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Is Love The Only Doctrine?

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Is Love The Only Doctrine?

I saw a church sign the other day that read, “Love is the only doctrine of this church.” That sounds lovely, doesn’t it? What’s wrong with love? In fact, the Bible says God is love. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (1 John 4:8). And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16). God is love. So is love the only doctrine? Is this what the Bible says?

Is love the only doctrine? No it is not. God is love. Love is one of God’s many, many, countless attributes. But it is only one of many. Yes, again, God is love. But God is also righteous, Holy and just. He is even wrathful. You can’t just tout one attribute of God. In doing so, you miss God! You miss the God of the Bible. We can never fully understand God with our finite minds. But God graciously gave us His word so we can know Him.

Love Is Not The Only Doctrine

God’s word points us to Jesus Christ the Lord and love is NOT the only doctrine of Jesus. The Lord Jesus was tough on self-righteous, religious leaders. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in (Matthew 23:13). Jesus was also tough on His own disciples. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken (Luke 24:25).

The woke crowd in America would most definitely call Jesus unloving because of the words He spoke to the religious leaders and to His own disciples. Worse yet, Jesus was intolerant. Very intolerant. Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Yes, woke Americans will not tolerate the intolerance of Jesus. Even though He is he Sons of God and He is the only Savior. [Read more…]

Getting Away With It

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Getting Away With It

Several years ago I heard that one half of all murderers in America are never caught. One half! This is a mind-blowing statistic. How can one half of all murders go unsolved? I just double checked and according to a CBS news article dated June 29, 2022, approximately half of all murders go unsolved. There’s more violent crime today and less police officers. So criminals are getting away with it, even getting away with murder.

But are they really getting away with it? Even if a murderer kills someone when the murderer is in their teens and they live to be 90 years old, they may think they’ve gotten away with murder for over 70 years. But they really haven’t gotten away with it. There is judgment to come. It’s appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). [Read more…]

Man Up

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Man Up

Man up is an expression that we’ve used for the past 25 years at my house. It isn’t meant to be sexist and obviously we’ve used this saying way before this time of political correctness and cancel culture in America. So tonight, I want to talk to you about manning up. Again, it isn’t meant to be sexist or anything like that. What does the phrase “man up” mean? Well, I’m glad you asked. Man up, means own up. When you’ve done something wrong, do you man up? In other words, own up to it or do you make excuses? [Read more…]

Ungrateful Unholy

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Ungrateful Unholy

According to the 2018 General Society Survey, 23.1% of Americans claim no religion. That’s slightly higher than the number that claim to be Catholic (23%) and the number of evangelicals (22.5%). But these statics really shouldn’t surprise us, at least not those of us who read and believe the Bible. The Bible tells us that in the last days people will be ungrateful, unholy and so it is in America. [Read more…]

Extra Night Of Fellowship

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Extra Night Of Fellowship

Ministry Update July 15, 2018

Every Friday night street witnessing is different. We never know what we are going to encounter. Sometimes mockers, other times encouragers and periodically both. Last week there were many of us witnessing and this week only two of us. But I realized on the way home Friday night that it really is a blessing to witness with other believers because we get in an extra night of fellowship.  [Read more…]

What Do You Idolize

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What Do You Idolize?

Many people in America, especially young people, say they don’t believe in God. The religious group “none” is the fastest growing religious or supposedly none religious group of Millennials. But even if you claim no religious affiliation, you worship something today. You worship someone or something. So who do you idolize or what do you idolize?  [Read more…]

Jesus Said

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Jesus Said

What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) was a popular phrase back in the 1990s. Many people wore WWJD bracelets back then. I did a little research and found that Charles Spurgeon used this phrase in a sermon in 1891 and he attributed it Thomas a Kempis who lived in the 1400s! So, the phrase What Would Jesus Do? is not new. But instead of focusing on what would Jesus do, how about we concentrate on what Jesus said? What He’s already told us to do?  [Read more…]

God Will Judge The Wicked

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God Will Judge The Wicked

You can’t fool the Lord. God will judge the wicked. He is Holy, righteous and just. The Lord is all powerful, all knowing and ever present. God cannot tolerate sin and He does punish sin. Even though you may think that you are “getting away” with your sins, you are not. God knows all, sees all and will punish all; all those who refuse to repent and trust Jesus.  [Read more…]

Storing Up More Wrath Against The Day Of Wrath

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Storing Up More Wrath Against The Day of Wrath

Ministry Update May 21, 2017

Friday night we witnessed several people that are storing up more wrath against the day of wrath (Romans 2:5). Aaron, Serenity, Elise, Desi and I sang a couple of hymns to start the night. I was the first one downtown, so I handed out tracts until everyone else got there. I gave a tract to a guy that walked by and he promptly walked over to the trash can and threw it in. So I kind of suspected it might be one of those nights, right off the bat.  [Read more…]

The Wicked and the Encouraging

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The Wicked and the Encouraging

Ministry Update June 5, 2016

We encountered the wicked and the encouraging both Friday night witnessing during Art Walk and earlier in the week at Planned Parenthood. Friday night Aaron, Brian, Chris, Diana, Elise and I started off singing hymns. While we were singing, I noticed Chris was missing. I asked my other friends and nobody knew for sure where he was. Evidently he stepped around the corner and was talking to a young man. Chris gave him a Bible and we hope the young man reads it. Also while we were singing, our friendly atheist Jim who we haven’t seen in quite a while, walked by. I saw him first and said Hi and handed him a tract. He hesitated and then took it anyway and promised that he would read it. Aaron also said Hi to him. Even though Jim is a devout atheist, he supports our right to preach. He’s even stood up to the police for us and he’s been kicked out of a couple of atheist groups because he says we have the right to free speech. Oh how we hope and pray that God would reach him.  [Read more…]