Welcome to Leaving Laodicea
The Survival Manual for the Coming Underground Church
No Man Ever Spoke Like This Man!
After Jesus, on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, presented His invitation to the unbelieving crowd, the people were naturally divided as to what to do with this Jesus and His teaching (John 7:43). Jesus offered His invitation, His gospel presentation of...
Salvation: The Deception of Non-Saving Faith
All throughout Scripture we see examples of people who have faith, but it's non-saving faith. After all, everyone of us have some type of faith and we exercise faith every day. We have faith a car will stop while we cross the street, we have faith our prescriptions...
What an Unbelieving World Simply Finds Unbelievable
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." ― Brennan Manning ...
Trying to Describe the Indescribable
Trying to describe the indescribable. Impossible. But the following from Dr. S.M. Lockridge comes as close as I've ever seen. Be blessed and encouraged in Him.
Salvation: What About the Sinner’s Prayer?
Since we have established the fact that salvation is a spiritual experience and can also involve the emotions or feelings, the question to be asked is what happens when the salvation experience is devoid of any change in emotion or how someone feels? What happens...
Podcast 257: Salvation 101
Jesus, at the close of the Sermon on the Mount, speaks some of the most frightening words in all of Scripture. He draws a clean distinction between those who are saved and those who are deceived in thinking they are saved. He begins by explaining the narrow way to...
Salvation: Can Faith and Feelings Exist Together?
Previously we looked at the three phases or tenses of salvation— past, present, and future— from the golden chain found in Romans 8:29-30. We can sum up what we've discovered as follows: Past - Justification - Separation from the Penalty of Sin Present -...
Salvation: Past, Present and Future
"It may be that the Deity can forgive sins, but I do not see how." - Plato In Romans 8 we have what is commonly known as the golden chain of salvation. It goes from eternity past (foreknew, predestined) to eternity future (glorification) and includes the point in...
The Gospel of God and of Jesus Christ
The following is the Gospel, the good news, the euangélion in the Greek, that we are blessed to preach to all the nations. Are you faithful in proclaiming the wonderful Gospel of God to others? And, if not, why? In accordance with the Father’s good pleasure, the...
Podcast 256: Thirst, Come and Drink
When Jesus confronts the Jewish leaders with the truth of who He is, they naturally respond by wanting to silence His voice, to take Him captive (John 7:32), to destroy Him or, literally, to kill Him (John 7:19). And, unlike many of us today in the church, Jesus did...
Something About Us
This is a collection of the many questions I have struggled with and the answers I have found regarding the relationship between authentic faith in Christ and much of what is portrayed today as Biblical Christianity. Especially with the coming darkness looming over all of us, including the church.
Come with me. It should be a wild ride!
To find out more about us and what we believe, just continue reading…