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Church Assessments 2/7/25

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For the past week, we have looked at “Pastor Report Card” doctrinal areas for review. So far, we have covered 1) Hearing God’s voice vs. the Bible speaks; 2) One God (not three); 3) Jesus is God vs. Jesus is God’s Son; and 4) The Covenant relationship requires hearing God and obeying. Today, we will talk about prayer intimacy. 

Attached are the first two pages of four, of another of the Mark of Excellence newsletters that were sent to select local pastors and prayer ministries to teach true doctrine. The remaining two pages will be included with tomorrow’s post. Each of the newsletters that were mailed to the pastors included a cover letter. I thought you might like to see a glimpse into my one-sided conversations with the pastors.

*** Excerpt from Letters to Pastors ***
Dear Pastor,

Subject: Mark of Excellence Newsletter, September 2021 Edition, “Prayer”

How’s that prayer list working for you?  I only ask because if God were really granting your every wish, you would certainly be promoting that as a reason for people to seek you out (with financial favor).  But that’s not how it works. Is it?  Since God wants His children to come to Him personally, to seek Him, to ask for forgiveness, and to hear Him and obey, you probably won’t successfully compete with Him.  But that won’t stop some from trying. As for me, I wouldn’t want a God that needs our advice.

I visit several churches via online access nearly every week.  So, I can say with confidence that most of you are promoting prayer intercession (interference) rather than prayer intimacy.  Some of you even have prayer lines, with 50 intercessors, waiting to pray for your congregation.  Really?  That’s sickening.  I grew up in the church and learned that prayer foolishness from others like you.  Oh, I had the best prayer lists of anyone.  I could summon up God, demand His favor and hold Him accountable better than most.  I hope you hear the sarcasm in that statement. There’s anger there too, because I was 40 years old before I understood that I was supposed to hear God in prayer.  That’s what growing up in the church provided?

Prayer is NEVER meant to be one-sided.  If you’re NOT listening to God in prayer with the intent of obeying Him, then you’re not doing it right.  I realize that’s hard to hear because it takes ALL the power from you and puts it rightly with God. If you’re doing all the talking in prayer, then it must be because you expect God to submit to you.  Let’s face it.  The only way you can submit to God in prayer is by hearing His voice and obeying.  But what’s modeled instead is that God is supposed to hear your prayers and obey.

Most of you would agree that Christians are not to pray to Mary or to dead saints as the Catholic church promotes, but aren’t you doing the same type of thing by asking to intercede for other Christians?  Do you really know the heart of God?  I didn’t.  All my one-sided prayers to the Creator, were useless for the Kingdom and so are yours.  Let’s face it.  The sovereign LORD knows our every need. Why are “we” doing all the talking?  And how many people does it take to overrule the will of God?  Do you need 1,000 people or more?  That’s sarcasm again.  Obviously, you can’t out vote the sovereign God.

This newsletter about prayer has been the most difficult for me to write.  I’ve had times of great grief as I’ve studied with God on how to present this. The grief may have been my own, but it felt as if it were coming from the heart of God.  Of all the perverted theologies, distorted prayer doctrine must be the devil’s favorites tied with “mute God” or the “God locked in a book” doctrines.

***End of Excerpt***

At the beginning of the year, and this process of doing church assessments, a woman commented on one of my posts insisting that I needed to privately discuss these matters with the pastors before airing their dirty laundry publicly. My response was that I have tried to discuss these doctrines with the pastors via email, private messenger contact, and mail correspondence. That didn’t seem to be enough for the lady who was publicly (not privately) telling me that I needed to do things differently. That’s ironic.

The church leaders do not want to hear a message from God, either by directly hearing from Him or by Him sending a messenger. They seem to believe that they are doing things exactly right despite knowing that all the churches who doctrinally teach contrary to them believe the same thing. So, I’m taking this message right to the congregations. Please seek God to know Him. Hear His voice in prayer so that you can obey Him. Ask Him questions about the doctrines at the church that you’re attending. Want His will above your own.

Source: Mark of Excellence Newsletter, dated September 2021, “Prayer” Edition

Church Assessments 2/6/25

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Many Gods and Mini-Gods @ The Grove Church

There should be spiritual alarms going off at The Grove Church. They evidently have multiple gods in a one-God religion and their garbage theology includes that all men are the mini-gods of their family. I wonder what kind of pitiful male ego would need to promote that kind of false religion and why any woman would sit in that congregation and support such nonsense.

