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09/14/2026

Everyone is not a victim.

We are watching this play out in national news and headlines and it has so clouded our judgement and manipulated our sense of compassion that we no longer recognize true victims and no longer pursue true justice. If everyone is a victim, how can anyone be held responsible? If everyone can elicit support and deflect responsibility for their actions, how are we to demand justice? This is not just a conundrum of secular society, but universalism has made it equally difficult in the church. If we are all victims, who is God to judge us??

A firm line must be drawn. Some actions are not those of a victim. Not everything has two sides worth considering. The demand that we show empathy to everyone has prevented us from showing compassion to victims. Some actions must be called what they are. Evil. Destructive. Malicious. Immoral. Wicked. And they must be judged on the merit of the action alone. We promote the notion that there are no wicked people, just those who are forced to do wicked things as a victim of circumstance. I reject this outright, as does Jesus: “men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.”

The more we allow everyone who acts in an evil way to gather supporters and claim victimhood, the more we will fail to recognize victims. It’s not really that difficult to see who deserves compassion and who deserves judgment. We just have to open our eyes and be honest.

08/12/2026

The step from abortion "until birth" to abortion "1 day after birth" is a rather short leap. Infanticide is no longer an extreme position. It is mainstream, compassionate, acceptable, defendable, and even necessary.

Now that our moral compass allows us to destroy fully formed, functioning human beings simply because they are still trapped in their mother's wombs, it won't be difficult to convince ourselves that the same is compassionate and necessary once they escape the womb.

Most human atrocities are fostered by people being persuaded in small increments along the way that what is being done is morally right, necessary, or even kind.

This will prove no different.

02/19/2026

Leaders Explain Yourselves or Stop Teaching

I've seen and heard more than a few Christian leaders recently who seemed to trivialize the need to explain the full meaning and implications of what they are teaching - as if the explanation was not their responsibility. They simply release open-ended sound bite controversies generating questions and confusion, and then move on as if they have no responsibility to offer clarification - even becoming frustrated at the notion that they should clarify.

Their most ardent followers will nod in agreement, not fully processing the implications of what was said. If questions are raised, their defenders will pounce, say something supportive of the leader along the lines of "you're really rattling cages" and then fall in line and expect no explanation. Many charismatic Christian mystics live here - surrounded by supporters who ask no questions themselves and permit none to be asked of the leader. It's why there's so much nonsense being exposed in the charismatic movement at large.

Perhaps you're not rattling cages? Perhaps you're just being ridiculously and even recklessly unclear? Perhaps you're proposing theological ideas that could end in spiritual error unless clarification is given? Pastor, or Apostle, or Prophet, or whatever title you assume, you are responsible for what you teach.

Preaching the Word is not philosophy. It is an exercise in truth. We are purveyors of truth, not murky ideas. That doesn't mean there isn't mystery. But if we address mysteries, we should say so and take time to explain the nuances of the mystery.

Leaders, you owe it to the people who are listening to be clear - to offer explanation - to tell us exactly what you think and believe and allow us to measure it against Christ and His word. Faith movements die in vagueness. They explode in obvious truth.

If you feel you shouldn't have to explain yourself, you're not suited for leadership. Sit down please and stop the confusion.

Teach them to pastor their families... I remember the Lord speaking this to me during Covid. It was the opposite of what...
02/03/2026

Teach them to pastor their families...

I remember the Lord speaking this to me during Covid. It was the opposite of what we were trying to do. During that season, we as church leaders tried to find ways to maintain the large church gathering. It was in this time that the explosion of church live streams and online campuses happened.

What if that wasn't what God wanted to teach us? What if He didn't want us to become more tech savy or to develop a new fad called virtual church?

What if He just wanted something simple? 2 or 3 gathered in His name.. Covid exposed many things, not least among them the deficiencies of the personality/experience driven model. When the personalities and experiences were removed, so too were the Christians. Many still haven't returned.

What if instead, we equipped fathers and mothers, saints, for the work of the ministry in their own homes? What if we taught them to lead their families in holy communion and prayer, to understand the simple gospel, to prophesy the word of the Lord over their household? What if we modeled how to be 2 or 3 gathered in His name?

This prophetic word from the Lord has stuck with me and been a defining approach for the congregation I lead. We're learning to pastor our families. That way, when the next Covid or winter storm happens, the church doesn't have to reinvent itself or miss a beat. She just becomes what she was meant to be - simple gatherings with many saints equipped for the work of the ministry. Leaders, teach them to pastor their families.

01/23/2026

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for…

10/17/2025

"Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance..."

10/13/2025

Christians. You are the end of the line for gossip, every time.

Whether you're the first person or the 100th person to hear it, you are where it stops. This may be the most valuable thing that we introduce to our broken world. The destruction of other people's character does not go a step further than the threshold of our ears. As a matter of fact, being "new creation" in the middle of a still groaning world demands that we have courage to not only *not* repeat gossip but to also confront it and ask that it not be told to us. I daresay we rarely possess this type of courage or even think that this is what the Spirit requires of us - knowing it may make us unlikable or ostracized in our circles. If you are reviled for a faithfulness to the Spirit of truth, count it joy.

This alone will advance the kingdom more than all of our charity combined. The tongue is a ruthless lion and the believer should be its tamer - whether it costs us or not.

09/11/2025

I have the utmost respect for those who stare down the lions.

Politics aside, a Christian man was martyred yesterday, in America, in full view. I don’t care who he helped elect. What a despicable way to determine whether a man deserves to live or not. If this is your mindset, you have no place in a free society. We can’t live in harmony. We can’t co-exist. I could care less where you land politically or how far right or left you are. I’m exhausted with that debate and everyone who allows politics to be all, to consume absolutely. Shame on us for letting votes be our moral arbiter.

My platform as a pastor is not votes, it’s truth. It’s morality. It’s right and wrong. It’s good and evil. It’s powers of darkness and powers of light. It’s principalities and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Here Charlie shined the brightest, with a courage that shamelessly mocked the ambiguous relativistic wavering pulpit that has become so prominent in popular Christianity. Take no stands, make no enemies, lose no fans.

Courage is not just needed now, it’s essential. We’ve entered an age where we must have answers and only courageous men and women will give them. There will be lions-they will roar-they will nash their teeth-they will seethe in anger-they may even appear to triumph. Where there are lions, there will also be martyrs. And the martyrs voice is loudest once the lion has done its worst. It’s how Christianity subverts the world-by the spectacle of willing martyrs and the deafening echoes of their lives reverberating from the grave. The voice of the Christian martyr is not their own-it is instead the roaring of the Lion of the tribe of Judah-upon whose shoulders the government rests-before whose feet every high thing will be brought low-every path made straight-every corner of darkness exposed. The passive, anemic, die-on-no-hill Jesus who supposedly “gets us” is not who He is. Back to hell with that lie. He doesn’t empathetically get us. He is a consuming fire of compassion before whom we cease to exist to be restored in His image. Stop with the better people nonsense. We are not made better. We are made new.

I’ve never felt this more strongly-if you’re not prepared for the moral fight to come, get out of the pulpit. If you’re more concerned with votes than you are with light and darkness, get out of the pulpit. We can no longer tolerate what is only popular. We must declare what is right. The blood of martyrs and the Lion demand it.

08/02/2025

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