John claiborne's Blog (18)

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

Who Is God in Your Life?

Either God is the Creator of the whole man, the whole universe, and all of reality and existence, or he is the Creator of none of it.



If God is only the Creator of some divided platonic existence which leads to a tension between the body and the soul, the real world and the spiritual world, if God is only the Creator of some spiritual little experiential "praise the Lord" reality, then he is not much of a God. Indeed, he is not I AM at all.



If… Continue

There is a pattern of lawlessness dominating our society today that throughout history was found in civilizations in the process of decline. It is a pattern evident in nations that rejected God's Word as ultimate authority in their lives and is a pattern prevailing in many Americans today. Scripture tells us that...





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Because of the increase of wickedness,

the love of most will grow… Continue

The book of Revelation reveals that the antichrist will be able to track and control all financial transactions and that NO MAN will be able to buy or sell anything unless he has the mark. Advances in digital technology have placed the world today on the verge of an identification system capable of monitoring virtually every human transaction - an ominous development for serious students of Bible prophecy.



He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to… Continue

As the 20th-century idols of atheism, humanism and communism are falling worldwide a spiritual vacuum is left that must be filled. In the resulting contest for the souls and minds of Americans in this new world order, the Church faces formidable opponents in godless liberal collectivists, neo-conservative fascists, globalists, New Age religion, Islam and Satanism.











No longer are we only threatened from without by a group of balding hard-line Communists - we are… Continue

There is great emphasis in the church today on uniting professing Christians of all denominations and beliefs. The message is that we're not so different after all... we can work together. Setting aside theological differences, we can help each other in the things we all agree upon. That effort is commonly referred to as "ecumenism," which is defined as "the organized attempt to bring about the cooperation and unity of all believers in Christ."



The foundation for this ecumenical… Continue

One of the more powerful tools in the hands of those waging war against Christianity is "Hate."



“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my… Continue

Why are liberals so afraid of Jesus?



Why do they tremble in the face of His ideals for mankind?



Because He demands accountability of you and me -- and them.



He offers absolutes.



In their rebellion, they do not want ANY rules, and especially do not want His rules. They do not want a God who tells them there are rights and wrongs that do not change according to human whim. They mock the idea of "natural law" -- that God has ordained how some things… Continue

Currently, over 200 million Christians worldwide are living under the threat of persecution.



Topping the list of countries which have mounted a campaign against Christians are China and Sudan followed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Burma, Greece, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. (Washington Watch, May 1998). Increasing persecution is also found in Cuba, Laos, and North Korea.



Many Islamic-dominated nations have adopted a fanatical, militant doctrine of persecution against all… Continue

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

2 Corinthians 11:3-4









The deception infiltrating the church was driven home for… Continue

Hear this, America...



"Therefore I bring charges against you again," declares the LORD.

"And I will bring charges against your children's children. Cross over to the coasts of Kittim and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.)



But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols.



Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great… Continue

Increase of Wickedness



There is a pattern of lawlessness dominating our society today that throughout history was found in civilizations in the process of decline. It is a pattern evident in nations that rejected God's Word as ultimate authority in their lives and is a pattern prevailing in many Americans today. Scripture tells us that...





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Because of the increase of… Continue

Events of the twentieth century alerted Bible students to the tremendous potential for fulfilled prophecy, and many students of the Bible and eschatology recognize the events continuing to unfold in the world today as signs of the last days.



The signs are visible all around us.



" wars and rumors of wars" - Matthew 24:6



Endless war seem to rage in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism is spreading to nearly every corner of the globe. Since 2000 alone,… Continue

See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants-- it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The… Continue