If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss,
O Lord, who may abide it?
–Psalm 130:3 (De profundis)–
A Defense of Dr. Sam Storms, Francis Chan, and Certain IHOP Staff
What Does It Mean to Be a “Successful” Missionary? – Paul Washer
Is This Imprint In Turkey’s Mountains Evidence of Noah’s Ark? – The Today Show
President Trump Says the Government Shutdown Was a Communist Stunt Pulled By Radical Democrats – Fox News

The Cessationist “Sign Gifts” Idea Is from Comic Books
I prophesied as I was commanded.
–Ezekiel 37:7 (NIV)–
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
and did just as the Lord commanded.
Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh
and his officials, and it became a snake.
–Exodus 7:10 (NIV)–
The Son can do nothing by himself;
he can do only what he sees his Father doing,
because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
–John 5:19 (NIV)–
“You unbelieving and perverse generation!”
Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you?
How long shall I put up with you?
Bring the boy here to me.”
–Matthew 17:17 (NIV)–
He could not do any miracles there,
except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
–Mark 6:5 (NIV)–
Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea
to divide the water so that the Israelites
can go through the sea on dry ground.
–Exodus 14:16 (NIV)–
I left Trophimus sick in Miletus.
–2 Timothy 4:20 (NIV)–

JUST WHAT THE CESSATIONIST “SIGN GIFTS”
ARGUMENT REALLY MEANS.
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Cessationists often define a miracle as an instantaneous, total, public display of divine power–something that must look like a cinematic spectacle to count. But Biblical miracles range from gradual healings and partial restorations to symbolic acts and prophetic insights. When miracles are required to look like Marvel movies, it becomes easy to declare that they no longer happen…Cessationism’s “sign gifts” argument falters not because Scripture is unclear, but because the argument begins with the wrong picture–miracles as omnipotent powers rather than divine gifts. The Biblical narrative portrays not superheroes, but servants. The Spirit’s work has always been relational, situational, and sovereign–a power made perfect in weakness, not a spectacle made for proof. –J.B.
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Dr. Herbert Lockyer, All the Miracles of the Bible (Zondervan, 1988).
Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised…Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020). Has AUDIO BOOK.
Dr. Craig Keener, Miracles Today (Baker, 2021). Has AUDIO BOOK.
Dr. Randy Clark, Eyewitness to Miracles (Thomas Nelson, 2018). Has AUDIO BOOK.
Dr. John R. Rice, Healing In Answer to Prayer (Sword of the Lord, 1944).
Dr. Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1996)
J. Graf, ed. Healing: The Three Great Classics on Divine Healing (WingSpread, 1992).
John Wimber, Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).
WesleyGospel, “Why Cessationists Don’t Hear the Voice of God.”
—. “Debunking Cessationism.”
Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025). Has AUDIO BOOK.
Christless Conservatism: Ayn Rand, John Galt, HuffPost, Etc.
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
–Colossians 2:8 (ESV)–

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John Piper, “‘Atlas Shrugged’ Fifty Years Later: Appreciation and Criticism.”
—. “The Ethics of Ayn Rand.”
CRI, “Was Ayn Rand Right? Capitalism and Greed.”
Veracity Hill, “Ayn Rand and Christianity.”
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Regnery, 1995). This used to be the Christian conservative manifesto in 1953 before Ayn Rand’s godless capitalist philosophy took over American politics. In this book, he preaches against the type of ideology of Rand espoused. Kirk was Catholic.
—. “An Encounter with Ayn Rand.”
Dr. Dustin J. Byrd, A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Religion: The Gospel According to John Galt (Bloomsbury, 2019). This appears to be the most thorough Christian academic critique of Rand. But it might come from a liberal Christian perspective.
David Chilton, Productive Christians In an Age of Guilt-Manipulators (Institute for Christian Economics, 1981), p. 220. “Autonomous capitalism is a washout. It is an attempt to grab the blessings of God by secularist methods. The fact that Robert J. Ringer’s Restoring the American Dream spent five months on the New York Times Best Seller List should be no cause of rejoicing to those who desire a return to Biblical free enterprise. His book should be retitled Anarchist Nightmare. It is a libertarian lawlessness. Its basic thrust can be guessed from the titles of his other hits: Looking Out for #1 and Winning Through Intimidation. That kind of capitalism can produce only cultural disintegration. Nothing will change a spiritually enslaved culture apart from freedom in Christ.”
Jeff Farnham, The Octopus of Humanism (Sword of the Lord, 2009).

