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 […]
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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, […]
About Baldness
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “When I was a teenager, a well-known evangelist came to our church and led in revival services. He said that he knew our pastor when he was a young man and his head was full of waves of curly hair. ‘Nowadays,’ said the evangelist, ‘there’s only beach.’” -Rev. […]
Asymptomatic Christianity
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Walking with God means that we develop a Christian worldview. Our faith affects every part of our lives. There is no sacred, no secular. Everything is sacred. All things are to be seen through His eyes – His revealed truth. One may be religious and compartmentalize his faith, but […]
Access to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “My mother-in-law loves the Lord, and at 88 years old, she’s eager to go to heaven. A couple of years ago, she had surgery for a sizeable non-cancerous tumor in her abdomen. However, doctors told her that the surgery could still be life-threatening at her advanced age. Despite the […]