Chris Bobblett Ministries

10/23/2026

WHO SAID THE BEST S*X HAS TO BE IN THE BEGINNING OF MARRIAGE? 🔥

Can we talk about something the church doesn’t talk about enough? S*x. Yes, I said it. 😂

Somewhere along the way, we’ve accepted the idea that passion and physical intimacy naturally fade as marriage gets older.

The honeymoon ends, kids come along, careers get demanding, life gets busy, and intimacy slowly takes a back seat.

And we just assume that’s normal. But who said it has to be that way?

My wife and I have been married for 25 years, and I can genuinely say our intimate life is better today than it’s ever been. Emotionally, relationally, AND physically.

Years ago, I read a book called Red-Hot Monogamy by Bill and Pam Farrel. One of the things worth remembering is that what happens in the bedroom is often connected to what’s happening outside of it.

Emotional connection matters. Communication matters. Friendship matters. Feeling loved, appreciated, and desired matters.

Sometimes passion hasn’t disappeared. It’s simply been buried beneath stress, distractions, unresolved hurts, and the demands of everyday life.

And yes, sometimes physical, hormonal, or health challenges play a role and deserve compassion and attention. But here’s a question worth pondering:

Have you stopped being intimate because you’ve grown apart, or have you grown apart because you’ve stopped being intimate?

Perhaps it’s a little of both.

I also think the church has spent far too much time talking about the dangers of s*x and not nearly enough time celebrating the beauty of it within marriage.

Read Song of Solomon! Or Proverbs 5:18–19, where a husband is encouraged to rejoice in his wife and remain captivated by her love.

Apparently, God never intended marital passion to come with an expiration date!

Now, intimacy should never be about pressure, obligation, or keeping score. It’s about mutual love, desire, connection, and delight.And every marriage has different seasons. But after 25 years, here’s what I believe:

Passion doesn’t have to fade with time. It can actually deepen when two people continue intentionally pursuing one another.

So maybe the question isn’t simply how often you’re having s*x. Maybe it’s whether you’re still dating, flirting, laughing, communicating, touching, and making each other feel wanted.

Because marriage isn’t just about growing old together. It’s about continuing to enjoy the person you’re growing old with.

The best years of your marriage don’t have to be behind you. They might still be ahead of you!
And here’s a question for married couples:

Do you believe passion naturally fades with time, or do we sometimes stop cultivating the very things that keep it alive?

10/23/2026

Have you ever wondered why we throw baby showers, buy gifts, decorate nurseries, and lavish so much love on those vile, wicked, depraved little sinners we call babies? 😂

I mean, if we’re all born utterly corrupt, evil, and offensive to God, shouldn’t the baby shower come with a warning label?

Okay, I’m being sarcastic. But perhaps the sarcasm exposes something worth reconsidering.

For centuries, many Christians have been taught that humanity is born sinful because of Adam. That we enter this world already depraved, fundamentally corrupt, and separated from God.

This is a widely held theological position, particularly within Western Christianity.

But it is not the only historic Christian perspective. And I would suggest there is another way of understanding humanity that is deeply biblical, rooted in the early church, and perhaps far more faithful to the opening pages of Scripture.

Before there was ever original sin, there was original blessing. Before Adam ever disobeyed, God declared His creation GOOD.

And when God created humanity in His own image, He declared it VERY GOOD (Genesis 1:26–31).

Think about that.

Sin is not the first word spoken over humanity. Blessing is. And I would argue that sin doesn’t get to erase what God has spoken.

Remember the fascinating story of Balaam in Numbers 22–24? Balak hired this pagan prophet to pronounce a curse over Israel, but Balaam discovered something remarkable:

“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?” — Numbers 23:8

And again, in verse 20:

“Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.”

Now, context matters. Balaam was speaking specifically about God’s covenant blessing upon Israel, not making a universal statement about every human being.

But the story illustrates a beautiful theological principle: God’s blessing is not something we should casually dismiss.

And when we return to creation, we discover that God’s original word over humanity was not a curse, but goodness and blessing.

Consider what else Scripture says about us.

Psalm 139:14: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Genesis 9:6: Even after the fall, humanity is still described as bearing God’s image.

James 3:9: James reminds believers that human beings are made in the likeness of God.

Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.”

And then consider Isaiah 53:6:

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.”

Notice the language.

We have GONE astray.

We have TURNED to our own way.

Isaiah describes humanity’s wandering, rebellion, and need for redemption. He does not say that babies are born morally wicked.

That distinction matters.

Now, none of this means sin isn’t real, that humanity doesn’t need salvation, or that our world isn’t profoundly damaged by evil.

