Jake McCandless

Executive Director of Stand Firm and lead pastor of Epic Church NWA in Springdale, AR and multiple award-winning author, Jake has a B.A. in Bible and Pastoral Studies from Central Baptist College, and an Advanced Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Former regular contributor to the Baptist Press and WND News with popular conservative voices such as Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Ben Carson, Chuck Norris, Greg Laurie, Ben Schapiro, Joel Richardson, and others. He now is a weekly contributor for Israel, Islam, and the End Times and Armageddon News. He has authored books such as the, award-winning Spiritual Prepper from WND Books. Award-winning devotional books, Invincibleand For Uncertain Times, he authored the ground-breaking children’s book, Jesus and His White Horse from CrossLink Publishing. He is also a regular guest on national and international radio and streaming web shows, along with hosting his weekly live streaming program Talking Stand Firm and weekly podcast Stand Firm Parents.

People will be lovers of themselves

Future Headlines, People Will Be Lovers of Themselves

Future or Current Headlines? End of the age prophecy doesn’t only foretell geopolitics. It doesn’t just tell about the future of Israel and the rise of the Antichrist. Prophecy also gives us insight into the spiritual condition of the last days. Just as we can double-down our bets on future political headlines, we can do […]

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Five Actions that Help Children Stay Faithful

Parents, Five Actions that Help Children Stay Faithful

The 25% of Kids Who Stay One of the main statistics I share through Stand Firm Parents is that over 70% of children raised in church leave church and often the faith. It’s a stat I first ran across in 2001 from Lifeway Research and one that has remained high. This week I had a

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An Israel Peace Agreement

Future Headlines, An Israel Peace Agreement

Future Headlines, An Israel Peace Agreement Again, “An Israel Peace Agreement” headline doesn’t come as a surprise. It’s a repeat in the news cycle for it seems every few years there’s talk of some type of peace treaty in Israel. There’ve been several already. Yet, a major piece of the prophetic puzzle is an agreement

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Parents, Build Your Ark

Parents, Build the Ark

Noah’s Ark God told Noah to build an ark. Even though it hadn’t rained, nor had it flooded, God instructed Noah build this ark thing. Contrary to what we assume, the Bible doesn’t tell us exactly how long before the flood Noah began the work. Genesis 6 gives a timeframe of 120 years, but it

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Sacrifices will Resume

Future Headlines, Sacrifices will Resume in Israel

Future Headlines, Sacrifices will Resume in Israel When it comes to end-times geopolitics “data” in Scripture there are two sets—prophecies about the Antichrist and prophecies about the Jewish people. In the last article, I shared one future headline would be that Jews would return to the land of Israel. Yet, on this side of 1948,

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Parents, There’s a Real Magic Kingdom

Parents, There’s a Real Magic Kingdom I’m convinced one of the leading reasons to children raised in church and Christian homes leaving the faith is that we’ve not told them the ending of this age. We’ve presented Heaven and the age to come in a way that doesn’t even appeal to them, it’s just better

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Jews Return to the Land of Israel

Future Headlines – Jews Return to the Land of Israel

This series is on prophecies that tell us future headlines. These are events that will happen, well, except for this event. This isn’t a future headline—but it was. Let me say that again. Isn’t this incredible? The headline of “Jews Return to the Land of Israel” is no longer a future headline as Lisa wrote

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There’s a Real Magic Kingdom

Parents, There’s a Real Magic Kingdom

I’m convinced one of the leading reasons for children raised in church and Christian homes leaving the faith is that we’ve not told them the ending of this age. We’ve presented Heaven and the age to come in a way that doesn’t even appeal to them, it’s just better than the alternative. That’s an absolute

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Egyptian Campaign

Future Headlines, Egyptian Campaign

Future Headlines, Egyptian Campaign Mark it. Place the bet. There will be a Turkey led southern conquest campaign into Egypt. This is going down. This will happen. This campaign is part of the rise of the Antichrist and is a future headline. This series of articles lays out future headlines gathered from Bible prophecy and

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How do you follow Jesus?

Parents, How Do You Follow Jesus?

I can’t believe I’m nearing my 20th episode of my “new” Stand Firm Parents Podcast. Like with this blog I’m trying to help families have a faith that lasts. In this first round of episodes, I focused on what I believe is the number one way to have our children have a faith that lasts—help

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