Dis. Grace.: Responding Biblically to Church Scandal

“Scandals among Christian leaders are heartbreaking, disappointing, embarrassing. But the God who sent His only Son to the cross to turn sinners into saints has a wonderful way of taking offenses and turning them into opportunities for His kingdom.”

(Michelle Lesley) In light of the recent news about Steve Lawson, I thought it might be helpful to re-run this article. I will be removing Dr. Lawson from my list of recommended Bible teachers forthwith. No, this is not a rumor. No, nothing has been hacked. Yes, this has been confirmed by (and was announced by) his own church. Sadly, it is true.

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Exasperated Oprah Interrupts to Answer Border Question for Vapid VP

“Here’s what he got and here’s what I think was going through Oprah’s head over the next interminable three minutes (the quotes from Kamala are real)…”

(John Nolte – Breitbart) An exasperated Oprah Winfrey was forced to interrupt Kamala Harris to answer a border question for the vapid VP.

Winfrey held a two-hour Unite for America livestream for Kamala Thursday night, a star-studded event that wasn’t really star-studded. Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, and Jennifer Lopez, and others weren’t actually in the room. They were watching through their computers like everyone else. After 15 minutes they were probably playing solitaire. Continue reading

Whistleblower Claims Five Assassin Teams Hunting Trump

Gaetz explained, “I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before the second assassination attempt, saying that what he has assessed is that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by other governments, two that are here, that are known domestic assassination teams.”

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) A new federal whistleblower has reportedly accused the government of knowing about five assassination teams out to get Donald Trump, even before the second assassination attempt took place. Continue reading

Steve Lawson Ministry Issues Statement: ‘(His sin) disqualified him from ministry…he regrets the damage he has caused’

(Protestia) Steve Lawson’s OnePassion Ministry has released a statement about his recent implosion and revelation of an inappropriate relationship with a woman, filling in some of the gaps from the church’s own statement about his actions and what the consequences will be.

OnePassion Ministries, which Lawson founded, exists to “ignite a supreme passion for God and His glory in all people throughout the world” and to “equip and energize a new generation of Bible expositors.” Continue reading

Breaking: Steven Lawson Removed as Pastor from Trinity Due to ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ With Woman

“Screenshots from the email released on social media indicate that Lawson informed elders at the church that he engaged in an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman. The church’s website has removed Lawson from the leadership page.” Protestia

(The Dissenter) Trinity Bible Church of Dallas has announced the removal of lead pastor Steven J. Lawson from all ministry responsibilities following revelations of an inappropriate relationship with an unnamed woman. Lawson, known for his expository preaching and as the founder of OnePassion Ministries, has been a regular speaker at major Christian conferences, including Shepherd’s Conference and G3, and has served as a teaching fellow at Ligonier Ministries. Continue reading

‘Am I Racist?’ Exposes the Cult of Anti-Racism

“For evangelical Christians, Am I Racist? should serve as a reminder that our institutions have been directly targeted and impacted by anti-racist dogma. Hundreds of pieces could be written (and have been) on the infiltration and proliferation of exactly what Matt Walsh is lampooning in his film. Many of our own leaders and figures have jumped headfirst into anti-racism, promoting our own, specially curated anti-racist representatives, perhaps most well-capsulated by Jemar Tisby.” 

(David Harris – TruthScript) Several weeks ago at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, social media buzzed with warnings about a satchel-carrying, tight-jeans-wearing, man-bun sporting attendee meandering around the convention floor. “Don’t talk to this man!” read one social media post…. Continue reading

It’s Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation

“…the Christian religion that bequeathed us our civilization and formed us from the beginning is now disappearing from among us Americans. Without it, we might as well be a tax farm for the global elite, with insular ethnic and religious enclaves across America that sacrifice animals and practice vodou, or support Hamas and Hezbollah, and generally make no effort to become American. We will certainly not be a common people or a nation.”

(John Daniel Davidson – The Federalist) After the presidential debate last Tuesday night, J.D. Vance told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins the only reason the media is talking about places like Springfield, Ohio, is because the right turned the cats and geese thing into a meme. He reiterated the point in a hostile interview with Dana Bash on CNN over the weekend, saying these concerns about Haitian immigrants have been brought to him directly by his constituents — concerns the media totally ignored until he and Trump started talking about them. Continue reading

The Tragedy of the Modern Church is that She’s Indistinguishable from the World

“If you can’t tell where the world ends and the church begins, you’re not in a church anymore—you’re in a theater. You’re in a circus. You’re witnessing the great Evangelical masquerade, where everyone plays a part but no one seems to care that they’re all headed down the path of destruction.”

