By Jeff Larson – The Back Pew “Maya Angelou, in her poem ‘Touched by an Angel,’ wrote the line ‘There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.’ In our low moments, in our weaknesses, it is in the glory of the gospel we find God’s incredible, all-sufficient grace. Our extremity is […]
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Transformed by the Renewal of Your Mind
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Many persons become for a time changed in conduct from various motives, who are not changed in heart by the Spirit of God, and the truth believed respecting the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. But such changes are generally temporary, and though they should continue for […]
Investigative Journalism for Dummies
By Jeff Larson – The Back Pew “Just after the American Revolution, when liberty had been secured, an unreasonable revolt against even the shadow of government raised its ugly head. Resistance to authority, which for the necessary purpose of breaking away from a corrupt and abusive form of government, had now been taken to the […]
When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
By Jeff Larson – The Back Pew “Do you remember what it was like when the teacher called the roll? If someone was absent, the teacher might call their name twice and even a third time. Can you imagine what a sad thing it would be when our names are called from the Lamb’s Book […]
Responsive Mumbling
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 […]
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 […]