A dear preacher friend received his home call on Thursday, and another is expected to be called home today. While departures are always painful, we have the glorious hope of a glorious reunion to share eternal joy.

Keep your eyes on the skies! We are going to fly soon.

The incredible Christ for whom Paul suffered, the glorious gospel of grace that he proclaimed, and the maturing of the saints in Christ, was the purpose and passion for which Paul strove. A passion and purpose that he could not carry out in his own 'wretched' strength, but a passion and a purpose that was fulfilled by means of the indwelling power of Christ which lived in him and worked mightily through him; a power that works mightily in all who will cease from their own fleshly strivings, rest in His love, and abide in Christ's sufficient strength. For when I am weak then I am strong, enabling the Lord to carry out His plans and purposes in my life through His mighty strength for His grace is sufficient.

Carli • Saved by Grace

Jude 1:3, "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

One of my pet peeves is teachers making paradigm-changing claims who don't cite their sources. I am reading an article by a respected brother who cited a provocative passage from—supposedly—Ephraim's writings that he cited to prove his point. He didn't give the original source address or the volume and page number of the expert's book that he found the passage in. I just spent three hours word-searching for the relevant terms in all of Ephraim's Greek writings, and in the two major sources of English translations. Not a single passage showed up that resembled the passage he cited. All that is left to search is the Syriac works in Assemani's edition, which gives easy access to searching only with the Latin translation. Unless the source was a serious patristic scholar, the odds this was the source are pretty low.

Like the Psalmist, we should call out to God for deliverance from our enemies, rely on His restoration when attacked, and depend on His sufficient grace to help in time of need. We should be ready and willing to admit our weaknesses and combine humility of heart with a soul that trusts in the Lord with our whole being, and does not rely on our own understanding. May we acknowledge Him in ALL things, knowing that He will teach us His will and lead us in His paths of perfect peace.

Carli • Saved by Grace

There is no such things as high-watch days. Last year did not feature 355 days of lower odds for the rapture and 10 days of higher odds for the rapture. We are deep enough into prophetic convergence that every day is a high watch day. And every new day is incrementally higher in odds than the prior day.

Dan 12:3, "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."

The Olympics have finally been purged of the influence of the Judaeo-Christian ethic and returned to their true pagan roots. The whole world is going down the pagan toilet.

There are only two paths in this world: trusting God and trusting yourself — "You shall be as gods, determining good and evil."

This is not a command, for God wants our love and service to be rendered freely and willingly, but in light of the inestimable riches of God's free grace which He has poured out in great measure on fallen sinners simply because we trusted in Christ as our Saviour, surely it should be our joy and delight to present our bodies, day by day, in spiritual worship as a living sacrifice ~ holy and pleasing to the Lord.

Carli • Saved by Grace

From my bro, Jay Tibbs on Twitter. (I hate saying X.)

When the world panics over an alien visitation ... it wasn't the aliens. It was Jesus taking his people (born-again Christians) out of the world before the tribulation starts, just like he promised.

If you find yourself left behind, don't turn to the talking heads on TV interviewing UFO experts from NASA or the Vatican. Find a Bible and start reading: Gospels first, then the rest of the New Testament.

Hey friends. If you have purchased and read and appreciated either Ten Potent Proofs or Recent Pretrib Discoveries, will you consider writing a review for them on Amazon? The post-trib knot-heads love to write one-star reviews on my pretrib books.

The Holy Spirit is the Giver of spiritual gifts and graces. Every member of Christ's Body is gifted in a unique way, and each is expected to use their spiritual gifts to function in the Church so that the whole Body is edified, built up, and works together in godly harmony.
May each one of us strive to use the gifts and graces with which we have been endowed, for the glory of God and in service for the benefit of the Body.

Carli • Saved by Grace

Thanks to all who responded.

Postmillennialism is a cancer that changes the church's focus:

From saving souls to saving the nation,
From an eternal focus to a temporal focus,
From heavenly citizenship first to earthly citizenship first,
From the heaven-n-hell gospel to the social gospel,
From discipleship to patriotism,
From Satan on the rampage to Satan bound,
From a kingdom in a day to a kingdom over time,
From a kingdom by Jesus in person to one by Jesus absent,
From a kingdom by crisis to a kingdom by increments,
From apostasy coming to revival coming,
From faith to sight.

This message is intentional departure from the Jesus of the Bible and the Bible of Jesus.

Biblical signs of the last times:
The rebirth of Israel as a nation.
All the nations will hate Israel.
The rise of the Russian juggernaut.
The Russia, Turkey, Iran triad.
The return of dominant Sodomite morality.
The rise of evolution and the denial of creation.
A generation with a form of godliness.
The NWO agenda to undermine meat and marriage.
The world governments throwing aside God's ways.
The rise of one-world religion.
The rise of a one-world economic system.
The rise of one-world government.
The rise of the technology to dominate the world.
The rise of the Nephilim spirit in transhumanism.
I could keep going.

Psalm 138:2, "For You have magnified your word above all your name."

Don't embrace departure from Scripture on the basis of pleas for the honor or glory or name of God. Ditto for Jesus or the Holy Spirit. The acid test of honoring God is conformity to the word of God—the word interpreted by the word.

One of the hardest things for believers to do is balance love for the word with love for the brethren. What do we do when our Christian brethren walk a path wider than what we are comfortable with? Or teach doctrines we disagree with? Even doctrines we believe are pretty serious error? If we are inclined toward pride, we will harshly judge men that Jesus doesn't harshly judge, maybe even regard them as heretics, though Jesus will receive them into heaven.

If we write and preach with harshness, we may win the accolades of men who themselves harshly judge those they disagree with, but such harshness actually reduces the odds that we will win straying brethren to sounder views or help those who are sitting on the fence or standing confused at the crossroads.

These comments should not be taken as a slam against discernment ministry. Some of my dearest friends and ministry associates are engaged in discernment ministry. Some of them, in fact, have challenged the doctrine of men that I have shared the platform with or cooperated with. I do not fault them for this. Facts are facts. Truth is truth. Indeed, I have addressed some of the same errors. But, we will get better mileage in our discernment ministry if love is infused into our discernment, our presentation, and our application. As Richard Baxter said, "I can as willingly be a martyr for love as for any article of the creed."