On Sunday, Barry Russell preached another ridiculous sermon about marriage. He seems to be proud of his false theology on the subject. So please go listen to him say very plainly (2/2/25 sermon, at 36:26) that he BOUGHT his prized possession (his wife) Nikki on 8/3/2002 with a goat and a cow from his in-laws. He was seriously bragging about being in human trafficking trade for his wife. Please listen to him go on about that being a Biblical truth. He is either a moron or a con-man. Whichever it is, he’s deceived as he has misinterpreted the text of Ephesians 5 to mean that the pagan norms of that day were God’s will for marriage. If that were true, then he must also interpret the next chapter “slaves obey your masters” as God’s will for today as well. So, would Barry twist those texts to condone slavery and sex trafficking?

“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”; “And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.” (Ephesians 6:5 & 9)

Let’s look at the passage a few verses earlier in Ephesians 5 that led Barry to believe that he owns his wife rather than being in partnership with her under God’s lordship. This whole text is about Christ and the church. Paul used a pagan cultural norm to describe a spiritual truth. He was not condoning men’s barbaric treatment of women which was rampant and widely accepted in those days. He was instead encouraging change in their dysfunctional marriages and trying to help them understand God’s lordship in the church. In those passages: “slaves obey your earthly masters” and “wives submit yourselves to your own husbands”, Paul is not condoning slavery or spouse abuse. He is suggesting that women of that day, who were intentionally kept illiterate, respectfully go along to get along, while primarily encouraging the men to treat their wives gently and lovingly. Remember that this letter to the church of Ephesus was likely read aloud to men in a culture where women were forced to be subservient. Paul’s hope was that Christian men would set themselves apart from the pagan culture and treat their wives better than non-Christian men. It was acceptable cultural norms to treat women as slaves. Please read it in context and see if you come to the same conclusion that I have. And I always say “Don’t believe me. Ask God yourself.” (Please read the summary sentence at the end of the passage first so that you can see the context. “This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.”)

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” (Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV)

In the Bible, book of Hosea, God commands Hosea to marry a prostitute to symbolize Israel’s unfaithfulness to Him. “When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.’” (Hosea 1:2 NIV)

Why did God divorce Israel and send her into captivity? The reasons were consistently the same. Israel was unfaithful and guilty of adultery, prostitution, and promiscuity against God by having false gods. When a wife refuses priority allegiance to God to instead obey her husband, she is prostituting herself to a false god. Does the wife belong to God or does she instead belong to her husband? If the husband were wholly submitted to God, and hearing His voice in prayer, he would know that God doesn’t want him to stand in God’s place or sit on His throne in the marriage relationship. The covenant with God is that He is the one and only God. The Christian marriage covenant is intended to be mutual loyalty and exclusivity to each other with both being wholeheartedly submitted to God. There is no mini-god in the marriage covenant. There is only one God and both parties in the marriage should individually be submitted to Him.

Please read the attached pages and seek God for direction. Btw: that comment about the foolish pastor on the attachment is about Barry’s brother, Brad, in his Father’s Day sermon from a few years ago. Both brothers are idiots that have no place in the pulpit of God’s church.

Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Prophets” dated April, 2022, page 6; and “Spiritual Crimes Against Women in Ministry”, dated August 2023, page 15.

Church Assessments 2/5/25

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Absent Anointing (Part 2 of 2)

Today, we’re going to refute a phrase that is often misused in the church to promote a false doctrine that Jesus is not the one and only God, but instead is seated next to Him in Heaven, seemingly as a subordinate God to the real God. I know that sounds stupid but I didn’t create the trinity doctrine.

So, if you read the phrase “exalted to the right hand of God” in context (provided below) you will probably come to the same conclusion that I have which is that this was talking about the fulfillment of the Davidic line. God is Spirit. God’s Son-of-Man-suit of flesh-and-blood was delivered through the biological family line of King David via Mary/Joseph. God had promised David on oath that he would place one of his descendants on His throne (verse 30 below). Jesus is the Spirit of God who is also known as the Holy Spirit. He is not seated next to Himself on a throne. This was symbolic language to express that God kept His promise to King David. There is not a flesh-and-blood person sitting next to God’s Spirit on a throne in Heaven. Every time these pastors show their own stupidity by using that phrase, we can know that they have no idea who God is just like the wicked men who crucified His Son-of-Man suit of flesh-and-blood on a cross.