Of course it is.

We inherit a world already fractured by sin. We are shaped by broken systems, wounded relationships, distorted desires, and the consequences of generations before us. And we participate in that brokenness through our own choices.

Paul takes all of this seriously in Romans 5.

But notice something else in that chapter: Paul’s emphasis is not ultimately on the greatness of Adam’s failure, but on the surpassing greatness of Christ’s victory!

“Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” — Romans 5:20

Adam’s disobedience is not more powerful than Christ’s obedience. Sin is not more original than God’s goodness. And the fall is not more definitive than God’s intention for His creation.

Interestingly, some early Christian thinkers approached humanity very differently from later doctrines of inherited guilt.

Irenaeus, the second-century bishop of Lyons, wrote:

“The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.” — Against Heresies, 4.20.7

Irenaeus understood humanity in terms of God’s image, growth, and the life we were created to share with Him. He certainly believed in sin and humanity’s need for redemption, but he did not frame the human story simply as people born utterly worthless and offensive to God.

And that brings me to Jesus.

When little children were brought to Him, Jesus didn’t recoil in disgust at their supposed depravity.

He welcomed them. He blessed them.
He held them up as examples of the kingdom.

“Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” — Mark 10:14

Perhaps we need to reconsider what we have been telling people about themselves.

What if the first truth about you isn’t that you’re a sinner, but that you’re made in God’s image?

What if sin is not your deepest identity, but a distortion of the humanity God created you to embody?

What if salvation is not God finally deciding to love people He previously found repulsive, but God in Christ rescuing, healing, reconciling, and restoring the humanity He has always loved?

After all, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Jesus didn’t come because humanity was worthless. He came because humanity was worth redeeming. And perhaps the gospel isn’t that you were born garbage and Jesus makes you tolerable.

Perhaps the gospel is that you were created in God’s image, sin has terribly distorted that image, and Jesus has come to restore us to the life for which we were always intended.

I’m not suggesting we ignore the seriousness of sin. I’m suggesting we take the goodness of God’s creation and the victory of Jesus just as seriously.

Because before sin ever entered the story, God had already spoken.

And His first word over humanity was GOOD.

Original blessing came before original sin. And in Jesus Christ, grace has the final word.

Maybe that’s something worth thinking about.

10/22/2026

I was raised Pentecostal Holiness. After Bible College I married my love, Janette, where I got exposed to the Word of Faith movement. I read all of Kenneth E. Hagin's books. (I have leaned a lot from various movements and camps, all members of the body of Christ with different perspectives, this being one of those)

Here are several quotes and things that he taught that I embraced and still hold to be true to this day that Kenneth Hagin taught:

-the Holy Spirit ONLY convicts of one sin: unbelief in Jesus (book How You Can be Led by the Holy Spirit)

-you CANNOT lose your salvation over unconfessed sin after you have come to Christ or sinful actions/bad works (book, The Triumphant Church)

-God has already forgiven and reconciled "the world, sinners" unto Himself and they are already in His favor, they need only believe and receive it (book, Paul's Revelation)

-Christians are not under the 10 Commandments (book Love: The Way to Victory)

-There is only one law governing the New Covenant: the Law of agape/love (book, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage)

-Husbands are NOT the spiritual head/covering of their wives; Jesus is (book, The Woman Question)

-Fasting is NOT a New Covenant command. It's good, beneficial, etc. but not a command (book, Commonsense Guide to Fasting)

-100-fold return, Giving-to-get, bringing your offering "into the storehouse", etc. are untrue teachings. We give in the New Covenant out of love and obedience - period. (book, The Midas Touch).

To often we exclude other voices and perspectives in the body because the don’t come from our group and if often blocks our blessing and breakthrough as one person doesn’t have all the answers, neither does one group. We’re a body for a reason. Humility helps us prayerfully consider different ideas and test to see if they are scriptural.

Stay hungry. Stay humble.

10/20/2026

The end is near (again)

Funny. If you actually read the scriptures James said the same thing 2000 years ago: "Therefore be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You also be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the Lord's coming is near. Do not complain, brothers and sisters, against one another, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing [h]right at the doors" (5:7-9).

Jesus said the same thing: "when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the doors [of the temple?: v. 2]. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place" (Matt. 24:33-34).

And yes, I absolutely believe and affirm that Jesus Christ will return and that God will bring about the renewal and restoration of all things (Acts 3:21; Revelation 21:5).

But here’s what I don’t believe: That everything has to go to hell before heaven can come to earth.

