By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “President Ronald Reagan used to tell a story about a man who fell off a cliff and, at the last minute as he was falling, he grabbed hold of a shrubby bush. As he dangled on the side of the precipice, he was filled with terror and called out […]
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Operation: Church Body Edition
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “A man had visited church after church trying to find a congenial congregation, and finally he stopped at a little church just as the congregation was participating in a responsive reading with the minister, ‘We have left undone those things we ought to have done, and we have done […]
Pray for America
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “America stands on the brink of disaster. Your freedoms are at stake. The name and character of God are at stake. ‘Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”‘ As never before, we are in desperate need of the forgiving, healing hand of God. Let us join together […]
COVID 19 Safe
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “All of this anxiety about the coronavirus seems over the top for me. I don’t deny the reality of the illness. It’s just our hypersensitivity to it makes me think of the hypochondriac who was quite fanatical in following every cure that he could find in books and magazines. […]
Meet John the ‘Non-Denominational’
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The late evangelist Billy Sunday used to tell this story to audiences of various denominations. He said that he was in Duluth, Minnesota, when a Jewish man was run over in an iron mine. They rushed him to a Catholic hospital where an Episcopalian surgeon amputated his leg. A […]
The Woman Helps Keep Him in Line
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “It may sound silly to some, but a fundamental purpose for marriage is to domesticate or civilize men. You may not know, but unmarried men cause society more trouble than married men. It’s not likely that you’ll see many, if any, married men roving the neighborhood in a street […]
A Nation with Lots of ‘gods’
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “How many people today want to say, ‘Well, all religions are basically the same.’ There is a theological term for that idea. It is called ‘hogwash.’ That’s a direct translation from the Greek, and it only reveals the ignorance of the person who makes that statement. Gautama Buddha died […]
The Tattered States of America
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Our forefathers came to certain conclusions and decided upon certain courses of action which have been a great blessing to the world…They were a people who came under the influence of a great spiritual development and acquired a great moral power. No other theory is adequate to explain or […]
If This World Hates You, It Hated Jesus First
Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “This world hates Christianity. We see many examples of that today. How Christians are suffering in various parts of the world where once they seemed to have a welcome!.. [T]hey know that Christianity is the very antithesis of the theories that they are advocating, and by which they hope to […]
What if God…
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I only have one problem with Progressive Theology; its contentions remind me too much of the devil using Scripture as he did with Jesus during his temptation in the wilderness. Each argument made from the passage selected is usually, if not exclusively, removed from its context, misapplied, and manipulative […]