God’s Wrath Vs. The Modern Preacher

“The modern church cannot preach this because the modern church desperately wants to be liked by the very world system God says stands under judgment. So pastors become public relations agents for divine sentimentality. They speak of love detached from holiness. Mercy detached from justice. Grace detached from repentance.”

(The Dissenter) There is something deeply unsettling about watching a man stand on a stage with a Bible in his hand, speaking with the cadence of a preacher while slowly dissolving the very attributes of God that make the gospel necessary in the first place. Not in one violent motion or overt act of apostasy where he rips pages from the Scriptures and throws them into the crowd like confetti. But far more subtle, polished, and marketable. Continue reading

After Trump: The Future of the American Right

“Either we continue to get chased out of our own neighborhoods by gangs, fentanyl zombies, and robbed by the city’s corrupt homeless-NGO elite, or we put a stop to it. We either get the tents off our streets, or we never will. We either keep on dying, or we start living.”

(Mike Sabo – American Reformer) From JD Vance’s Heir Apparent Status to Spencer Pratt’s L.A. Insurgency

After the 2028 presidential election draws closer, the question of who will be Donald Trump’s heir looms. When Trump exits the national political stage on January 20, 2029, at the age of 82, his successor may already have been sworn in that day as the 48th President of the United States. Despite possible fallout from the war in Iran and what looks to be a difficult midterm, all signs point to Vice President JD Vance. Continue reading

The Believer’s Supreme Act of Spiritual Worship

1 Therefore, I urge you brothers through the compassions of God to present your bodies as living, holy sacrifices, well pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may discern the will of God, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.Romans 12:1-2 (translated from the NA28 Greek text)

The vast majority of people in this age of Evangelical churches are by-and-large spiritually immature, Biblically ignorant, and self-centered, therefore, these people are also no threat to our enemy and his kingdom because they fall for every wind of doctrine, are prey to the wolves who have invaded the church at every level and they believe the lies such as, “God wants all of you to be rich and healthy and to have your best life now.”… Continue reading

John Fetterman Is Nuking His Party, and It’s Brutal!

“Fetterman wasn’t done. He went a step further and named an actual, self-described communist seeking a Senate seat in Maine. Graham Platner, the presumptive nominee who had an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest until he covered it up for his campaign…”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is clearly done playing nice. He may not be leaving his party, but in a recent interview with Reason, he called out what the dangerous lurch toward socialist — and even communist — extremism inside the Democratic Party. Continue reading

‘Pastor’ Mark Driscoll Under Fire For Implying Mary Would Consider Aborting Jesus

“We last covered Mark Driscoll in our article Fox News Driscoll, which we catalogued him openly lying to his congregants, and also after we commented on his bizarre porno-visions…”

(Protestia) Trinity Bible Church “pastor” Mark Driscoll is under fire for implying on X that Jesus’ mother may have considered aborting him if a Planned Parenthood had been nearby.

“May was a teen mom and Jesus had no earthly father. It’s a good thing there was no Planned Parenthood in Nazareth.” Continue reading

The Obedience of Faith

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called Apostle having been set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 concerning his Son – having come from the seed of David according the flesh, 4 – having been designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of Holiness by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we received grace and Apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, 6 among whom you are also the called ones of Jesus Christ, 7 to all the ones in Rome, loved ones of God, called ones, saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 1:1-7 translated from the NA28 Greek text to English)

In the passage above the word “faith” in v5 translates the noun πίστεως (pisteōs), which is the Genitive, Singular of πίστις (pistis), “faith, faithfulness.” The verb form of πίστις, πιστεύω (pisteuō) means, “to have faith in, trust; particularly, to be firmly persuaded to something.”…. Continue reading

JD Hall Calls Out Mike Winger

“What looks from the outside like the charismatic movement holding itself accountable is, on examination, the movement identifying figures who have become liabilities and executing them publicly before their scandals contaminate the broader institution. The theology survives every time.” 

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) JD Hall, of Insight To Incite, one of the largest Christian substacks, recently called out Mike Winger, one of the largest Christian YouTubers. In a recent article titled, “Mike Winger, Controlled Polemics, and PR in a Discernment Mask,” Hall characterizes some of Winger’s seminal work as “an entertaining post-mortem on an already-cooked career[s]. Continue reading

The Moral Collapse of America and God’s Looming Judgment

“And once that happens, the moral descent is not dramatic at first. It’s weirdly normal. And that’s the creepy part. Everybody keeps mowing their lawns and posting vacation photos while the foundations liquefy beneath their feet.”

