David J. Stewart

When The Plane Takes Off, But There's Nowhere To Land

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Psalms 13:2, “How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?”

Psalms 16:10, “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

Psalms 23:3, “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

The phrase “my soul” appears 102 times in the Psalms. If you're like me, and I'm sure you are, then there are just certain subjects that you prefer to avoid, knowing that once that plane takes off you won't be able to find any place to land.

I've been there a thousand times throughout my lifetime, when I started thinking or talking about a painful or emotionally difficult matter, and then I realized after several moments (or an hour later) that there was just not going to be any good place to end the conversation or thought process. The plane took off, but there was no good place to land to end the flight.

The best thing you can do in those difficult situations is to heed the Apostle Paul's exhortation to, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” (Philippians 4:6). And to heed the Apostle Peter's exhortation to, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (1st Peter 5:7). So often, when I feel like there was nowhere to land the plane, I had to just walk away from the conversation or whatever has boggled down my mind with sorrow.

It is usually because I have mixed feelings or incomplete thoughts about a matter when I feel like there is no place to land the plane, because it is still an open book. Over time, when I've had plenty of time to process my thoughts, I usually find a place to land my planes. I think it is safe to say that we've all felt this way at times, and that is perfectly okay. We are only human.

Sometimes it is just best to change the subject and think or talk about something else.

When someone has hurt my feelings, I have often cried out in humility to my heavenly Father in prayer, something like this:

I love you LORD, and I pray that you would help comfort my soul. This world is so horrible. I don't even want to go outside my front door anymore because of how bad society has become. You foretold in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7 that "perilous times" would come, and they sure have. The churches are corrupt and polluted. The pastors are carnal, brutish and woefully lacking in compassion and love for people. The government is reckless and irresponsible. Nobody seems to care anymore. Please bless my website ministry and help me to help others LORD. You deserve so much better than we give you as your children. I love you!

And then I almost always go write another article for my ministry, to bury my conflicting feelings or pain of soul into my ministry work. Thousands of articles have been written over the years while my heart felt like it was in my feet, because of a heavy burden upon my soul at that moment.

I am often reminded of the Apostle Paul's words in 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.” The more that we grow closer to God and His love, concern and compassion rubs off on us, the less loved we are going to feel in today's cold-hearted American society.

Tragically, pastors today are some of the worse offenders, woefully lacking in God's unconditional love for others. When I attended Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) in 2021 for a few months, there was no love in that spiritually dead place. PCC is a prisonhouse of religion, as witnessed by hundreds of their former disgruntled students. 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”

King David was much hated and persecuted by his enemies in the Old Testament. Some people were envious of his massive success. Anytime you rise up head and shoulders above the crowd, someone will have it in for you out of envy. And then there were the friends and relatives of Uriah the Hittite, who hated David because he had stolen Uriah's wife, impregnated her and then had Uriah murdered in cold blood to conceal his wickedness. And then David had enemies who hated the God of Israel. The poor guy had an army of enemies who hated him.

With this truth in mind, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Psalms are saturated with David's pain of soul, miseries and cries unto the LORD for deliverance. Psalms 11:1, “In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?” David's enemies told him to get lost, just fly away like a bird to the mountains of Judea, but David stood his ground by faith in the LORD. The word “enemy” in it's various forms is found 104 times in the Psalms.

When you feel deep pain of soul dear reader, run to the Psalms. You can listen to Alexander Scourby read the entire lengthy Book of Psalms in 4:23 hours.

Another thing that I often do when my feelings get hurt is to give $5 and a Gospel tract to someone. I recently went to Whataburger. I waited at the drive thru window for 5 minutes, but nobody said a word. I finally asked, “Is anybody working today?” Only then did a female say that they were short staffed. I kindly told her that she should have told me that 5 minutes ago. It took about another 25 minutes to get to the window for my food.

The only cashier working both windows was a young black woman. I gave her $5 and a Gospel tract, just to show her God's grace. I could have been upset and frustrated that I had to wait what seemed like 30 minutes. She was sweet and thanked me, and I had a great rest of the day. By God's grace, I am trying to live that way, taking the higher path in life. I don't always make that right choice, but by God's grace I am trying with His help to do better.

I learned a long time ago that as God's children we don't grow in strength, we grow in grace. 2nd Peter 3:18, “But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”

Famous People Who Died In Their 50s

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

James 4:14, “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

Notable celebrities who died in their fifties include:

Bill Bixby (1934-1993) - age 59 - prostrate cancer - he stared in The Hulk
Carl Wilson (1946-1998) - age 51 - not a smoker, lung cancer - a founding member of The Beach Boys
John Ritter (1948-2003) - age 54 - aortic dissection, doctor malpractice - Three's Company
Grace Kelly (1929-1982) - age 52 - car crash - A famous actor
Rod Serling (1924-1975) - age 50 - heavy smoker, heart attack - famous screenwriter and television producer
George Harrison (1943-2001) - age 58 - heavy smoker in earlier years, lung cancer - The Beatles
Prince Rogers Nelson (1958–2016) - age 57 - drug overdose - a famous singer
Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012) - Age 54 - respiratory failure - The Island (actor)
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) - age 57 - heavy smoker, esophagus cancer (Bogart only weighed 80 pounds when he died - a famous actor
Errol Flynn (1909-1959) - age 50 - heavy smoker and drinker, heart attack
Clark Gable (1901–1960) - age 59 - heart attack - a famous actor
Steve McQueen (1930-1980) - age 50 - mesothelioma - a famous actor

These are just a dozen of literally thousands of famous people who died in their fifties and earlier. I am age 59, which got me to thinking about all this. By God's grace, I feel fortunate that I have outlived all of these famous people. Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

Dear reader, life is short, Hell is hot and eternity is a long time. Please make sure that you are ready for the afterlife. That is, have you been born again? Most people shirk it off as mere religious nonsense. What saith the Scripture? 1st Corinthians 1:18, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” What a beautiful passage of inspired Scripture!

To most people the Gospel is tomfoolery, utter gibberish, balderdash and poppycock, because they are not saved and do not see their desperate need for the Savior.

The celebrities that I listed were filthy rich and famous worldwide. They lived life to the fullest. They ate the best meals, wore the finest clothes and lived large. Sadly, other than Steve McQueen, and Michael Clarke Duncan (who was a born again Baptist), it is clear to me from reading their biographies that most of the twelve names listed above went to Hell. Rod Serling plainly denied Jesus as the Christ, as did George Harrison. Clark Gable and Grace Kelly were Roman Catholics, a deadly false religion based in Sacramental Salvation. Humphrey Bogart was an Episcopalian, which false religion also requires Sacramental Salvation.

And of course, the singer Prince was a Jehovah's Witness, which is a damnable cult. John Ritter was raised a Methodist but strayed away from religion later in life. He might be in Heaven. Religion never saved anybody. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. How about you dear reader? Have you been born again from above by the Holy Spirit?

It is very easy, free and simple to be saved. Thank you for reading my ministry blog.

You Tell On Yourself

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Proverbs 20:11, “Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.”

Proverbs 31:23, “Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.”

Ecclesiastes 5:3, “For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.”

I read an intriguing poem today by an unknown author...

You Tell On Yourself
You tell what you are by the friends you seek,
By the very manner in which you speak,

By the way your employ your leisure time,
By the use you make of dollar and dime.

You tell what you are by the things you wear,
By the spirit in which you burdens bear,

By the kind of things at which you laugh,
By records you play on the phonograph.

You tell what you are by the way you walk,
By the things of which you delight to talk,

By the manner in which you bear defeat,
By so simple a thing as how you eat.

By the books you choose from the well-filled shelf;
In these ways, and more, you tell on yourself.

What a great and truthful poem! I couldn't have said it any better. I chose three passages of Scripture as our text verses, each of which deals with knowing someone's character by what they say and do.

The inspired Holy Bible says that we may discern between good and evil by even a child's behavior.

A godly wife builds a reputation in the community, so that everyone highly regards her husband because of his wife's good character and virtue. Can that be said about you and me dear reader? Like it or not, our reputation precedes us whatever we go. Proverbs 15:1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.”

The Bible says in our last text verse that a fool is known by his many words. And the opposite is also true, that even if a fool just stays quiet people will assume that he is wise. Proverbs 17:28, “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”

I have been horribly censured, kicked out of churches and persecuted over my Biblical stand against women wearing pants in public. Such was the shameful case at the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2025, when Pastor Brad Moffett and his ungodly worldly wife kicked I and my wife out of their church over my faithful stand for Bible modesty. The Moffett family should be greatly ashamed of themselves for pulling on the same rope as the Devil, corrupting society further with immodesty. You tell on yourself by the things you wear!

