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What Is Trumpism? Part Two: Gospel Relations and Wokeness
What Is Trumpism? Part One Perhaps you are far enough removed from what it is to be “woke” that you don’t know what it is. It might sound familiar, because it echoes religious connotations, as very often a counterfeit does. Scripture uses “awakening” to speak of true spiritual enlightenment. The Bible calls on unbelievers to […]
What Is Trumpism?
Anonymous comments, some I did publish and most I didn’t, and others under my most recent post, in which I briefly mentioned President Trump, were typical of what I get when I ever say his name. They are angry, insulting, unhinged, foul, devoid of reason, and carnal. And they want me to be a better Christian, […]
No Christian In the United States Is Going to Be Able to Just Ignore the Country To Serve God and His Kingdom
Well known Christian leaders today remind people that we’re not on earth to sustain America, but to serve God and His kingdom. It’s true. How does that thought change evangelistic efforts right now? Does it stop parents in churches from thinking about how they will educate their children? Does that mean ignore the deluge of […]
The Gospel (The Good News of Salvation, Because We Need to Be Saved and God Can and Wants to Save Us)
This afternoon I was able to go door-to-door with a young man, who was just saved here, and this was his first time. Three of the conversations were with young mothers, who were not sure they were saved. They were all legitimate, decent conversations, all headed in the right direction toward preaching the gospel, […]
My Lifetime Surprising Struggle With My Own Sin
Nobody on earth, what I say, “breathes pure, spiritual air.” Nobody has their head in some superior spiritual cloud. Everyone must struggle against sin. My life has been one of a continuous struggle with sin. When I say that, some might act like they are surprised. I was surprised too, because when I was young, […]
A Love-O-Meter: Love Does Not Rejoice In Iniquity And Does Rejoice In the Truth
In a very important passage, in 1 Corinthians 13 the Apostle Paul shines love through a prism that refracts into fifteen different colors or hues. Two of them are in verse 6, which reads: [Love] rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. As I’ve written many times, love is one of the most […]
Millennials Will Rue the Day They Despised Authority
Authority proceeds from God. When I write “authority,” I mean what the Bible says it is, and it is hierarchical (Romans 13:1-3). It doesn’t violate scripture. God created or originated authority. It is necessary to accomplish His moral will (God’s sovereign will is always going to occur). Authority orders the divine design of the world. […]
“Holy” Is Not Related to “Wholly”
Calvary Chapels multiplied here in the Rogue River Watershed beginning in the late 1970s, especially beginning with Applegate Christian Fellowship and Jon Courson, which is the largest congregation in all of Southern Oregon. This was an outgrowth of the first Calvary Chapel started in Southern California in 1965 with Chuck Smith, proceeding from the Jesus […]
Angels Marrying Humans and Jesus Preaching in Hell? The Happenings of Genesis 6 and 1 Peter 3
Why this subject now? I have taken the same position on these two passages since I came to my position on these two passages. Other men I respect a lot have taken drastically different positions. You can’t confuse the difference between them, they’re so, so different. If you have some general knowledge of this, you […]
The Belly or the Bowels (part two): Either a Belly Church or a Bowel Church
Part One In Philippians 3:19, the Apostle Paul uses these words: “whose God is their belly.” Let’s play a thought experiment with a potential reader of those words at the end of that chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Philippians church. He says, My God is not my belly, so Paul isn’t talking about me. […]
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