Every single week, if not every single day, Christians who are either victims of evil in their local churches or witnesses to that evil, contact me and tell their stories. Over and over again. If you have been watching the...
Continue ReadingLocal Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 1)Author: 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.
O Foolish Evangelicals! Who Has Bewitched You? – The Deceptive Disguises of Legalism Pervasive in the Church Today
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom...
Continue ReadingO Foolish Evangelicals! Who Has Bewitched You? – The Deceptive Disguises of Legalism Pervasive in the Church TodayThat “Most Holy Guy in the Church” is often an Agent of the Enemy
[I originally wrote this article on my Facebook page but I am publishing it here as well so everyone can see it] Beware of people who are too "religious." I have been a pastor now for going on 35 years....
Continue ReadingThat “Most Holy Guy in the Church” is often an Agent of the EnemyInnocent Until Proven Guilty? Really? Excellent Article by Rebecca Davis
Rebecca Davis exposes the misuse of "innocent until proven guilty" ploy that is often laid on victims and witnesses of evil. We see this tactic used over and over again in churches when an evildoer is exposed. Rebecca reminds us...
Continue ReadingInnocent Until Proven Guilty? Really? Excellent Article by Rebecca DavisPaul’s Last Words to the Ephesian Elders are About Evil Creeping into the Church
Acts 20:28-31 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. (29) I know that after...
Continue ReadingPaul’s Last Words to the Ephesian Elders are About Evil Creeping into the ChurchIf You Stand Against Evil, Don’t Expect to Have Many Stand With You
2Ti 4:9-17 Do your best to come to me soon. (10) For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. (11) Luke alone is with me....
Continue ReadingIf You Stand Against Evil, Don’t Expect to Have Many Stand With You“Propriety” and “Protocol” are Often Used to Protect Evildoers
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they...
Continue Reading“Propriety” and “Protocol” are Often Used to Protect EvildoersWhen Victims of Evil Become Evildoers Themselves
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the...
Continue ReadingWhen Victims of Evil Become Evildoers ThemselvesWhen a Church Becomes a Man’s World it has Strayed from Christ’s Model, And from His Blessing
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for...
Continue ReadingWhen a Church Becomes a Man’s World it has Strayed from Christ’s Model, And from His BlessingMost Local Churches Today are Dominated by a Plague of Legalism and Taught by Legalists
Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. Now we know that the...
Continue ReadingMost Local Churches Today are Dominated by a Plague of Legalism and Taught by Legalists