God knows that I am not trying to be unkind, but it is sinful for women to wear sexy pants. If a man in public can see the shape of your buttocks and thighs ladies, it is a sin. A good adage is to conceal, don't reveal. Don't be a slut, cover your butt! That may sound a big crude, but it is nevertheless very true. Tens of thousands of American men are rotting in prisons, some for the rest of their life, because of immodestly clothed females. And the worst offenders of them all are pastor's wives who flaunt biblical modesty by wearing their accursed pants in public. Shame!

By wearing pants and other immodest clothing in public, Christian females are telling on themselves—showing everybody how worldly they are, and backslidden, not right with God. It also shows how little they care or understand the war against lust that men are struggling with today.

I am so ashamed of Pastor Brad Moffett and his spoiled brat wife at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. They wickedly kicked I and my wife out of church in June of 2025 over the issue of modesty. God is on my side 100% in this matter! I had never even once brought up the issue of modesty or women wearing pants at their church in the 45 months that I attended.

But they went and found my website ministry on their own, this article in particular titled: 'Why A Christian Lady Ought Not Wear Pants,' and the pastor's wicked wife took great offense with me, giving me dirty looks at church, despising me as a fundamentalist preacher. Her ungodly husband Brad Moffett falsely accused me in June of 2025 of having an issue with his wife, but the opposite is true, she has an issue with me. She wears pants and the Lord is convicting her about it, and as long as I am around she feels even more guilty, so she hates me.

In the 45 months that I attended Family Baptist Church, one thing became very evident to me, which is that Brad Moffett is woefully henpecked by his wife. Like evil Jezebel, she stirs him up. 1st Kings 21:25, “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.” The foolish people who support Brad and his wife, and his ungodly verbally abusive father (whose wife also wears pants), cannot escape God's judgment. They doomed themselves when they decided to kick I and my wife out of church last June, because now it is an issue, and I want God to avenge my stand for modesty and morality, which they threw under the bus.

The greatest enemy of Christianity in America today is neo-evangelicalism, which tommyrot has crept into nearly every Bible college and Baptist church, corrupting them. These fake institutions and churches who masquerade as Christians preach the Devil's lies of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance. Their females wear pants. They sing the modern contemptible world's music. I call them “7-11 songs,” that is, seven words repeated eleven times. These fake churches use, sell and promote the Devil's counterfeit Bible versions.

In the case of Brad Moffett, he plainly told I and my wife that he is not King James Bible only, and that he favors the Modern English Version (MEV). This perversion of God's Word is very corrupt! As Pastor Jack Hyles used to rightly say, “If you've seen one Westcott and Hort Bible you've seen 'em all.” He said that because every modern English Bible revisions shares the SAME corruptions as do the others. Only the inspired King James Bible stands alone. Here, take a look at what I mean. Pastor Brad tells on himself by supporting Satan's corrupt seed.

So long as I shall live, I will NEVER attend a neo-evangelical church again. I'd rather just stay home and listen to sermons on my computer before I will foolishly tolerate, go along to get along, and wickedly bid Godspeed to ungodly neo-evangelical false prophets. The Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), and Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola are all neo-evangelical cesspools of iniquity. They are all wrong on God's simple plan of salvation. And they all support each other closely. Bill Adams' is the senior pastor at Smyrna Baptist Church. His daughter attends PCC. Birds of a feather flock together. They are despise me because of my Bible preaching against PCC. Take a look at what PCC wickedly teaches and you decide if I am wrong.

They told on themselves, and judgment day is coming (2nd Corinthians 5:1-11. Modesty matters. 1st Timothy 2:9-10, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” Pants on women is worldly, uncouth, shameful and sinful.

And for the ungodly people who laugh, mock and scoff at my Bible preaching against women wearing pants, I wish you could share the prison cell of the thousands of men who have lost the war against lust. 1st Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” I cannot think of anything more selfish than a female wearing sexy pants just because she can, to draw men's attention to her physical beauty instead of a godly heart, and to fit in with all the other worldly women who don't care about what men are facing today.

Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) fully understood, which is why he is so vehemently hated by neo-evangelicals like Brad Moffett, his wife and family. On April 30th, 2025, in his office, when I and my wife were invited to meet with him, Pastor Brad wickedly slandered and falsely accused Brother Hyles of being a dirty-minded old man. Brad Moffett and his ungodly father are not worthy to shine Dr. Hyles' shoes! Pastor Hyles has more wisdom in one finger than both of those incompetent pastors have in their entire bodies. Shame on them!

My only crime is that I care. I have been attacked, censured, mistreated, blocked, kicked out, ostracized and demonized by numerous churches because of my faithful website ministry. Brad Moffett is a fool who has no business being a pastor. Shame on his worldly ungodly wife and his wicked verbally abusive arrogant father. They are the reason why so many people refuse to attend churches anymore. People are tired of the authoritarian abuse. They tell on themselves by their words, behavior and how they treat others.

A Nation Without God

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

1st Chronicles 16:23-26, “Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”

A tragic school shooting occurred at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15, 2026, resulting in the murder deaths of three young children and one teacher. The shooter, a 16-year-old former student, was killed by a father of two girls in the school who intervened during the attack. Thankfully, he was driving by the school during his lunch break and heard the shootings. No doubt he saved dozens of lives.

Sadly, we hear of several hundred active shooter tragedies each year in the United States. Such shooting were unheard of 50 years ago. What has happened? Although some people would blame the guns themselves, that is not the problem. Guns are mere tools. I found this interesting article today by Dr. Scott Bonn, Ph.D. who is a criminology professor, TV news commentator, public speaker and renowned author. He is an expert on the behavior and the motivations of criminals. Dr. Bonn writes:

The Real Reason Mass Shootings Are on the Rise

Personal Perspective: Mass shootings are symptomatic of a sick society.

Psychology Today

Dr. Scott Bonn | June 20, 2022

Tragically, mass public shootings are on the rise in the U.S. If you watch the news, this fact is unlikely to surprise you, as these terrible events have increasingly dominated newscasts in recent months and years.

An FBI study of “active shooter incidents” confirms that mass public shootings have increased in recent years (1). The FBI based its study on 192 so-called active shooter cases which occurred between 2017 and 2021. The FBI defined an active shooter as one who is "actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a public place,” regardless of the number of casualties that occur.

...For the period between 2017 and 2021, the FBI’s active shooter incident data reveals a dramatic upward trend. Specifically, the number of active shooter incidents identified in 2021 (61 incidents) represents a 52.5 percent increase from 2020 (40 incidents) and a 96.8 percent increase from 2017 (31 incidents). Sadly, we are easily on pace to exceed the 2021 total in 2022.

The perpetrators of mass shootings are often incorrectly portrayed as mentally unhinged individuals who simply “snap” and engage in a killing rampage. The reality is that the majority of mass public shooters are individuals who would not be classified as either clinically or legally insane at the time of their crime.

The perpetrators are more likely to be angry, vengeful individuals who seek retribution for a perceived harm done by some person, group, or institution. Moreover, mass public shooting incidents are generally premeditated and often planned well in advance of their commission.

Unfortunately, in their search for a solution to the mass shooting epidemic, certain interested parties and groups in the U.S. have made scapegoats out of legislators, lobbyists, gun manufacturers, law enforcement authorities, the mental health field, schools, and even the media. With every accusation made, some interested party declares that one or more of the aforementioned groups are boogeymen and thus to blame for the mass shooting epidemic.

In reality, most of the scapegoating arguments are myopic and self-serving for the interested party. That is not to say there are no truths to be found in the popular arguments, such as the blaming of assault rifles for the mass shooting problem. It is certainly true that assault rifles exacerbate the problem, but their existence and availability are not the cause of it.

What is missing from the scapegoating arguments is a good look in the mirror by us as a society and a culture. Other developed countries that we consider to be our peers simply do not have the problem with mass shooting incidents that we do. It is my contention that the very roots of our mass shooting epidemic may be found in our core cultural value of fierce individualism, a belief in vengeance, and the ethic that might makes right. These cultural values have been central to what it means to be an American since our nation’s birth. We have always loved to settle disputes (at the individual and group levels) with violence and guns and we gleefully celebrate vigilantism in our popular culture.

I further contend there are powerful, divisive, and negative social forces at work today that fuel the increase in mass public shootings. These factors include but are not limited to: financial and healthcare fears, a declining belief in the American dream, distrust of the government, racism, xenophobia, religious and gender biases, hate crime, domestic terrorism, and near-constant war since 2001. Political and social divisions fueled by seemingly ubiquitous hate speech across media platforms over the last few years have created an environment where violence is seemingly inevitable.

