End Time Pizza, Apple, and Oranges My first taste of the studying end times prophecy was watching the move A Thief in the Night, at that time I didn’t realize there were different end time views, but I was exposed to them when I began Bible College. One of my first research projects was on […]
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“Pastor, I used to go to your church but after my grandfather died, I quit.” “Pastor, I was really involved in church—I worked with the children. I always helped with Bible School, but after my divorce, I stopped. I still can’t understand why God allowed that to happen.” “Pastor, I attended church every week, but
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I believe we’re just happy to get to Heaven by the skin of our teeth (which we get there by far, far less than that on our part—it’s only through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross). Now we’re thankful we’ve been saved. We’re thankful we have eternal life. We’re happy to just get to go
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There’s an end times’ one-two punch—Mystery Babylon and the Beast Empire—and I can’t ignore this significant end of the age phenomenon any longer. For those who follow me and my work with Stand Firm, you know I’m all about simplifying the end times events to exactly what we must know to get the gist, as
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At Stand Firm, we recently changed our tagline. We’d been simply saying we encouraged believers to hold on, but we’ve shifted to now saying, we help believers navigate such a time as this. Implied in the navigating is that encouragement to hold on. When talking about navigating—different things may come to mind for each of
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Ok, ok, I admit I’m about to contradict myself and I say that to head off the negative comments, the subject elicits enough of its own. In my last post, I argued that the reason end-time prophecy has been made complicated is that almost everyone comes to the biblical text with an end-time view before
Be Careful Reading the Bible, You Could Be Deceived Read More »
So, I have this tagline for my Bible prophecy teaching ministry and it’s not very helpful. I advertise I want to be the boring prophecy guy. I know I need some marketing tips—you know anyone? And I learned really quick, prophecy-intrigued audiences don’t want the boring prophecy guy, they want the great-code-breaker or the wild
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If I’m crazy or irrelevant for preaching about future challenges to the faith, then so is Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Ezra, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, John Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Jude, and even Jesus. They all warned of future challenges and
It’s Not Wrong to Warn About the Future, the Bible Does Read More »
I know it’s a strong picture and title for a pastor to use. Especially, when he’s not talking about physically picking up arms, but rather fighting a war of ideas. I believe the strong language of this blog series and the force of the war imagery is necessary because this battle carries weighty resonating consequences.
Declaration of War II: Churches Are Not Prepared, I Want to Help Read More »
I’m declaring war against an epidemic in America. No more timidity. No more holding back. There is too much on the line. What is at stake is too important. If you follow Stand Firm Ministries or anything I’ve been up to the past couple of years, then you have heard my story. And I know, it’s yada,
Declaration of War: People Are Leaving the Faith, I Want to Help Read More »