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In Defense of Fellowship by Distance

Jan 20, 2023 • Jeff Crippen • 3 Comments

Col 2:1-5 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, (2) that their hearts may be encouraged, being...

Innocent of Evil does not Mean Ignorance of Evil

Nov 18, 2022 • Jeff Crippen • 1 Comment

Mat 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. How many of you were taught in your family or in your church, as you grew...

Creeps Creep in Among us – We must be more Watchful

Nov 4, 2022 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

Jud 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. I was reading from Thomas...

When the Wicked are Comfy in Church….What Does that Tell us?

Mar 19, 2022 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom...

Many Churches are Led by Unregenerate People

Mar 4, 2022 • Jeff Crippen • 6 Comments

1Ti 5:22 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. I have been a pastor now for approaching 40 years. I have been the pastor of four...

Beware of the Scribes

Jan 14, 2022 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who...

Cool Academia has a Place – but not always

Oct 29, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

I have been thinking a lot lately about how we are often pressured, especially in the world of theology and writing and blogging, to maintain a cool professionalism that never gets torqued. A polite respectability if you will that leaves...

A Thought for Today from Jeremiah 5

Oct 8, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

I am just going to quote a Scripture here. This passage pretty well nails the scenario in our churches today that most all of us have experienced and which we are trying to expose. I like the Lord’s promise of...

Why Aren’t They Hearing the Good Shepherd?

Oct 1, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 3 Comments

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we...

The Method of Interpreting Scripture in the Conservative Evangelical Church Needs a Reboot

Jul 2, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

“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...