I’m voting for the son of a good preacher.
Could God be using both Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz for a reason?
Mr. Giles is so correct. I kept thinking, “I will go to church one more Sunday to see if the minister has the nerve to mention the growing Islamic threat to the world.”
No chance. No mention. Too afraid of losing their tax exemption? Ministers will keep up with their silence regarding our present danger until there is nothing in the collection plate to tax.
The men of Marlborough, MA unanimously proclaimed in January 1773 that "Death is more eligible than slavery. A free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny...(we) implore the Ruler above the skies, that He would make bare His arm in defense of His Church and people, and let Israel go."
Doesn’t matter who one blames - our souls are our own concerns and all the good pastors in the world can’t compete with the Evil One on a large-scale basis. All one can do is offer the Word and hope someone accepts the salvation offered by Christ. We love to blame others for our own weaknesses when, if all believers were to actually exert themselves and coalesce into a cooperative force, things could be very different. If we’re not an active part of the solution, as individuals, then we’re and “inactively-active” part of the problem.
Right. On. Big. Time.
More to the point in today’s parlance: Double plus good.
The real problem will be finding men of God that aren’t steeped in apostate slime. The seminaries were targets for the Marxists long, long ago. A generation of draft dodging leftist nitwits have come to maturity and fostered all this filth to the present head of foam.
I’m afraid judgement is all that is left.
There is a reason why the preachers have become lame and it is the real answer: the collection basket.
Speak the truth in preach and RISK losing folks and that MONEY which is very important to get by the other 6 days of the week.
A century or more of so-called progressives trying to make Christ a blond, blue-eyed hippie peacenik hasn’t helped.
This is particularly true in the Black “community.”
Supposedly, Black ministers wield tremendous influence; yet, they have been silent spectators to the decline of their “people”—Content to feed off crumbs from the table of power.
Judgement Day will be harsh for these false prophets.
Let’s face it.
There is a timeline, I’m sure, that someone can make, from the time that Billy Graham started slowing down, and nobody else started picking up his slack, but all these christian I.N.O. folks started standing up.
I could point to the ‘80’s, when society (and no internet then) started pushing back, and no one really took the push anymore than just nuts. But the precedents have been set since, and today, are just so many stepping stones to the next level.
For every one tent preacher, there were 20 ‘established’ pastors struggling to keep folks, so they could continue their own little green lawn, their established title and rank in town, and their current living style. oh, did i forget their ‘calling and duty’? No, but they had, maybe, in the vortex of their societal position.
Makes a good point, but I blame everyone who is still paying taxes rather than refusing to enable the tyrant-vampires by withholding that lifeblood.
Yes, that includes me. I pay taxes. I pay the salaries of evil people whom the Founders would have cut down, or hanged from lampposts, in some order. I fund abortions. I subsidize moochers foreign and domestic.
I am too ashamed of myself to be pointing to what’s in anyone else’s eye.
My observation is that “pastors” are universally charlatans who don’t know the first thing about the Bible and couldn’t cite the Ten Commandments if you asked them, and a great many of them are sexual predators as well. If there’s a real church in the US, it’s underground and in hiding - as it probably has to be to survive these political conditions.
America seem to crave pastors, preachers and priests who are *not* lily-livered, socially amoral, personally corrupt, or who are willing to compromise their faith to be trendy.
Sadly, they are few and far between.
In the 1960s and 1970s, seminaries went to Hell. Many who joined were draft dodgers and homosexuals. Philosophies, most of which were atheistic, replaced theology as a core study.
The willingness to liberalize and compromise with their faith foretold the downfall of many churches.
In truth, the underpinnings for failure began in the 1940s, when clergy decided to dispense with the idea of Hell, that Hell even existed, as such. Likely wracked with worry or guilt with their own bad behavior, they became frightened of the idea of Hell, because if it existed, then they were toast.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
“Good men cannot save a great nation, because good men will not go to the lengths necessary.” - Horace Walpole
Both were members of Britain’s House of Commons during the late 18th century.
Americans are especially fond of this quote from Burke, but fewer are so much as aware of the existence of Walpole.
If we expect to succeed, we ought to contemplate the truth of both statments.
I’m blaming the corruption and socialist ideology of the globalist uni-party and our knots tied to the UN.
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“Render Unto Caesar” ... A “command”, not a sunday school “suggestion” ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TlzFiMSwY
I;m thinking 501(c)(3) exemptions have gone a long way to limiting the pastor’s ability to speak out and influence our culture for the sake of government letting them keep a little mammon.
“If America is going to go forward into greatness then the Elijahs of God are going to have to come forth and get a whip and start clearing the punks.”
The only pastor I know who seems up to the task is Miles McPherson of the Rock Church in San Diego. He’s a former San Diego Charger, so he knows how to compete and he knows how to absorb the hits.
I attended one of his services earlier in the year, and he was brutally honest about Christendom’s upcoming fight with Islam and the american pop cult. He talked about the current persecution of Christians and how we need to prepare for more of it.
He did it with a smile and with fearlessness and hope.
I was just shocked I was hearing this in California of all places. God truly works in mysterious ways.