Here are some excellent truths about fake repentance. These words are from a pastor of old named Thomas Watson in England: COUNTERFEITS of Repentance (from Thomas Watson’s The Doctrine of Repentance, Puritan Paperbacks series) To discover what true repentance is,...
Continue ReadingCounterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668Author: 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.
Gehazi is Still Among us – and often he is in charge!
In the account of the miraculous healing of Namaan the Syrian at the hands of Elisha at Samaria, we see an example of something that is all too common today in the churches. Elisha had a servant named Gehazi and...
Continue ReadingGehazi is Still Among us – and often he is in charge!Idolatry Will Never Produce Love for Others
You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water...
Continue ReadingIdolatry Will Never Produce Love for OthersSigns of the Dark Kingdom
I have often, as you have guessed if you have read many articles on this blog, thought that abuse is demonic to one extent or another, varying most likely from case to case. Thinking about this brought to mind the...
Continue ReadingSigns of the Dark KingdomLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the Wicked
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s...
Continue ReadingLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the WickedBe Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”
1Ti 1:5-7 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (6) Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, (7) desiring to be...
Continue ReadingBe Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”The Disconnect in the Evil Man’s Mind
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. We know that abusers are never wrong. The kind we...
Continue ReadingThe Disconnect in the Evil Man’s MindThe Old Man Fallacy as an Excuse for Abuse in Independent Fundamental Baptist Theology
The following lines are taken from the doctrinal statement that appears at the Sword of the Lord website. Sword of the Lord is a publication that has been around for decades, promoting KJV only, separatist, soul-winning fundamentalism. In the same...
Continue ReadingThe Old Man Fallacy as an Excuse for Abuse in Independent Fundamental Baptist TheologyAbuse Counseling: How Long is “Forbearing”?
Ephesians 4:2 ESV with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, As I read the stories told by Christians, most often women, who have been the victims of abuse, I am dismayed to hear over...
Continue ReadingAbuse Counseling: How Long is “Forbearing”?The Secrecy of Evil
Act 26:16-18 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which...
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