Brooklyn's Dad Talks About the Bible

We jump off from charlatan and Charismania teacher, John Avanzini's torturing of God's promises to Israel. This grave error in interpretation isn't limited to false prophets. Unfortunately the false teaching that every verse in the Bible is to all us is prevalent in many ministries today. And even those who recognize the misuse of the verses often fail themselves to understand the uniqueness of th...

We clarify the concepts of descriptive passages and prescriptive passages as we continue to seek to be consistent in our interpretation of scripture. I recommend a few video channels and a few ministry sites while reminding is us that we are all responsible for our won theology. We summarize our approach to scripture by asking three questions when we find a change in practice or command. What chan...

We continue reading verses in context such as Jeremiah 29:11 ("For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope") as well a few passages in the red letters that get ignored by supposed Red Letter Christians. We see the Lord telling his disciples to not go to Gentiles, to raise the dead, and to sell everything they ha...

We discuss the value of a seminary education (or the lack of value). We look at a couple of the most oft quoted verses in modern American Evangelicalism in their respective contexts (2 Chronicles 7:14 and Ezekiel 36:26). We carefully note how these passages can't possibly be referring to believers of the current age or the current gospel. Then we note that believers still have an old nature and we...

More on saving ourselves from Charismania and other errors. Whatever theology you claim (hopefully it's yours and you didn't just adopt some system), make sure it remains consistent in your interpretations. It was a desire for a consistent theology that brought me to where I am (and still drives me as I seek more light). If you think the "red letters" are for you, do you really keep the red letter...

Christendom has suffered, from its inception, the curse of religion and superstition. It seems as though so many professed Christians are dissatisfied with blessings in the far above the heavens that they fall for earthly promises and superstition. No matter the theological school one adopts, compromises and contradictions will rule the day if we fail to cut straight lines in scripture. There is a...

The second and final part of a very short series I recorded in 2007 about the basics of self Bible Study. We turn to the parables and look at what the Lord had to say about them. They're not nice little stories which make an obvious point. Quite the opposite, The Lord said they are meant to be deep and meant to lead the truth seeker to study. Lastly, we look at a "disharmony" of the gospels. That...

The first part of a very short series I recorded in 2007 about the basics of self Bible Study. We emphasize the individual responsibility and nature or Bible study and encourage every believer to start to read, study, and compare scripture for himself or herself. Not every command in scripture is for every person. That might sound good and religious, but it's palpable and demonstrable nonsense.  "...

As believers who see the rise of the globalists as at least a possible sign that the biblical end times are near, we cannot go on ignoring the biggest globalist on the block. The richest, most powerful, outwardly spiritual globalist player on the world scene, the Roman Catholic Church. As I engage Catholics disgruntled by the current Pope, I challenge them to read what their own church teaches the...

After I pay a short tribute to an old high school classmate who recently passed, we move on to several statements I heard in a recent message from the pulpit. Why don't we see a lot of miracles today? Why is Abraham so prominent in most of the Bible (while being conspicuously absent from Paul's last seven epistles)? Are all believers the children of Abraham?

We pithily, with a dash of sarcasm, comment on Stephen Strang's strange defense of Mike Bickle. Apart from covering up Mike's alleged pedophilia, Strang has called the "advocates" (read: victims of Bickle's grooming and sexual abuse of multiple girls - allegedly) the "tools of Satan." From the theological side, we apply the practice of "right division" (2 Tim 2:15) to the mania and suggest that a...

After I mockingly used the idea of a $50/hour minimum wage to make a greater point in a recent podcast, some politician running for the US Senate seat from California proposes a $50/hour minimum wage. And not just for CA. She wants the whole nation to adopt the policy! Guarantee some of the same people who would tell me my example is ridiculous, would turn around and try and defend the economic su...

We stop off in Kansas City to speak broadly about the scandals (plural) at The International House of Prayer (IHOP). Mike Bickel, Bob Harley, and others caught up in extramarital affairs and the sexual abuse of minors. We pull back the lens a bit and look at how these sorts of wicked acts can arise from pastor/prophet/charismatic systems. We are all capable of falling into sin, but for sin on this...

We have discussed previously the idea that most people are deceived in to thinkin that they actually think, but they are really just acquiescing to some system or group. In many areas, there are laws that guide outcomes and reactions and ramifications no matter what we feel about the topic or what we want to be true. We have to guard against these biases. In Theology, we see the most dangerous res...

Men love religion. Men crave ritual. Over the course of Bible history, God has revealed the inability of man to keep laws and the inability of man to pay for his own sins. An eternal debt required an eternal payment. Very few in Christendom fully embrace the revelation of the full grace of God found in the heavenly hope and heavenly blessings given to our Apostle, Paul. Men insist upon doing thing...

Ephesians 5 starts off with more warnings for the believer. We focus in on the warning against "coarse jesting." In every language there are words deemed "off-color" or "dirty" or "swear words." The words themselves make the list through some societal agreement, often not through any clear standard. There are two slang words, for example, for human excrement. One is acceptable and the other ist ve...

Too many Christians are caught up in Group-Think. There are so many assumptions made about the faith and about the Christian Life based on the modern structures in Christendom. That is, so many look to a pastor or to a denomination when it comes to how to interpret the Bible or how to live the Chrostian Life. There is also a surrendering of discipleship when it comes to hope before us. We must bre...

To get a better glimpse of tremendous depth of God's grace (for all we ever get in this life is but a glimpse), we must see ourselves as creatures desperately in need of that grace. While the world (and Christendom) preach a message of self-love, the great saints of the faith in scripture teach us that the way to experience God is through lowliness of heart. It is in taking our place as beggars an...

We take a quick look at the verse in Daniel wherein the Angel describes the Antichrist as one who will not regard the desire of women (Dan 11:37). We look at this description in its context and compare it with 2 Thessalonians. We take a look at the "queen of heaven" spoken of in scripture and offer a possibility in light of the description given us by the Angel in Daniel. Does this verse teach tha...

When the Bible speaks of doing things "forever," does God mean what we mean when we say "forever?" Well, no. What God means is that the person or group to whom He is speaking is bound to something as long as God sees fit. Those today who claim that they embrace ALL of scripture fr themselves fail to do many things God said were statutes FOREVER. There is a theological word for making distinctions...

Thinking about a few theories I've heard from believers in light of the government teasing people with talk of aliens. Will a rapture-type event be explained away as an alien abduction? Will they use the alien fear angle for some other reason? Are other religions waiting for Christians to be taken out of the way before they make a move? Will there even be a rapture? In addition to rapture and alte...

We take a moment to consider the complexity of a life. When we have our Celebration of Life for a loved one, we often (because of time constraints) melt the individual down to a few outward factors. He loved to go fishing. He was a big Mel Tormé fan. You know, the stuff everybody could see. But we all live day by day, minute by minute and our lives covers decades of experiences. Loves won and love...

Western societies today are being suffocated and rotted by millions who believe they are virtuous. They hold, what they believe, are foundational truths and virtues, yet far too often when those truths or virtues do not fit their unspoken motives, they abandon them without hesitation (but often with excuse). Recently, former Press Secretary (now TV news host) scoffed at the idea that any Democrat...

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Too often when the accounts of the Lord's birth are read from Matthew and Luke the centrality of Israel and God's prophetic promises to that people are overlooked. It's even worse than that, Not only are the promises to Israel overlooked, the tremendous truths connected to God's plan for the Earth and the Land and the Nation are explained away, spiritualized, or usurped. Christmas is wholly Jewish...