Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the...
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A Thought for Today from Jeremiah 5
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...
Continue ReadingA Thought for Today from Jeremiah 5Why Aren’t They Hearing the Good Shepherd?
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...
Continue ReadingWhy Aren’t They Hearing the Good Shepherd?Getting “Gossip” Wrong Enables the Wicked
I received a copy of a small book written by Pastor Marc J. Grimaldi entitled Gossip: The Church Killer. It included a letter from Pastor Grimaldi which indicated he had sent out a copy of his book to pastors such...
Continue ReadingGetting “Gossip” Wrong Enables the WickedAre You a Practical Heretic?
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you...
Continue ReadingAre You a Practical Heretic?A Good Description of Real Repentance
1 Peter 2:1-3, So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation — if indeed you...
Continue ReadingA Good Description of Real RepentanceTo Discern Good from Evil, You Must be Born Again
[The following is excerpted from July 6, 2014 sermon at Christ Reformation Church. You may listen to or read the entire sermon at sermonaudio.com/crc] Faith is the means by which we overcome the world, by which we resolve to not...
Continue ReadingTo Discern Good from Evil, You Must be Born AgainHow we Respond to Christ’s People when they are Oppressed Reveals the condition of our Heart
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you...
Continue ReadingHow we Respond to Christ’s People when they are Oppressed Reveals the condition of our HeartSome Thoughts on Broadway, the Narrow Way, and Abuse
The Large Majority of Professing Christians Travel on Broadway, and thus are not Christians at all Matthew 7:12-16 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets....
Continue ReadingSome Thoughts on Broadway, the Narrow Way, and AbuseThe Heart of True Religion
“You know, we [abuse victims] make people that are having a wonderful, ‘no worries’ life, uncomfortable.” [Teresa, abuse survivor] James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their...
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