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The Survival Manual for the Coming Underground Church
Podcast 259: Believers with Dirty Faces
One of the most sobering and frightening statements by God to the priests, clergy, and believers just like you and me is found in Malachi 2:3. There God says: “Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your solemn feasts;...
Malachi: Excrement and the Clergy
Message from Malachi A Prophetic Warning to the Church Excrement and the Clergy "Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread refuse on your faces, The refuse of your solemn feasts; and one will take you away with it." Malachi 2:3 In the second chapter of Malachi...
Can We Trust Jesus at His Word?
As I've studied John 7, I've become somewhat fixated at verse 46. This verse has spoken truth to me and has forced me to face some blind spots, some shortcomings, some failures in my relationship with my Lord Jesus. And these failures come in the form of childlike...
Faith, Worry, and Anxiety
The following is George Muller's take on Matthew 6:33. These are words I need to memorize and recite daily. "Where anxiety begins, faith ends. When faith begins, anxiety ends." And remember the words of Jesus: "But seek first the kingdom of God and His...
Podcast 258: Living in the Realm of the First Importance
Jesus placed as first importance the need to count the costs (Luke 14:28) before coming to Him and partaking of His life (John 7:37-38). But many today fail to embrace, or even consider, what it means to truly follow Christ. We debate among ourselves trivial...
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...
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!
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