The above factors have led to fear, alienation, powerlessness, rage, and nihilism for millions of people in our country. Tragically, but predictably, an increasing number of Americans are striking out in horrible, public acts of mass violence against innocent strangers that are driven by rage and unfounded retribution. This existential crisis demands that we reassess our core values and priorities as a society, and it deserves our collective commitment to change and grow if we are to stem the tide of this terrible phenomenon. SOURCE

I agree with Dr. Bonn's expert analysis; however, as a fundamentalist Bible preacher I want to delve deeper into what he truthfully said, “Mass shootings are symptomatic of a sick society.” He nailed it! The problem is not just a small percentage of lunatics who gain access to guns; but rather, the whole base of American society has deteriorated over the past century, especially over the past 63 years since the Holy Bible was permanently removed and banned from all public schools since 1963.

I highly encourage you dear reader to take a close look at the 27 shocking graphs in the drop down menu at the bottom left of the webpage, showing the dire consequences of removing God's inspired Word from children's daily lives at school. Here is graph 23 showing U.S. violent crimes statistics after 1963...

Here is graph number 11 showing murder arrests after 1963...

I have just shown you two of the 27 alarming graphs. Dear reader, statistics don't lie! Everybody has a right to their own opinion, but no one has a right to their own facts.

Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982) was absolutely right, “America was 'great' when she was good and she was good when she had great churches.” It is next to impossible to even find a good church these days, let alone a great one. Tragically, a counterfeit plan of salvation is being preached from nearly every pulpit today.

A False Gospel is Cursing Our Nation

I was looking at the statement of faith of the Tulip Grove Baptist Church in Old Hickory, Tennessee today. I found this damnable heresy...

Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour. ...Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor with God. [emphasis added] SOURCE

That is a perversion of the Gospel of free grace. Nowhere can you show me in a King James Bible where God requires you to commit your entire personality to Jesus as “Lord” of your life to be saved. The implication is clear that discipleship is necessary for salvation. When asked how to be saved in Acts 16:30-31, Paul and Silas did not tell the Roman jailer to “repent.” They simply told the man to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Jesus said in John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” Jesus did not mention repentance. This is because repentance is an automatic thing.

To clarify, repentance from unbelief is necessary to get to Heaven, but nowhere does the Bible teach that you must repent “of your sins” to be saved. Wicked men added those unbiblical requirements to the Gospel. The man who believes has repented, and the man who repents has believed. That is, he has changed his mind from unbelief to belief. You do need to know that you're a guilty sinner to be saved, because you need to know what you're being saved from and why. There is a penalty for sin, which is death (Romans 6:23), and that includes a second death in Hell fire and brimstone forever (Revelation 21:8).

Books could be written concerning the many evils which have damaged and corrupted our nation—from the fraudulent Federal Reserve Act scam since 1913, to the Devil's ministers like Paula White, John MacArthur, Robert Jeffress, Steven Furtick and Joel Osteen. From the abortion industry which is still going strong, to the evils of feminism which continue to fuel divorce and the ruin of society—our nation is hurting. From the lying controlled newsmedia, to the fraud of evolution which continues to be rammed down children's throats in public schools—our nation has forsaken the holy God of the King James Bible. No, I will not sing the hypocritical song, “God Bless America.” I pray for God's swift judgment upon this wicked land.

Dear reader, anything that takes higher priority in your life than fearing and obeying God is an idol. 1st Chronicles 16:23-26, “Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.” The old biblical adage is true: There is nothing new under the sun.

Pensacola Got Hit With A Major Hurricane Last Friday

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:07:11 +0000

Hell ministry friends. This is the first that I've been able to get online since last Friday when hurricane Isaias struck my town in Pensacola. Extensive damage was done. All of the utility poles are down on the street in front of my house. A big 3 foot tree fell and crushed my fence to a pancake. My front storm door was ton off its hinges.

On Friday October 9th, 2026, Pensacola got hit with a Category 2 hurricane, Isaias (pronounced E-sigh-e-us, long e vowel sound, as in seed). My phone's weather forecast had said the top wind speeds would be around 40 to 50 mph, but the forecast was way wrong. Instead, the northern winds came roaring through at over 100 mph, devastating my neighborhood. I was caught off guard, which is why my barbeque was demolished.

I took these intriguing photos for you...

My front fence got crushed under a giant oak tree...

My damaged yard light...

My roof sustained tree-impact damage...

The over 100 mph wind actually moved my car 12" from where I parked it...

I was able to salvage my gazebo and barbeque. Praise the Lord! ...

Damage to my soffits...

Several utility poles and power lines are down. I big tree fell on them...

My front storm door got ripped off its hinges...

The tree that fell on my neighbour's house...

My barbeque mangled with my gazebo...

Power lines down on my front street...

Me and Miss Pickles watched all this happen outside our window...

The giant tree that smashed my fence from across the street...

Me and Miss Pickles investigating the damage across the street...

This giant 50' oak tree fell and reached across the street to crush my gate into a pancake...

Downed utility poles, street lights and power lines...

My home in Pensacola...

Many shingles were torn off my roof...

The northeast corner of my roof that a big tree branch impacted...

Pensacola city crews cut up the tree on Monday after the hurricane...

That's a BIG tree! ...

I have no internet. Spectrum is working around the clock to restore internet service. I am using Walmart's hotspot to write this article. I had to take my T-shirt off and put it over my head to see, because the sun is so bright that I cannot see my laptop computer screen in my driver's seat. I have been using my mobile phone for internet, but it is difficult to type with any accuracy. So, for the next few days I will not be able to reply to any emails, please. Thank you for your understanding.

I like to stay ahead of myself, so I already have blog articles written and scheduled until November 30th for this particular ministry blog, which is what you have been reading for this past week. My daily blogs will continue to upload on Monday, October 19th. I want to give all my blog readers enough time to see this notice about the hurricane, so they will know why I cannot answer emails for the next few days. Thankfully, the electrical power was restored 24 hours after the hurricane hit. Over the past few years, Florida Power & Light relocated all the power lines underground going to the homes, which was a smart move.

I love all of you with Christ's love and am thankful to all my readers.

Also, I just received a notice from Google's Blog Team that their terms of service are changing on December 16th, 2026, warning that they are cracking down on offensive content. I have no idea if my writings offend them. We shall find out. I have always written from an honest and loving heart for the Lord Jesus Christ, as a born again Christian (since age 13) and a fundamentalist Baptist preacher. I am certainly willing to remove any truly offensive content (I am not aware of any), but fear that Google may find my entire blog offensive as a fundamentalist Bible preacher. It is clear that the homosexual crowd are slowly taking over society, and any resistance against them is become increasingly dangerous for a Bible believing preacher. It is clear that only one viewpoint is allowed today, which is to either support the ungodly perverse LGBTQ+ agenda or stay silent.

I make no apologies for speaking the truth, come what may Galatians 4:16). Damn the torpedoes! Whether or not Google's employees regard my truthful preaching against the sins of homosexuality, divorce, feminism and abortion as "hate speech" remains to be seen on and/or after December 16th, 2026. I am just giving everybody a heads up!

“A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.” —Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd U.S. Vice President

Our ungodly American society is no longer as “free” as most people would like to continue believing it is. When blogs are censored for religious content that offends pro-homosexuals, feminists, false prophets and abortionists, we're losing our freedoms. We shall see dear friends. We shall see after December 16th, 2026. Please pray with me. Colossians 4:3, “Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.”

Our ungodly American culture is quickly changing into a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, where faithful Bible preachers are hated, rejected and demonized for telling the truth (2nd Timothy 3:12; Galatians 4:16). God will be all of our Judge! Jesus foretold that the day would come when this wicked world will murder Christians, thinking they are doing God's will. John 16:2, “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” It all begins with censorship. Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”

I've been overwhelmed this whole week with necessary house repairs from missing roof shingles to tree-impact damage, several dozen phone calls, contacting the city to remove a fallen tree, no internet, canceled doctor's appointments, my chronic neck pain and burning nerves, et cetera; it's been hectic. Thank you for your patience and please say a pray for me and Miss Pickles, my faithful cockapoo dog. God is always good. It was a blessing that no windows were broken, amazingly. I don't have any typhoon shutters yet, but I need to look into some. Thank you again for your patience and for your continued interest in my ministry blog.

The Word of God prophesies that a famine of the truth is coming. Amos 8:11, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.” As the truth is censored and censured, society can only become much worse. You haven't seen anything yet. Just wait until the Democrats retake control over the White House. They will bring back the LGBTQ+ filth with a vengeance. Proverbs 28:28, “When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.”

