By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I was a Democrat in my early years as a pastor. Several years later, I moved over to the Republican camp. I changed my registration because Republicans, I believed, better reflected than Democrats a commitment to Judeo-Christian values. Now I am beginning to see key Republicans drifting away from […]
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The Turkey Rapture
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The Puritans celebrated thanksgiving, partly because they were saved from the Indians. Today, I think most Americans celebrate being saved from the Puritans. How foolish! “The Puritans were a people of tremendous Christian character. We ought to hold them up in many ways as examples. They contributed so much […]
Thankful for the Lions, Too
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “We’ve had some trying years. First, it was COVID. Next, it’s been the Biden administration. Then Republicans abandoning God’s definition of marriage and seeking to enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law. This Thanksgiving will be the first year Kim and I will have a turkey that actually volunteered! But […]
Uncle Sam’s Tearful Prayer
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “I once read about a man from India, who wrote a friend about a great revival they were having where he lived in that country, He wrote, ‘We’re having a rebible.’ Not a bad idea, when you think about it. Our churches desperately need to be ‘rebibled.’” -Rev. […]
Go Vote!
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “A democracy, – that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness sake, I will call it the idea of freedom.” -Thomas Parker, The […]
Halloween Hypocrites
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “Jesus warned His disciples, we must beware of hypocrisy—pretending to be something we aren’t, acting with a mask covering our face. Hypocrisy is a terrible sign of trouble in our hearts—it waits only for the day of exposure. For as John Milton put it in Paradise Lost, ‘Neither men […]
A Little Side Action in Church
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “It is troublesome to see how badly gambling has infiltrated the church. Gambling is a sin. It feeds covetousness. God’s Word calls on us to be content with what we’ve been given. “The apostle Paul wrote, ‘I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know […]
The Christian Life: Easy or Hard?
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “Sometimes, when attempting to win a lost soul to Christ, the individual says, ‘I hesitate to give my life to the Lord because I’m afraid I won’t keep living it. I’m too sinful and weak. I can’t live it.’ The fact is, no one can live the Christian life […]
Worshipping Created Things Rather than the Creator
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “All of what the scientist sees is not what it seems… I would agree the Bible is not a textbook on science. But that doesn’t mean that it is either untrue or unscientific when it mentions matters of science incidentally or plainly. In order to find the truth either […]
Church Trivia
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “There is a lot about worship that seems to be changing – some of it good and some of it not. We’ve gone from hard benches to sit on to cushioned ones to comfortable theatre seats. We’ve gone from church etiquette that encourages a quiet and reverent spirit to […]