Tag Archives: Jesus

Peacetime Church in Wartime World 🍎

This week, Mairi and I enjoyed the beauty of stunning gardens while picking apples and filming a podcast about the Church’s evolution since March 2020. We’ll explore contrasting views and share insights from an upcoming ebook titled “God Closed Church.” Check out the YouTube preview!

I would rather die

“Elijah and other men of God in the OT who with radicality and severity — to the dismay of entire generations — made their appearance and to many seemed to be subverters. Enthusiasts do not arise on their own initiative. They think of themselves as called and ordained for their service, which excludes all purely personal interests. An intolerable burden rests upon them.” (Hans-Joachim Kraus)

Good friends of mine — good men — as well as the ‘bad figs’ in the Church whose error goes before them, (1 Timothy 5:24), think that I am wrong, that God didn’t close the Church en masse as an act of judgment, such is our spiritual whoredom.

Had the Holy Spirit not primed my heart to publicly call for such in January 2020 (before any sign of church closures being imaginable) perhaps I would be swayed.

But the LORD has spoken to my heart and far be it from me to deny that…I would rather die.

My Message to Justin Welby & HTB

Jesus issues a warning of great exclamation in Luke 12 — that we must be very careful to fear Him who has authority to throw us into hell…rather than man who can but kill the body. I publish this video because I fear Him infinitely more than any man. My message to Justin Welby & HTB ⚔️

Provoking Jesus to Jealousy

When you think of God being a jealous God, you’d be forgiven for first imagining Exodus chapter nineteen and the burning, billowing kiln of Sinai.

However, like the Corinthians, dismissing the possibility of idolatry in the church being a major problem is to wrongly assume that Jesus Himself is not provokable into jealous fury.

Paul was convinced that, in the New Testament, God was unchanged from the Jewish Scriptures in His intolerant and exclusive demands on His covenant people.

This is the penultimate session looking at godly human jealousy, this time in the lives of David, Paul and Christ Jesus Himself.

But what will you do when the end comes?

“An appalling and horrible thing
has happened in the land:
the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
my people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?”

— Jeremiah 5:30-31

Will the Church look at herself in the mirror or continue prancing around dishevelled?