Jesus didn’t teach us to pray for the destruction of the earth but for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Paul didn’t describe a creation destined for abandonment, but one groaning in anticipation of liberation (Romans 8:19–21).

And considering that we, as believers, are supposedly filled with the very same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:11), I can’t help but wonder how we’ve been so easily convinced that darkness is destined to win, evil must prevail, and our greatest hope is simply to escape.

Perhaps we’ve spent so much time looking for the end of the world that we’ve neglected our calling to participate in its renewal.

The Kingdom isn’t waiting to begin. It’s already here. And it’s a Kingdom of which there shall be no end (Luke 1:33).

10/19/2026

NOT EVERY SPIRITUAL DOOR IS ONE YOU SHOULD OPEN.

We live in a world that is increasingly fascinated with the supernatural, the mystical, and the unseen. Tarot cards, psychic readings, mediums, spirit guides, astrology, and various forms of witchcraft have become so normalized in our culture that many people, including Christians, no longer recognize the spiritual implications of what they are participating in.

And I think it’s time we have an honest, biblical conversation about it.

First, let me be clear: The spiritual world is real. Scripture doesn’t present the supernatural as imaginary, nor does it suggest that everything spiritual is necessarily from God.

The Apostle John writes:

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.” — 1 John 4:1

Notice John doesn’t tell believers to reject everything supernatural. He tells them to exercise discernment because not everything spiritual is holy, and not every supernatural experience originates with the Holy Spirit.

Throughout Scripture, God’s people are repeatedly warned against divination, sorcery, consulting mediums, and attempting to communicate with the dead (Deuteronomy 18:9–14; Leviticus 19:31; Isaiah 8:19).

But why?

Not because God is threatened by supernatural activity. Not because He wants to keep us ignorant of the spiritual realm. And certainly not because He is withholding something good from His children.

It’s because not every spiritual invitation leads to life.

One of the oldest temptations in Scripture is the desire to obtain spiritual knowledge, power, or insight independently of trusting God.

And that temptation hasn’t disappeared. We’ve simply given it new packaging.

Sometimes it looks like seeking guidance through tarot cards rather than cultivating discernment through the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes it looks like consulting a medium for answers rather than learning to trust the God who holds our future.

Sometimes it looks like pursuing spiritual experiences without ever stopping to ask what spirit is actually being encountered.

And here’s where I believe Christians need to be especially careful.

Curiosity is not the same as discernment. And just because something feels spiritual doesn’t mean it’s spiritually safe.

Jesus said in John 10:1 that the one who enters the sheepfold by another way is a thief and a robber. In context, Jesus is confronting false shepherds who seek access to the sheep apart from Him. The larger principle is important: Jesus is the true Shepherd, and His voice is the one His sheep are called to recognize and follow.

We were never meant to pursue spiritual life independently of Christ.

In Him we have access to the Father (Ephesians 2:18). Through Him we receive the Spirit. And by His Spirit we are invited into communion with the living God.

We don’t need secret knowledge, spiritual intermediaries, or mystical techniques to gain access to what God has freely given us in Jesus.

And I would encourage believers to take seriously what they welcome into their hearts and homes.

Not because every strange experience is demonic. Not because every difficulty in life can be traced to some spiritual doorway. And certainly not because Christians should live terrified of the devil.

But because what we continually entertain, trust, and give authority to can shape our hearts, our thinking, and our spiritual lives.

Paul reminds us that our struggle is not merely against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12). Yet in that very same passage, he calls us to stand firm in the strength of the Lord, clothed in truth, righteousness, faith, and salvation.

The answer to spiritual darkness has never been spiritual paranoia.

The answer is Jesus.

And perhaps that’s what I most want believers to understand.

You don’t have to fear the spiritual world, but you do need to discern it.

You don’t have to become obsessed with darkness, but you shouldn’t be naive about it either.

And you certainly don’t have to go searching for supernatural encounters when the Holy Spirit Himself has made His dwelling within you.

If you’ve participated in these things, this isn’t an invitation to shame, panic, or condemnation. It’s an invitation to reconsider where you’re seeking guidance, where you’re placing your trust, and whose voice you’re allowing to shape your life.

Because Christianity isn’t the denial of the supernatural.

It’s the recognition that Jesus Christ is Lord over it.

So be curious, but be discerning. Be spiritually open, but remain rooted in Christ. Test what you encounter against the character of Jesus and the witness of Scripture.

And remember, the goal of the Christian life isn’t to gain access to spiritual power.

It’s to know and walk with the One to whom all authority in heaven and on earth already belongs.

Not everything supernatural is from God. But everything from God will ultimately bear witness to Jesus Christ.

