Controversy about LGBTQ issues has been plaguing the United Methodist Church (UMC) for a while, but recently, the denomination has been hemorrhaging congregations as hundreds of them are leaving due to the UMC becoming ever more accepting of all things queer. Seemingly unconcerned about the split, the UMC is celebrating Isaac Simmons, an openly gay pastor, as a candidate for ordination. Simmons, also known as Ms. Penny Cost when in his drag queen persona, calls God “nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical proportions.” But the United Methodists are far from being the only ones a ..read more

“There comes a point when people become weary of abuse and join themselves to uprisings against injustice and oppression. The system, however, has a built-in ability to stealthily join these causes using money, or plainly speaking, the system buys the protest. The protest can then be controlled in a large measure through manipulation. It can be presented to the public in a slight-of-hand way that robs it of any power it may have had to overturn the structure which created the problem in the first place.” Hustlin’ Backward, Stephen Hargrave “Weary of abuse” is a good description of many women ..read more

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26 Consecration. This word conjures up thoughts of dedication, sacrifice, and resolve. But as with many spiritual principles, the true, deep meaning has been lost in the business and confusion of this increasingly wicked world. What does it mean to be “sold out” for the gospel? Is this merely an intellectual exercise in which we attempt to hypothesize what the Lord may require of us? Or are there practical, physical appl ..read more

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She fell for it. It was not true. It was not possible, but she was beguiled and believed the lie. Every generation has been suffering for her crime ever since. O Eve! She spread the lie, the deception–Adam joined her in the transgression. What woeful regret befell our primitive parents! O the deceitfulness of sin! Satan’s mission was accomplished that fateful day by first alienating the hearts of Adam and Eve from God. A seed of unbelief was planted. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” “After all ..read more

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” Ezekiel 22:30 A greater catastrophe than a global viral pandemic is the destruction of true manhood and fathers. The world stage presents to us a very volatile and uncertain scene–economic, political, and social upheaval globally on an unprecedented scale. We are living in a world in crisis, a world with scarcely any real men left, a fatherless, hopeless world. Society is paying the ugly toll of being unmanned and without true fathers ..read more

Within the millennial teaching is the belief that someone will arise and become “The Antichrist” who will demand to be worshiped. Some in the past have imagined this to be Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini–all now dead and gone. Each passing generation continues in the same search for this phantom character. So who is the antichrist? Adam Clarke stated it well: “Any person, thing, doctrine, system of religion, polity, etc., which is opposed to Christ, and to the spirit and spread of His gospel, is antichrist. We need not look for this imaginary being in any of the above exclusively. Even Protestantism ..read more

The heretical doctrine of millennialism was greatly popularised by the “Left Behind” series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. By the time Mr. LaHaye died in 2016, they had sold over 80 million copies. In 2001, LaHaye was named the most influential American evangelical leader of the past 25 years by the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. And he was a man who would have ties with the White House. This “messianic drama’s” premise “has led to a remarkable alliance between Christian Evangelicals and the Israeli right. As a result, political views drawn from an apocalyptic vi ..read more

A SHOUT, a VOICE, a TRUMP — a SECRET? John Nelson Darby said that his belief in the rapture virtually jumped out of the pages of scripture once he accepted the distinction between Israel and the church. He deemed it necessary for the church to be removed in order for God to proceed with plans for the earthly Jews and fancied that he found his desired answer in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18; 5:1-2: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven wit ..read more

The doctrine of a thousand years’ reign with Christ on earth creates anew the problem of ethnic superiority. Jesus came to tear down the middle wall of partition which kept mankind divided into hostile camps–the wall between Jews and Gentiles. It is God’s eternal purpose “that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him” (Ephesians 1:10). The fulness of times is located for us by Paul in Galatians 4:4: “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a ..read more