From Acts 2:22-36 (THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AT PENTECOST)“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. David said about him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that 30GOD HAD PROMISED HIM ON OATH THAT HE WOULD PLACE ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE. Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33EXALTED TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, HE HAS RECEIVED FROM THE FATHER THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT AND HAS POURED OUT WHAT YOU NOW SEE AND HEAR. For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

In May of 2021, I sent the attached (final two of four pages) Mark of Excellence newsletter to local pastors with a cover letter that included these statements:

  • “My prayer is that I have scripturally proven on the attached four pages of the newsletter that Jesus is the creation voice, exactly God, the Forgiver of Sins, the Savior and Shepherd, the Alpha and Omega, and the First and the Last. Jesus Christ is the one and only Spirit of God who robed Himself in Son of Man flesh and walked among His creation.” 
  • “Only a doctrine of demons (false theology) would suggest that God needs help being God, while Lucifer/Satan/Devil is only one entity.”

So, I’m going to ask a few questions about Jesus. Do you know who He is?

  • If Jesus is not God, why does He have the power to forgive sins that only God can have?
  • If Jesus is the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega, could there be a God before Him?
  • If there is only one God, as the Bible repeatedly records, then how can there be more than one?
  • If Jesus is not the one true God, then who is He? Why did Jesus say that He is the “I Am” if He is the “I Am Not”?
  • If you’re in covenant with the sovereign Lord of the universe, the Father, why would you need to worship a separate, subordinate or lesser god?
  • If Jesus is not the Father, then why did He say, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”? (Reference John 14:9)
  • Why does God need a Son? Does He need an heir to His throne in case He dies?

Church Assessments 2/4/25

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Absent Anointing (Part 1 of 2)

The Church is supposed to function with anointing from God. However, most churches locally don’t seem to even know who God is.

On Saturday night, the Lord said to me that He was sending me to a church the next morning. I tried to get Him to tell me which church, but He was keeping that information to Himself. The next morning, after typing the daily ministry post, I got ready to go to an unknown place. The Lord allowed me to go have breakfast at McDonalds. While I was sitting there, the Lord told me exactly where He wanted me to go for church. It was a new church that I didn’t even know existed, so I was hopeful. I’m not going to mention the name of the church because they are currently going through a construction transition, but I wanted to expand on a topic that the young youth pastor presented in his message on Sunday.

The senior pastor opened the service praying to God with His Son seated next to Him. Can you hear me rolling my eyes? As I have said many times, but can’t be said enough, Jesus is God. Jesus is not God’s Son. There are not multiple Gods on a throne in heaven. Just one. His title is God, and His name known to us is Jesus. God is Spirit.

The youth pastor was the one to present the message on Sunday. He impressed me with his insight for his young age despite that he too didn’t seem to know that Jesus is God. But he asked the question “Who is Jesus to you?”. His sermon was from the book of Acts. The young man asked some inspiring questions about our willingness to wholeheartedly make Jesus the center of our lives. He questioned why we don’t see the miraculous gifts of the Spirit like were evident in the book of Acts. Why no speaking in tongues? Why no obvious anointing? Do we spend time in prayer and Bible reading? Do we study apologetics? (That question got my attention.) Are we making Jesus the center of our lives? The young pastor also asked this question “How selfish do you have to be to know the truth but not to share the truth?”

The young man talked about his personal encounters with the voice of God through his years. I think he said that there were three separate occasions when he clearly heard God speak to him. I love that! That says to me that God is making Himself known to him. But, the one false doctrine that the young man seems to have accepted in his training is that Jesus is not God, but instead that He is a separate Son of God. And that’s why he isn’t seeing the anointing as was displayed in the first church as recorded in the book of Acts. Personally, I have experienced all of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, and regularly the Spirit speaks through me in tongues of angels. I hear God speak to me clearly every day from morning to night.