(The Dissenter) Rome had a strange smell near the end of its empire. Historians don’t really talk about that part. They write about military campaigns and collapsing currencies and corrupt emperors with grapes hanging from their fingers while boys danced in silk before them. Continue reading

Twisting the Truth

29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Moreover of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them. Acts 20:29-30 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

I was asked by a commenter not long-ago what Rob Bell had done that has so upset me that I would post some articles about him on Possessing the Treasure. His stance was that even though he disagreed with much of what Rob Bell taught, he read him and listened to him anyway because he likes to “be stretched.” Should we open up our hearts to hear the teachings of people whose stance on Christian essentials is marked by shades of grey? That begs another question…. Continue reading

Why Do Christians Suffer?

“Why, then, do the children of God suffer so greatly in this world? We suffer for the glory of His name. The more impossible the situation, the more clearly God’s grace and power can be seen in us. Although the examples I cited above relate to persecution, this truth applies to every instance of Christian suffering.”

(Christopher Collins – TruthScript) Not far from my present location is North Korea, a place of torment and death for Christians. Even closer is China, a land where faithful Christians are harassed and jailed with impunity. Both once fell under the shadow of the Japanese Empire, in which realm Christians were imprisoned and tortured for many years. Continue reading

The Old Man

5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died has been justified from sin. Romans 6:5-7 (LSB) 

Romans 6:6 clearly shows us that true believers become holy in Christ. However, there is confusion because many do not look correctly at the Greek verb tenses in this passage. If they simply read it in English or some other translation it is easy to not see that the all the verb tenses here are past tenses (aorist or perfect)…. Continue reading

So Help me God

“The giant takeaway is that “we the people” are now being routinely deceived on vital matters by an ideological and corrupt press.  And many of us don’t even care.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In court, we are compelled to swear that the truth be told.  If you lie, you commit a crime: perjury.

But few are concerned about perjury.  Ask any attorney.  You can fabricate all you want; nobody much cares. Continue reading

Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming

“The establishment media will dismiss all of this as election denialism, but the fact is that the 2020 election was never properly investigated. Instead, we were told to trust the results of the “most secure election in history,” and if you dared to question the results, you were mocked, censored, or demonetized.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Something big is on the horizon — and the people saying so aren’t fringe voices on a podcast. They’re senior Trump administration officials.

Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday… Continue reading

What Does He Know? Dan Bongino Offers Chilling Warning to Barack Obama.

“Barack Hussein Obama is the king of weaponization…documents declassified last year revealed he was present for key meetings that led to critical steps in the opening of the Russia Hoax investigation against President Trump…President Trump has restored integrity to the Department of Justice that Obama and Biden broke.” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) I still can’t believe that Barack Obama had the audacity to lecture Americans during his recent interview with Stephen Colbert about presidents misusing the Justice Department. Continue reading

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

“The most recent nihilist developments in American society can be attributed to these Jacobin* “Democrats”: biological men competing in women’s sports; critical legal theory that normalizes cashless bail; race-based reparations; violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later; radical abortion on demand until birth; attacks on the concept of the cultural “melting pot”; and opposition to organized Christianity.”

(Victor Davis Hanson) For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.

Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks — often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative. Continue reading

Sam Allberry: How His Theology Killed His Ministry

“Allberry refused to agree with God’s word and call his evil desires “sin” as the Bible does, which kept homosexuality burning in his heart. Christians cannot disagree with God and expect it to end well for them. If you refuse to kill sin, it will kill you. And if you’re a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit and the ability to repent, to put to death all evil motions of the flesh within you:”

(Jared Moore – TruthScript) Sam Allberry, a self-proclaimed “Christian who experiences same-sex attraction,” was recently caught in a homosexual relationship, causing him to resign as Associate Pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, TN, where he served with Gavin Ortlund, Russell Moore, Ray Ortlund, Barnabas Piper, and others. Allberry has taught across the country that homosexuality in your heart is not sin, if you don’t act on it…. Continue reading

Sanctification and the sin nature of the justified

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23 (LSB) 

