As a former pastor, I grieve because of what’s happening in many churches. The silence of shepherds keeps many saints in the dark regarding what lies behind current world events and diverts their attention to temporal things away from their glorious “blessed hope” in Jesus’ appearing.
Sermons that explain both Jesus’ offer of forgiveness and what that means for eternal life will resonate with many looking for hope in a world gone mad.
In many ways, [satan's] goal is to ensure that when the world looks at the church it sees not the church, but the world. Sadly, his strategy has been wildly successful, particularly in this Laodicean church age.
There is a remedy for our nation’s serious problems, and it does not take much selling to see it. If the church will behave the way the church is supposed to behave, it will make America a much better place as we await the Lord’s return.
“We’re fearful of offending people so much that we won’t speak the truth that will save them. We are to love our neighbors, but we can do that full of grace and full of truth. If we truly love people, we tell them the truth.”
So, this re-gendering or un-gendering of language or the addition of feminine deities is clearly open rebellion against God as “Father” and against the authority of Jesus Christ.
I am hearing more and more from believers who say they are among the last days’ remnant, trying to tell the truth and be watchmen on the wall. They are paying a price. They are facing rejection and scorn, even from fellow believers.
FRC President Tony Perkins contends that the survey’s findings reveal that secular culture is influencing Christians more than Christians are influencing the culture, and the problem lies in the pulpit.
Scott Schara and special guest David Fiorazo discuss Romans 13-14 and dive deep into how the church has gone along with the evil instead of calling it out. Why?
We live in a time where persuasive, skilled communicators are often positioned as pastors. Some of them are more focused on drawing a crowd and keeping them than on teaching hard truths.
"We must not let the state invade a religious institution created by God because of fear. Pastors need to get a backbone and decide to believe and to teach and to preach the Word of God."
"There’s another revolution underway today. It’s not another Industrial Revolution... Rather, it’s a social, moral, and spiritual revolution. Too often it’s being propagated by the ideologies that are vehemently pushed throughout Academia."
People need to dust off their Bibles and America needs to dust off the Constitution. Midterm elections are coming up and demonic policies are being debated. Are you in or out?
We must receive our immortal bodies and go up to heaven in order to see the full display of Jesus’ divine glory. Someday, perhaps soon, Jesus will catch us up to meet Him in the air and we will be with Him forevermore.
“Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth. There is only one word for this, namely accommodation“
What makes me a misfit in many churches is that I have a different perspective of what it means to fulfill the Great Commission. What’s missing, in my opinion, is a biblical understanding of all that it means to “make disciples.” Thus the teaching aspect of Matthew 28:19-20 receives little, if any, consideration.
The governor’s office, county officials, lower judges, and even the state occupational safety department got involved in the effort to shut down this church. Arrayed against this imposing display of power was simply this local church — and God.
If we’re willing to admit it, it is easy to see how far we’ve declined as a church and a nation as these polls tell a sobering tale of the demise of society via gradualism.
Since overturning of Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, we’ve seen the hatred and murder lurking in people’s hearts come pouring out of their mouths—and sadly this even includes from some “churches” and “pastors.”
I like the term “dystopian fiction” as a description of the wide gulf between the “popular line” and reality that’s become the fog of living in this Twilight Zone.
The resolution dared to liken the horror of the holocaust to the Jewish State's treatment of Palestinians, falsely claiming that Israel is segregating its society and forcing Palestinians into "ghettos."
Of all nations, one with a blessed Constitution including religious freedoms, you would think people would be thankful to the God who once poured out His grace on this land.
"There's a violent rhetoric against truth. And Christians have to be the light-bearers of truth. If we don't preserve truth, no one else will, and that has to get into politics."
These days, you just need to be a progressive, liberal, socialist, or a friend of the world in order to be a leader in some of these so-called churches.
Pastors: as these things continue to escalate exponentially, people will show up at your church wanting to hear a biblical perspective on the chaos of our day.
Once you open the door for compromise on the book of Genesis, it allows the door to continually be opened wider for compromise on the rest of Scripture.
"[Deconstruction] encourages you not so much to be conformed to the image of Christ but to be conformed to the image of your own self-chosen faith," warned Strachan. "You become the master of your faith."
With one side touting totalitarian impulses and the other side promoting individual freedom, it is obvious that these opposite positions cannot be moral equivalents.
As believers, we have cause for much optimism, but such an expectation lies exclusively in Jesus’ imminent return for His church. Our hope rests in our departure from this world.
"Pastor Chuck Smith always encouraged pastors to stand up for righteousness, especially in these Last Days. We believe that if we are silent, we are complicit."
Tragically, some pastors lead their congregants down a path that ends in destruction by turning away from Scripture and crafting the Christian faith in their own image.