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Let Every Day Be A Brand New Day

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Ephesians 4:26-27, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.”

For as long as I can remember in my life, I have lived by the principle that every day is a new day. It doesn't matter how angry I might have been yesterday, today is a new day. That is a smart way to live dear reader. Please don't carry bitterness and anger from one day to the next, because it will destroy you. Bitterness is the only container that eats itself! Life is much too short to live with a burden of hatred.

We should want to forgive and let things go each day. That is the Christian way, the Lord's way. Proverbs 19:11, “The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.” I don't know about you, but I enjoy showing mercy on others.

I feel sorry for the disgruntled wife who harbors bitterness and anger toward her husband for months and even years. All the while, her husband forgave her the very first day, loves her and just wishes that she would come back home where she belongs. By not letting things go each day, all someone does is prolong a bad situation, causing more needless pain.

Dear reader, learn to let your wrath go each sundown. When you wake up the nest day, all should be forgiven and back to normal. Please don't ever carry your anger from one day to the next. I honestly believe that is one reason why God made each day's cycle to be 24 hours. I love astronomy. Here's some astronomy facts to blow your mind, one day on Venus lasts about 243 Earth days, which is longer than its year of 225 Earth days. Venus also rotates in the opposite direction to most planets, so the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Wow! Whereas one of our Earth days is only 24 hours, a day on Venus lasts for 243 days! How would you like to be angry for that long? Reminds me of that guy's wife I mentioned earlier.

Some of the best godly advice I can give you is to let each day pass. Be quick to forgive and shew mercy, and try not to hold grudges. Ephesians 4:29-32, “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

That is my one consuming thought when it comes to being patient with and forgiving others. We are all horribly wicked sinners in God's sight. If God could forgive a woefully wretched sinner like me, who am so undeserving, I certainly can forgive everyone else who has wronged me along life's journey. It is my privilege and golden opportunity to exemplify my dear Savior, to forgive everyone. That doesn't mean I like those people. It doesn't mean that I'll ever trust them again. It doesn't mean that we're buddies. Nor does it get them off the hook with God, to whom they still have to give account for their evil deeds on Judgment Day (Proverbs 24:12; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Matthew 12:36; Romans 12:19-21, 14:10-12; 1st Thessalonians 4:6; James 4:12; Hebrews 4:13).

Psalms 90:12, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Let every day by a brand new day dear friend, and you'll find great joy in the Christian life. Proverbs 4:18, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” I love you all unconditionally with Christ's love. Thank you for your continued interest in my blog ministry. Jesus is precious!!!

I Am Not The Enemy

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Galatians 1:6-8, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”

In the following inspired passage of Scripture, the Apostle Paul said he worried that the Galatians “might well bear with” (accept and tolerate) a FALSE PROPHET if he preached another Jesus, another spirit or another gospel:

2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”

The Greek word for the phrase “bear with” is anechomai and means “to hold oneself up against, that is, (figuratively) put up with.” Paul was afraid that after he had taught the Galatians the true Gospel, they would put up with the damnable heresy of a false prophet. Ladies and gentlemen, that is exactly what has happened in 97% of churches today, including most Baptist churches. A counterfeit plan of salvation is preaching preached from behind nearly every pulpit today.

When i attended the corrupt Harvest Baptist Church on Guam for one year in 2013 to 2014, I saw many horrible things at that church. I stayed quiet for the first several months as a newcomer, because I wanted to learn there beliefs and get their story. After several months the Lord impressed upon my heart to help them. It was on their own KHMG 88.1 FM radio station in Micronesia that I heard Evangelist Tom Ferrell (1952-2021) make the true statement: A friend helps a friend to see. I fully agree. Unfortunately, they don't follow their own teachings at Harvest, because when I showed their rotten pastors the truth, they showed me the door.

7 Years of Intense Loneliness, Rejection and Pain of Soul

In the aftermath that followed for the next several years, I was ruthlessly blackballed on the island of Guam by the pastors of Harvest. Guam is a small island community where most people know each other. In the particular neighborhood that I lived in, nearly all of my neighbours attending harvest Baptist Church or worked on staff at their numerous schools. I was wickedly ostracized, shunned, ignored and belittled by my Harvest neighbours. No one would wave back when I always waved at them with a Christian smile.

One day in 2017, while walking behind the Chamorro Village around Paseo Ball Park, a married couple on staff from Harvest were approaching me. I heard the man horribly tell his wife twice, “Don't smile! Don't smile!” Their ungodly pastors deliberately mistreated me, turning the entire church family (where I had attended and made many friends in 2013-2014) against me. I felt lonely, hated and overwhelmed. Those wicked pastors will one day be dealt with by God almighty (Romans 12:19-21; Matthew 12:36; Proverbs 24:12; Galatians 6:7).

Oftentimes my neighbours from Harvest invited all their friends over for a fiesta barbeque and time of fellowship, while I sat alone across the street, forgotten about because I TOLD THE TRUTH. Since their wicked pastors were still living large—had plenty of friends, had a church to go to, and all was well in their world—they couldn't have cared less that they threw me under the bus and left me for dead to rot, and I did. But God heard my cries night and day, just like the faithful LORD heard the cries coming out of Sodom (Genesis 18:20-21).

Harvest Baptist Church and Pensacola Christian College are Cursed by God

I moved away from Guam in 2021. But my heart still cries out for vengeance for what those ungodly neo-evangelical incompetent pastors did to ruin my life, all because I did the right thing to TELL THE TRUTH. And since I have moved to Pensacola, my situation at Harvest Baptist Church followed me to Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). Harvest broadcasts Pastor Jeff Redlin's sermons on their radio station.

Like a deformed grotesque conjoined twin, Harvest Baptist Church on Guam and Pensacola Christian College (PCC) are connected at the chest and hip. Birds of a feather flock together. I had met the man who operates the radio station at Harvest on Guam in the years before 2014. He moved back to the United States in 2014, and I met him again in 2021 (it's a small world), and he operates the radio station at PCC today.

Unfortunately, as you can expect the corrupt ungodly pastors of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam slandered me to PCC, and I was blackballed before I knew what was happening. Since August of 2022, I have been formally banned from attending Campus Church at PCC. Dear friend, when you TELL THE TRUTH, you will make plenty of enemies (2nd Timothy 3:12). And take a look at the theological garbage being taught at PCC today, Lordship Salvation!

I feel like the Lone Ranger! I truly do. I am lonely as a truth-telling preacher. I have paid a dear price, painfully so, losing all connection with people and churches simply because I TOLD THE TRUTH. Tragically, PCC takes in about $170 million each year in revenues but couldn't care less about right doctrine, evidenced by the four different plans of salvation that I found in their cultish organization. Proverbs 16:5, “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”

I Told The Truth At Church But Was Persecuted For It

Dear reader, I TOLD THE TRUTH at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam:

I told the truth that Lordship Salvation is of the Devil.
I told the truth that Martin Luther (1483-1546) taught Sacramental Salvation his entire life and; therefore, couldn't have been a born again Christian.
I told the truth that all of the modern English Bible revisions have been corrupted by Satan, and only the inspired King James Bible is reliable.
I told the truth that Dr. John MacArthur (1939-2025) is a damnable false prophet who denies children can be saved, denies that Jesus' blood is sprinkled in Heaven on the Mercy Seat, denies salvation is by faith alone, denies that Jesus had God's blood flowing in His veins, et cetera. Marty Herron wickedly idolizes John MacArthur!

Instead of recognizing Dr. MacArthur as his enemy, Marty Herron shamefully called me (the truth-teller) his “enemy,” and the church congregation's “enemy.” We'll see what God almighty thinks about Herron's nasty comments, and that he formally banned me from coming back to church. We'll see what God has to say about their ungodly neo-evangelical pastors turning the entire church congregation (several hundred people) against me in the community. Woe unto Marty Herron and his accomplices! Woe unto Harvest Baptist Church on Guam!

In late 2014, I personally handed their senior pastor Marty Herron hard copies of the following books:

I Never Knew You (Evangelist Michael P. Bowen)
NIV: The Antichrist's Bible (Pastor Al Lacy)
Martin Luther: Master Of Deceit (Pastor Max D. Younce)
Somebody's Got To Milk The Cows (Pastor Jack Hyles; this is the MP3 sermon)

For giving those books authored by fundamentalist preachers to Marty Herron (which he showed to his associate pastors), I was called into the church office the following week and falsely accused of causing confusion and divisiveness in their church. Their associate pastor Joe Hensen admitted to me in the church office that on any given Sunday you can find at least two dozen different Bible versions circulating in their pews. So, how am I causing confusion by promoting only the inspired King James Bible? They are the ones who are utterly confused. Acts 19:32, “Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.”

