What is the Mark of the Beast?

“Pastor, are vaccines the Mark of the Beast.” This was a sincere question from a church member about a year ago. My answer was definite. “No, vaccines are not the Mark. Believers will KNOW what it is when it comes.” I do believe in a pre-tribulational rapture, so I do not expect to have to…

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Most Important Peace Treaty Since World War 2 to be Negotiated in Jerusalem – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East

[Is Tim LaHaye in heaven?  Sounds like he is writing today’s news.  KESchaal] A day earlier, Bennett spoke with Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president said he had spoken that day with Bennett, as well as with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda. In a late-night speech broadcast on social networks, Zelenskyy said,…

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Zelensky or Putin?

It’s happening again. People are taking sides—the same old sides they always take. Political liberals are flying Ukrainian flags. It’s the same virtue signaling as before. They are accusing conservatives of being Putin fans. You have to wonder if Donald Trump was in office if the sides would be reversed. It is easy and dangerous…

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Merchandizing the Faith

“No margin, no ministry.” I heard that first from my good friend Walt Brock who has built a remarkable Christian Camp in Southern California. He is right. You cannot run a financial deficit and have a ministry very long. However, the real ethical concerns are about how we meet the financial demands of ministry. The…

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Wisdom Lessons from Putin, Biden, and Graham—Or No

Where did wisdom go? We are not seeing much of it in the news these days, from anyone. Putin is in an all-or-nothing holy war in Ukraine. He is 69 years old and thinking about his legacy. Some are even claiming that Putin’s war is a “Christian” war against woke Western Culture. Narratives are spinning…

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The UMC Headed for a Split Over Holiness | First Things

The United Methodist Church is going to split. No one knows the exact contours of the split, but everyone seems confident that it is coming. There is a gulf between traditionalists and progressives in the UMC regarding same-sex marriage, and that gulf is widening: several Methodist bishops have performed same-sex weddings, defying official UMC teaching;…

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A World on the Brink

It’s worse than anyone is saying, and we all know it. Humanly speaking, this world is at the most dangerous moment since the Black Plague or maybe even the Great Flood. Exaggerating? No. I am not an alarmist, it is just where we are. Worldwide nuclear powers are aligning with and against one another in…

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I Used to Be an Evangelical Elite–Josh Daws

This 25 tweet series is worth reading.  What he is describing among the evangelical elite is the mood of the New Evangelicalism described by fundamentalists 60 years ago.  Kevin Bauder has used the term Indifferentist to describe their ecclesiastical relationships, Daws here uses the term evangelical elite to describe the thinking and attitude. We need…

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