Christless Preaching -How did we end up here?

How sad that most modern preaching is practically devoid of any mention of the atoning work of Christ. Many of these sermons do have snippets from the bible but they're usually centered about people. This example is one of many that sadly reflect the absence of Jesus Christ in preaching. Most of what one hears in church has nothing to do with The Savior and His sacrificial work on the cross. The regeneration of the Holy Spirit is never talked about, not to mention any aspect of the resurrection of Christ and what that means to believers -all this is completely absent. In fact most sermons are human centered (stuff about your life, how it works, and how it can be improved- using random biblical text) and not CHRIST CENTERED (things of His life,His power and what He has done already). By nature, people love hearing things about themselves and less about Christ therefore their growth is external (human-like) and not internal (Christ-like). Preachers in return continue to preach to the desires and excitement of the crowd rather than to the Glory and honor of God.

More Monkey See Monkey Do Evangelism

If you click on the title above you will see another sad example of a church attempting another wacky method to attract seekers using pragmatism (do anything as long as it works) to get people to come to church. When will churches stop looking for some kind of gimmick to grow memberships. What's next- communion with Jack Daniels instead of grape juice? Hey Pastor I have a novel idea: instead of giving them shot glasses that they drink whiskey out of, how about witnessing and giving out the GOSPEL! Oh I forgot that might offend them.

The Coming Fall of American Evangelical Christianity

The movement of Evangelical Christianity in America is unfortunately a declining movement. The power and influence of Christ and His church is as strong as ever throughout the world but in our postmodern western churches in North America and Europe it is waning. Like the economic collapse that is now present, sad to say, the American Protestant church is next. Most believers are so inept at giving their testimony or articulating what being a follower of Jesus Christ means that the growing and incoming secular society will demolish them and shake their foundation to such an extent, that they too like our banking system, will fall. Church attendance and the taking of sacraments is inconsistent as well as accountability in their personal lives for sanctification therefore customer driven mega churches will soon be the norm. If you take notice of the church today you will find that the average churchgoer would fail miserably at explaining basic 8th grade tenants of the faith if randomly quizzed about why and what they believe. And most are neither worried nor concerned about their relationship with Christ and their salvation. Don't believe me about the fall? Click on this and read why THE COMING COLLAPSE and hopefully we can do something to change direction.

Prayer Breakfast

Thanks to all it was a great success


. Hello everyone- the prayer breakfast was fantastic! Hopefully everyone had a good time and plenty to eat I sure did (which is not good for my waist). Everybody participated and came through for a magnificent event. The program was very nice and glorifying to God -which is the most important thing- and I am looking forward to bigger and even better things for next year; and if this is any indication of what we can look forward to, we will be so blessed! Hopefully we will have some photos up soon. Also lets continue to pray for all of our members and also for our new member Teresa. She was recently hospitalized so keep bringing her to the throne before God.
Anyway Blessings to all
Pastor Paul

A Ball of Christian Confusion

There is no substitute for knowing the Bible for yourself



Because many believers are so severely ignorant of the word of God, nonsense like this flourishes on religious television. Since the average Christian never attends a bible study or has no organized study of anything biblical- they unfortunately will believe anything and anyone if it sounds good.

Why the church is like the world

Here we see a "Christian" young man that has compromised for the world and justifies himself as he practices the art of being double minded. Watch as this young lady who is a believer, does what is biblical and corrects him and rebukes him for his errors. She doesn't judge him she just points out where he is wrong, questions him, and states what a believer should and should not be.... Great Job Blair!

Are there couples that are gay that can be loving and competent parents? I am sure there are, however the best thing for children is a two parent heterosexual married home. What those who do support homosexual marriages, do not understand, is that according to California law family code 297.5, same sex couples ALREADY HAVE the exact same rights as married couples- so the emotional appeal of discrimination of homosexuals does not apply. What the world and society at large is attempting to do, is a smooth calculating removal God's authoritative principle to the given roles of male and females in the covenant of marriage.Man by nature is attempting to implement the dissolving of how SIN fits into the paradigm of sexual activity. Since God has stated in His word what is wrong and right- humans, "leaning to their own understanding", make up their own ideas of right and wrong. For example as Paul states in Rom. 10:13 "For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God". This "deciding" of what is right and "not judging people" and the way they live is a subtle way of redefining the word "marriage". What is really happening is that through the imposition of "gay marriage", gay couples are attempting to remove the stigma of sin and shame that is felt as they engage in an activity that is described as Sin in both the New and Old Testaments of Scripture. Through reasoning and the emotional appeals of political correctness, gays have now gathered the sympathy of a society that had previously viewed them as victims of hatred and discrimination and that now need the rights of being called married. However propositions cannot remove how they feel about themselves and how others feel about them regardless of how many laws are made including the crowning of the title "married" on them.
I personally feel that evil done to anyone because they are gay is wrong and in fact criminal; and I don't think that any believer in Christ should behave in such a way. I also feel that Christ would have reached out to the gay community with the love of God as he did to all. With that said, let us not confuse the issue at hand which is sin. When one engages in the act of homosexual sex or heterosexual sex out of the boundaries of God's ordained covenant of marriage it is in violation of God's law and therefore designated as sin- regardless of yes or no on Prop 8 or any other Prop for that mater. For God says: "woe unto them that call evil good and good evil…" (Isa. 5:20). So attempting to redefine marriage to include: a man and man or a woman and a woman or a man and a dog or a grandmother and a grandson, etc… is as one of the political candidates stated: "putting lipstick on a pig" you can do that if you want- but it's still a pig.



YES ON PROPOSITION 8
By
Pastor Paul Starks

Marriage first of all is a cornerstone to the civility and structure of society as God -and not culture- has defined it. In fact by design, long-term heterosexual monogamous relationships are the healthiest relationships for the continuation of the family and offspring as well as the next generation that will be developed -therefore the government and state has a vested interest in protecting this institution and its designation as well as it's definition including the boundaries as to what it is and what it isn't.

A sad but true clip

Unfortunately a lot of churches are caught up in being everything but church. Listen as Dr. David Wells describes the weakness and softness of the modern church. He accurately describes a church of today that is so compromised that it will act and be anything to get and keep people in the pews
Enjoy

Sermon: "How Close Are You and God?"

Rescued From Foolishness

Here is a video I posted a while back that tells about a movement that is rampant in African American Churches unfortunately. So often people are looking for what they can get from God; so they flock to churches that will tell them how they can get health and wealth. However the Christian life is about sacrifice of yourself -just ask Jesus.