Harvest officially uses the Easy-To-Read Version (ERV) and the King James Bible. They published a bitranslation with these two texts side-by-side for comparison. Harvest endorses, sells and promotes Satan's modern corrupt English Bible revisions. Harvest Baptist Churches is a cesspool of Bob Jones University (BJU) alumni. BJU officially uses and endorses multiple different Bible versions (ESV, NKJB, KJB, et cetera). It is a house of confusion. I wouldn't enroll a dog into BJU today!

Furthermore, BJU and Harvest preach hard core Lordship Salvation. BJU invited to speak to their students and honored, Calvinist Paul Washer in December of 2022. What saith the Scripture? 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” BJU and Harvest have much blood on their hands for preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL. Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) got it 100% right in his helpful 1987 book titled, “Salvation Crystal Clear,” Lordship Salvation is a perversion of God's grace.

For courageously TELLING THE TRUTH, by being a true friend to help them to see at Harvest Baptist Church, pastor Marty Herron called me the church's “enemy.” The naysayers said the same horrible thing about Paul. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews in John 8:45, “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.”

Pastor Herron's cruel ungodly words in 2015, calling me the “enemy,” have often resounded in my soul, painfully reminding me how frustrated Jesus and the Apostle Paul felt when met with the same stiffnecked resistance while telling THE TRUTH. John 18:37, “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.”

Salvation is Very Easy, Free and Simple

A counterfeit plan of salvation is being preached from nearly every pulpit today, which requires a willingness to forsake your sinful behavior to get to Heaven. Pacific Garden Mission's 'UNSHACKLED!' radio program in Chicago is guilty. PCC, BJU and Harvest Baptist Church on Guam are guilty! The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is guilty. It is no light matter to pervert God's simple plan of salvation.

Pastor Jack Hyles Obliterates Lordship Salvation

I love the old accurate 1836 hymn of the Christian faith written by Miss Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)...

JUST AS I AM
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

If you tell the truth, you WILL BE persecuted by today's apostate dead churches and religious seminaries. Theologians are ruining America! Deeper life neo-evangelicals are ruining America. They're trying to compensate for not getting anybody saved by claiming that soulwinning believers are ignorant and unlearned, falsely accusing us of easy-believism. Well buster, there is no such thing as hard-believism!

We are saved by faith alone, and faith is dependence upon God. You've just go to believe that Jesus did it all for you through Calvary's cross, by the blood that He sprinkled upon the heavenly Mercy Seat 2,000 years ago. Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible require that you accept Jesus as the “Lord” of your life to be saved. Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible require that you become a Christ follower, repent of your sins, get water baptized or live a lifestyle of repentance to get to Heaven.

Stop listening to neo-evangelical false prophets! Jesus commanded us to 'SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES' in John 5:39. One of the most dangerous things you will ever do is trust a pastor!!! You had better trust God's Word. Don't forget God's warning in 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4 and 13:15 that Satan has his own sinister ministers of unrighteousness, which appear as ministers of righteousness to deceive the masses. Please don't miss that!

Dear reader, I am not the enemy. I am your best friend right now, because I AM TELLING THE TRUTH. Marty Herron and his cronies are fools. I handed them the truth. I put the truth directly into their physical hands, but they wickedly rejected it. For decades, I had quoted Hosea 4:6a, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...” But like many people who read the Holy Bible, I didn't read the entire verse. I missed the most important part... “because thou hast rejected knowledge” (Hosea 4:6b). God's people were destroyed because of their own foolish rejection of THE TRUTH.

“All in the world God needed to save us was His justice to be satisfied. And when Jesus Christ took upon Himself our sins, and stood before the great white throne judgment of God on Calvary, and my sins were recorded to Him; that means my sins have nothing in the world to do with my being saved. It is my trust. Jesus said, 'Trust me and you'll be saved.' ” —Pastor Jack Hyles, an excerpt from the sermon: “Yea, Yea, and Nay, Nay”

I am not the enemy for TELLING THE TRUTH. A friend helps a friend to see. Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.”

It Is Okay To Be Spiritual, But Not Religious

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Proverbs 19:17, “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”

James 1:27, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

I hear many, many, people saying that they are “spiritual but not religious.” I concur, if you simply mean that you don't live a religious church life. I am also very spiritual, but not religious. I love talking about God, beliefs, the afterlife and the inspired King James Bible. I live each day in the fear of God, desiring at age 59 to love God and love my neighbour as myself as the Bible teaches. In am now in the third act of my life, nearing the end of my journey on earth.

I don't go to church at this time in my life. My father didn't go to church either. He saw how phony it all is today in churches. My father wisely said, “Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world.” My Dad was right! My father was a Skid Row preacher for over 30 years in Chicago, helping the poor and needy and destitute of life, giving them the Gospel. That is “pure religion” according to God's inspired Word. James 1:27, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

If you can find a good church in your area today that:

Doesn't use the Devil's corrupt modern Bible revisions
Doesn't preach the damnable heresy that you must “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven
Doesn't distribute toxic “Chick Tracts” which pervert the Gospel of free grace
Doesn't embellish the Gospel by adding following Christ, turning from sinful bad habits, surrendering all to Christ, and living a lifestyle of repentance to be saved.
Doesn't kick people out the door (for telling the truth, I was kicked out of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, Family Baptist Church in Pensacola; and the pastor and his wife deliberately mistreated me at Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola, so I would be hurt and never come back, and I didn't). All of the aforementioned so-called "churches" preach another gospel. The Bible says they are all bewitched, cursed by God (Galatians 1:6-7, 3:1-3).
Actually loves people as individual human beings created in God's image

Then I say, GOOD LUCK finding such a church, because in Pensacola I haven't found a single one! By God's grace, I will go to church (as my poor health permits) when I can find one that does not pervert God's simple plan of salvation, does not promote Satan's corruptible seed, actually goes soulwinning, and they love sinners enough not to kick me out the door for being a truth-teller. The quickest way to be kicked out of a church is to simply TELL THE TRUTH! Today's churches are spiritually dead and pathetic! It is apostasy.

The inspired Word of God teaches that true religion is to help suffering people—the fatherless and the widows—and avoid falling into the sinful trap of the world. James 1:27, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” That teaching is directly taken from the Holy Bible. You cannot show me one passage of Scripture which commands God's children to be religious, in the sense of going to church to worship God on Sundays.

Hebrews 10:25 Has Nothing To Do With Skipping Church

So many people misinterpret Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” This passage of inspired Scripture has nothing to do with skipping church on Sundays. This writer gets it right. Hebrews 10:24-25 is about abandoning Christ and His Body entirely.

By God's wondrous grace and mercy through His Holy Spirit, throughout my 24 years of faithful website ministry since 2002 I have built many relationships, leading lost sinners to salvation (they are my children in Christ), investing in believers (aka, feeding Jesus' sheep), who have also encouraged me in the faith. We pray for each other as we fear and obey God. It’s the community of believers, not the 501C3 state licensing and church building, that matters. No doubt pastors who rely upon tithes from their congregation will vehemently disagree with me on this. So be it, but I am right.

The danger wasn’t in missing church in Hebrews 10:24-25; the danger was in missing Jesus. Hebrews 10:25 is not about forcing Christians into buildings. It’s a call to stay faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ, which by His grace I have done and will continue to do until He takes me home to Heaven one glorious day. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

So, next time some jerk uses this passage to pressure or guilt you to attend church (which I have had painfully done to me in the past), just remember that you haven’t forsaken the assembly. You’ve just found a deeper way to live it by avoiding bad churches that will corrupt your faith if attended, and might lead you into neo-evangelical apostasy. It is much better to just stay home from church on Sundays, than to attend a corrupt fake church.

On page 115 of his helpful book, “I Never Knew You,” my ministry friend Michael P. Bowen writes:

According to many verses in the bible, especially those warnings God gave to us through Paul in the book of Galatians, you should never listen to anyone’s message that runs counter to the message given to us by Christ, and you should never attend a church where the pastor tells the flock that they must add works of discipleship to faith in Christ’s “finished work” as the way to enter heaven.

That’s exactly the reason why I no longer attend any of the local churches in my current hometown. The other churches here are either Catholic, who equate Mary as being equal to Jesus, or Jehovah’s Witnesses’ churches that deny the deity of Christ, as well as other non-believing apostate churches which have rewritten the bible to suit their needs for power and dominance.

