The Church Manual limits the power of church authority, and functions like a bill of rights in the church, clarifying the obligations of members and adminstrators alike.
Read moreThe Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies
In 2020, when the most substantive global imposition against personal liberties arrived, nothing happened. Most sat on their hands and complied. The state piped, the people danced, and the Bill of Rights took a vacation.
Read moreFeminism Against Progress—Kirkpatrick Reacts
The endpoint of a three century struggle for progress, understood as individual separateness, has culminated in a political effort to eliminate all meaningful sex differences through technology.
Read moreThe United Methodist Church General Conference Session Approves Gay Marriage, Ordination
It is difficult today to identify this religious body as the movement it was centuries ago. We should ask ourselves, Are we grounded in the Scriptures? Are we ready, individually, to hold on to truth? Or, are we ourselves at risk to be swept away in the engulfing cultural tsunami?
Read moreThree Kinds of Feminist Theology
They trusted in the good intentions and the good thinking of their administrators, presidents, leaders, and theologians. And in due course they found a way to incorporate an unbiblical teaching into their faith and practice.
Read moreWO: The Great Escalation
The NAD is itself part of the General Conference. It is not an additional layer of church governance, it is literally the North American office of the General Conference. For officers of the NAD to participate in the ordination of a woman is rebellion at the highest level.
Read morePastor Larry Kirkpatrick: Potomac Ordains Female LGBTQ Advocate
Although Seventh-day Adventists have agreed according to the Bible and church order in multiple General Conference Sessions not to ordain women to the gospel ministry, the Potomac Conference just ordained Joanne Cortes to the gospel ministry.
Read moreGovt Funds AI Tools for Censorship
The government awards contracts to universities and non-profit corporations, their research is turned into censorship and propaganda software tools, these tools are deployed and used to collate and tag posts, which are then removed from social media platforms.
Read moreWHO Global Pandemic Biosecurity State is Looming
Interestingly, 2,000 years ago Bible prophecy foretold a crisis global in scope in which governments would exercise force over individual conscience. Isn’t it time to look again at what the Bible foretells?
Read moreVatican Approves Same-Sex Blessings
I had to ask myself as a Protestant pastor, What would I be willing to pray for same-sex couples? Would my prayers differ substantially from what the pope suggests? Yes they would.
Read moreReligious Leaders Push UN Climate Agenda for COP28
Of special interest to those with an eye to prophetic developments, the NCR article singles out the three groups mentioned in Revelation 18: (religion, governments, and business = Babylon, kings of the earth, and merchants of the earth) working in combination.
Read moreYuval Harari: Silicon Valley Seer or Evil Madman?
f you happen to have clicked 300 likes on your Facebook account, the Facebook algorithm can predict your opinions and desires better than your husband or wife!
Read moreDigital Dollars, Religious Liberty & Laudate Deum
Failure to address this will mean in the next emergency the entire denominational structure could become captive to the global financial system.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 8: Useful Motions for Constituency Meeting
Your time at the mic is extremely limited. Most find it helpful to prepare their wording on their phone or write it out and then read it at the mic.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 7: Constituency Meetings
Constituency meeting is judgment day. Conference leadership is hired or dismissed. Member voice is spoken through representative delegates and others. The church membership should take constituency meeting very seriously, for such meetings occur only every four or five years.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 6: Guest Speakers Manual Change & Call for Revisitation
A change of substantial and destructive import was introduced into the latest edition of the Church Manual. This change seems to grant conferences veto power over which guest speakers local churches might be able to invite.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 5: Conference and Conference President
No attempt should be made to set up standards of membership or to make, or attempt to enforce, rules or regulations for local church operations that are contrary to these decisions, adopted by the General Conference in Session and that are set forth in this Church Manual (pp. 17-18).
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 4: Limitations on Pastoral Authority
Representative governance on the congregational level is a necessity; having a pastor is a luxury. Even so, a godly pastor who empowers and equips the membership is an important asset to a congregation.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 3: Church Member Voice
Some feel that they have no practical voice in the operation of the church. But you may have much more influence than you have thought.
Read moreResisting Church Authority Abuse 2: Who are the Watchmen?
When a religious entity exceeds its just authorities, that religious entity itself is subject to correction. The very idea of “Protestant” in itself says that protest and resistance to the abuse of spiritual authority is proper.
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