Thursday, March 7, 2024

Fallen Prophets, Charismata, and the Critics

At the link below is an article by Beth Cavete from her website. She raises serious questions that deserve answers, and she offers hard-hitting insights into the contemporary Charismatic Movement, especially considering the ongoing exposure of sin that is taking place among its leadership and the consequent downfall of several popular ministries. For example:

Monday, March 4, 2024

Fleeting Power

Despite human pretensions, History demonstrates WITHOUT EXCEPTION the impermanence of political power and governments. Rome endured for a thousand years, but that Empire fell all the same. Like life, political power is fleeting, and regimes often collapse quickly and unexpectedly when their allotted time expires. Only the “Kingdom of God” will endure.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Hastening the Day

In his second epistle, Peter discusses the subject of Christ’s return and the coming New Creation. In the process, he addresses two issues of continuing relevance to the Church. First, why the apparent “delay” of his “arrival.” Second, the understanding that believers can, in fact, “hasten” these final events.

Monday, February 5, 2024

Times and Seasons

When listening to popular preachers and faux prophets expound on the “times and seasons,” things quickly become. Every week, the church enters a new “prophetic season,” and each new shift in the “spirit realm” brings its own set of rules to the game. This next year, month, or day we will enter a season of deliverance, testing, burden, reward, loss, promotion, or demotion. If we fail to keep up, we will be left standing without a chair when the music stops.

Monday, January 22, 2024

The Goal of the Church

The Good News proclaimed by Jesus is not about reforming fallen societies or fixing corrupt governments however much this statement may contradict what we hear from popular preachers. His Gospel summons men to repent and join an entirely new and vastly different social and political order, namely, the Kingdom of God, and its ways are fundamentally incompatible with the ideologies, practices, and values of the existing world.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

His Salvation Offer

Before his Ascension, Jesus declared: “All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me, therefore, go and make disciples of all nations!” Ever since, he has been dispatching his disciples to announce his Lordship and offer salvation to all the nations, even to the “uttermost parts of the Earth.” The Era of Salvation commenced with his death, resurrection, and the outpouring of the Spirit, and so, his Life-Giving Good News must be announced to all men, women, and children. This is the primary if not sole task of his Church.

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Ignoring Scripture

The public exposure of gross sin among many church leaders has become all too common today, and often we discover that their more egregious faults existed even before they entered the ministry. Just as bad are the committees and elders who select men and women for the ministry despite knowing about their proclivities before appointing them. Sorry situations of this sort develop when elders, pastors, and ministry boards ignore the clear teachings of Scripture.