The World Trade Center Attack of September 11, 2001 – The Today Show

AM I AN ISLAMOPHOBE? YES…YES I AM.
ESPECIALLY BECAUSE MAMDANI,
NEW YORK CITY’S MAYOR, IS A SHI’ITE MUSLIM.
FOR HE WORSHIPS ALLAH,
THE GOD OF ALL MIDDLE EASTERN THUGS.
FOR HE BELIEVES IN THE KORAN AND HADITH,
WHICH TELL HIM TO CUT OFF THE HEADS AND FINGERS
OF EVERY CHRISTIAN AND JEW.
FOR HE IMITATES THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD,
WHO MARRIED A NINE YEAR OLD GIRL NAMED AISHA
(Surah Al-Anfal 8:12; Bukhari 5133; Muslim 1422).
Is Mamdani a Trojan Horse for the Red-Green Alliance? – Fox News
Prophetic Word? A Vision of Woe About the Scribes and Pharisees – Janet B. with the Revival List
Here is a vision God gave me last Wednesday, 29th October 2025.
I saw a woman in a city, and she was running away from all the demonic activity and evil in the world, and I saw her run into a church to hide, and she quickly closed the doors behind her. She turned around and everyone inside was standing there looking at her. The people in the church all appeared to shine, they were so beautiful and friendly, but then when the people turned around they all had demon tails coming out from behind them! Then I noticed the church floor and it was covered in bones. Immediately the verse Matthew 23:27 came to me: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.” God said to me: “This is where Christians come to die,” and instantly in my mind I questioned this with God and thought, “No, those words are way too harsh.” God instantly rebuked me: “Do not soften My words!”
The Fruit of the Spirit, Temporary Bursts of Indignation, and the Bitterness of Constant Anger
Box! Box! Box! Box!
Yesterday I was just a boy
In days of youthful hero worship
My kind have been molded by images on the screen
Brought up to emulate the big guns
Just another guest on death’s best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom’s
Those electric waves
The demons fly
Now could we just be
Bred to kill or die
There must be somethin’ else
For the blame I place on myself
Behind the tired eyes
The tears go uncried
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Just like doin’ time
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Now that I’m grown
Abandoned childhood toys
But still what danger
Have I retained
To grab the brass ring
To go in for the kill
And covet the good you know ‘dem got for murder
It’s just another guest on death’s best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom’s
Those electric waves
The demons fly
Now could we just be
Bred to kill or die
There’s got to be somethin’ else
For the blame I place on myself
Behind tired eyes
The demons stir
The tears go uncried
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Just like doin’ time
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Minds are locked down
–Snot, “The Box”–
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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
–Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)–
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together.
–Jeremiah 6:10-11 (KJV)–
Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins…Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
–Isaiah 58:1, 6 (NIV)–
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens,
his spirit was greatly angered when he saw that the city was full of idols.
–Acts 17:16 (AMP)–
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking,
be put away from you, with all malice.
–Ephesians 4:31 (KJV)–
Note that “blessed are the meek” (Matthew 5:5) is not about nor a teaching against expressing anger or indignation against injustice–like sexual perversion and abuse for example, preaching sermons against sin, preaching repentance, or about preaching sermons against injustice, as is required in evangelistic ministry. This is about the way we carry ourselves in relation to others in the church, in business, in family, etc. There is a sense of self-control there. This is more related to people in pastoral ministry, because of their constant interaction with people acting annoying with petty irritations and nuisances. Not being easily provoked by people’s comments or crazy behavior. To say that Matthew 5:5 is a teaching against the whole idea of preaching with anger against flagrant societal sin, would be to condemn John the Baptist, Jesus Christ himself, Stephen, Peter, and Paul (Matt. 3:7; 23:13-39; Acts 7:51; 8:20; 13:10).
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Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man. (Teaches Quietism; all emotions are called “soulish”).
Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer, pp. 491-492, 495. “This is the principle that stands out from the writings of this sect. Given that some practical resolution is to be made, action will be taken solely when we are urged thereto by God. As long as the Holy Spirit has not set the soul in motion, she will wait without doing anything whatever…abandonment, exaggerated to the point of reducing oneself to a passive state of expectation…in this way desires and abandonment were falsely considered as two dispositions incompatible with one another…Let us not think of God as a jealous, intractable, sullen king who will not tolerate any initiative and who wishes to reduce us to a slave’s mute obedience.”
Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water, ch. 5. (On Social Justice).
John Wesley, “A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Rutherforth,” Part III. (On feeling the fruits).
Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1946, 1985), p. 6. “I preached so hard against sin that some pastors of the city criticized me severely.”
—. What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938).
—. Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord, 1978).
Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying (Bethany House, 1962), ch. 14: “Be Ye Angry.”
—. “Be Ye Angry And Sin Not” (Last Days Ministries, 1985).

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