God Talk

Are you fair and balanced?

Jesus tells us the same way we judge we will be judged. When we show favoritism and judge situations inconsistently we are inviting God to do the same against us.

When a pastor goes to church

It is not often a pastor gets to go to church. I did today and I was shocked and disappointed by the experience.

Sodom and Gomorrah (“Hey Jude” Week 3)

Today we shift gears and aren’t talking as much about false teaching as we are about false living. Ironically, false living comes about through false teaching!  Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities of old, famous for their degree of, among other things, sexual immorality, and God utterly destroyed them using fire from heaven. Jude is using them to warn the people of his day, but that warning is just as relevant to us today. The church has historically been the rudder that steers society, but in today’s world is tossed around by the wind and waves of popular opinion, ignoring God’s call to live holy lives. Jude reminds us there is judgment for doing so, and we would do well to heed the call!
Scriptures Today: Genesis 1:19-29 // Romans 1:25-27 // Ezekiel 16:49-50 // Matthew 10:14-15, 11:23 // Luke 17:28-30 
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Is Salvation Secure? (“Hey Jude” Week 2)

Today’s topic has caused considerable disagreement in conservative Bible-believing churches, and essentially the church remains divided on the issue. The debate is whether or not your salvation can be lost. Are you “once saved, always saved?” Or are you able to become saved, yet later in life denounce your salvation and lose it? It would seem that by turning to scripture we could determine what God really says and end the debate.  The irony, in this case, is that diligent study by prominent theologians throughout the ages has found enough verses in scripture to support EITHER view! Today we will look at what the bible says and what we have come to believe on the issue, and why.
 
Scriptures Today: Jude 1:5-6 // Romans 11:17-21 // Hebrews 6:4-6, 10:26 // Revelation 2:10 // James 5:19-20, 2:14-26 // Colosians 1:21-23 // Matthew 10:22, 6:14-15, 21:18-19 // 
1 Timothy 4:1-4 // John 10:26-29 // Psalm 103:8 // Luke 15:3-7 //
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Grooming

Grooming is real and we are starting to see how it is transforming the younger generations of Americans.

Heresies (“Hey Jude” Week 1)

The book of Jude, though only one chapter in length, is a powerful indictment of false teachers that had begun plaguing the church 2,000 years ago and have become even more prevalent in modern times. Jude hits the issue head-on beginning in verses 3-4 and immediately encourages believers to contend for the faith because ungodly teachers have slipped in, denying Christ and perverting the gospel into a license for immorality. Jude has a message for those who teach you can be a Christian and live any way you want. He puts the freedom we have in Christ into a God-honoring perspective and blueprint for life that creates the balance needed for those in his day and ours! 
 
Scriptures Today: Jude 1:3-4 // Romans 8:1 // 1 Corinthians 10:23 // Matthew 5:17-19 // John 15:21 // 2 Timothy 4:3 // John 4:14
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The fields are ripe and ready to be harvested.

Rather than being frustrated by where society is headed, it is important that the church sees an opportunity to harvest unbelievers for Christ.

Viper Bite (“Stranger Things” Week 14)

This is the last installment of the Stranger Things message series and is far more about God’s faithfulness when we trust His guidance than it is about being bitten by a viper. Paul is a prisoner traveling by ship to Rome to stand trial before Caesar. A storm arises, and the ship is destroyed as it runs aground on an island. The islanders were kind and built a fire that drove the viper out, and to the amazement of everyone, it bit Paul’s hand, and he shook it off but suffered no ill effects. Paul wasn’t the least bit distracted by an incident that would have normally been his demise. And that is really the point in this episode: when we trust God to do what He promises, we can be at peace no matter what the circumstances of life!
 
Scriptures Today: Acts 27:21-26 | 28:1-6 // 1 Corinthians 13:16 // Joshua 1:9 // 2 Timothy 1:7 // Mathew 24:37 // Romans 14:8 / 12:2
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God

Churches have gone off the rails. They are making God in their own image. Listen to this church as they recite the SPARKLE CREED to their nonbinary god

Paul Raises the Dead (“Stranger Things” Week 13)

This episode of the Stranger Things message series is probably one of the strangest, and arguably the most remarkable. Paul’s zeal to teach God’s word a final time before leaving town the following day causes him to preach until well after midnight. A young boy, asleep in a third-floor window, falls to his death. But Paul certainly felt a sense of responsibility for it and throws himself on top of the young man, and the young man’s life was restored. This story is for anyone who might have come to church more than a little sleepy!
Scriptures Today: Acts 20:7-12
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