Measuring everything by the standard of Scripture
Scandal and sin are no stranger to prominent figures in the Body of Messiah. This sad truth—which should never be tolerated as normal—has once again been reconfirmed in the recent wake of revelations concerning high-profile men such as Mike Bickle, Robert Morris and Steve Lawson. Even our relatively small Messianic movement is not immune, as ...
My brilliant, nine-year-old son Asher has a vocabulary that may very well be better than yours. He is legitimately perceptive, downright insightful, and shockingly self-aware. Now, I say this not to brag (or do I?), and I certainly take no credit for it. I bring this up simply to point out that young children can ...
It was hardly the most deadly mass school shooting. Only three adults, three children. “Only.” Yet, it is still depressing. It is gut-wrenching. These things happen far too often. But this time, something was different… for me.
American parents who send their kids to school are now literally playing Russian Roulette with their children’s hearts, spirits, minds and lives—and the six-shooter has five bullets loaded.
Election Day has come and gone, and we finally know (most likely) who the next U.S. President will be. But whether God chose the crass, unlikely defender of freedom and the American way, or the politically opportunistic puppet of the progressive left, unfortunately, it doesn’t really matter. Regardless of who serves as president for the next four years, or what majority holds which houses of Congress, or who sits on the Supreme Court, the United States is still…
The gargantuan wave of kneeling we are seeing today has become a bright line for the choosing of sides. Only a paltry few have refused to bend the knee. The ultimate, spiritual aim of the political/social Left—and all the enemies of God—is to identify and eliminate it’s only real, long-term threat.
I have no idea who Jon Steingard is, and I’ve never heard of the Christian rock band “Hawk Nelson,” but, once again, a Christian entertainer / celebrity / public figure has abandoned the faith, and it’s (apparently) pretty big news. Mr. Steingard was—both fortunately and sadly—very thorough in his explanation and follow-up, affording us a ...
For all we know, the worst is yet to come; yet in some ways, the worst has already arrived. This coronavirus that began overwhelming China, then exploded in Italy and Iran, took Americans by complete surprise. But even before regular life started to shut down, many of us went into meltdown, though not for the reasons ...
When I wrote about homosexuality and same-sex marriage in 2013 in my book Bearing the Standard, a mere nine U.S. states plus the District of Columbia had already legalized so-called gay marriage, with ten states having constitutional bans against it. In the two years since publishing my book, several of those bans have been overturned, and the number of ...
That's what the headline will one day read. It's inevitable. How do I know? Because it's happened before. On the One Hand... In 2005, Pastor Chuck Smith, Jr., son of the Calvary Chapel movement's founder Chuck Smith, said of "gay Christians," ... the easy answer... implies that homosexuality is morally wrong. I'm still looking at it. On the ...