We don’t see much of God’s anointing in the local churches because they don’t seem to know who God is. Which means that they are not hearing God’s voice in prayer. If you are not hearing God’s voice in prayer it is because you are not doing it right. You must first be sure to be in covenant relationship with God where you have promised on oath for Him to be your one and only God. If you don’t know that Jesus is God, how can you do that? Until you confidently get that understanding in your belt of Truth, you are rarely going to encounter the anointing from God. God can show up as He chooses, but why would He put His signature on bogus doctrine? I’m sure that God wants to make Himself known but to whom? Could it be that He wants to make Himself known to you? Then maybe seek Him about who He is … and study apologetics!

Please see the attached two (of four) study pages from the June 2021, Mark of Excellence Newsletter. The remaining two pages will be presented in part 2 of “Absent Anointing”.

Church Assessments 2/3/25

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Their God Needs Help Being God

If you have ever read the Old Testament of the Bible, there doesn’t seem to be any question about there being only one God. God was constantly vying for attention from the Israelites. He consistently allowed them to be taken into captivity for bowing down to false gods/idols. God declares repeatedly that there is only one God. In the Ten Commandments, God resolutely proclaims that “You shall have no other gods before me.” He even gives a generational curse warning associated with that decree. (Read Exodus 20:3).

If you would like to study one-God Scriptures, here are a few to get started with: Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Malachi 2:20, Isaiah 43:10-11, Isaiah 44:6-8, Isaiah 45:2-6, Isaiah 46:8-9; New Testament: Mark 12:29-30, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 1 Timothy 2:5, James 2:19, Ephesians 4:4-6. These same Scriptures were provided in yesterday’s post.

Every day for 20 years, I have been speaking in prayer with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The same one God that Moses met with face-to-face. He’s the only God that I have prayed to or heard from in prayer. That’s what Christians have that the other (false) religions don’t. As Christians, we are promised in recorded words from Jesus (God’s Spirit wearing mankind flesh) that “Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” (John 8:47 NIV)

I can know with certainty that God’s intentions for me have been to dispute false doctrines in the churches. In the first assignments that He gave me, I was to email the pastor of my church regarding the false doctrines. I took the assignment seriously because God warned me strongly of the consequences of denying Him. So why do I have only one God just like the Old Testament prophets, Moses, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), but those that don’t hear God have three gods in their religion?

Let’s talk about their religion. The trinity doctrine is not recorded in the Bible. The word trinity is nowhere in the pages of Scriptures. The doctrine was first conceived many years AD and not by one of the original disciples or the Apostle Paul. (I’m not going to source that information here, you can search the internet “When was the trinity doctrine established?”) 

Triniterians believe that there are three persons of God in a God-head, or in other words a triune God. If I understand their ramblings, they think that each of their three Gods is 33% God or 1/3 of God with equal authority. In Christianity, we have only one God with 100% authority. So, when our one God, who is (an invisible) 100% Spirit (also known as the Holy Spirit), robed Himself in mankind flesh, He did NOT become a separate God. That position of God, known also as Son of Man or Son of God, did not create a separate or less-than God, but instead made the invisible God visible. God in flesh was 100% God (as Spirit) and 100% man (in flesh). Today, the Spirit of God is not in flesh. He is 100% God and 0% flesh. He is not 33% Father, 33% Son of God, and 33% Holy Spirit. He is 100% the Spirit of God! So to repeat, there is no Son of God today because the work of the cross was completed by the 100% flesh suit that the Spirit of God wore 2,000+ years ago. In other words, God is not flesh. God is Spirit. God’s name is Jesus. Jesus was always and is today 100% the one and only Spirit of God.

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:39-40 NIV)

If you are confused on this subject, please study the pages attached and talk with God. If you are a Triniterian, please pray to the Father, all 33% of Him. (That’s sarcasm being used to mock your false theology.)

Source: Kingdom Champions, Armed for Battle Study Guide, November 2020, pages 2 and 9.

Church Assessments 2/2/25

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Their One-Verse Theology Stinks

The devil loves to deceive many with manipulated interpretations of Bible texts. Deceit is his superpower. That’s all he has. Unfortunately, his schemes work on those who won’t take the time to seek God or even read the Bible in full context.

