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. These words of course were spoken by Joseph to...
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Beware of People who Insist they Understand Every Word in the Bible
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters....
Continue ReadingBeware of People who Insist they Understand Every Word in the BibleWhat Are the Biblical Character Qualities for the Office of Pastor/Elder?
With far too common frequency we receive letters and emails from abuse victims who have been ex-communicated from their churches because they have separated from or divorced their abusers. These victim/survivors have come to see that divorce is indeed permissible...
Continue ReadingWhat Are the Biblical Character Qualities for the Office of Pastor/Elder?The Method of Interpreting Scripture in the Conservative Evangelical Church Needs a Reboot
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You...
Continue ReadingThe Method of Interpreting Scripture in the Conservative Evangelical Church Needs a RebootAn Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil – Digest
This Digest compiles the 24 part-series titled, An Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil. In this series Pastor Crippen looks at many real examples of counterfeits. People who have an exterior appearance of godliness but who, like the whitewashed...
Continue ReadingAn Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil – DigestSome Thoughts on Broadway, the Narrow Way, and Abuse
The Large Majority of Professing Christians Travel on Broadway, and thus are not Christians at all Matthew 7:12-16 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets....
Continue ReadingSome Thoughts on Broadway, the Narrow Way, and AbuseNew Bible Study in Revelation
Part One of a new study through the New Testament book of Revelation is now on our youtube channel (Christ Reformation Church), our channel at sermonaudio.com/crc, and on our Facebook page. I will be posting a new installment each week,...
Continue ReadingNew Bible Study in RevelationA Reminder – You MUST be Born Again
Joh 3:3-7 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (4) Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he...
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“You know, we [abuse victims] make people that are having a wonderful, ‘no worries’ life, uncomfortable.” [Teresa, abuse survivor] James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their...
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Mat 21:19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered...
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