10/17/2026

“Too many people are fighting for a seat at a table that Jesus would’ve flipped”

Somewhere along the way, we’ve managed to turn the gospel of a crucified Messiah into an industry of celebrity, influence, branding, and personal empires.

We’ve learned how to market Jesus, package grace, and build religious platforms around a man who had nowhere to lay His head.

And perhaps the most troubling part is how normal it’s all become.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with writing books, creating resources, growing a ministry, or earning a living through the work you do. Paul himself taught that those who proclaim the gospel have a right to receive support.

The problem isn’t receiving compensation for your labor. It’s exploiting people’s faith for personal gain.

There’s an enormous difference between using a platform to make Jesus known and using Jesus to make yourself known.

In John 2, Jesus overturned the tables because sacred space had become entangled with commerce and religious interests. What was intended to facilitate an encounter with God had become a marketplace.

And I wonder what tables He might overturn today.

Tables where fear is profitable. Where spiritual authority is measured by followers. Where people are manipulated into giving through guilt or promises of divine favor. Where protecting the institution matters more than loving people.

Here’s the irony: We preach a Savior who emptied Himself while building religious systems obsessed with elevating ourselves. (Philippians 2:5–8)

Jesus revealed a kingdom where greatness looks like servanthood, power looks like love, and grace is freely given, never earned or purchased.

And before we point fingers at celebrity preachers or megachurches, perhaps we should examine our own hearts. Because the temptation to build something around ourselves exists in churches of fifty just as easily as fifty thousand.

Maybe the church doesn’t need another celebrity or another carefully marketed version of Christianity.

Maybe the world simply needs people who look a little more like Jesus.

People with nothing to prove, no one to manipulate, and no personal kingdom to protect.

Because the gospel was never meant to make us famous. It was meant to make Christ visible.

And perhaps we should spend less time fighting for a seat at the table and more time asking whether Jesus would even want to sit there.

10/17/2026

When we open the New Testament and allow Jesus to speak within the world of His original audience, something remarkable begins to emerge. Jesus was not merely offering vague predictions about events thousands of years into the future. He was speaking to real people, in a real place, at a particular moment in history, warning them that their world was about to undergo a dramatic and devastating transformation.

He warned that the temple would be destroyed (Matthew 24:2), that Jerusalem would face judgment (Matthew 22:7; 23:38), and that the covenantal world they had known for centuries was approaching a decisive turning point. And perhaps most strikingly, Jesus placed these events within a very specific timeframe.

"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened." — Matthew 24:34

Now, we have to ask an important question: What would those words have meant to the people who actually heard Jesus say them?

Because for much of my life, like many Christians, I was taught to read these passages primarily through the lens of modern prophecy teachers. Wars, famines, earthquakes, false prophets, and the gospel reaching the nations were presented as unmistakable signs that the world was approaching its final days. Every international conflict, every natural disaster, every troubling headline seemed to become another piece of the prophetic puzzle.

And while I understand the appeal of trying to connect Scripture with the events unfolding around us, I eventually found myself wrestling with a question I could no longer ignore.

If Jesus said these things would happen within the lifetime of His original hearers, why was I constantly being taught to look for their fulfillment in mine?

That question didn't diminish my confidence in Scripture. Quite the opposite. It drove me deeper into it.

I began discovering that sometimes the best way to understand what Jesus meant is not to begin with the morning news, but with the Bible itself, the historical world in which it was written, and the people to whom those words were first spoken.

Consider the famines Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24:7. We don't have to speculate about whether such things occurred in the first century. Luke tells us in Acts 11:28 that a severe famine took place during the reign of Claudius Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire from AD 41 to 54.

What is particularly interesting is Luke's language. He describes this famine as affecting "all the world." The Greek word he uses is oikoumenē, a term often referring to the inhabited or known world, and frequently associated with the Roman world.

In other words, the biblical writers were speaking from within their own historical and geographical horizons. They were not necessarily describing every nation and every individual on the planet as we understand those terms today.

And this becomes especially important when we come to another statement Jesus made.

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." — Matthew 24:14

For years, I heard this verse presented as proof that Jesus could not have been speaking about the first century. Surely the gospel had not reached the entire modern world before Jerusalem fell in AD 70!

But here's where Scripture becomes fascinating.

The word translated "world" in Matthew 24:14 is again oikoumenē. It is the very same word Luke uses in Luke 2:1 when Caesar Augustus issues a decree that "all the world" should be taxed, or registered.

Now, nobody imagines Caesar was conducting a census in North America, Australia, or every distant civilization on earth. Luke was describing the known world within the horizon of the Roman Empire.

