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 adversity, apostacy, church, Emergent, encouragement, faith, Gospel, holiness, Organized church, troubles, Uncategorized, understanding on Jan 29th, 2012
Why does it always sound so hypocritical when Evangelicals bash Gays and so worldly when the other side embraces them? Could it be that they are both wrong! In LGBT congregations the wrongness of the position is so apparent; they openly allow and advertise their sin. On the other hand, in the “Gay bashing” congregations, [...]
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Posted in apostacy, books, Catholic, conscience, deception, discernment, false teachers, heresy, Preachers, Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2012
What the common Protestant Christian and citizen of the United States is ignorant of, was a well known fact with many, during the nineteenth century. What was it that they, the common Christian, were ignorant of? Namely, the invasion of despotic Papal influence into the hard won civil liberties, which make up the foundation of [...]
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Posted in Catholic, Church Life, deception, discernment, entertainment, following christ, foolishness, Gospel, hearing, Hell, humanism, hypocrisy, Organized church, prophecy, Satire, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Nov 29th, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Jewels Plucked From the Fist of Folly The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, conscience, deception, following christ, hearing, hypocrisy, Organized church, seeing, sin, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, understanding on Apr 20th, 2011
I am not a doctor, philosopher, or psychologist, but I have discovered a few things about honesty that I would like to share with you. Honesty, as a Christian spiritual virtue is nearly non-existent today. Hear me out and I think you will agree. Honesty has several different facets. When we [...]
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Posted in encouragement, Gospel, Japan, Judgment, Justice, prophecy, repentence, suffering, Tragedy, trials, troubles, Truth, understanding on Apr 6th, 2011
Christians on both side of the aisle debate the goodness of a God who would permit the kind of death and suffering we see in the aftermath of Japan’s 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. All over the world the main topic of discussion is the Japan tragedy, and now we learn [...]
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Posted in church, deception, discernment, faith, false teachers, hearing, heresy, holiness, hypocrisy, offense, Preachers, prophecy, seeing, Truth, understanding on Apr 5th, 2011
In a time, not so long ago, a man of character would be referred to as a man of his word. It might be said of him, “His word is his bond”. This was the era, now gone, when it was a compliment to call some one God-fearing. Now is the era of the likeable [...]
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Posted in books, Church Life, Communion, encouragement, faith, holiness, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, understanding on Feb 6th, 2011
THE HARNESS OF THE LORD by Bill Britton I SAW THE KING'S CARRIAGE On a dirt road in the middle of a wide field stood a beautiful carriage, something on the order of a stagecoach but all edged in gold and with beautiful carvings. It was pulled by six large chestnut horses: [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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