This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'(Matthew 15:8-9) It is, therefore, of the greatest importance for every believer, and particularly...
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Bear One Another’s Burdens? Then Why are the Oppressed Being Told to go it Alone?
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. When it comes to evil attacking Christ's people (always of course in the form of agents of evil who most often disguise themselves as fellow sheep), Christ...
Continue ReadingBear One Another’s Burdens? Then Why are the Oppressed Being Told to go it Alone?A Typical Distortion of Scripture Used by False Shepherds to Protect the Wicked
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor...
Continue ReadingA Typical Distortion of Scripture Used by False Shepherds to Protect the WickedIf We are to Walk in the Light, We Must See the Darkness
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie...
Continue ReadingIf We are to Walk in the Light, We Must See the DarknessWhat Would John Piper, Jim Elliff, and Other “No Divorce for Any Reason” Dictators Say Now?
By now most everyone has heard the details of the shooting murders of at least 26 men, women and children in a church in Texas yesterday. The murderer (too nice of a word for him) was a convicted domestic violence...
Continue ReadingWhat Would John Piper, Jim Elliff, and Other “No Divorce for Any Reason” Dictators Say Now?You Cannot Discern Good from Evil if You are still a Baby in Diapers
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in...
Continue ReadingYou Cannot Discern Good from Evil if You are still a Baby in DiapersWhen Church Leaders are Getting Rich from “Ministry,” Evil is Present
1 Peter 5:1-3 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: (2) shepherd the flock...
Continue ReadingWhen Church Leaders are Getting Rich from “Ministry,” Evil is PresentThese Are the People Who are Enabling Abusers in the Church
I have to post this right away because it is soooo false and so incredibly damaging to victims of evil ones (like domestic abusers hiding in the church) and so enabling to the wicked. It is a quote from a...
Continue ReadingThese Are the People Who are Enabling Abusers in the ChurchWhat About Bob? – He’s a Really Nice Guy, Right?
Of course the title of this post is a reference to the movie in which Bill Murray played the agoraphobic, manipulative narcissist - Bob Wiley. The movie was a comedy. In real life, there is nothing funny about Bob. So,...
Continue ReadingWhat About Bob? – He’s a Really Nice Guy, Right?The Light is Dim in Goshen
I have selected the name for this blog very purposefully. It is my judgment that the evangelical church of our present day has a bad eye and that therefore our Lord's words apply directly: Your eye is the lamp of...
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