Please do not misunderstand me. These are “good people” and they would give you the shirts from off of I Never Knew You 116 their backs. They are all wonderful people, but they have been deceived by unbiblical plans of salvation, and unless they “change their minds” and trust Christ alone as their savior, they have no hope. Believer, it’s people like you and me who have to reach them. [emphasis added] —Michael P. Bowen, “I Never Knew You,” p. 115; ©2009; hard copies are available at Amazon

Jesus is the Head of the Church and is still leading His children. The building is not the church. True Christian community is built around Christ, not a calendar or a service. I can show you dead church services all across the United States, where a bunch of deadbeat religious people get together to eat food, gossip and slander godly preacher like Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) who actually made an eternal impact for Christ while on earth. Your average pastor today is an incompetent disgrace. You can count me out!

Again, Hebrews 10:25 warns against abandoning the community of believers, not merely skipping church services. This passage emphasizes mutual encouragement and love, especially as the end approaches. Millions of believers are now finding all of their spiritual needs met online, without the misery of being abused, shunned and mistreated by local carnal churches.

When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2024, their pastor Bill Adams couldn't have cared less about me as a human being, so he sent his wife over to intentionally be mean to me in church, hoping that I would leave offended and not return. Since no one wants to be where they are not wanted, and since I am a true gentleman, I quietly left and never returned. They were delighted. I speak to the utter shame of Bill Adams and his horrible wife.

Once I gave a Gospel of John and $20 cash to a homeless man in San Diego who was rummaging through a garbage container in an alley. He said something I have never forgotten: "Thank you for being a doer of the Word and not just a hearer." What a beautiful thing to say! Yes Sir, I want to be a doer and not just a hearer of the Holy Bible.

The adage is very true: Positions and titles will come and go, but the way you treat people will always be remembered.

The inspired Scripture teaches that unadulterated "pure religion" is to help the down-and-outer, the poor, the maimed, the forgotten, the despised, the imprisoned, the unwanted, the dregs of society; and yet remain unspotted by the filthy wickedness which has enslaved many of them.

I discourage you dear reader from donating your hard-earned money to today's fat cat charities like the Salvation Army, who pay their CEO $443,000 each year. You won't find a single large charity that doesn't pay their top leaders outrageous 6-digit salaries, in some cases fifteen times what the average American earns in a year. The CEO of the American Red Cross, Gail McGovern, has a reported annual salary of $1.3 million! Don't be a fool to give one dime to Red Cross! And that's a so-called “charity.”

I think it would be a marvellous thing if the trillions of dollars in charity and church tithes suddenly dried up, and those people had to genuinely go to work for a living. Of the estimated 350,000 churches in America, I dare say that 1,000 of them are great churches. And I'm talking about small off the radar churches in rural areas that we never hear about. I wouldn't give you a dime for today's garbage mega churches. That's .003% of churches that are great today! To the other 99.097% God says, “You're fired!” Revelation 2:5, “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” God has already removed the charter of nearly all churches! God is not in their presence.

I dread going to churches today because they are very boring. I've been either kicked out, or deliberately mistreated so I wouldn't come back, in the past four churches that I've attended. Today's unloving and incompetent pastors are a shameful disgrace, and their ungodly wives. I certainly don't need that unpleasantness and chaos in my life, and neither do you dear reader.

I Am Not Down On Great Churches

Please don't misunderstand my article. Pastor Jack Hyles dedicated the latter years of his life preaching three great truths:

THE BOOK (the exclusivity of the inspired King James Bible for English people)
THE BLOOD (Jesus' literal liquid blood sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven)
THE BODY (the importance of local New Testament churches worldwide)

I am all for going to church, if you can find one worth attending. I receive thousands of emails at my website ministry, many from frustrated believers who cannot find a good church to attend in their area. Dr. Hyles used to advise people in such a situation to move to a great church. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done, and in many cases, impossible. As much as I love Brother Hyles, he was only a man with his own prejudices, sins and faults (like we all do).

I wrote this article to encourage those of you, who like myself, don't have a great church to attend. Going to church just makes you religious, it doesn't make you a good Christian or right with God. The churches are filled with tares (unsaved people) today. The churches by large are as carnal as can be these days. Church attendance is declining fast in America!

The sickening idea that you're just supposed to quietly attend a church and be quiet while hearing blatant heresy concerning salvation from the pulpit is unbiblical. I 100% agree with Dr. Jack Hyles, if a church becomes corrupt and you cannot change it, walk out the door!

Most People Don't Understand How Pain Affects A Person

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Job 16:1-2, “Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.”

Most people haven't a clue how chronic pain adversely affects a person. I was severely rear-ended by a church bus in 1992. My neck felt like an iron rod was shoved down my spine. I was sent to the hospital. X-rays showed that nothing was broken, but they didn't notice that my neck was crooked. The severe accident permanently misaligned my neck, a condition called Reverse Cervical Curve. This abnormal alignment places undue pressure upon the cervical and thorax area of the spine, which causes the disks at C5-C6-C7 to slip out of place and protrude in 2004. My condition worsened so that by 2009 I required neck surgery. I underwent the same surgery in 2010 to correct deficiencies from the first surgery. Unfortunately, the second surgery made me much worse, leaving my upper body afflicted with burning nerves.

Since February of 2004, my life has been adversely affected by constant agonizing neck pain, neck stiffness that never goes away, and the entire right side of my body feeling half asleep continually. Since my second neck surgery that didn't go well, I have also suffered from constant burning nerves throughout my upper body, and both arms feeling inflated with air all the time. To say the least, I am miserable all the time in physical pain and discomfort.

I have tried my best over the decades to kindly explain to people how my pain adversely affects me, but they just don't understand. Very few people, unless they are suffering them self, or have a close loved one who has suffered horribly in constant agonizing pain and afflictions, can know what I suffer through. I never feel like going anywhere. I don't want to do anything. I don't feel like playing my musical instruments. I don't feel like talking to anyone. I don't want to talk to anyone on the telephone. I let my voicemail filter all oncoming calls 100% of the time. This is my miserable life.

That being said, I am grateful to God for what remaining health I do have. I am overall healthy, other than my permanent neck injury since 1992, and Type II diabetes which my doctor has kept under control for the past couple years (my A1C is holding steady at 5.7%; it was 10.8% in 2023). I take a 15 mg weekly injection of Mounjaro which has helped me very much. It is a remarkable medication.

That all being said, I live in a lonely world of constant neck pain, burning nerves, and related bodily afflictions. Although these ailments became “the new norm” a long time ago, they cease to suppress my ambition. I don't want to go anywhere or do anything, including going to church. As much as I'd like to live a normal life again, I cannot. These are the cards in life that I have been dealt.

Ecclesiastes 9:11, “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” I was in the right place at the wrong time in 1992 when I got hit by that church bus. And then in 2005, I fell 15 feet down conveyor slide at work which worsened my neck injury. And then in 2010, my second neck surgery made things even worse. Time and chance happens to everyone. Like Proverbs 27:1 says, we don't know what another day may bring.

Permanent pain changes one's life permanently.

The Simplicity That Is In Christ

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

1st John 4:13-15, “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”

Dear reader, the beauty of God's simple plan of salvation is that in the Scripture we're never given a level of faith that has to be reached in order to go to Heaven. Isn't that wonderful?

How much do you need to be saved? Just enough! You need just enough faith to obey John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Do you believe dear friend?

To go to Heaven, all you need to do is just BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you.

It's not Jesus + something else. It's Jesus + nothing!

It's not Jesus + repenting of your sins. No, it's Jesus + nothing!

The Gospel (Good News) is this: Jesus died on a cross 2,000 years ago to pay our debt of sin. He was buried. Three days later He physically resurrected from the dead.

1st Corinthians 15:1-6, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

All of the following junk that we commonly hear in churches today is NOT part of the Gospel:

repent of your sins
be willing to turn from sin
become a Christ follower
invite Jesus into your heart
pray a sinner's prayer
walk down a church aisle
live a lifestyle of repentance
faithfully run the run until the end
invite Christ into your life
make Jesus your "Lord"
commit your life to Christ
surrender your life to Christ
turn from your wicked ways
confess Jesus publicly
get water baptized
do good works
live a changed life
be sorry for your sins
have a change of heart
make full surrender of your will

As we just read in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, the gospel is simply three things: Jesus' crucifixtion, burial and bodily resurrection the third day. Simply BELIEVE IT and the work is done! Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

AC/DC's Brian Johnson Will Soon Split Hell Wide Open

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

1st John 2:22-23, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

AC/DC's infamous frontman Brian Johnson (born 1947) made some disturbing blasphemous comments about the only begotten Son of God years ago in 2011...

