In the end times the apostasy of the age will creep into God’s church, sometimes in the form of blatant unbelief, but also in a coldness toward the things of God and a love for the things of the world. While the world takes its downward spiral toward the coming judgment of God, the church […]
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Author: Rick Shrader
Judgment – The Forgotten Prophecy
Jude recorded, And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly […]
Christ the Incarnate Word
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Christ, by highest heaven adored; Christ, the everlasting Lord! Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of the Virgin’s womb: Veiled in […]
Preaching and Singing the Gospel
I just read an online article by a young man (by his own description) who went out of his way to criticize most gospel preaching and singing for the last two or three hundred years. He believes that once preaching and singing left the Puritan and/or Reformation tradition, it was down hill from there. Interestingly, […]
The Emerging Church Phenomenon
We have been studying Postmodernism for twenty years. Christian writers and non-Christian writers alike sounded a note of alarm at what the effects of this cultural paradigm shift would be upon the Church. In 1996, James White proposed, “Now a new tidal wave, called by the scholars postmodernity, is sweeping across Western thought, undermining the […]
Is Repentance Necessary?
It is a telling sign of our time that we have to ask ourselves this question. But when every other teaching that makes us uncomfortable is taken away, why should we be surprised when sinners are no longer told they need to repent? This view is being taught today largely by what is called the […]
Those Vision Statements
Using the word “vision” these days is like Mother Hubbard’s dress, it covered everything and touched nothing. But once a certain tool becomes popular, everyone has to have one. In fact, these days if you don’t have a vision statement for what you are doing, you are surely a failure, a follower, or at best […]
The Perfect Tense Will of God
Someone has said, “The will of God is just what I would choose if I had all the facts as God has them.”1 But, since we don’t have such facts, we often don’t choose what God would choose even though we may pray and ask God’s guidance. Why? The answer sometimes rests in understanding the […]
Why Do Christians Vote?
The Bible says that believers are pilgrims and strangers on the earth and that we have no certain dwelling place here. As normal human beings we are citizens of many countries, speakers of many languages, and partakers of many cultures. Yet as Christians we are only visitors here, ambassadors for a more noble country, pilgrims […]
The Assembling Of Ourselves Together
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb 10:23-24) As a pastor and father and a life-long church attendee, I […]