"I now think I am bound never to preach a sermon without preaching to sinners. I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach" -C.H. Spurgeon


Have you ever found this to be true? Why do you believe a 'preacher' would preach and not preach abuout sin?

Team work!

A few weeks a home school mom got me to thinking about team work. She wanted her children involved in team sports so they could learn team work. My reply was that we teach team work at home and it follows through with the other areas of our lives. I felt happy about my response; the parent is responsible to teach a child team work.

Yet, something pricked my heart that there was something missing. So, I kept my eyes and ears open. Today in society there is a big push for 'team work'. It takes a village to raise a child, how to make a company work, sports, marriage 50/50, compromising, working together and etc. It all sounds nice and good. Basic godly principles. Helping each other, self sacrifice for the good of the whole. Yeah, that is biblical isn't it?

Then in my daily scripture reading I came to The Tower of Babel. Wow! Now isn't that team work, isn't that the way of the world. Isn't that the emphasis of today's generation. And God said NO! wrong. Cannot have this. So he confused their languages and the parted to all parts of the world.

Now I was really confused. Why would God not want us to work together? Are we not all one body in Christ? So I spent some time in prayer and waiting on the Lord. And one scripture in particular stood out, Colossians 3:23 " And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"

Ah, with the Tower of Babel they were not doing it unto God, it was for self. Oh, yes things started to fall into place. Our focus has to be on God and God only. When our total focus is on God we will do the right. It may appear at times we are 'team working' but in actuality we are focusing on God not each other. Then the outcome will not have to be 'confused' by God. It will be to God's glory. Dawn

The Modernist Preacher Entering Hell

He was an ordained minister, but modern in his views.
He preached his twisted doctrines to people in the pews.
He would not hurt their feelings, whate'er the cost would be,
But for their smiles and friendship and compliments sought he.
His church was filled with wicked souls that should be saved from sin,
But never once he showed the way or tried a soul to win.
He preached about the lovely birds that twitter in the trees,
The babl'ing of the running brooks, the murm'ring of the seas.

He quoted fancy poetry that tickled list'ning ears
When sorrow came to some, he tried to laugh away their tears.
His smooth and slipp'ry sermons made the people slide to hell.
The harm he did by preaching goes beyond what we can tell.
He took our Holy Bible, and preached it full of holes,
The Virgin Birth, said he can't be believed by honest souls,
The miracles of Jesus and the resurrection tale
For educated ones like us, today, cannot avail.
We're living in an age, said he, when wisdom rules and reigns,
When man's intelligence is great and superstition wanes.

He said, we're all God's children who live upon this earth,
No message of salvation, no need of second birth.
His coat was bought with money that he had wrongly gained,
For through his twisted sermons his wealth he had obtained.
He was just like the Roman soldiers that watched at Jesus' grave,
For money in abundance, to them, the people gave;
It all was theirs by telling what was a sinful lie -
A resurrected Savior, they, too, were to deny.

The day at last had come for the minister to die,
When to his congregation, he had to say good-bye.
His form lay cold and lifeless, his ministry was past,
His tongue with all its poison was hushed and stilled at last.
His funeral was grand; he was lauded to the skies-
They preached him into heaven where there are no good-byes.
Upon the lonely hill, underneath the shady trees,
His form was laid to rest in the whisp'ring of the breeze.

A tombstone was erected with words: "He is at rest,
He's gone to heaven's glories to live among the blest."
His body now is lifeless, but Ah! His soul lives on,
He failed to enter in where they thought that he had gone.
The letters on the tombstone or that sermon some had heard,
Could not decide his destiny, 'twas not the final word.
He still had God to deal with, the one who knows the heart;
While others entered heaven, he heard the word, "Depart."

He pauses for a moment upon the brink of hell;
He stares into a depth where he evermore will dwell.
He hears the cries and groanings of souls he had misled,
He recognizes faces among the screaming dead.
He sees departed deacons which he had highly praised.
Their fingers pointing at him as they their voices raised:
"You stood behind the pulpit, and lived in awful sin,
We took you for a saint, but a liar you have been."
Accusing cries! He hears them, "Ah! You have been to blame,
You led us into darkness when you were seeking fame."

"You preached your deadly doctrine, we thought you knew the way.
We fed you and we clothed you, we even raised your pay.
You've robbed us of a home where no tear-drops ever flow,
Where days are always fair and the heav'nly breezes blow.
Where living streams are flowing, and saints and Angels sing,
Where every one is happy, and Hallelujahs ring.
We're in this place of torment, from which no soul returns;
We hear the cry of lost ones, we feel the sizzling burns;
Give us a drop of water, we're tortured in this flame;
You failed to preach salvation to us through Jesus' Name."

The preacher turns in horror, he tries to leave the scene,
He knows the awful future for every soul unclean,
But there he meets the devil, whom he has served so well,
He feels the demon powers as they drag him into hell.
Throughout eternal ages, his groans, too, must be heard-
He, too, must suffer torment-he failed to heed God's Word.
He feels God's wrath upon him, he hears the hot flames roar,
His doctrine now is different, he ridicules no more.

By Oscar C. Eliason, c1960

Who is leading the churches?

I think of Matthew 15:13-14 " But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." I really think most 'Christian colleges' are just blind leaders leading the blind. If a man is called to serve God, goes to a 'Christian college' and learns false teachings. Where does this leave the 'people'?

Having grown up in a ministers home and my dad was a presperter (fancy name for head minister of all the ministers in a district) which also put him on the board for ordaining ministers in our state. All this to say not only have I witnessed this with my own eyes but have also heard my dad talk about the compromises colleges and church denomination's have been making to put ministers in the pulpit. The worst part of all of this is that this has been going on for so long the 'church' doesn't see it happening, they don't even realize they are being lead by the blind. They are so blind. Man has been putting his trust in man for so long where can one find a 'man' that can be trusted?

I want to say this world yet I am going to be more specific. America revolves around the all mighty dollar. If a Bible college is going to make it it needs money. And if a Bible college asks for federal $, well the answer there is obvious, God will be taken out of the college in no time at all. I believe Harvard is a good example. So I can see and understand this way of demise. How many churches compromise doctrine to get people in the doors. Hay! Where do you think those pastors got that idea? Yes, most Bible colleges teach how to get people into your church. Now is that biblical?

Now I want to know how do we reverse this process? Or do we? Do we need to go down another path to find leadership to follow? And what is that path? Who (man) can we trust?