By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “God went straight to the heart of the matter. Adam’s discrimination was his incrimination. ‘Who told thee that thou wast naked?’ Adam must be made to confess his sin. Instead of doing so, however, he came up with a despicable excuse: ‘The Woman whom thou gavest to be with […]
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Missing Heaven by a Few Points?
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I know that I’m going to heaven, not because I’ve been good or even good enough. When I get to heaven, it will be despite my sins – despite my never being able to satisfy God’s high bar of morality sufficiently. On the day of God’s wrath, I will […]
Roaring Lambs
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The Scriptures admonish us to ‘be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might’ (Eph. 6:10). Do you know what this means? It means if you are walking upright before God, the lions of this world will seek to devour you. It means you can only […]
Render Unto Caesar…
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Last week, on April 15th, tax day, I counted my blessings and then sent them to Washington. Caesar got his due. Yet I owe God more. I owe him everything. Caesar may have his image stamped on a coin, but God has his image stamped on me. I can’t […]
The Problem of “Bible Illiteratacy”
Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Biblical illiteracy is not only a contemporary trend. Many people today think they know the Bible, or know facts about the Bible, and therefore consider themselves ‘spiritual’. But the problem with this so-called ‘spirituality’ is that they meld their ideas from other religions and lump the Bible in with them. […]
Ostrich Church Consultants
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “At the very time when the moral authority of Christian citizens seems so desperately needed, there are powerful voices urging believers to burrow deeper into the sand, to stay undercover, to mute what otherwise would become a thunderous voice of moral righteousness.” -Tom Minnery in Why You Can’t […]
Church Erosion
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “In our day, once great denominations have been overwhelmed. So-called Christin colleges and seminaries are infiltrated by professors who doubt, deny, or water down the Bible as the Word of God. Thousands of well-intentioned people have graduated from these schools and then set out to preach without the heart […]
The Poultry Pulpit
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The minister’s role is not to make people feel comfortable in the padded pews. He is not there to pander to the petty preferences of the parishioners. He is there to proclaim the whole counsel of God. He is there to declare eternal truth. He is there to call […]
God’s Word Should Be Read, Not Redacted
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Trying to ‘cut off’… ‘take away’ certain unwanted words of God from the Bible…will dilute or destroy its saving message and living truth. That is why the influences of the cults, with their pseudo-revelations, as bad as they are, still are not as deadly as those of the so-called […]
God’s Will A Guessing Game?
By Jeff Larson, ‘The Back Pew’ “Some people act as if determining God’s will is like guessing the weather. Fortunately, we have a weatherman who has considered all the meteorological evidence and can tell us how to prepare. That way, there isn’t much guessing at all. “We can be assured the Bible, the Word of God, […]