John claiborne's Blog – November 2009 Archive (5)

This prayer was given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Pastor Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:



"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have… Continue

There's probably nothing more sobering than to hear your doctor tell you that you have a terminal illness, such as cancer, and that you are going to die within 6-months. I have known such people, who were told they only had a few months to live, maybe a year. Oftentimes such people look fine, talk fine, and by all outward indications are ok. However, what the CAT-Scan shows may be quite different. A person may look fine on the outside, while cancer is eating them alive from the inside out. They… Continue

Worldly churches corrupt and pervert the testimony of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Like the world, they will bear their coming judgment. Jesus Christ said, "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil" (John 7:7).



Many of today’s modern churches profane the blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. They put no difference between the holy things of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the perverse and corrupt elements of this evil… Continue

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:" -Numbers 33:52







God hates idolatry! What is idolatry? Idolatry is having another god (or gods) besides the One True Living God of the Bible. There is ONLY One True and Living God...



"But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the… Continue

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." -Ephesians 6:12



As Christians, the Bible informs us that our battle is not against the flesh; but rather, against the spiritual forces of darkness. Satan is a liar, who comes only to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10). The human spirit is extremely susceptible to spiritual influences, which is why… Continue