God Talk

Have you ever LARPED? The modern church has been overrun with the new age movement and a lot of the leaders are confusing themselves with biblical characters of long ago. Many people are being sucked into cult like theology and don’t even realize it.

“Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold…” If you knew someone who *grew up* with Jesus, wouldn’t you want to hear what he has to say about… everything? After all, some things never change; people having nasty attitudes was just as common then as it is now, and it’s just as poisonous for us to ingest as it was then. Let’s explore how Jude intends for us to handle...

“…grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.” Do you know anyone like that? We should not rejoice that their judgment is coming, but seek to connect them with the Judge to repent in advance! And in the process, maybe we’ll find a few specks (or planks) of grumbling, fault-finding, and flattering natures in...

Jesus tells us the same way we judge we will be judged. When we show favoritism and judge situations inconsistently we are inviting God to do the same against us.

It is not often a pastor gets to go to church. I did today and I was shocked and disappointed by the experience.

Today we shift gears and aren’t talking as much about false teaching as we are about false living. Ironically, false living comes about through false teaching!  Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities of old, famous for their degree of, among other things, sexual immorality, and God utterly destroyed them using fire from heaven. Jude is using them to warn the people of his day, but that warning is just...

Today’s topic has caused considerable disagreement in conservative Bible-believing churches, and essentially the church remains divided on the issue. The debate is whether or not your salvation can be lost. Are you “once saved, always saved?” Or are you able to become saved, yet later in life denounce your salvation and lose it? It would seem that by turning to scripture we could determine what Go...

Grooming is real and we are starting to see how it is transforming the younger generations of Americans.

The book of Jude, though only one chapter in length, is a powerful indictment of false teachers that had begun plaguing the church 2,000 years ago and have become even more prevalent in modern times. Jude hits the issue head-on beginning in verses 3-4 and immediately encourages believers to contend for the faith because ungodly teachers have slipped in, denying Christ and perverting the gospel int...

Rather than being frustrated by where society is headed, it is important that the church sees an opportunity to harvest unbelievers for Christ.

This is the last installment of the Stranger Things message series and is far more about God’s faithfulness when we trust His guidance than it is about being bitten by a viper. Paul is a prisoner traveling by ship to Rome to stand trial before Caesar. A storm arises, and the ship is destroyed as it runs aground on an island. The islanders were kind and built a fire that drove the viper out, and to...

Churches have gone off the rails. They are making God in their own image. Listen to this church as they recite the SPARKLE CREED to their nonbinary god

This episode of the Stranger Things message series is probably one of the strangest, and arguably the most remarkable. Paul’s zeal to teach God’s word a final time before leaving town the following day causes him to preach until well after midnight. A young boy, asleep in a third-floor window, falls to his death. But Paul certainly felt a sense of responsibility for it and throws himself on top of...

There is always great pressure to say nothing. But we must be willing to speak especially when no one else is.

Paul and Silas were working as missionaries in Macedonia when they encountered a fortune-telling slave girl. Paul cast out the spirit within her causing her master to bring Paul and Silas to the authorities for loss of income from her services. They were thrown in prison, and through uncanny events, the jailer and all those around him come to faith in Christ. It is an amazing story of how God work...

Working through the Book of Acts, we’re finally making the major shift from Peter to Paul, with a phenomenal story: the Holy Spirit stops Paul from going elsewhere to share the Gospel, TWICE. This has implications then and now, so let’s dive in and see how this applies to our lives! Scriptures Today: Acts 16:6-10 // Proverbs 3:5-6 // James 1:5 // Psalm 119:105 // John 16:13 // 1 John 2:15 // Roman...

The world has become very complicated and dangerous. Where will it all lead?

Here’s the story: Peter has been put in a high-security prison by Herod the King and is inevitably going to be tried and put to death the next day. He is also chained to two cell guards to make escape impossible. But God has other plans for Peter and sends an angel who miraculously appears, touches Peter’s chains and they fall off, and leads him out of the heavily guarded prison without anyone not...