The Great Deception of American Christianity

It is a slow fade when we let the world influence our mind and heart. All that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life. Never before has the danger been so great with the invention of technology. The internet, televesion, computers, smart phones, social media, movies, music, sports, video games and man-made religion all are being used by the go...

Do Christians have to tithe? This podcast will examine what the tithe is and what its purpose was. This question will be answered concerning the church and tithing. After examining the scriptures, it is obvious that the modern teachings on tithing are nothing more than falsehood . They are teachings of men that have been handed down to us for the purposes of men . This tradition has robbed many wi...

Many Christians are deceived into thinking that evidence of the Holy Spirit is connected to supernatural spiritual gifts like prophesy or tongues. The Biblical evidence teaches otherwise. No one can bear fruit without power. The evidence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is shown by the power of the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the person's life, not in signs and wonders. The evidence of the Hol...

The clergy of today are like the Nicolaitans. The Nicolaitans were those who taught and practiced that the ministers of God were superior and were to be elevated about the flock. The doctrine of the Nicolaitans was created by those who claimed to have a superior status over the laity of the Church; the laity was the rest of the household of God. This doctrine created a division between the people...

Not all signs come from the Holy Spirit. We live in dangerous times with many false signs and wonders resulting in many manifestations of spiritual gifts also being false. The word of knowledge is simply speaking what you know about something. In the context of edification, it is speaking what you know about the Lord, His Word and His will. When you see a “prophet” on TV or in a meetin...

Signs and wonders don't lead to salvation. The true gospel is the POWER that leads to a transformed life. Signs, healings, wonders and prophesies are not the power that saves. Jonah preached repentance at Nineveh and about 120,000 people, the entire population repented and were saved without any signs and wonders being performed, just from the power of the gospel, the Word of God spoken. More than...

Most Christians have become lukewarm. America has transitioned from being a Christian nation to a secular and godless country and the church paved the way for this to happen. As a country, America has certainly left her first love. Originally, America was a place for religious freedom and independence from oppression and a place of freedom to worship and serve God. Men came here from across the oc...

There is a false concept today today that teaches that in order to get over your past you have to keep revisiting it, dealing with it, talking about it and working through it in order to be healed of the abuses, pains, wrongs, sins, and dissappointments caused by others or done by you in the past. But according to the Word of God our past is hidden in Christ and our sins are removed as far as the...

Three of the most-deadly sins abound today. All sin is deadly, but three particular sins stand out as possibly more dangerous because of the type of strongholds they produce. Often when we think of the most terrible sins, the most disgusting sins, the most-deadly sins that someone can have, we usually think of somebody else's sins, other than our own sins. The Pharisees in their self-righteousness...

The wrong kind of connections are dangerous. Today's social media platforms offer a false sense of reality but mostly leave the participant with an empty and meaningless experience. Social media “ seems” to fill the need to be connected, the need to be accepted and the need of belonging to something greater than ourselves. But at the end of the day it is mostly meaningless because it o...

What if you are not ready? Most American Christians are no where near ready to meet the Lord. The practice of sin, love of idols and false teachings have left them unprepared. Not only are we commanded to be ready, but we are told by Jesus and the apostles what it takes to be ready. But for the most part their warnings are ignored today and have been replaced with an easy and false way to heaven....

Be ready when the Lord Returns! Most Christians today think that they are ready to meet the Lord when He returns, but according to the condition of the church, they are not ready. The foolish virgins in Matthew chapter seven belonged to the Lord. They were his own virgins but when He came called for them enter the wedding chambers, they were not ready because they were out of oil for their lamps....

The clergy of today are the Nicolaitans. The Nicolaitans were those who taught and practiced that the ministers of God were superior and were to be elevated about the flock. The doctrine of the Nicolaitans was created by those who claimed to have a superior status over the laity of the Church; the laity was the rest of the household of God. This doctrine created a division between the people of Go...

Today's American Christians are typically barren of fruit. There is a great misunderstanding concerning the difference in bearing the fruit of God vs church activities. If we are to be the good tree firmly planted by streams of water (living water) and a tree that bears fruit in its season and whose leaf does not wither, then we must avoid the counsel of the world and not stand in the same path th...

False prophets entice by fleshly desires. They promise freedom, salvation, and prosperity while they themselves are slaves of corruption with greed for money and power. False prophets arose among the people before and they are among you and me today. They introduce destructive heresies. A destructive heresy is any teaching that causes you to feel safe and heaven bound, while you are either lukewar...

Jesus said only a few would enter life. The impression left by today's pastors, prophets, evangelists and teachers is that most people in church are on the way to heaven. It seems that here in the “Bible belt” of the south, that most every­one claims to be a “ Christian .” There are approximately 43 million Baptists worldwide as well as 1.2 billion Catholics, 66 million...

Many Fathers have failed their children. We have a whole generation of men who have not been the spiritual leader in their home and have forsaken their duty as fathers. Today the children of so-called Christian men are falling away from what is called the faith, at an alarming rate. Most of these kids go to college and then buy into the world's philosophy of humanism. Even when these kids were sti...

Satan has confused reality with false doctrines. Most people in American Christianity today have no idea how to tell the difference between the doctrines of God vs the devil. Let us consider the nature of false doctrine and true doctrine. Satan is behind all false doctrine and God is behind all true doctrine. God has called us all to repentance, righteousness, holiness, forsaking this world, obedi...

What does the coming of Jesus mean to you? For the masses, even most who think they are going to go to heaven, it will be a terrible day of judgment for them. My question for you is this, are you ready? Are you ready to face the Almighty God, the God who knows and sees everything you have every said or done and knows your heart from the inside in spite of how you present yourself on the outside. S...

Many Christians are deceived into thinking that evidence of the Holy Spirit is connected to supernatural gifts. The Biblical evidence says otherwise. No one can bear fruit without power. The evidence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is shown by the power of the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the person's life, not in signs and wonders. The evidence of the Holy Spirit is not speaking in tongues as...

The Lord appointed men to lead, teach, protect and to provide for their families. We now have a generation of men who are lazy and passive. When I say lazy and passive, I mean in the responsibility of engaging with their wives and children in meaningful conversations and teaching them the ways of God. Most men do go to work at a job and bring home a paycheck but their contribution to the family us...

Jesus warned us of false signs and wonders. Jesus told us that in the last days that Satan would come with all power producing false signs and wonders. Let us be honest with ourselves. If God has granted Satan power to perform false signs and wonders to deceive, then could Satan heal someone through a false prophet or work some other kind of miracle? Doesn't Satan come as an angel of light? How do...

There are many religious Images to be had. No image we take on will allow us to enter heaven except for the Image of Jesus Christ. Since American Christianity is divided up into more than a thousand denominations there are as many images that one could be conformed into. The only image we should be conformed into is the image of Jesus Christ. Today we have many, many denominations all claiming to...

So, where did the rapture doctrine come from? It all started with a woman named Margaret MacDonald in 1830 . She gave a “prophesy” concerning end times . Her “prophesy” was written down and later published in 1840 and again in 1861. From this “prophesy” a man named John Nelson Darby began to promote the concept of the rapture “ theory ” and it began...

False conversions come from using the Sinner's Prayers. The sinner's prayer was invented just a little over a hundred years ago and was never used by anyone in the Bible. Why didn't Jesus just lead the rich young ruler in a simple “sinner's prayer” and then tell him he had eternal life? Why didn't Jesus just tell the man to ask Jesus into his heart? Why did Jesus say that it was so har...