Many times during the years I spent in the Institutional Church I was told that, regardless of what anyone did to me, I was to unconditionally forgive him or her.  According to those instructing me, there were no caveats (exceptions) to that rule.  I was told time and again from pulpit and podium, from television […]

The Holy Spirit is missing within the Institutional (Catholic/Protestant) Church System.  Borrowing from the military world, the Holy Spirit is AWOL–Absent Without Leave.  God never intended for His power to be shut off from those who call themselves by His name, commonly miss-named “the church,” which God rejects outright and from which He has “hidden […]

The Holy Spirit is the power of God.  Everyone needs God’s power within them in order to overcome Satan’s temptations–“fiery darts”–to sin.  This included Jesus of Nazareth.  In I Peter 2:21,22 we are told that Jesus kept God’s Laws–the Ten Commandments–perfectly.  He tells us that He did so only through the power of the Holy […]

As a man, Jesus of Nazareth recognized the importance of the Holy Spirit as is evidenced by a statement He made as recorded in Matthew 12:32: “And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him ….”  […]

In Jeremiah 27:5 the omnipotent (all-powerful) God made this statement: “I have made the earth, mankind and all the creatures that are upon it (the earth) by MY GREAT POWER … and have given them (earth, creatures, etc.) to whomever I want to have them.” As an aside I will interject a bit of history […]

Relative to the question asked in the heading, ask one million professing Christians and not one will provide the Biblical answer.  Why?  Because it would destroy the trinity “truth.”  I grew up during the glory days of the most famous evangelist of all time whose name was a household word recognized around the world.  I […]

Holiness and hostility make strange partners, but partners they are.  When looking for examples of that Truth, the prophets, Jesus of Nazareth and the apostles readily come to mind.  For written warnings relative to the subject, the Holy Bible is full of them.  The question is: Why?  The answer is that darkness hates light, wrong […]

The history of the church as an institution is the history of warfare.  The same holds true for the individuals within the institution.  That warfare rarely involves the masses outside of professing Christianity.  As the previous postings have shown, it is those inside the religious beast that calls itself “the (Catholic/Protestant) church” that hates, rejects […]

In what is called His Olivet prophecy recorded in Matthew 24, Jesus warned His followers then and now about problems that would arise in the world in general and within God’s church in particular just prior to His Second Coming.  He warned about men who would rise to leadership  who would deceive the masses.  He […]

Everything. In Matthew 16:18 Jesus declared: “I will build My church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”  Note that He does not mention peace and tranquility relative to His church, but rather forces from hell attacking His her and her having to overcome those forces in order to survive.  Other Scriptures […]