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REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, that they may be sound in the faith. –Titus 1:13 (KJV)

OPEN REBUKE is better than secret love. –Proverbs 27:5 (KJV)

CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their SINS! –Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)

O GENERATION OF VIPERS, who hath WARNED YOU to FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME!? –Matthew 3:7 (KJV)

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES!   –Matthew 23:13 (KJV)

THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to PERVERT THE RIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD!? –Acts 13:10 (KJV)

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather REPROVE THEM. –Ephesians 5:11 (KJV)

If THE WATCHMAN see the sword come, and blow not THE TRUMPET, and THE PEOPLE BE NOT WARNED; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN’S HAND. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and WARN THEM FROM ME. –Ezekiel 33:6-7 (KJV)

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb DOGS, they cannot BARK; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. –Isaiah 56:10 (KJV)   [The reverse implies that faithful preachers are like good sheepdogs that bark about sin and Hell to warn of danger.]

GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.   –2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (KJV)

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, TRULY THIS IS A GRIEF, AND I MUST BEAR IT. –Jeremiah 10:19 (KJV)

When they heard this, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?   –Acts 2:37 (KJV)

I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But HIS WORD WAS IN MINE HEART AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.   –Jeremiah 20:9 (KJV)

After my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. –Acts 20:29-31 (KJV)

GRIEVE not the Holy Spirit of God. –Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)

Since ye say, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD; therefore thus saith the Lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord. –Jeremiah 23:38 (KJV)

A man of sorrows, and ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF…he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows…HE HATH PUT HIM TO GRIEF. –Isaiah 53:3-4, 10 (KJV)

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion! –Amos 6:1 (KJV)

Do you feel the way you hate?
Do you hate the way you feel?
Always closer to the flame, ever closer to the blade.
I am poison crazy lush.
Built these hands to lift me up.
We are servants of our formulaic ways.
I’m screaming daisies.
From fourteen miles away.
I’ve got my own time, got it all today.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Limbo this and limbo that.
You were this and you were that.
Ever know that what you fear is what you find.
This Indian summer I signed my life away.
There’s a greedy fly in here and I fly away.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind.

–Bush, “Greedy Fly”–

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
–Luke 4:18 (ESV)–

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Dr. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were (Zondervan, 1986), chs. 2, 4. A brief overview of Puritan theology on business, money, and work.

Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946). A strong argument against closely working with and closely befriending unsaved people.

Arthur Gish, Beyond the Rat Race (Herald Press, 1973). Teaches Biblical self-employment. Heavily critical of materialism and the modern Republican system of capitalist values.

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989). Teaches Biblical self-employment from a seventeenth century Puritan point of view.

Richard Baxter, Chapters from A Christian Directory (G. Bell & Sons, 1925). A Puritan theology of business and finance.

Larry Burkett, The Word on Finances (Moody, 1994). A directory of Bible verses on economic subjects.

Grant Sabatier, Financial Freedom (Avery, 2019). Teaches 100% remote work with W-2 full-time plus 1099s on the side.

John Schneider, Godly Materialism: Rethinking Money and Possessions (InterVarsity Press, 1994). Overall Bible teaching on money.

An urgent exhortation for Bible believing
Reformed continuationists to eagerly seek God’s Spirit in prayer.
–J.B.–

Tracing our lineage back to Adam and Eve: I do believe in the literal 6,000 years. But there may have been a time that dinosaurs lived for a period of time on the earth, maybe even MILLIONS OF YEARS, and even coexisted with man, and were wiped out in the Flood.
–Todd Bentley, 7:03–

You read these stories of celebrities and they have it all. I can understand that guy! I can understand that movie star that has everything you could ever want and JUST CAN’T STOP DRINKING OR PARTYING. It’s like they throw away their success. They blow it up; and I WAS LIKE THAT, but it happened to be IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
–Todd Bentley, 52:01–

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.           
–Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV)–

Don’t pacify spiritual
Teach me to be me in Christ
Origin of consciousness
Spiritual
I am not what meets the eye

–Living Sacrifice, “Something More”–

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Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church, ch. 7.

Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God, ch. 3.

Bernard McGinn, Mysticism in the Reformation.

Stanley Burgess, The Holy Spirit: Medieval Roman Catholic and Reformation Traditions, Part 7: “The Radical Reformers.”

GEORGE WISHART (1513-1546).
Scottish reformer and martyr. Wishart preaching against Mariolatry. Oil on canvas, English, c1857, by Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891)

There are three that bear witness in earth,
the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one.
–1 John 5:8 (KJV)–

THE PURSUIT OF SOUND DOCTRINE
ON SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
(A WORK IN PROGRESS, PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, AS A MATTER OF FACT)

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Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations (Walking Barefoot, 2007). JOHN KNOX, etc.

John Morgan Jones, The Calvinistic Methodist Fathers of Wales, 2 vols (BoT, 2008).

Dr. Michael Haykin, JONATHAN EDWARDS: The Holy Spirit… (EP, 2005).

—, ed. Pentecostal Outpourings (Reformation Heritage Books, 2016).

Dr. Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (BoT, 1998).

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist, pp. 42-43.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Baptism and Gifts of the Spirit (Baker, 1996).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, JOHN WESLEY’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).

CHARLES FINNEY, “The Self-Hardening Sinner’s Doom,” 1.3. Refers to belief in Hell dreams – adhered to by both Jonathan Edwards and Finney.

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of JOHN WESLEY.

—. The Supernatural Occurrences of CHARLES G. FINNEY.

Dr. Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy In the New Testament (Crossway, 2000). Grudem believes in young earth creation.

Dr. John R. Rice, Healing In Answer to Prayer.

Dr. J. I. Packer, Keep In Step With the Spirit (InterVarsity Press, 2005). I respect Packer as a Reformed charismatic, but disagree with his view of theistic evolution. I believe he was seriously wrong about that. Derek Prince also held that view, which I strongly disagree with; and I think could be a litmus test or a red flag for someone who struggles with Biblical authority.

Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025). This is a really unique book. Written by a hard nosed skeptic, former atheist, and leading Christian apologist. Supports an evidence-based supernatural worldview. Strobel also has a theistic view of evolution, which I disagree with.

Donald Gee, Concerning Spiritual Gifts.

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).

Dr. Etzel Cardeña, ed. Varieties of Anomalous Experience (APA, 2004).

Douglas Oss, Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? (Zondervan, 1996), p. 168.

Ryan Denton, Dead Orthodoxy and Its Cure (Aneko Press, 2025).