DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN.”(Romans 3:16-17) RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are like a tornado. You no doubt have seen the path of a tornado in the news media or perhaps even in person. You can see where it…
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1Jn 2:4-6 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, (5) but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: (6) whoever…
Read MoreAnd let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:24-25) Virtually all of you whom I have…
Read MoreListen to this insightful quote from a pastor of days gone by (in the 1800's) regarding how the wicked divert attention from the own evils: Speculation about theological doctrine is often found in an unnatural union with habitual neglect of moral duty. And among the endless winding paths of the…
Read MoreIt is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.(1Corinthians…
Read MoreRecently I experienced a replay of something (someone) which has happened to me countless times in my 41 years as a pastor. I suspect that most of you will say, "Oh yes, I have met that guy too." The setting is in the local church. Some Sunday, let's call him…
Read MoreMat 15:12-14 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” (13) He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. (14) Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the…
Read MoreColossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. One of the chief impediments we face in exposing evil as it hides in local churches is…
Read MorePsa 36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The wicked (RASNs for our purposes here)...refuse to entertain anything that does not flatter them. As the Psalmist notes, the wicked flatter themselves so as to refuse to see any iniquity…
Read More2Sa 12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! I have seen in my 40 years as a pastor that wicked people who parade as Christians only grant "permission" for preaching in the church to go only "so far." In most cases their demands prevail, the sermon is delivered…
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