In a recent interview with PopEater.com an AOL blog the 63-year-old Johnson said, "Well, I don't believe in religion, let's put it that way. I believe all religions are bad. I think they're a waste of time. Jesus was a clever man. He wasn't the son of God. We all know that he was a very clever, wonderful man and he said, 'Church is in here, meaning you are your own church.'" SOURCE

I feel sorry for Brian, now age 78, knowing that when he soon enters into the afterlife he must answer to God. Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”

Hebrews 4:13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

Psalms 50:22, “Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.”

Hebrews 10:31, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

Those are some frightening passages of Sculpture if you don't know Jesus as your personal Savior. I got born again at age 13. That was 46 years ago. It seems like just yesterday.

I actually share Brian Johnson's disdain for religion. Tragically, over 95% of Baptist churches (my own denomination) preach a counterfeit plan of salvation which required being willing to turn from your sinning to get to Heaven. This is another gospel. I am at the place where I am reluctant to even call myself a Baptist anymore. I prefer being non-denominational like Jesus.

The sad thing is that the heathen world do not discern the difference between religion and the truth, which are two separate and very different distinct things. The Gospel is truth, not religion. Religion is man trying to fit us with glasses to see things through a human filter; whereas God wants to open our eyes with the truth of His inspired Word. John 17:17, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

Brian Johnson's net worth is around $90 million in 2025, primarily from his career as the lead singer of AC/DC since 1980 and his songwriting contributions. What saith the Scripture? Mark 8:36, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Kindly said, Mr. Johnson is a fool for risking his eternal soul on the altar of enjoying this temporary life. He is blinded by his earthly success and enormous wealth. 2nd Corinthians 4:4, “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

According to 1st John 2:22 Brian Johnson is an antichrist. What saith the Scripture? 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

The band's most infamous song is titled: “Highway To Hell,” has sadly unofficially become our national anthem in the United States. Truly, the members of AC/DC are traveling the Highway to Hell, literally. Former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott died at age 33 on February 19, 1980, just months after AC/DC released the “Highway to Hell” album on July 27, 1979. His death was due to alcohol poisoning, which the coroner recorded as “Death by misadventure.” So sad.

Matthew 7:13-14, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Unless Brian Johnson and the other members of AC/DC repent of their unbelief to trust Jesus Christ, they will all split Hell wide open when they die and burn in fire and brimstone forever. Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” The Crystal Clear Gospel Of Jesus Christ

Famous Chicago Bears' Coach Mike Ditka Died Yesterday

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

James 4:13-17, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

Mike Ditka, the legendary Chicago Bears Football coach and player, died on October 9, 2026, at the age of 86. Mike Ditka was the Chicago Bears’ head coach from 1982 to 1991, and he led the team to a Super Bowl win in 1985 (Super Bowl XX). He was a great coach whom I followed closely as a teenager in the early and mid 1980s. The Chicago Bears are known as the “Monsters of the Midway” due to their strong defensive history, particularly highlighted during their dominant seasons in the 1940s and the famous 1985 team. I and my Christian high school friends were big Chicago Bears fans.

We admired Walter Payton (1954-1999), a running back for the Chicago Bears. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest running backs in NFL history. Payton could bench press 400 pounds and yet gracefully dive over opposing team players to score a touchdown in the end zone. He was an amazing athlete.

We adored the team. The nickname “The Fridge” was given to William Perry, a defensive tackle for the Bears. The nickname originated when a teammate remarked on Perry's size while they were in an elevator together, saying he was “as big as a refrigerator.” The Bears were incredible! I've never been a sports enthusiast. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) loved sports and followed professional teams closely, knowing all the statistics by heart.

Tragically, Mike Ditka was known for his strong Roman Catholic faith, which played a significant role in his life. If you know anything about Catholicism, then you know it is a false religion that contradicts many Biblical teachings...

Coach Mike Ditka Dies – His Strength and Iron was His Catholic Faith

October 9, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

By Elizabeth Gresosky

The family of Mike Ditka announced on Friday that the football legend has passed away at the age of 86.

Ditka was the first tight end ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and he coached the Chicago Bears for 11 seasons, leading them to a Super Bowl victory in the 1985 season and earning the title NFL Coach of the Year in the years 1985 and 1988.

But more importantly, Ditka was proud of his Catholic faith.

John Yep, President of Catholics for Catholics, issued the following statement:

“As a lifelong Chicago Bears fan, I grew up hearing countless stories about legendary Coach Mike Ditka. Nicknamed Iron Mike – a moniker he earned due to his rugged, tough playing style, brusque manner, and his upbringing in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a gritty steel-manufacturing town – Ditka’s real strength came from his Catholic Faith. He once said,

‘But I am so grateful for the Roman Catholic faith with which I was raised. My dad didn’t go to Church, but my mom was a terrific Catholic – a fervent convert to the faith – and always saw that we went to Mass and Catholic school.’

There is nothing like our Catholic Faith which equips us to face the hardships of life with the Iron Will that Coach Ditka exhibited throughout his life.

It’s only fitting that he passed away on the Friday before the Bears head to Lambeau Field on Sunday to play the Packers in this storied rivalry. Let’s pray for his soul because at the end of our lives everything here stays behind, even his memorable 1985 Super Bowl ring. What matters most is our Catholic Faith and love for Jesus.

Coach, you will be missed greatly and one day we hope to see you again. Until then… God Bless and Go Bears!!”

In a 2018 interview, Ditka spoke volumes about the importance of the Catholic faith, the need for more vocations, the value of the sacraments, and more. SOURCE [emphasis added]

I cannot warn you enough to avoid the Catholic religion. We are warned by the Apostle Paul in 2nd Timothy 3:5, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” That “power” is the free grace Gospel according to Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” The toxic sacramental salvation of Catholics and Lutherans cannot produce the required new birth to enter into God's Kingdom (John 3:1-7). The word “sacraments” is not even found in the inspired Holy Bible.

Whereas Catholics are errantly taught that their priests have power from God to forgive men's sins, the Word of God plainly teaches in 1st Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Neither the Pope or any Catholic priest have power to absolve men's sins. If you trust a priest to forgive your sins, you won't be forgiven and will spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

I truly mean no unkindness to Mike Ditka or his family. My intent is never to be unkind, rude or hurtful toward anyone; but rather, to warn you that what Catholicism teaches goes 100% contrary to what the inspired Holy Bible teaches. There is nothing in the Bible about partaking of manmade sacraments to get to Heaven. Roman Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion!

Whenever a famous person dies, I immediately become curious what they believed about God, His only begotten Son Jesus, the afterlife and salvation. It is one of my hobbies. I love learning the biographies of famous and infamous people.

Dear reader, life is so short. I just learned today that famous singer Bob Marley (1945-1981) was only 36 years old when he died. Bob Marley died from acral lentiginous melanoma, a rare form of skin cancer that started under his right big toenail in 1977 and later spread to his brain, liver, and lungs before his death on May 11, 1981. Bob Marley died so young. Life is short, Hell is hot, and eternity is a long time.

Keith Moon (1946-1978) of the rock band 'The Who' died at age 32 from a drug overdose. Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), who had a beautiful singing voice (there's a nice concert on YouTube of Amy singing with Tony Bennet), died of alcoholism at only age 27. Her Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) was 40%. That's nearly half of her blood saturated with booze! I digress.

My point is that life is short. Mike Ditka made it to age 86. By God's grace, I will turn 60 on March 5th, 2027. I am not entering into the third act of my life. Please don't let the Catholic religion take you to Hell forever with them. Salvation is found only through childlike faith in Jesus without works, not by joining some church or getting dunked in a baptistry tank. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The World's Most Beautiful Sunset

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Ephesians 4:21-27, “If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.”

If my dear Savior was willing to forgive me for the things in life I've done wrong, then I certainly can forgive everyone else for what they've done to hurt me. Until you've forgiven somebody who is wrong, and you are right, you've never tasted of the Heavenly manna.

Here are one dozen worthy quotes on forgiveness to ponder:

“He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.” —Johann K. Lavater

“Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.” —Alice Cary

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.” —Jean Paul Richter

“It's a choice, that's all it is. Forgiveness is a choice. And it's a choice you ask God to help you keep. It doesn't happen overnight. Forgiveness is an ongoing battle.” —Tammy Faye Bakker

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” —Mark Twain

“We win by tenderness; We conquer by forgiveness.” —Frederick William Robertson

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.” —Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.” —Laurence Sterne

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred.” —Corrie Ten Boom

“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.” — Lance Morrow

“Forgiveness doesn’t make the other person right, it makes you free.” —Stormie Omartian

There is no greater feeling in all the world than to just forgive everyone. Let go and let God. I decided a long time ago to just forgive everybody, even those who have never asked for my forgiveness. Forgiving someone in no way excuses someone from the coming judgment from God for their wicked words and behavior. Forgiveness is releasing someone who has wronged you into God's hands for judgment. They're going to be judged by God whether you release them or not, but by placing the offender into God's hands you can find peace and move on.

