Beginning Wednesday, November 4th at 7:00PM Pacific Coast time (I guess that will be standard time by then), there will be a livestreamed worship time on the Christ Reformation Church facebook page. Kevin Dirks, our son-in-law in Victoria, BC will...
Continue ReadingAnnouncement – A Weekly Worship Time on Wednesday Evenings hereAuthor: Jeff Crippen
I am the pastor of Christ Reformation Church in Tillamook, Oregon, arriving here in 1993. I have been a pastor since 1983 and was a police officer for 12 years before that. My wife and I have been married since 1971. Verla is a medical assistant at a local clinic and in our spare time we like to hunt, fish, and ride our motorcycle.
Is Your Faith Supernatural or Superstitious?
Hebrews 11:1 ESV Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. If we do not have the "direction" of what we think is faith, that genuine faith given us as a gift from...
Continue ReadingIs Your Faith Supernatural or Superstitious?Some Thoughts on Churches that Abuse the Abused
Recently we watched a movie called A Call to Spy. It was about World War 2 and Britain's efforts to send agents into Nazi occupied France to gather intelligence and help organize resistance fighters. One out of three of these...
Continue ReadingSome Thoughts on Churches that Abuse the AbusedDon’t be One of These False Prophets Promising False Peace
“For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace....
Continue ReadingDon’t be One of These False Prophets Promising False PeaceBetrayal by Friends and Family is Nothing New
Jeremiah 12:6 ESV For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.” We know...
Continue ReadingBetrayal by Friends and Family is Nothing NewLet’s Think Some More about the Popular “Christian”
Isaiah 53:3 ESV He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. I would like to ask...
Continue ReadingLet’s Think Some More about the Popular “Christian”Most Professing Christians Tell Christ What to Teach
...though he [Nicodemus] had in general owned Christ to be divine teacher, yet he was unwilling to receive his teachings when they did not agree with the notions he had imbibed. Thus many people who claim to be Christians profess...
Continue ReadingMost Professing Christians Tell Christ What to TeachWhen the Church becomes the Enemy
A very common theme in the stories that you all tell us is that your church did not help you. Your church added to your suffering, gave you foolish counsel, and in the end sided with your abuser rather than...
Continue ReadingWhen the Church becomes the EnemyA Central Scripture on the Evil of Killing the Unborn
Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (5) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”...
Continue ReadingA Central Scripture on the Evil of Killing the UnbornThe Double Standard of the Wicked
Romans 2:21-23 ESV you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? (22) You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do...
Continue ReadingThe Double Standard of the Wicked