[I've been looking for an evangelical Church like I went to in my childhood. Have they gone underground or just folded all together. I want a Church that preaches to all of us sinners and presents Jesus as the only "cure". Every Church I've been in in the last 30, maybe 40 years, tickle the ears of their congregations. That is sinful.]
I don't mean to offend, but I'm Catholic, and believe me, the priests in my parish don't "tickle the ears of their congregations" (nice phrase, btw), they tell it like it is.
Now that we have returned to the southwest, I find that main-stream Baptist churches (and pastors) here present the Gospel much as you (wistfully) described. Regretfully, I can't say the same for their northern-State counterparts -- at least not as consistently...
90% of the Catholic Churches I have been to have been milquetoast, presided over by dull freaks who know how to reach an audience as well as Yoko Ono.
I caught the reference immediately. Here it is:
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.