I grew up in the church being spoon fed Bible texts with twisted interpretations that were based on one-verse theologies. I’m as much to blame. It was stupid for me to expect someone else to teach me what I should have been responsible for myself. How hard is it to read a book? If I had bothered to spend the time reading the entire Bible (yes, including the Old Testament), I could have had enough data to contrast and analyze when a bogus interpretation was being presented. But I was as lazy as most churchgoers are, and I got what I deserved.

But now that I have much Bible reading under my belt of truth, and the benefit of hearing God’s voice in prayer, I can correctly discern misinterpreted theologies with expertise. I don’t enjoy realizing that I trusted the wrong pastors to teach me correctly. It was up to me to take command of my own training. So, let me ask you something … do you think that there should be two sets of doctrines: one for the unchurched and one for the mature believer? I hope your answer is “no”. It seems like The Grove Church and its false doctrines are being excused largely because they are primarily teaching the unchurched (newbies of all ages). Are they right to twist the Scriptures to make it more easily digestible and palatable for the immature believer? The problem with that technique is that one day they are going to discern that their form of religion was largely incorrect. They are going to resent being deceived and wasting their time.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” (2 Timothy 4:3 NIV)

I was going to describe some examples of one-verse theologies here, but instead I’m asking for conversation. What one verse theologies have you encountered over the years? Which ones makes you the most concerned for younger generations? Which ones do you feel qualified to dispute? The last question probably has you thinking that you would rather not be in my shoes when it comes to confronting the false doctrines in the churches and rebuking the false teachers. Please feel free to comment about the one-verse theologies that you have seen promoted in the churches that are contrary to the heart of God.

Church Assessments 2/1/25

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The Far Away God

Seriously, how content are you for God to be absent from your day-to-day activities? Don’t you really only want Him to be present when you intentionally invite Him in? Are you only inviting Him in when you need His power for healing, provision, or protection? If you can discern that about yourself, how obvious must it be to God?

Whenever someone asks me to pray for them, my first thought is that they’re supposed to have their own relationship with God. It’s not that I don’t want them to receive the prayer response that they’re hoping for, but I don’t advise God or give Him suggestions. That’s not the God that I serve. He is all knowing, and I am not.  He has more love, grace, and mercy than I could ever have. He has justice and power that is not afforded to me. So, what good would it do for me to go to God asking Him to do something that could be counter-productive to His plans?

I can love people without advising God. Whenever, someone asks me to pray for them, I do pray. My prayer is “God, is there anything that you want me to do for them?” Because I’m determined to be obedient to God, if He tells me to help the person, I’m going to do my best to walk out His plans. However, know this, God may be using their need as a way to draw them closer to Him. If they are usually content with God being far away, then their need may be intentional so that they learn to invite God in.  

My life before learning to listen for God in prayer, was empty of God’s presence. In those days, I was a powerful prayer warrior who had lists upon lists of suggestions for God. That’s how the church taught me to pray. They put out prayer request lists and constantly asked if there was anyone that needed prayer. They did not teach me to listen for God in prayer. They ruined my prayer life by their example and instruction. They wasted 40 years of my life by causing me to counsel God in prayer rather than receive His counsel. They made my God a far away God that didn’t want to be part of my life except for when anyone, including myself, was in need. So, if that’s all God had to work with, He at least used it for a purpose. I learned to carry the burdens of others and to see hurting people in every level of society. We all need God. You must know, though, that kind of prayer life made me judge God rather than love Him.

These daily posts hopefully challenge you to seek God to know Him. I have repeatedly offered to help you learn to hear God’s voice in prayer. It’s life changing. It requires a new level of dedication. You know that the disciples of Jesus had to leave home, spouse, family and everything behind to follow Jesus. Do you have a disciple’s heart or one that would rather ignore God except in need? Because, listen, He can provide all the need-scenarios that you’re looking for and a joyless life without Him. Invite Him in or hold Him at a distance, the choice is yours.

Please contact me if you would like to be part of one of the upcoming local group Bible studies on “The Covenant Voice of God”. It’s part of my mission from God to teach others to hear His voice in prayer. I can be reached at TammieEdwards@therogueprophet.com.

Church Assessments 1/31/25

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Too Little, Too Late!

Are you an overachiever or are you one who puts in the minimum effort? Maybe there are certain areas that you excel in and those get your most energy and focus. But what about your relationship with God? Does He get your perfectionist side or your lazier efforts?