(The Dissenter) Talk into almost any modern Evangelical church today, and you might be forgiven for wondering whether you’ve mistakenly stumbled into a concert hall, a corporate team-building event, or maybe even the set of a reality TV show. The flashing lights, slick branding, and carefully choreographed “worship experiences” give off a whiff of marketing genius, but there’s something sinister lurking beneath the polished facade. Continue reading

By Grace Through Faith

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10 (LSB) 

What is it that causes God to justify believers? What is justification? I heard a definition a long time ago where the preacher said something like this, “Justification is what happens when we are born again, it is ‘Just as if I had never sinned.’”… Continue reading

If R.C. Sproul Could See the World Today, He’d Be Asking ‘What’s Wrong With You People?’

“We thought if we just stayed out of the fray, maybe the storm would pass over us. Well, newsflash: The storm is here, and it’s not passing over. Our pacifism—our desire to “get along”—has allowed these far-left radicals to charge full steam ahead into cultural dominance. They claim to want equality, but it’s a farce—they want control, and they’re getting it. And now, we’re paying the price for decades of silence. What’s wrong with you people?”

(The Dissenter) What’s wrong with you people? R.C. Sproul asked this stinging question with the kind of directness that our culture so desperately needs today. While Sproul’s question was rooted in a theological context, it has become an icon in Christian circles for wondering out loud: what in the world is going on? It is an apt expression for our broader society—a society that has lost its grip on reality, morality, and reason. So again, I ask: What’s wrong with you people? Continue reading

Ads in Four Swing States Criticize Kamala Harris for Supporting Teenage Gender Transitions

“Talk about weird, physically healthy boys and girls are having their genitals and sexual organs destroyed, and Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies in the Senate not only think that’s acceptable but are forcing taxpayers to pay for it.”

(Paul Bois – Breitbart) Attack ads airing in the swing states of Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have been criticizing Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris for her past support of taxpayer-funded transition of teenagers. Continue reading

But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well- being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed

13 Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. 14 Just as many were appalled at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men. 15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand. Isaiah 52:13-15 (LSB) 

In his fine book Escape from Reason, Francis Schaeffer analyzed 20th Century philosophy, science, art, and popular culture to get to the “cause,” if you will, of the decline of reason, which was and is still shaping our society. Modern thought in our time, it seems, has been diverted from an eternal, heavenly focus to one that is entirely geared to the temporal…. Continue reading

Hillary Clinton Sets the Stage for a 3rd Assassination Attempt of DJT

First watch this video:

Republican Senators demand more resources for the U.S. Secret Service in the wake of a second assassination attempt on former President Trump, and call out the anti-Trump rhetoric by Democrats.

Now read Mary Dowling’s report:

Hillary Clinton did not post any statements condemning the Trump assassination attempt. Her first statement came in a hate-filled rant on Rachel Maddow’s show, where she called him a “danger to the world.” She directed the media to keep pressing that issue. Continue reading

An Imprecatory Prayer on Behalf of Donald Trump

Many Christians are coming to the end of their rope as you will see in this piece by Protestia’s staff that includes a prayer asking Almighty God to pronounce harsh judgment on the enemies of the cross. 

(Protestia) Evangelical Christianity has grown strangely distant from the practice of imprecatory prayer, which is as sad as it is understandable, given the softness of our age. From the soft-handed, limp-wristed pastor in preacher-sneakers to the armchair theologian at Starbucks pounding out Tim Keller tweets with a pumpkin spice latte mustache, to the glitter-faced worship gal writhing on stage to a Hillsong tune, few understand the deep, rich heritage of imprecation in David’s Psalms. But perhaps we should get back to that if only we could stomach it.

To imprecate means “to invoke a curse,” and believe it or not, the Bible is full of this. In fact, most of these imprecations – many in the form of imprecatory prayers and songs – come from the man who was “after God’s own heart,” King David (Psalm 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69. 109, 139). Considering his songs were inspired of the Holy Ghost, one would be hard-pressed to argue that there is no place for them in the life of a Christian. Continue reading

JD Vance’s MUST READ Message on Censorship and Political Violence

Following is J.D. Vance’s address on the 2nd attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump. He also deals with the reaction to Springfield Ohio events. He ends with his views on political censorship and the violence that will inevitably follow.

“Yesterday, Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life. An armed gunman waited for him in the bushes. He brought a GoPro camera to record it. A secret service agent spotted the barrel of a gun through a fence and shot at the gunman. The gunman fled. He was caught. And now we slowly learn about him and his motive.

“President Trump is my running mate, and my friend, but he is more importantly a father and grandfather to people who love him very much. I want him to have many more years with his family. (And selfishly, I’d like many more with my own.) Continue reading

It’s OK to Call Your Political Opponents Insane If They’re, You Know, Insane

“The upper echelon Dems know that they’re lying. We’re all used to leftist pols lying for political gain. What’s changed this year is the sheer volume of it. I said the same thing in a VIP column last month, but I was only writing about the Dems’ lapdogs in the mainstream media in that one. While it’s bad enough that Jake Tapper and Paul Krugman are lying more than ever, it’s exponentially worse when the president, vice president, Senate majority leader, and House minority leader are sanctioning it with their litany of lies.”

