By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Some day I would like to visit that black church where I was told they have this slogan in their bulletin: ‘Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up, stay up, pay up, but never give up or back up or shut up until the cause of Christ in […]
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The Political Coverup
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Please don’t try to convince me that Christians need to stay out of politics. That is one of the most ridiculous assertions I have ever heard. Yet it is so widely accepted among clergy and lay leaders alike. Listen, there is corrupt politics in the Church, corrupt politics in […]
Our Despair and Our Hope
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The words of the Pharisee as he prayed summarize how most people think of themselves: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men – extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector’ (Luke 18:11). Every human effort toward reconciliation with God is unacceptable to him […]
Progressive Christianity Leads to Hell
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I am struck with how seemingly sweet Progressive Christianity sounds, but it’s only saccharine sweet. It’s appealing to the undiscerning, but it’s just a white-washed tomb full of dead men’s bones. So much of it is socialism with a religious veneer. Though it claims to be non-political and non-partisan, […]
The Erosion of our Church Foundation
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Those who attack the Church most seriously, and disbelieve in it most thoroughly, are not proposing simply to level the Church to the ground in the sense of destroying any religious society. What they want to do is to put some other kind of society in the place of […]
It’s NOW O’clock
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “When we learn that America is becoming one of the most pagan nations in the world, we must respond with urgency. When we listen to media reports of violence, corruption in our government, hostility towards true religion, rampant sexual immorality, and a seeming total loss of reality by the […]
God is Not Distant
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “God is not a distant being. He is not passive. God does not sit and look at his people through a lens of his baggage, and past circumstances. God’s mood is not unpredictable and tied to His action or lack of it. God is not inconsistent in what He […]
If Loving You is Wrong…
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Due to the dark glass with which we now see, we cannot observe or experience the consuming glory of God. When that glory is seen in heaven, however, it will make the idea of rebellion ludicrous in comparison. It is a glory so awesome, were we to be exposed […]
New Year’s Resolution: Read Through the Bible
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I remember when I first started reading the Bible as a teenager. I began with the first chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, which was the genealogy of Christ. It read, so-and-so begat so-and-so, and so-and-so begat so-and-so, you know. I thought to myself if this is what it’s going to […]
No Live Nativity
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Have you ever witnessed someone so unjustifiably angry that they made a complete fool of themselves, and you couldn’t help but laugh? That’s how I feel when I see the Political Left’s animosity and hatred for any mention of God, Christ, or the Bible in the public square. How […]