"Paul says that ministers must not only be learned and instructed in doctrine, but also powerful both to resist the attacks of the enemies of God and his word and to uproot the seeds the devil has sown for a...
Continue ReadingIt is Not Enough to Know the Facts of DoctrineAuthor: 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.
Let’s Wise Up – We Can’t Fix Evil
Pro 9:6-9 Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.” (7) Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. (8) Do not reprove a scoffer, or he...
Continue ReadingLet’s Wise Up – We Can’t Fix EvilWe are Nothing, but Christ is Everything
1Co 1:30-31 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, (31) so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” In...
Continue ReadingWe are Nothing, but Christ is EverythingThe Lord Permits Satan to Touch Us – And Satan Loses Every Time
2Co 1:3-6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, (4) who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who...
Continue ReadingThe Lord Permits Satan to Touch Us – And Satan Loses Every TimeWhat is The Church – Really?
Eph 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, (20) built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being...
Continue ReadingWhat is The Church – Really?The Lord Wants us Free of RASN’s
You know how the typical arguments against divorce for abuse go. Most of you have heard them too many times. They are based upon ignorance or even willful distortion of God's Word. So let me show you biblical proof that...
Continue ReadingThe Lord Wants us Free of RASN’sEvil Meant for Good
Gen 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. This Sunday I plan to preach on this verse...
Continue ReadingEvil Meant for GoodA Safe Person can Laugh at Themselves
Job 42:1-3 Then Job answered the LORD and said: (2) “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. (3) ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered...
Continue ReadingA Safe Person can Laugh at ThemselvesRASN’s Regard Others with Contempt
2Co 10:10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” The Apostle Paul's enemies regarded him with contempt. You can hear the sneer in their words here...
Continue ReadingRASN’s Regard Others with ContemptPeter Accepted a Rebuke from Paul – The Wicked Never Will
Gal 2:11-14 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. (12) For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and...
Continue ReadingPeter Accepted a Rebuke from Paul – The Wicked Never Will