Category: General

How involved is your spiritual father? I have heard the rather silly assumption normalized: “If you do not have your spiritual father’s smartphone number, he isn’t your father.” Think about it. I know we have repeated it without analysis because it sounds right, but the statement’s Biblicity and the presuppositions underneath it are suspect. Paul. […]

“We rebuilt the wall in troublesome times,” Nehemiah says. As we step into 2021, awful days will give way to days of awe. How will this occur? Let’s rehearse Gideon’s storyline, the judge in Israel who confronted and defeated the harvest stealing lawlessness with a radical, representative Remnant. Much of what we have given ourselves […]

Ignore the Dead End Detours Prophetic websites, leading church-growthism syncretism with apostolic restorationists, and general neo-evangelical urban legends combine with early church myths that ignore Scripture and common sense to produce terrible misconceptions and misrepresentations of the kingdom of God and its Ekklesia. Now, responding to the pandemic instead of the Bible, we have this […]

Elder “In churches today, elders are spiritual leaders or shepherds of the church. The term can mean different things depending on the denomination and even the congregation.” Run as fast as you can headfirst into a brick wall. Get up and hope you read that stupid statement and weep, laugh, and vomit for several hours. […]

Acts 20 records the last words of Paul to the Elders at Ephesus. Acts 20:16-31: Paul, compelled by an urgency to get to Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, avoided the delay of stopping by Asia. From Miletus, Paul having sent [some person or communication] to Ephesus to call to himself the Ekklesia elders. When […]

The term armorbearer is a Bible word, of course, but some leaders have grossly exaggerated the metaphoric meaning. Most of the problem lies in the fundamental comic book commitment of contemporary churchism to spiritual warfare. A mighty warrior of the caliber needed to walk with a kingdom champion might be asked to care for the […]

An authentic ekklesia called into assembly by apostolic order to hear and agree with the announced intentions of the King has come into apostolic order. Our confession, or mutual agreement is the Apostle and High Priest. We mutually agree that He is both Apostle and High priest. We do not come now to debate among […]

God knows what He wants. God tells us what He wants. God gets what He wants. Paul describes how God gets what He wants in Romans 8. The apostle explains we cannot compare today’s pathos with future glory revealed in the ultimates. The pathos of today produces what God wants in history until the ultimates […]

God is not destroying America. America shall be saved. God did not destroy Job. Job was saved. Like Job, in the best of times, fully vested with riches, children, and influence, satan was given permission to sift him like wheat attack him with spiritual terror, and authenticate Job in the heavenlies as God’s representative on […]