Rom 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? (2) By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? My good friend Phoebe who grew up in...
Continue ReadingA Church in which Evil is JustifiedAuthor: 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.
Victim or Advocate? – Experiencing Evil’s Attacks is a Pre-requisite to Helping Victims
Mat 10:16-22 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. (17) Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in...
Continue ReadingVictim or Advocate? – Experiencing Evil’s Attacks is a Pre-requisite to Helping VictimsHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 5
Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, (20) idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, (21) envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned...
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 5What do we do when a “good” teacher goes “bad”?
1Timothy 1:18-20 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, (19) holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some...
Continue ReadingWhat do we do when a “good” teacher goes “bad”?Christian – Do Not Permit Anyone to Put a Yoke on You!
Gal 4:3-7 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. (4) But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under...
Continue ReadingChristian – Do Not Permit Anyone to Put a Yoke on You!An Opportunity to Help an Abuse Survivor in Need
I have known a genuine Christian who is a domestic abuse survivor for over six years now. She contacted me after finding my domestic abuse sermon series online. She was in a legalistic, cruel counterfeit church at the time, and...
Continue ReadingAn Opportunity to Help an Abuse Survivor in NeedI am With You in Spirit – Biblical Justification for a Virtual Church in These Times
1Co 5:3-4 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. (4) When you are assembled in the name of the Lord...
Continue ReadingI am With You in Spirit – Biblical Justification for a Virtual Church in These TimesHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 4
3Jn 1:9-10 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. (10) So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us....
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 4How Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil, Part 3 – Yielding to Threats
Way back in January of 2013 not long after my first book was published (A Cry for Justice: How the Evil of Domestic Abuse Hides in Your Church), I was contacted by Matt Claridge, a Baptist pastor and member of...
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil, Part 3 – Yielding to ThreatsThe Real Source of Evil Hiding in Local Churches
Mat 13:37-39 He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. (38) The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil...
Continue ReadingThe Real Source of Evil Hiding in Local Churches