Many Will Turn Away I’ve mentioned Matthew 24:10 a few times—it’s the heartbeat of Stand Firm for it holds a prophecy that many will turn away from the faith. This haunts me. Professed Christians. Church members. Friends. Family. People dear to us, who once proclaimed to be believers, will turn away. Unfortunately, this future reality […]
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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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One of the things I’ve mentioned a lot through Stand Firm Parents is that we need to consider our parenting goals and those goals should go beyond this world and age. Often, we’ve not articulated our goals for our kids. We can’t be intentional in our parenting if we don’t. Thinking through these goals is
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Six End Times Instructions for Today You’re probably familiar with the Olivet Discourse. Peter, James, John and Andrew, privately asked Jesus about the signs of His return. Jesus replied with six very significant end of the world instructions that we need to heed today. But before I get into the instructions, note that the disciples
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Prophetic Thin Ice If we’re on prophetic thin ice, we shouldn’t be surprised if it breaks at any moment. Where is the weakest part of this ice? Where is the ice the thinnest? I believe we can know and that we’re possibly standing on it. You’re likely lost if you missed the previous three posts,
You Are Here: Identifying our Nearness to the End – Part 3 In the past two articles we’ve looked at end time signs in Scripture and how that most of them are immeasurable unto themselves, but two particular signs stick out as being more measurable. These two signs can be like the old mall
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Almost all the signs in Scripture of the end times are immeasurable unto themselves. This doesn’t mean they’re irrelevant it just means it’s hard to go by them solely to know our proximity to the end of the age. All though nearly all the signs are to a degree immeasurable there are two signs in
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Saying we’re living in the last days or near the last days seems to roll off the tongue easy these days, especially when we’re watching the news. But are we really living near the end of the age? Can we even know the nearness to the end of the age? As written in a previous
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Purim is a fantabulous celebration for several reasons. Like Christmas and Easter, it is not one of the moedim, or Feasts of the Lord, which God Himself created and ordained as eternally holy. It is a time that humans dedicated to “give some love back” and to commemorate God’s mighty work to save His people.
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I’ve been writing and speaking on the topic of standing firm for several years, many have been supportive, but as you can imagine I’ve faced pushback. You may have some pushback for me, but before you send that email, please hear me out. First, I completely agree with the criticism towards Stand Firm for the
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