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Previous Posts

Your Kids are Not Your Kids
The Long Slide from Ephesus to Laodicea
The 144,000 Revisited
What Can You Control?
Lot and the Postmodern Train Wreck
Tom Winn is Not the Antichrist
God of the Nativity and God of the Cross
Lessons from the Death of Edna Cannon
The View from Inside the Tomb
What Happens When False Prophets Deliver?
How to Survive a Church Fight
The Creed— Doctrine vs. Deception
Seven Heads, Ten Horns and Blasphemous Names
The Night Visions
Ever Wonder Why So Many People Hate the Jews?
Future Events in Past Tense
Religious Affections, Part 2
Religious Affections, Part 1
Second Verse, Same as the First
It's Time to Kick Some Honey Bun
Satanic Attacks on the Early Church
The End of Pride
Vica Versa and Versa Vica
A Minister of Reconciliation
And We Will All Go Down Together
Remember the Disaster at Chernobyl
The Turnstile or the Super Highway
Lessons Learned from Y2K
Praying for Vengeance...with a Vengeance
Drapes, Darkness and Dead Guys
To Err is Human, to Forgive... uh, What?
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Radical Christian Living
No "Psychobabble Rap" Found Here
"Who are those guys?"
Trick or Treat
The Infinite God of Finite Numbers
The Eve of Destruction
They were all in one Accord...
The Final Checkmate of the Final Game
The Bait and Switch
Time, Times and Half-Time
John, Paul, George and Ringo... Not!
"Squeeze Me...uh, on second thought, don't!"
"Believe What I Say, Not What I Do."
"Beam me up, Scotty!"
"You know, it is what it is!"
Ivan Drago: "You're Dead!"
The Downside of Love
Living in the Shadows... like a Slug!
The Anti - Richie Rich Church
Remember, Repent and Return... or Else!
Dropped Like a Bag of Rocks!
Clothes Do Make the Man
Do You Have Ears?
Behold, He is on the Way!
Who Was, Who Is and Who is to Come
An Unveiling of Christ
The Last of a Dying Breed Patch: Spiritual Truths from the Death of a Dog
One Way or Another...
Made it, Ma! Top of the World!
The Portal Potty Preacher!
Spiritual Gifts: How Can We Tell the Difference?
Defining Moments Define... uh, Who We Are. Like, Duh!
It's a Little More than Bowing to a Stupid Stone!
Christ in Christmas? No Way!
The Truth About Persistent Prayer
Love Feast... My Butt!!
Stupid Is as Stupid Does!
Church in the Two Kingdoms
Life in the Two Kingdoms
The Place to Begin

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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Preparing for the End: Your Kids are Not Your Kids
Friday, March 27 28, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (38.43)

  Parenting and, better yet, grandparenting is an incredibly wonderful thing. 

But what happens when you love your kids more than you love the Lord?  Are you doing them a favor?  Are you being unloving to your children and family when you place your affections towards them before your devotion to the Lord?  I mean, is that a good thing to do?

Have you ever thought about the dire consequences of that kind of misplaced love?  Scripture has some frightful examples of just this kind of misplaced love. Want to learn more?

Note:  This is a study of Aaron's sons


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The Revelation:  The Long Slide from Ephesus to Laodicea
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (53.03)

  You do know, don't you, that the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 accurately picture all of church history in startling detail?  Well, if not... you should!  After all, we spent tons of time and type on it. 

But did you also know that the same seven letters also paint a sad, harrowing portrait of a church's, or an individual Christian's, slide from spiritual fervency to... well, lukewarmness.  From being the beloved to being what the Lord vomits out of His mouth.  Ouch.

Want to learn more?  Just listen...

Note:  This is a study of Revelation 14:6-7


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The Revelation:  The 144,000 Revisited
Thursday, March 19, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (44.26)

  How do you describe these 144,000 unbelievable overcomers?  Do you call them dynamic?  No, they are much more than that.  How about kinetic?  Or, charismatic?  Maybe they are just natural born leaders, you know, those destined for success and victory?

I don't know.  All these terms reek of worldly praise and not heavenly praise.  Seems somewhat shallow.

Scripture calls them, among other things, blameless.  Blameless!  Did you ever wonder what that means?  Stay tuned and find out.

Note:  This is a study of Revelation 14:1-5


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The Revelation:  What Can You Control?
Monday, March 2, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (44.03)

  In these times of economic upheaval, do you find yourself anxious about what tomorrow will bring?  Do you wonder if you'll have a job this time next month?  Do you lose sleep at night worrying about the sub-prime mortgage collapse, the ill-advised bank bailouts, or the simple fact that the Social Security Trust Fund is as empty as a poor widow's pantry?

You do know that you can't control any of those events, don't you?  Not one.

Want to know what you can control?
Good.  Stay tuned and find out...

Note:  This is a study of Revelation 14:1


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Preparing for the End: Lot and the Postmodern Train Wreck
Saturday, February 28, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (53.31)

  Definition:  Deconstruction - "the desire to tear down orthodoxy, institutions, traditions, understandings, etc., in order to reconstruct, or reinterpret them in a postmodern world."

Ok, and what does any of this have to do with Lot?  Or with his living near, or next to, or in the city of Sodom?  Why is this even an issue?  And what about the whole problem of hypocrites in the church?  What does deconstruction and postmodernism say about hypocrisy?

Great questions.  Stay tuned and find out...

Note:  This is a study of postmodernism


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The Revelation: Tom Winn is Not the Antichrist!
Saturday, January 31, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (46.14)

  The Hebrew, Greek and Latin language each have a gematria associated with each letter of their alphabet.  "What is a gematria?" you ask.  A gematria is basically a system that is designed to assign numerical values to each letter of their particular alphabet.

For the prophecy buff, this would naturally lend itself to the task of trying to determine the identity of the antichrist by finding a man's name whose numerical values add up to the infamous 666 of Revelation 13.

Sound far-fetched?  It's really not.
Spend a few minutes with us and you will see that Tom Winn is not the antichrist.

Note:  This is a study of Revelation 13:15-18


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The Joy of Believing the Lie

“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State.
My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,
so that both of them together is certain death.”
George Carlin (1937-2008)

     I am keenly aware of the fact that you may be wondering about a guy who would write a book entitled, Love Jesus, Hate Church. You probably have some questions, maybe many questions, about the origins of a book that makes people as uncomfortable as Love Jesus, Hate Church has proven to do.
     You may be asking yourself, "How can you be a Christian and use the words Love and Hate and Jesus and Church all in the same sentence?  It just seems so wrong."
     And, you're right. It does seem wrong.
     True.  But wrong.

     Yep, I would probably be wondering the same thing if the tables were turned and I found myself in your shoes.

     So, let me see if I can shed some light on who I am and why I do what I do by telling you a bit about myself and how I came to write Love Jesus, Hate Church.  Let me share with you, oh, how shall I put it— the joy of believing the lie. I believe this will give you a better grasp of who I am and why I wrote Love Jesus, Hate Church.

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