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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...

Let’s Talk about Bearing One Another’s Burdens

May 21, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. What is the Law of Christ? Theologians no doubt have written massive essays on that subject. But I don't think it is that difficult to sort out....

His Sheep Hear His Voice

Feb 19, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes? (Jeremiah 5:30-31) One...

An Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil (Part 14)

Feb 12, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 4 Comments

Galatians 4:8 ESV Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. The devil enslaves. Sin enslaves. To be in the kingdom of darkness is to be a slave to it. Owned...

An Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil (Part 12)

Jan 29, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 4 Comments

John 15:18 ESV “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. Sometimes evil comes at us in the form of some organization. A group of people organized together to form a - monster....

An Appearance of Godliness: Case Studies in Evil (Part 11)

Jan 22, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 7 Comments

Revelation 2:12-13 ESV “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. (13) “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and...

An Appearance of Godliness – Case Studies in Evil (Part 10)

Jan 15, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

Mark 7:6-7 ESV And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; (7) in vain do they worship me,...