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The Modern Church's Despicable Idolatry of Marriage and Family

One of the most irksome things in the modern Church in the west is its idolatry of marriage and family. They treat these things as though one must be married and have a family to be saved, often without realising that is exactly what their thinking is. As such, they make many unmarried Christians, or those who may be married but have no children or grandchild feel that they are less blessed, less favoured by God, or even cursed.  Many married Christians of the older generation, out of fear of how the culture has perverted single, love to warn single Christians about their impending loneliness in old age owing to their singleness, as if a person who is married could never be lonely in his or her old age. It is not that a Christian who remains single has no family. Rather, his family is his Church family. Every other saint is his mother, brother and sister: And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. And he answered...

Trusting in Wrong Saviours is a Manifestation of Faithlessness

Phil Johnson, the Executive Director of Grace to You, tweeted, "Politicians and SCOTUS cannot fix what ails our culture. Dunno why that’s so hard for evangelicals to grasp. #QuitTrustingTheWrongSaviours". Too right, Mr Johnson. If only if those evangelicals can grasp that. That is why happens when people start trusting in the arms of the flesh, rather than in God. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God (Psalm 20:7).