Remnant

09/02/2026

Tonight at **5:00 PM Eastern** — a new **Midweek Refuel**!

**“But It’s 2026!” Is Not a Moral Argument**

G. K. Chesterton takes away modernity’s calendar, measuring tape, and flattering slogans—and asks the forbidden question:

**What do you mean by good?**

Watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/my5wsFwR_hE

Watch on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/v7ezx3y-but-its-2026-is-not-a-moral-argument-chesterton-on-modern-morality.html

Join me tonight for *Orthodoxy 7B: Morality by Measuring Tape*.

**Christ is King! Hail to the King!**

07/23/2026

Church family,

This Sunday, we continue our journey through Daniel with one of the most powerful scenes in all of Scripture:

Daniel 3:19–27 — the fiery furnace.

Nebuchadnezzar had the image, the orchestra, the officials, the soldiers, and the furnace. He believed the threat of fire would make Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego flinch because nearly everyone else already had.

But they had already settled the question.

Their God was able to deliver them.

But even if He did not...
they still would not bow.

This week’s message is titled:

WHEN THE KING FLINCHED

We will examine the machinery Babylon uses to produce obedience, the moment the mask of reasonable authority becomes rage, and the kind of faith required to stand when everyone around you begins to bend.

But most importantly, we will see that the furnace was not empty.
Three men entered bound.

Four were seen walking free.

Many of us have lived through fires we once believed would destroy us. We have faced loss, betrayal, fear, sickness, pressure, and institutions that revealed another face.

And yet, here we are.
The fire was real.
The pain was real.
But we were never alone.

Come prepared to laugh, remember, worship, and walk away with greater courage.

The world may still have its images, its music, and its furnaces.

But we belong to the King who walks with His people in the flames.

Join us this Sunday at Remnant Church.

Christ is King!
Hail to the King!

Pastor John & Gretchen Widdifield
Remnant Church

07/06/2026

https://youtu.be/Q0FEIslO_NU

Babylon can wobble, threaten, flatter, rename, and prop up the lie ...

06/22/2026

“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”

We often weaponize that phrase, but do we understand its warning?

In this week’s Weekly Jumpstart, we walk through Daniel 2:31–35 and examine the anatomy of empire: the golden image, the clay feet, and the Stone cut without hands.

Modern culture is not merely “backsliding.” It is broadcasting the serpent’s oldest sermon in high definition, training the conscience to accept darkness as normal. Daniel teaches us to see the clay in the feet before the foundation crumbles.

Key themes:

• Why the nightmare of cultural collapse can be an act of divine mercy.

• How false liturgies demand sacrifice, and why godless systems always offer up the vulnerable to preserve the image.

• The difference between earthly kingdoms built on human pride and the unshakable Kingdom of Christ.

Watch the full message here:
https://rumble.com/v7bmub2-let-him-cast-the-first-stone-daniel-23135-weekly-jumpstart.html?mref=i42sp&mc=3mhca

Daniel 2 does not ask the church to throw the stone. It calls us to see the statue clearly, repent of the idols in us, and trust the sinless King whose kingdom will fill the earth. In this Weekly Jump

06/19/2026

Dear Remnant Church Family,

This Sunday, we continue our journey through Daniel with a message from Daniel 2:31–35 (ESV) titled:

“Let Him Cast the First Stone”

Nebuchadnezzar saw a terrifying statue: gold, silver, bronze, iron, and feet mixed with iron and clay. Then Daniel revealed the mercy hidden inside the nightmare. A Stone cut without human hands struck the image, shattered the kingdoms of man, and became a mountain that filled the whole earth.

This is not merely a prophecy chart. This is a revelation of the anatomy of every kingdom built without God.

The statue is impressive, but the feet are clay.

This week, we will look at the kingdoms of man, the weakness beneath their glory, the sacrificial systems they create, and the mercy of God who shows us the truth before judgment falls. We will also be reminded that the Church does not cast the Stone. Christ is the Stone. He alone is the sinless King. He alone judges rightly. And He alone saves sinners who fall before Him in repentance and faith.

Beloved, these are serious days, but we are not a people of panic. We are citizens of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.

Come ready to worship, listen, repent, and be strengthened.

Christ is King!
Hail to the King!

Pastor John L. Widdifield
Remnant Church

06/10/2026

Dear Remnant Church family,

This week’s Midweek Refuel is now available:
The Lion, the Lamb, and the Critics Who Couldn’t Decide

We are continuing through G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, and this lesson deals with one of the strangest accusations the world makes against Christianity.

On one page, Christianity is accused of making men too meek, too passive, too sheep-like, too unwilling to fight.

Then the page turns, and Christianity is accused of making men too militant, too dangerous, too violent, too warlike.

So which is it?

Does Christianity make men sheep?
Or does Christianity make men lions?

Chesterton saw the contradiction, and it helped him realize that maybe Christianity was not the confused thing. Maybe the critics were.

This lesson became especially important to me because I believe young men need to hear it. Our culture is not training young men into holiness, courage, sacrifice, responsibility, and self-command. It is often training them into passivity, shame, confusion, or bitterness.

But Christ does not call men to be cowards.
And Christ does not call men to be brutes.

He calls them to be holy.

A passive man can be managed.A savage man can be provoked.
But a holy man under the lordship of Jesus Christ is dangerous in a way hell understands very well.

I hope you will watch this one, and I especially hope you will share it with a young man, a father, a brother, a son, or anyone who needs to hear that Christianity is not weakness and it is not savagery.

It is the way of the Lamb and the Lion.

You can watch the lesson here:

https://rumble.com/v7b3reo-the-lion-the-lamb-and-the-critics-who-couldnt-decide-orthodoxy-6d.html?mref=i42sp&mc=3mhca

I love you all, and I am grateful to serve Christ with you.

Christ is King! Hail to the King!
Pastor John & Gretchen Widdifield

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05/31/2026

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Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, Babylon’s experts had a script, and suddenly the whole priesthood of false wisdom started sweating. In Daniel 2:7–13, the wise men of Babylon repeat the same answer: “Tell

05/21/2026

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Modern skepticism loves to put Christianity on trial. But what happens when doubt itself is called to the witness chair? In this Midweek Refuel lesson, Pastor John L. Widdifield continues the Chestert

05/17/2026

Narrative Resistance Manual

What if the greatest danger in Babylon was never the furnace? In this opening message through Daniel 1:1–21, Pastor John L. Widdifield begins a brand-new series titled “The Narrative Resistance Manual

05/15/2026

https://rumble.com/v79rnp2-the-answer-is-everywhere-orthodoxy-6a-the-paradoxes-of-christianity.html?mref=i42sp&mc=3mhca

In this Midweek Refuel, Pastor John L. Widdifield continues through G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, beginning Chapter VI: “The Paradoxes of Christianity.” Chesterton opens this chapter with one of the mo