As a contributor to the Yale Review has pointed out, [Winston Churchill's appeal for a recovery of moral health] was his way of saying that the English after Munich had to learn all over again to recognize evil. They had lost...
Continue ReadingThe Mortal Danger of Living as if Evil is Non-ExistentCategory: Evil in Churches
The Problem is Often with What is NOT Said in our Sermons and Teaching
The church I attend does not talk about domestic abuse. There is sermon after sermon about how marriage should work, and what each party should be doing, but almost nothing about what you can do if your spouse consistently mistreats you. And the absence...
Continue ReadingThe Problem is Often with What is NOT Said in our Sermons and TeachingIt is a Great Error to Assume that Even the Devil is Open to Negotiation
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies,...
Continue ReadingIt is a Great Error to Assume that Even the Devil is Open to Negotiation“No Trap is so Deadly as the One You Set for Yourself” (William Manchester, The Last Lion)
2Co 11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you...
Continue Reading“No Trap is so Deadly as the One You Set for Yourself” (William Manchester, The Last Lion)Just Give me that Old Time Religion – And Don’t Bother me with Truth
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When...
Continue ReadingJust Give me that Old Time Religion – And Don’t Bother me with TruthWhat if we all just Stopped………?
Psa 46:8-10 Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth. (9) He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots...
Continue ReadingWhat if we all just Stopped………?Why was Billy Graham Popular with Presidents, Popes, and Other World Leaders?
As most all of you know by now, Billy Graham died this week. You can find any number of news reports detailing his evangelism crusade achievements throughout the world for these many, many years. I remember attending one of the...
Continue ReadingWhy was Billy Graham Popular with Presidents, Popes, and Other World Leaders?When we Call Evil Out, We Will be Accused of being “Radical” and Faithless
Joh 8:12-14 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (13) So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing...
Continue ReadingWhen we Call Evil Out, We Will be Accused of being “Radical” and FaithlessEvil Has no Shame – An Identifying Mark of the Evildoer
Jer 6:15 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall...
Continue ReadingEvil Has no Shame – An Identifying Mark of the EvildoerThe Bible Emphasizes “Being” – We Must not be Satisfied with “Doing”
Eph 4:20-24 But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- (21) assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, (22) to put off your old self, which belongs to...
Continue ReadingThe Bible Emphasizes “Being” – We Must not be Satisfied with “Doing”