1 Samuel 17:47-51, “and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.” (48) When the Philistine arose and came...
Continue ReadingWhen Our Champions Become Our IdolsAuthor: 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.
How Would John the Baptist Deal With a Wicked Person in the Church?
Today I was thinking about John the Baptist. The Lord Jesus said that John was the greatest of the prophets. John is a very interesting Bible personality because he was the last of the Old Testament prophets, coming on the...
Continue ReadingHow Would John the Baptist Deal With a Wicked Person in the Church?What Does Christ’s Truth Look Like?
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are...
Continue ReadingWhat Does Christ’s Truth Look Like?A New Book on Evil is Coming Soon: Wise As Serpents (now published)
This is the preface to a new book we plan to publish soon. Its title is Wise as Serpents: Wising up to the Evil Among Us. It is based on the sermon series of that title that I delivered at...
Continue ReadingA New Book on Evil is Coming Soon: Wise As Serpents (now published)Are the Saints in Heaven Sinning When they Ask for Justice?
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign...
Continue ReadingAre the Saints in Heaven Sinning When they Ask for Justice?Why Must Every Knee Bow? – the Defeat of Evil
Php 2:9-11 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, (10) so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,...
Continue ReadingWhy Must Every Knee Bow? – the Defeat of EvilHow I Learned About Abuse Victims being Blamed Instead of the Abuser
1Ki 18:17-18 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” (18) And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of...
Continue ReadingHow I Learned About Abuse Victims being Blamed Instead of the AbuserWords of Wisdom from David Wells: Losing Our Virtue
The following is taken from the introduction to David F. Wells book Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover its Moral Vision [Eerdmans, 1998]. Wells is also the author of No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland. I...
Continue ReadingWords of Wisdom from David Wells: Losing Our VirtueIn My Father’s House: A New Book by Jeff Crippen
We have just published an illustrated book - only 34 pages in size - that is a presentation of the master theme of the Bible: Lev 26:11-12 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor...
Continue ReadingIn My Father’s House: A New Book by Jeff CrippenA False Gospel Always Promotes Abuse
Gal 1:6-7 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel– (7) not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble...
Continue ReadingA False Gospel Always Promotes Abuse