Light for Dark Times Blog | Pastor Jeff Crippen

How I Learned About Abuse Victims being Blamed Instead of the Abuser

Jan 31, 2020 • Jeff Crippen • 4 Comments

1Ki 18:17-18 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” (18) And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of...

Words of Wisdom from David Wells: Losing Our Virtue

Jan 24, 2020 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

The following is taken from the introduction to David F. Wells book Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover its Moral Vision [Eerdmans, 1998]. Wells is also the author of No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland. I...

In My Father’s House: A New Book by Jeff Crippen

Jan 18, 2020 • Jeff Crippen • 3 Comments

We have just published an illustrated book - only 34 pages in size - that is a presentation of the master theme of the Bible: Lev 26:11-12 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor...

A False Gospel Always Promotes Abuse

Jan 17, 2020 • Jeff Crippen • 1 Comment

Gal 1:6-7 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel– (7) not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble...

Counterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668

Jan 10, 2020 • Jeff Crippen • 1 Comment

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,...

Gehazi is Still Among us – and often he is in charge!

Dec 27, 2019 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

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...

Idolatry Will Never Produce Love for Others

Dec 20, 2019 • Jeff Crippen • 3 Comments

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...

Signs of the Dark Kingdom

Nov 29, 2019 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

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...

Let’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the Wicked

Nov 1, 2019 • Jeff Crippen • 3 Comments

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...

Be Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”

Oct 25, 2019 • Jeff Crippen • 4 Comments

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...