Tag: Church

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."

Although Scripture addresses current political issues, Lynch believes many people in the church have become Biblically illiterate.

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.

The Lord never intended for His church to operate as a kingdom in this world with an aristocracy ruling over it.

“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.

Mass shootings one after another… Government paralyzed, not by disagreements, but by hate… The ongoing loss of constitutional rights…

"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.

Rather than building their thinking on God’s Word, the majority of pastors are basing their beliefs on “personal preferences.”

Progressive Christianity interprets the Bible through the lens of culture; it does not critique the culture through the lens of the Bible.

The reason the new study from Barna is shocking to some and concerning to most is because it exposes great weakness and wokeness in the church.

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.

Why do moral progressivism and theological liberalism go hand in hand?—both impulses are rooted in an attempt to escape or undermine Scripture.

For decades, a war has been raging against Biblical Christianity that goes under the seemingly innocent name of “progressive Christianity.”

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.

Deconstructed people often present themselves as more enlightened, but that is only because their former faith was no faith at all...

Are the lives of pre-born children so cheap to us that we think it’s worthy to celebrate a judge who advocate for their murder—because she’s black? 

"[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."

Pastors, why not start preaching about biblical prophecy now rather than wait until people in your church demand that you teach on this subject…

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.

Apparently, anyone can be a pastor these days regardless of what the Bible teaches – and this case is no different.

"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."

Doreen Virtue joins David Fiorazo to discuss church discernment and New Age spirituality in the Christian Church today.

Instead of any sort of passionate defence of religious freedom, the range of reaction in Canada is indifference to cheerleading and abetting.

How did we get to the point in America where a generation has grown up believing lies that this country is evil, was founded...

Pastor Tim Stephens was arrested on Monday afternoon on new charges, after Fairview Baptist Church gathered for underground worship

Texas Gov. signs bill prohibiting gov't from ordering churches close: “1st Amendment right to freedom of religion shall never be infringed"

"Whatever it takes, God will help us. God is the supreme judge, and what God does, what God allows is... it will be the best for his kingdom."

If anyone tries to impede their actions, the judge permitted law enforcement officers “to do anything necessary” to detain & arrest Pawlowski.

“You would think this would happen in China, in Russia, but it’s happening here in a Western democracy. What are you going to do about it?"

This petition already has +5.3K signatures; “This act is tyrannical gov't overreach, and is a direct violation of Canadian Charter rights"

A suicide bombing outside a church after Palm Sunday Service in Indonesia has injured more than a dozen churchgoers, some seriously.

This Pastor is the canary in the coal mine — if this case succeeds, we'll see a major effort to uncover sermons critical of the LGBT agenda

Jesus wants you to act like the new person He has made you to be, but never trust your salvation to your ability to live a sinless life.

The "Church" added that the Bible “isn’t: the Word of God, self-interpreting, a science book, an answer/rule book, inerrant or infallible"

Lead pastor of GraceLife Church in Alberta, Canada, has been jailed for holding in-person worship services amid ongoing pandemic restrictions

SCOTUS tells California it can’t bar indoor church services because of COVID, but it can keep for now a ban on singing indoors.

A proposed Danish law requiring sermons be translated & submitted to the gov't has sparked concern among Christians throughout the region.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled CA Gov.'s prohibiting churches from indoor services didn't discriminate against Christians

Such courage & boldness as exhibited by this church is needed in the church throughout the West as intolerance and persecution increases.

The use of online tools to congregate with other Christians has resulted in easier surveillance by the Communist Party.

"The reality is that the Bible teaches a world government that will be anti-God and a world government that will reject the scriptures."

It’s very obvious by the inconsistent mandates handed down throughout 2020 that religious freedom has been targeted...

following the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of churches religious liberty, LA County Saturday dropped its ban on indoor worship services

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.

Pastor MacArthur warned today’s world is “perfectly suited for the Antichrist to come” amid chaos and “lawlessness” stemming from the COVID