Categories
Uncategorized adversity apostasy church cross deception discernment false prophets following christ troubles understanding Church Life prophecy Government repentence sin Judgment false teachers faith hypocrisy Preachers Truth Gospel Politics Religion Protestantism martyrdom Reformation Anabaptist Christian End Times Radical-Reformation disease

Understanding the Time

It is interesting to watch how Christians react to information inspired and animated by the world. I am not pointing a finger at anyone else because I have been caught up in the hysteria myself. But, it is still interesting to analyze and to weigh where we ourselves are positioned in this pre-tribulation test. Do […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy church cross humanism troubles understanding Church Life Government sin Judgment heresy false teachers faith hypocrisy Preachers Doctrine Truth Organized church Nicolaitan Gospel Patriotism Catholic Politics Religion Protestantism history violence Reformation Anabaptist Christian End Times

How the Church Justifies the World

Man is justified by grace, that we all know, and that is not the issue here. But, the issue is that there are errors in the thinking of conventional Christianity, by conventional Christianity I mean that which is recognized in the Church as the highest spiritual example, the standard for everything else. Today’s Christians, in […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy church deception false prophets understanding trials prophecy Marketing repentence sin Judgment heresy false teachers faith hypocrisy Preachers Truth Organized church Hell foolishness Religion Protestantism Christian End Times disease healing

Puzzled About the Plague of Coronavirus?

I’m a little puzzled! With all the “faith” healers that surround the President, and all the television charlatans who harp their healing abilities, and all the spiritual millionaires selling books and filling stadiums, and all the Kenneth Copeland’s, and Pat Robertson’s, and T. D. Jakes, Jimmy Swaggart’s, Peter Popoff’s, Jack Van Impe’s, and Jesse Duplantis’, […]

Categories
Uncategorized church cross discernment Emergent understanding Church Life trials prophecy sin Judgment Brian McLaren Doctrine Truth peace Rob Bell Gospel Justice Religion Christian End Times disease

How Do You Define Judgment, Patience, and Mercy In the Midst of Chaos?

Christians around the globe debate the goodness of a God who would permit the kind of death and suffering we see occurring in China and spreading around the world. All around the world, the main topic of discussion is the outbreak of the Corona Virus, and we learn that the worst may yet lay ahead. […]

Categories
Uncategorized adversity apostasy deception discernment following christ suffering understanding trials prophecy sin Judgment Preachers Truth Hell Tragedy Gospel Politics Religion Christian End Times disease

Sin and The Virus

Is there anyone today who is not aware of the outbreak of the Corona Virus? All humans are susceptible to plagues. Just as deadly flues can infect every nation and people so is the nature of sin. No longer a resident of The Garden of Eden mankind now lives in the Garden of Evil, an […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy deception discernment humanism sacrifice suffering troubles Church Life trials prophecy Government sin Judgment false teachers hypocrisy Truth war Hell Gospel Patriotism foolishness Catholic Politics Religion Protestantism violence Christian End Times

Blistering Heat and A Boiling Caldron

“He makes the depths seethe like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like blistering oil” The world is fighting evil on every front and every nation sees its neighbor as evil. Man has not fought his most difficult battle because it is the battle he must fight with himself, his own flesh. The […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy church cross humanism suffering troubles Church Life trials prophecy Government repentence sin Judgment heresy hypocrisy Doctrine Organized church entertainment Gospel Justice Patriotism Politics Religion violence Christian End Times

Jerusalem

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Look, your house is left to you desolate.” Do these words have any meaning for Christians today? Who is […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy church cross deception discernment false prophets hearing troubles Church Life trials prophecy sin Judgment false teachers faith hypocrisy Preachers Doctrine Truth Gospel Justice Patriotism Catholic Politics NonResistance Religion persecution Protestantism martyrdom history violence Christian End Times Radical-Reformation

While It Is Called TODAY

Is it possible that so many of my Protestant friends have rejected the clear teachings, of not only history, but the New Testament, concerning the use of violence against his fellowman? Yes, it is not only possible but it is actually the case. That same New Testament also confirms that in these last days that […]

Categories
Uncategorized apostasy conscience deception false prophets humanism sacrifice suffering troubles prophecy Government sin Judgment false teachers hypocrisy Truth Organized church war Hell Gospel Patriotism foolishness Politics Religion Protestantism history violence Christian

The Insanity of Our Sanity

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman War is truly hell and violence is sadistic, yet […]

Categories
Uncategorized adversity church cross discernment following christ suffering Church Life prophecy Judgment faith Truth Organized church holiness peace Gospel Justice NonResistance Religion persecution martyrdom history Anabaptist Christian End Times Social Justice Radical-Reformation

A Look at Modern Anabaptism by a Resent Disciple to Its Older Ideals of Non-Resistance.

The traditional importance of non-resistance has shaped a distinctive Anabaptist personality. Early Anabaptists spoke of Gelassenheit, a yieldingness and surrender to God’s will in the face of persecution and martyrdom. Over an extended period of time, however, the Anabaptist’s radical appeal and challenge to the existing Christian society became transformed into a message which cultivated […]