Posted in Church Life, conscience, discernment, encouragement, faith, Organized church, seeing, trials, troubles, Truth on May 29th, 2011
The thoughts within our heads move in certain trained ways which make it easy for us to jump to conclusions or make assumptions. For instance I assume that when I use the word “God” that everyone understands that I mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [...]
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, 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 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, [...]
Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, false prophets, following christ, hearing, humanism, Marketing, new age, prophecy, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, suffering, trials, troubles, understanding on Nov 13th, 2009
Due to the increased interest in this letter I have decided to re-post it. It was originally posted 2-18-2006. The letter contains many thing that will assist others in approaching their Church leadership and in making the hard decisions of whether or not to leave organized religion and to seek God on His terms apart [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, humanism, offense, sacrifice, seeing, suffering, Uncategorized, understanding on Sep 4th, 2009
The Offence of the Cross (1932) by T. Austin-Sparks It is a perfectly obvious fact that wherever the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ has been most faithfully preached and presented – while bringing hope and new life to many – it has almost invariably been the cause of trouble. Wherever it has gone it [...]
Posted in apostacy, baptism, church, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, following christ, hearing, sacrifice, seeing, Uncategorized, understanding on Mar 2nd, 2009
“The Holy Spirit will lead you into all righteousness” are truthful words that should not be ignored. The subject of “baptism,” of which I have given very little thought over the years, has all of a sudden risen up in my spirit as something that needs attention. I decided to pursue this leading and see [...]
Posted in baptism, church, cross, deception, discernment, false prophets, following christ, offense, sacrifice, seeing, suffering, troubles, Uncategorized, understanding on Feb 15th, 2009
There has been a lot of discussion and debate on the blogs I have visited lately, and no little heat generated, on both sides of the issue of baptismal regeneration. But, one thing that is obviously missing is the spiritual perspective and meaning of baptism. Baptism is one of those topics that men love to [...]
Posted in adversity, apostacy, cross, following christ, offense, sacrifice, suffering, troubles, Uncategorized, understanding on Jan 5th, 2009
Today I saw a bumper sticker that read “So Many Christians, So Few Lions.” I had pulled into a McDonald’s for lunch and happened to come along side a nice looking Mercedes automobile with this sticker on the bumper, so I pulled in beside it. I decided to wait for a few minutes to see [...]
Posted in adversity, church, cross, following christ, offense, troubles, Uncategorized on May 18th, 2008
Here is a sermon that most people, in the New Age Church of the 21st century, will never hear. Most church planters will find in this sermon instructions on how NOT to grow a Church. But, what we WILL find in this sermon, if we understand the Bible, is the laying of a solid foundation, [...]
