By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Because of current politics, there is a lot of anger out there – really a lot! You know, I once heard that bees fly thousands of miles to gather enough nectar to make only a pound of honey. Then someone comes along and steals it from them. Maybe that […]
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Do Not Gaze at Wine…
by Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The Scriptures say, ‘And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit’ (Eph. 5:18). Nothing casts off restraint in life like alcohol. It’s a known fact that where alcohol runs high, morals run low. The brother of alcohol is excess. But God doesn’t […]
A More Accurate Motto Than ‘In God We Trust’?
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes: This refers to the radical individualism that marked the time of the Judges. People looked to self for their guide to morality and ethics. The people genuinely felt that what they did was right, but they measured it only by […]
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew The Bible teaches there is a righteous indignation. In fact, if we don’t show this kind of anger on some occasions, we may be sinning. When we see blatant injustice and corruption, if its presence never sets a fire in our spirits to rebuke and resist, it’s evidence we […]
Covid 19: Panic and Fear
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew I recently read the following by Rev. Glen. A. Land on the website of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri: “As we are confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic…we should face this and every crisis that comes our way with courage. Fear has no place in the life of […]
Persuasive Political TV
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I hate political jokes. Too many of them get elected.” –Milton Berle
Put on the full Armor of God 2020 +CDC Guidelines
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I have a cartoon in my office which shows a hospitalized man on a bed. He’s green in the face, looking haggard, with several tubes and IVs attached to his body. A preacher stands over him with a Bible in one hand while pointing toward heaven with the other, and […]
Pigs and Pearls
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “We understand that every effort, whether personal or corporate, that leaves out the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, that doesn’t make God central to the need, is no solution but just lipstick on a pig. Whether it be education, or science, or psychology, or any kind of social […]
Row Faster or Take my Hand
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 […]
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 […]