I’m going to make this post shorter today, not because I want to be a slacker, but because I want you to have more time to study the covenant relationship with God. The attached teaching video is 40 minutes in length. I’m asking you to set apart time (less time than watching your favorite show or sport game) and truly listen to the content of this video. I suggest that you watch it on a big enough screen that you can see the graphics. Ask God to be present while you watch it. Let Him know that this is important to you. Make it a date-night with the Lord.

Church Assessments 1/30/25

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Manipulative Praise & Insincere Worship

A Scripture was on my heart as I awoke this morning. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” (Luke 16:10 NIV)

So I asked God why I had an image of a certain pastor in my mind as I was reminded of that Biblical text. God answered that the pastor was not trustworthy with teaching true doctrine but he wanted God to reward him for singing praises. My thoughts are that if he can’t be trusted to seek God for the correct interpretation of Scriptures, then why is God allowing him to stay in the pulpit? Actually, that’s my question to God about all the local pastors.

The Pastor Report Card that was posted yesterday had very specific doctrinal areas for grading. It was purposely blank so that each pastor or congregation member could seek God about how their church is doing on each doctrinal area.

1) Does the pastor teach that hearing God is the most important ingredient that leads to obeying God and following Him? Or does the pastor instead teach that the individual interpretation of the Bible (a book) has more authority than God? I’m definitely not saying that we should ignore studying the Bible, but it seems that most churches choose to ignore seeking God. God is Spirit. God is not a book. Most seem to understand that they don’t need to pray to the book, but they evidently believe that God can only speak through it. How did God become less powerful than His creation? He made us able to speak but He made Himself to be mute? (That was sarcasm.)

2) Again, too many pastors can’t be bothered to seek God about their three gods issue. There is only one God, not three. Listen, I boldly post pages proving this doctrinal stance for their inspection and comments. Where are they boldly posting their doctrinal stance for discussion? I’d love to have the opportunity to publicly debate their stance on the “trinity” of gods that they preach.

3) I will never understand how they get away with preaching that Jesus is not God, but instead a Son of God. Why God puts up with that is just unfathomable to me. He has more patience than I do, but that’s a given. He probably gets His abundance of patience from one of the two other gods that He’s purported to have as backups. (That was sarcasm).

I will continue discussing the report card doctrines tomorrow. For today, I will post a page of Scriptures that reflect the one-God theology just in case they would like to debate this topic with me. The attributes of God are listed on the second attachment.

Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “Jesus, The Everlasting Father”, dated February 2023, pages 2 and 7.

Church Assessments 1/29/25

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Shaking Up Pulpits

It’s Wednesday, January 29, 2025, and God is still on the Throne! Interestingly though, in January of 2021, I mailed Mark of Excellence newsletters to 24 local pastors warning them of God’s judgment against them for false teaching. Only four years later, half of those pastors are no longer in pulpits in Titusville. I’m just saying that pastors should take notice about these warnings. But will they, or will they stomp their feet like insolent children and stand firm on their false doctrines. God won’t put up with it for long. Pastors, for your sake open your stubborn eyes and see what God is providing.

“He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.”
(2 Thessalonians 1:8 NIV)

God understands that the false teachers don’t like the vessel that God is delivering His message through … me. But He doesn’t care. He doesn’t need their permission to choose whoever He wants. Unlike those false teachers, I’m unwilling to provoke God against me. But listen, this is not an easy job. Thankfully, God has my back. “Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, ‘I have put my words in your mouth.’” (Jeremiah 1:9 NIV)

This is what the Prophet Jeremiah said and my own heart echoes it. “But if I say, ‘I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,’ his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.” (Jeremiah 20:9 NIV)

Well, if the Lord wants to shake up the pulpits, then I’m all in. We can do it the nice way or God can exact His judgment. It’s up to you!

Attached are two pages from the 2021 Mark of Excellence newsletters. The pastor report card gives an outline of the top ten areas where false doctrines need to be reviewed in the churches. The page of Scriptures about false teachers will hopefully serve as a reminder of what God deems as appropriate punishment for those who teach falsely.

Correct & Refute Those Who Oppose It:

  • “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.” (2 Timothy 4:2 NIV)
  • “He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.” (Titus 1:9 NIV)