John Cooper, lead singer of the Christian rock band Skillet, has been in the news over the past couple of years for his critique of “Christian” pastors who use their pulpit for money and popularity rather than preaching the Gospel. He composed a lengthy Facebook post about making “pastors uncool again.” Most of us agree… Continue reading The Christian Cancel Culture
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Babel Reborn
“And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” - Genesis 11:6 We are currently living in similar times to the one that brought about the infamous Tower of… Continue reading Babel Reborn
Love Not the World
1 John 2:15-18 reads: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” “This world” does not mean the people, for we are to love everyone. “This world” refers to the world system, which belongs to the… Continue reading Love Not the World
The Digital Tongue
The text today is found in James 3:5-10: “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.” This not only applies to your physical tongue, but your digital one as well. Social media, blogs, and other online outlets in which we express ourselves through words are applicable in this passage. “Behold, how… Continue reading The Digital Tongue
The Rapture
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:… Continue reading The Rapture
Becoming as They Are
1 Corinthians 9:20 says, “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;” Paul was able to use his own ancestry to preach to the Jews in synagogues… Continue reading Becoming as They Are
Love and Marriage
1 Corinthians 7:1 “Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” The things written to Paul involved rampant sexual misconduct in the church. Men should not touch women, and vice versa - it is good for a woman not to touch a man.… Continue reading Love and Marriage
Avoiding False Doctrines
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”Romans 16:17-18 There are an… Continue reading Avoiding False Doctrines
Conformed or Tranformed
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and… Continue reading Conformed or Tranformed
Merry Christmas!
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”Isaiah 9:6 One man's birth is celebrated by almost every country around the planet. Consumers spend over… Continue reading Merry Christmas!
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