If you have ever listened to or read the teachings of any of the emergents or “liberal christians” or perhaps someone like Rob Bell then you probably have noticed the similarities in their reasonings for how they arrived at their theology of unbelief.  Most of them are confessed refugees from some form of pietistic or American Evangelicalism that leaned heavily towards semi-pelagianism and legalism…. Continue reading

Disney Does Damage Control After Several Staffers Arrested on Cruise Ship in Massive Child Porn Sting

(Breitbart) The Walt Disney Company has made a statement after several of its staffers were arrested as part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ongoing child sexual exploitation material enforcement operations.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post responding to news of arrests being made after federal agents boarded five cruise ships,  including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25. Continue reading

5 Reasons Why ‘Casting Down Principalities and Powers’ Is a Doctrine of Demons

“A doctrine of demons does not always deny Jesus openly. Sometimes it adds to Jesus. It adds new revelations, new warfare methods, new apostolic systems, new decrees, new heavenly strategies, and new spiritual technologies. But anything that adds to the sufficiency of Christ and goes beyond Scripture becomes dangerous.”

(Don Pirozok) The teaching that Christians must “cast down principalities and powers” over cities, nations, governments, mountains, territories, or atmospheres is dangerous because it shifts the believer’s attention away from the finished victory of Jesus Christ and into a mystical warfare practice that Scripture never commands. The New Testament teaches that Christ has already defeated principalities and powers through the cross. Believers are commanded to stand in Christ, resist the devil, pray, preach the gospel, walk in holiness, put on the armor of God, and test the spirits. They are never commanded to confront, bind, rebuke, dethrone, or cast down territorial spirits in the heavens. When a doctrine adds spiritual practices that Christ and the apostles did not teach, it becomes a doorway to deception. Continue reading

The “Christian” Pantheon Of Acceptable “gods”

“So the question is not whether you have idols. You have many. The question is which one you would sell the others to keep.”

(Kendall Lankford) There is a curious thing about the first commandment, which is that almost no one believes they have broken it. Murder, yes. Theft, perhaps. Adultery, well, of the eyes if not of the body. But idols? Idols are wooden men in jungles and golden calves in deserts and fat little statues in temples on the other side of the world. The modern man hears Thou shalt have no other gods before me and feels a faint, rather pleasant solidarity with Moses, the way one feels solidarity with a man condemning a crime one has not yet thought of committing. Continue reading

Life in the Spirit Unto Maturity

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 (translated from the NA28 Greek text)

Romans 8 is best understood after reading the Apostle Paul’s exposition of his own “wretched man” trapped in a “body of death” in Romans 7:14-25. 

14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin. 15 For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.

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Interpreting Scripture by Scripture

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (LSB) 

I have a Bible that was given to my grandfather by all his children as a gift after several life changing events took place in his life (the death of my grandmother, him having to retire from the pastorate for heath reasons, et cetera). He was born in 1877 and I was born in 1951 so my memory of him was always of a very old man. He became a Baptist preacher in the late 1800’s after his wife led him to Christ and taught him to read and write. Here is the note they wrote to him that is pasted to the inside cover. Continue reading

After Sam Allberry’s Disqualification, His Co-Pastor Puts Out Video Attacking Inerrancy

“You’ve got Gavin Ortlund stepping up to explain, with that gentle and lowly familiar Ortlund tone, that inerrancy isn’t really a first-rank doctrine. Let’s slow down. Let’s be careful. Let’s not throw around labels. Let’s make room for “legitimate Christians” who think the Bible has errors. He even reaches back to Machen, of all people, as if to baptize the whole move in fundamentalist credibility.”

(The Dissenter) It started by nudging inerrancy down the ladder. Not completely off the ladder, nobody’s that reckless in polite company. But just a rung or two. “Important, yes…” Gavin says, “but let’s be careful. Let’s not overstate. Let’s not divide over vocabulary.” It sounds like humility…. Continue reading

Archdiocese of New York Agrees To Pay $800,000,000 in Sex Abuse Settlement

“A letter sent by the Archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks, notes that the matter has been a painful process, but they hope that all parties accept. If so, they would each received around $215,000.” 

(Protestia) Two years after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached an $880 million settlement with men and women who survived childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests and clergy in their diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is following suit, agreeing to pay more than $800 million to its own sexual abuse survivors. Continue reading