Repentance
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The Lies of the Right
In 2008–2009, I was a small-town pastor. I’d grown accustomed to watching Fox News because they seemed friendly to what we called “normal” Christian values. But when Obama was elected, Fox started screaming about the “Socialist threat” and the “godless Muslim in the White House.” I began tuning in to Glenn Beck, who claimed to Continue reading
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The World and the Believer
When Jesus warned against “the world,” He wasn’t talking about nightclubs, gay neighbors, or secular music. He was talking about systems of power — empire, exploitation, and the machinery that crushes the poor. In Scripture, “the world” is shorthand for Mammon’s operating system: debt, hierarchy, and respectability built on fear. But the American church—especially the Continue reading
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Principle: The Gospel Was Never for Sale
Once upon a time, the church spoke truth to power. Now it rents the microphone from it. Once, pulpits thundered against Pharaoh and Mammon. Now they’re branded with logos, sponsored by banks, and tied to corporate donor boards that would crucify Christ again if He walked into their sanctuary unannounced. This is not persecution. This Continue reading
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Being Unbalanced
I get tons of questions about my particular stances for the Lord, usually revolving around why I seem so darn angry. The majority of church folks just don’t see things from my perspective and it is easy to dismiss how I am or what I say as just being “angry”, ministering from my wounds, stopped Continue reading
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Sacrilege towards the Frankenchrist.
“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other”. Mary Shelley Frankenstein “Je n’ai jamais été chrétien, je n’ai été réveillé que par Dieu. I have never been a Christian, I have only been awakened by God.” ~Vérité, self. There is only one way to Continue reading
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Satan’s Cure for Revival: The Sowing of Leaven
Revivals are one of the rarest occurrences in Christianity and for this reason they are also one of the most desired experiences in Christianity. Like the illusion of the rarity of diamonds that causes their prices to remain very high, those things that are rare are the things that we deem as the most valuable. Continue reading
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Heart Check
So, I’m really not a big “smash sinners” guy. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses, how they probably shouldn’t vacuum naked and all. So this post isn’t about that. God gave us the cross because he knew we were basically going to suck and suck big-time. We all suck Continue reading
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The (ab)normal Christian Life
Have you ever stopped the world for a second and taken a long, hard look at what we have become? I have, and what I have seen has shocked me to my core. You see, to conform inside of the Cult of Normal truly is the easiest thing in the world to accomplish, you just Continue reading
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Amerikan Babylon
Button your lip. Don’t let the shield slip. Take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask. And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions – You can hide, hide, hide, Behind paranoid eyes. You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar. Fixing your grin Continue reading
The People’s Revival 