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) On the Monday edition of our legendary VIP Gold live chat show “Five O’Clock Somewhere,” Stephen Green and I were discussing our exasperation with the relentless vitriol from the American Left that, once again, induced some loon to try and kill former president Donald Trump. We have both been professionally writing and talking about politics for a very long time and we have never seen anything like this. It’s even worse than the Democrats’ unhinged behavior from 2016-2023. Continue reading

If the Church is Divided, Blame the Fake News Media

“When a leader favoured by the press is in office, we can expect fluff pieces, fanfare, and low levels of account keeping. When a leader disliked by the press is in power, we must realize that every word and action will likely be scrutinized in an endless search for flaws and failures. This is not fair — but it is fact.”

(Kurt Mahlburg – Clear Truth Media) It’s no secret that the American church is deeply divided — especially over politics. Instead of pointing fingers at each other for the division, however, it’s time we name the elephant in the room: America’s corporate media. Continue reading

Christ’s suffering and Christian suffering

3 For we have wasted enough time participating in the desires of the Gentiles, having proceeded in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties and unlawful idolatry. 4 Wherein they think it strange you are not running with them into the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (1 Peter 4:3-4 translated from the NA28 Greek text)

The Loneliness of the Christian

“The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone. The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way. Continue reading

Rare Video of Bethel Church’s Infamous ‘Honey Barrel’ Unearthed

“Now very, very rare, with a newly unearthed video of the “Honey Barrel” recently discovered deep in the heart of an Imgur folder.”

(Protestia) The 10,000-member Bethel Church in Redding, California, is an assortment of false teaching and bizarre charismatic shenanigans. From ‘Little God theology,’ using prophetic Uno cards, going on satanic treasure hunts, teaching that Adam created the animals in Eden, that Michael the Archangel wears tights, and that angels sit around the throne of God having “farting contests,” it’s a hotbed of strange fire burning uncontrollably throughout Christendom. (see endnotes.) Continue reading

We Have to Talk About Friday’s Kamala Interview

“Overwhelmed, cringey, evasive Kamala Harris made a comeback, serving up patented word salads. The reason her team is clearly avoiding interviews came, once again, into very clear focus.”  

(Guy Benson – Townhall) This is sure to be overtaken by the second failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump in the span of just three months, but it merits additional scrutiny, beyond Sarah’s thorough coverage over the weekend.  On Friday evening, the first televised solo interview of Kamala Harris aired on a local ABC station in Philadelphia. Yes, the first and only TV interview featuring just Kamala Harris as her party’s presidential candidate thus far took place in mid-September, about a month-and-a-half after Joe Biden was driven out of the race…. Continue reading

Religious Pluralism: The Roman Catholic Church’s Last Ditch Effort to Undermine the Gospel

The pope wants us to believe that all these different religions are just “different languages” to arrive at God. This may sound poetic, but it’s pure nonsense. There are no “different languages” to God. There is one gospel—salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone. The apostle Paul wrote with the utmost urgency: “If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9).

(The Dissenter) Some Catholics call him “Papa,” and others call him the “holy father.” Yet, despite these terms of endearment for a man who sets himself up in the place of Christ, The Roman pope, who goes by Francis, continues the Catholic tradition of leading people down a path of spiritual compromise and confusion—and ultimately, to Hell. Continue reading

Second assassination attempt since July raises question how shooter got within 500 feet of Trump

“We must ask ourselves how an assassin was allowed to get this close to President Trump again? There continues to be a lack of answers for the horrific assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and we expect there to be a clear explanation of what happened today in Florida.” Rep. Elise Stefanik

(John Solomon – Just the News) Secret Service agents disrupted the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in two months, but difficult questions remain on how a would-be assassin with an AK-47 rifle got within 500 feet of the former president while he was golfing and why anti-Trump vitriol in America rages on. Continue reading

Trump Is Safe Following Gunshots in His Vicinity, Says Campaign

Donald Trump Jr. posted on X, formerly Twitter, that that “An AK-47 was discovered in the bushes, per local law enforcement. … A suspect has reportedly been apprehended.”

(Newsmax) President Trump is safe after what was described as a “security incident” near his West Palm Beach golf club.

“President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity,” Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump said. He said no further details will be provided.

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The Intention Wherewith Christ Came into the World

5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 And he hurried and came down and received Him gladly. 7 And when they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 But Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have extorted anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:5-10 (LSB) 

My personal library is fitted to my own personal tastes and needs. I doubt if most people would want to tackle most of my books, but they are treasures to me. I have several books about the English Protestant Reformation. That means I have quite a few books about William Tyndale for instance…. Continue reading