definitive statement of the relationship and authority of Jesus regarding everything that was written, or said, before His arrival. But, the [...]
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Posted in Catholic, church, cross, deception, discernment, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, holiness, humanism, Judgment, Justice, offense, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Research and Discernment, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Dec 23rd, 2012
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War Dr. Robert Moyer states twice that the source of his answers will be the Word of God, and then qualifies the statements by saying that “. . . we shall try to be honest . . . [...]
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