Warhorn Blog Posts

Excerpt: Ask any pastor who has loved a flock or two how many of his ewes, lambs, and rams have shocked him as the years passed, both positively and negatively, and he’ll tell you it’s one of the most sobering things about pastoral ministry. You can think one person is hopeless, and then God’s Holy Spirit acts and it is astounding! You can think one person is a spiritual giant, and then he withers...

Excerpt: My elder said to me, “Tell the congregation you found the beer cans on the stoop, and that you were the one who picked them up and put them in the trash.” He was sure this would put everyone’s mind at rest. “No,” I answered him. “I’m not going to begin my first worship service by assuring the congregation that I wasn’t drinking beer on the back stoop of the church * * * Intro and outro mu...

Excerpt: May God bless us and our children with godly women who love their life-giving nature in all its torments and blessings, who will give themselves to this femininity as their husbands give themselves to the masculinity of their leadership and authority in all its torments and blessings, also. By faith. * * * Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among...

Excerpt: We reject the gayness, the effeminacy, of Moore’s Petit and Keller’s ballet dancers, but the immodest effeminacy is not the worst of it. What we must note is the ease with which beauty insinuates itself into our religious experience, displacing the One Who made beauty and placed it on display across all His creation. * * * Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10...

Excerpt: The day for the meeting arrived and we sat down for our talk in the pastor’s office. He was an imposing figure, both in stature and self-confidence. He quickly got to the point. He told me he (but by implication, also his wife and other church members) did not approve of my preaching. If you ask why, I would say because I preached Scripture and applied it to our consciences. Having enumer...

Excerpt: Honestly, the dividing line piercing the Christian church today separates those who still have some small and slight residual fear of God and those who have none. The dividing line flows between those who feel the weight of defending their sheep from thieves and wolves, and those who laugh at such histrionics.  * * * Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My...

Excerpt: In one of our session meetings in the town church during the first year or so, someone brought up the fact that one of the elders off at college was living with her boyfriend. Thus I found out the church had followed general assembly’s constant haranguing of churches to be sure to elect “representative leadership.” In this case, that meant electing a high school girl whom they ordained an...

Excerpt: As we’ve been reading through the whole Bible as a congregation, I have fielded a few questions about Scripture’s apparent references to divine beings other than God. The answer to the following question on that topic has a lot to do with worship, so I’m sharing it with you here. QUESTION In Psalm 138, what does it mean by “I will sing praises to You before the gods” in verse 1? ANSWER Th...

Excerpt: Honestly, the dividing line piercing the Christian church today separates those who still have some small and slight residual fear of God and those who have none. The dividing line flows between those who feel the weight of defending their sheep from thieves and wolves, and those who laugh at such histrionics. And trust me: those who signed the protest against Pastor Steven Warhurst are g...

Excerpt: It had turned into the wee hours of Saturday morning when, returning to the house for the next box, I came around the back corner of the manse and found two policemen standing on the top of the stairway shining their flashlights into the house through our kitchen windows. Their squad car sat in the driveway with the engine running. * * * Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recordi...

Excerpt: Christians today need to be woke to the fact that Western consumerism is one of the reasons we're so vulnerable to false shepherds and hirelings. Conferences, authors, podcasters, Bible versions, books, and churches aren't so much the means of discipleship today as trademarks and brand names we conspicuously consume. * * * Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10...

Excerpt: Skip forward a quarter century. Now the year is 2023, and Christianity Today is doing an expose of John MacArthur's pastoral failures in cases of domestic abuse from many years ago. Look, I'm sixty-nine and grew up in Wheaton. I know many of these guys. So let me share my humble opinion that, although it's well-known I'm not a part of his fan club, Pastor John MacArthur is not Evangelical...

Excerpt: I am so honored to be here. All glory to God! I’m from a traditional Buddhist family—all my relatives are devout buddhists. We worshipped our ancestors. We worshipped at all the temples. At work, all my colleagues worshipped idols. I worked for a very advanced pharmaceutical company and as a company we worshipped idols and asked for peace. My company sent me to Yilan County to set up a ne...

Excerpt: This past Wednesday (February 22, 2023), the Indiana House voted to remove taxpayer funding from Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute. The headline was “ Indiana House Strips State Dollars from IU’s Sex-Studying Kinsey Institute. ” On social media, I linked to the article and commented: Good work. Should have been done decades ago... Twenty years ago, the movie “Kinsey” was released, and...

Excerpt: Can any of us today find the faith to admit this is not the nature of self-announced super-apostles drawing the big crowds and numbers today? We may sell our conference lineup as a “gospel coalition,” but when have these famous preachers and their famous conferences resulted in registrants being “pierced to the heart” and crying out “What shall we do?” We must guard our sheep from these m...

Excerpt: "Remember our purpose wasn’t to harass people or stick our noses into their private business. The elders were going out to ask the souls under our care if they had been hurt or offended in some way we didn’t know—was that why they never were in worship? Was there something we could do to help them return to church? The elders weren’t out to show their neighbors how much more religious the...

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

This post is part of the ministry of Pastor Alex McNeilly at Christ Church in Cincinnati, a member church of Evangel Presbytery . Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

The online version of this post can be read here . For more information on New Geneva Academy ... The intro and outro of this recording are Psalm 10, "Rise Up O Lord." This is one Psalm from My Soul Among Lions' project setting out to record all the Psalms. Here's the full recording.

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions . The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here .