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Ending The End Times Confusion

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Originally posted January 12th, 2022 Have I grabbed hold of your attention? Are you sitting on the edge of your seat ready for a strongly worded pontification of my eschatological position? Ready for my pronouncement of which millennial team I will be taking my talents to, whether pre-, a-, or post-? (Note: Lebron is a dispensationalist, he keeps looking for literal lakes in L.A., not realizing they were superseded from Minneapolis. Westbrook is more of an old school covenantal he thinks made shots are an allegory. Yuck yuck, go Jazz) Well then, please accept my apology, for the purpose of this, is not that. Instead of an over-bolstered braggadocio of my own end times opinions complete with pithy zingers of others positions (excluding the Lebron joke) I would like instead to offer a path forward for those, who like me, are left completely humbled by the complexity of the end times debate and have been searching for a way to simplify it for the benefit of there own self-discovery an...

The Potential For Vanity In Church Plants

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   Originally posted on February 12th, 2022 Proverbs 10:17 The one who follows instruction is on the path to life, but the one who rejects correction goes astray. Soooooo, we need to talk... I hate being this guy, I hate being the one that has to take something that is so celebrated and that inspires so much hope for fellow believers in JESUS and point out a major flaw I have recognized, but I see it, and now that I have seen it, much like the time when I witnessed a boom mic clearly in sight of a scene during a popular Christian movie, I cant un-see it. So my hope in pointing out what I am about to is that I may rebuild whatever it is I might tear down by the end of this post (so no one feels Left Behind but instead are made Courageous...please forgive me) and hopefully inspire fixing it. So lets rip the Band-Aid off, here is what I'm seeing, church plants can be merely just an exercise in vanity , this vanity can be a temptation for several different groups, those being Mis...