So why would we automatically insist that Jesus meant something entirely different when He used that same language?

And then we come to the Apostle Paul.

Writing to the Colossians, Paul makes an astonishing declaration:

"The gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven." — Colossians 1:23

Notice what Paul says. Not that the gospel will someday be preached, but that it had been preached.

And in Romans 16:26, he speaks of the gospel being "made known to all nations."

Now, was Paul claiming that every individual across every continent had personally heard a Christian sermon? Of course, we need to understand his words within the rhetorical and geographical conventions of the ancient world. But that is precisely the point.

We cannot insist that Jesus was speaking in modern, global terms while allowing Paul and Luke to speak in the language of their own ancient world.

The same historical sensitivity we bring to one passage must be brought to the others.

And suddenly, something begins to come into focus.

Perhaps Jesus was not giving His disciples a mysterious timetable intended to keep Christians guessing for the next two thousand years. Perhaps He was faithfully warning His own generation about the approaching destruction of Jerusalem, the fall of the temple, and the collapse of the covenantal order centered upon it.

And perhaps the events surrounding AD 70 deserve far more attention in our understanding of biblical prophecy than many of us were ever taught to give them.

That doesn't mean every question about biblical prophecy is settled, or that faithful Christians cannot disagree about the details. There is room for thoughtful discussion about how these passages relate to the ultimate renewal of creation and the fullness of God's kingdom.

But it does mean we should approach Scripture with enough humility to ask whether our inherited interpretations have sometimes overshadowed the actual words of Jesus.

Because the goal of biblical interpretation is not to make the Bible fit our headlines. It is to understand what the Bible was saying before we ask what it means for us today.

And here's what I find so encouraging about that: when we recover the historical context of Jesus' words, we do not lose their relevance. We discover their depth. We see a Savior who spoke truthfully to His generation, who warned of coming judgment, who offered a way of peace, and whose kingdom would not collapse when Jerusalem's stones came tumbling down.

The temple fell. Jerusalem was devastated. An entire world was shaken.

But the kingdom Jesus announced did not fall with the stones of the temple. It continued to advance, because His kingdom was never dependent upon those stones in the first place.

And that ought to strengthen our faith, not weaken it.

For the question is no longer simply, "Are we living in the last days?"

Perhaps a better question is, "Have we been so busy looking for what Jesus said would happen that we've overlooked what He has already faithfully accomplished?"

10/17/2026

New Blog Post. Check it out-

The Holiness, Justice, and Restoring Work of God

10/16/2026

What if God's love is bigger than we've been told?

In GRACE Over TULIP, Pastor Chris Bobblett offers a bold, Christ-centered alternative to the rigid determinism of classical Calvinism. With theological clarity and pastoral compassion, this book reimagines the doctrines of grace through the lens of the New Covenant—centered not in abstract decrees, but in the unveiled heart of God revealed in Jesus Christ.

Rather than accepting the TULIP framework—Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints—Bobblett presents GRACE as a more biblically faithful and relational vision:

Global Invitation
Relational Election
Atonement for All
Conditional Participation
Empowered Obedience

With deep roots in Scripture, the early Church Fathers, and New Covenant theology, GRACE Over TULIP shows that:

God’s grace is resistible, not coercive.

Election is found in Christ, not in arbitrary selection.

The atonement is universally offered, not selectively applied.

Faith is a relational response, not a programmed inevitability.

Security is found in Christ’s faithfulness, not in deterministic perseverance.

Whether you're wrestling with the tensions of Reformed theology, coming out of spiritual disillusionment, or longing for a God who truly “so loves the world,” this book will meet you there—with theological depth, pastoral warmth, and gospel hope.

Link for the Book-

GRACE Over TULIP: A New Covenant Reimagining of Divine Election and Love

10/16/2026

Before the creeds, before the sermons, before the complicated charts and theological systems—there was a story.

A story whispered in the human soul from the very beginning.

A story of a God whose love was never in question, a Kingdom that was never out of reach, and a Way that was always open to us.

In The Gospel We Always Had, Pastor Chris Bobblett invites you to rediscover the gospel not as a transaction but as a revolution of love—an unshakable truth our ancestors believed long before it was buried beneath fear and distortion. With insight drawn from Scripture, church history, and a quarter-century of pastoral ministry, Chris challenges long-held assumptions about the cross, the Kingdom, and what it means to follow Jesus today.

If you’ve ever suspected there’s more to the gospel than the version you were handed, this book is your invitation to remember the story you’ve always known in your bones.

Link for the Book -

The Gospel We Always Had : God. Kingdom. Way.