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And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.(Matthew 10:24-25)One trend I have been noticing lately with a good many of those who would consider themselves Evangelicals, Pentecostals and Charismatics, is that many are dismissing the importance of commitment to a local church, or in some cases they have just left off going to church. I know many longtime Christians, who have given up on the church....

Vice-President Mike Pence Munich Security Conference Speech… Posted on February 18, 2017 by sundance Vice-President Mike Pence traveled to Munich on behalf of the President Trump administration to deliver a speech at the security conference. 02/18/17 VP Pence Speaks at Munich Security Conference There is a transparently troubling issue with VP Pence following his involvement in the loss of General Michael Flynn. Former Governor Mike Pence was selected for VP because he represented a bridge between the grassroots Trump movement and the GOPe Republicans. Those who are professionally republican, and those who are crony constitutionalists within the CPAC crowd leadership are both big...

TO BE READ ALOUD… I heard a lamentation, a chorus of bitter regret… ‘The Harvest is Past, the Summer is Ended, and we are not saved…’I heard a congregation… ruefully confess… ‘We are the people left behind…’… wandering and lost in the wilderness… But LORD didn’t we prophesy? Did we not do wonders in your name? We cast out demons…(We were the very cutting edge), We were the ones to establish the Kingdom NOW , ( we knew more than the rest) But now it is so plain to see, that none of it was sanctioned by Thee, so we...

By now many of you have no doubt seen the viral video “I’m a Christian, but…” (click the image above to view it). Not only has the video been making the rounds, but the hashtag #IAmAChristianBut is ubiquitous on social media right now. After you watch the video, it’s obvious that this is a propaganda piece for a version of Christianity that is Christian in name only–a progressivist vision of the faith that has more to do with maintaining street-cred with Christianity’s cultured despisers than with the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). It is what...

Can John F. MacArthur - or any other Calvinist - please differentiate between (or what constitutes the difference between) those who were truly never saved, and those who are saved, but are now living "out of fellowship" with Christ? I have read in the MacArthur Bible where he seems to boil it down to... by their fruits shall ye know them. But how much bad fruit or lack of good fruit does one have to show to give evidence that they were never saved, or that they are still saved, but have merely fallen out of fellowship with Christ? Example:...

DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DEGENERACY Eph 986-991 1/22/89; 946ff A. Definition. 1. Degeneracy is the decline to false or inferior standards, accompanied by loss of integrity and sinking into the subnormal status of fragmentation and reversionism. Degeneracy is the process of passing from the higher to the lower; to decline progressively. 2. Degeneracy is decline from the superior standards of the protocol plan of God to the inferior standards related to fragmentation, reversionism, and cosmic involvement. 3. There are two categories of degeneracy: a. Moral degeneracy related to the sin nature trend toward self-righteous arrogance, which is classified as polarized legalism....

Dear Freepers: I have an old high school buddy named Dave who runs the European Association of Physicists. So he lives in Strasbourg France. He is the son of a retired Doctor and big RNC fundraiser from Northern Cal. He was very conservative in High School but even then he was taking French! He has a degree in international law. I've been causally mentioning the Muslim problem in France for oh about 3 years now. Usually he doesn't respond (we have grown apart obviously) but he did reply when I sent him the following note: Dear David: I’d be interested...

"Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Thy Word." (Psalm 119:67) The old nature with its blind hostility to G-d's word must often suffer to cease from sin. Even after a believer has come to faith, he or she can grow dull of hearing. Then G-d sometimes allows trouble to chase us back to our Bibles. Especially when we begin to grow listless with boredom and indifference to spiritual things, impatiently closing the Bible and gazing around in the flesh, wanting to vent anger and other lusts, pushing the Bible aside. Little do we realize at...