This is why we are taught in Romans 12:19-21, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

I cherish this promise from almighty God. Nobody ever gets away with wrongdoing. NO ONE! Hebrews 4:13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” One day in the afterlife, you and I and every human being who has ever walked this earth will be held accountable by our Creator for every word spoken (Matthew 12:36), every deed (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14), and even our very thoughts and motives (Proverbs 24:12). There is no escape!

On my website ministry, since 2002, I preach against many corrupt churches and wicked pastors. It's not a matter of forgiveness, any more than you could accuse John the Baptist of refusing to forgive Herod for sleeping with his brother's wife. John was being a preacher of righteousness and truth when he spoke out against Herod's sin, faithfully doing what God made him to do, preach. So, we must use wisdom to discern between Bible preaching which is necessary, versus refusing to forgive somebody on a personal level. Of all the ungodly pastors that I preach against, there's not one of them whom I hate or wouldn't befriend if they sincerely contacted me in a spirit of good will.

The main reason why it has been easy for me to forgive all my enemies is my faith in God, believing that the LORD will keep His solemn promise to avenge me. Just knowing that God won't allow those who have hurt me to go unpunished is enough to calm my soul. God's Word is enough for me. Matthew 8:8, “The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Jesus marvelled at the centurion's response, saying that He had not found such faith in all of Israel. I find it amazing that the “greatest faith” Jesus found in all the land wasn't from a Jew, but a Roman centurion. I think that is beautiful. A Gentile had the greatest faith!

The reason why many Christians become bitter and enraged with anger is simply because they don't really believe that God will make good on His promise to avenge them. Granted, it is difficult to wait a lifetime to be avenged, but God will make good on His promises to hold everyone accountable for their words and behavior. Even if someone intentionally ruined your day with their words, God will hold them accountable for their cruelty. Matthew 7:2, “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Truly, what goes around does come around.

Many people believe in karma. “Karma” is an ancient Indian term that refers to the principle of action and its consequences in various schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Taoism. Pastor Jack Hyles called it, The Reciprocating Law of Life. Regardless of what people may call it, God must balance the equation. If you hurt other people but don't suffer for it, then Jesus Christ must suffer for it. One way or another, somebody's got to pay! That is what Calvary's cross is all about. But if you reject God's free gift of forgiveness by refusing to receive Jesus as your personal Savior, then you alone will pay your debt of sin in Hell forever (Revelation 20:12-15). Somebody must pay for all wrongdoing.

The first words uttered by Jesus on the cross were: “Father, forgive them.” Forgive who? Herod, Pilate, Judas, the apostles who abandoned him, the solders who crucified Him. Luke 23:34, “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.” The most Christlike thing you can do is to say: “Father, forgive them.” Who's that enemy you have? Who is it that has deeply hurt you? I can think of dozens of people who have deeply hurt me, especially pastors and pastor's wives. The Christian army is the only army in the world that kills its wounded.

God knows that I do not harbor hatred or bitterness against anyone. Life is too short to live with a burden of hatred dear reader. It has been rightly said that bitterness is the only container that dissolves itself. As I grow older, Lord willing, I choose to get better not bitter.

The world's most beautiful sunset is knowing at the end of each day that you have forgiven everyone, and you refuse to harbor bitterness toward anyone.

In some cases you will not be able to rectify, make restitution or reconcile with people you may have hurt in the past, simply because they have died or moved away and you wouldn't even know where to begin to contact them. God understands your circumstances friend. You can only do what you can humanly do. Make peace with those whom you can, and leave the rest in God's hands, committing your ways unto “he that keepeth thy soul” (Proverbs 24:12b).

Muslims Are Required To Sit Sideways On The Toilet

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Respectfully, I once worked with a devout Muslim named Ed about 25 years ago. Ed would bring his carpet to work, lay it down on the ground in the hallway out of sight from coworkers, face Mecca in Saudi Arabi, and pray five times a day in cycle with the moon. That is why the Islamic symbol is a crescent moon on their flag. Muhammad worshipped the moon.

And let me say that my intent in writing this article is not to make fun of Muslims; but rather, to focus on the burden of false religion that weights men's souls down with rituals, superstition and fear. Religion wants to fit you with glasses, but the Lord wants to open your eyes. Islam is a burdensome prisonhouse of false religion that cannot produce the required new birth to enter into God's Kingdom (John 3:3).

Ed also used to bring a squirt bottle with him each time he went to relieve himself in the restroom, to cleanse in accordance with his false religious beliefs (i.e., the Hadith). While sharing a casual conversation one afternoon, I kindly asked Ed if he believed urinating on himself would send him to Hell. His energetic response was, “You got that right!”

You see, in their religion's holy book the Hadith, Muslims are taught that cleanliness is required to please Allah. They must wipe them self after using the restroom with their left hand. I am not making thus stuff up. Christianity offers true liberty from the power of sin and the Devil, but false religion will enslave you! 2nd Peter 2:19, “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” Jesus said the truth shall make you free (John 8:32).

Also, Muslims are prohibited from facing directly towards the Qibla (the direction of the city of Mecca), or having it directly behind them, while using the toilet. Instead, they must position themselves slightly to the right or left to avoid facing the city directly. Yes, you read right, Muslims are required in their false religion to sit sideways on the toilet. Which also means they evidently must also bring a compass with them into any toilet, to know which direction faces Mecca. Can you image such superstition? Islam is a religion of utter bondage and misery. Some Muslim scholars disagree about this required ritual when inside buildings, but it is absolutely mandatory when in the wilderness (outdoors). Dear reader, this is manmade superstition, bondage of the soul and body, not Biblical truth. I feel sorry for Muslims.

One day I shared the free grace Gospel with Ed, but I might as well have been talking to one of the machines we serviced. When I told Ed that I knew 100% I am going to Heaven, he was greatly offended. I still remember his response. He angrily said, “How arrogant! How prideful you are to say that you 'know' you are going to Heaven. You had better do your best and hope that you make it!” In Ed's corrupted mind, he has been taught since childhood that Heaven must be earned by good works, serving Allah, and following a bunch of burdensome rituals.

Whereas in Christianity, we believe that Jesus Christ has already paid our debt of sin, so that we can receive God's “free gift” of eternal life in a moment of time, and know for certain that our name is written in Heaven (Luke 10:20). This is eternal security! Please don't ever let anyone lie to you who says that there's no such thing as “eternal security.” Eternal life is eternal security! Muslims cannot grasp the beauty of knowing that we have eternal life as Christians, because their religion is steeped in works instead of faith.

False Religion is a Prisonhouse of Bondage

I am reminded of Jesus' precious words in Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

In sharp contrast to Islam, in God's simple plan of salvation you simply come by faith (taking God at His written Word) as you are, as a wretched guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20); you receive Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago as full payment for your sins, believing that Jesus died, was buried, but then miraculously resurrected from the dead the third day. This is the only “gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 and Galatians 1:6-8.

When you place your trust in that Gospel (Good News, Glad Tidings) as a needy sinner, God reads your mind and works the supernatural miracle of the new birth (John 1:12-13). That is, you are born again by the Holy Spirit of God in response to your faith in the Word of God (1st Peter 1:23). Getting to Heaven is that simple, easy and free. Please don't let anybody inspired by Satan tell you something different dear reader. Islam is of the Devil.

And to add, the Quran (their Muslim bible) teaches that God has no son. That tells us right there that Islam is a counterfeit antichrist religion. The Quran explicitly states that Allah has neither taken a son nor has any partner in His kingdom. This is mentioned in several verses, including Surah Al-Isra (17:111) and Surah Al-Mu'minun (23:91). 1st John 2:22-23, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Enough said.

Why Wicked People Love False Religion

Kindly said, false religion will take you to Hell if you let it. The Bible says in Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” I humbly believe that anyone who is pure (sincere) of heart will ultimately end up at Jesus' feet, a King James Bible, and a free grace Gospel. I also believe the reason why billions of people are victims of false religion is because they are not pure of heart. In other words, if you want to discover the truth you will find it. Titus 2:11, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” Many people follow a certain false religion because it vibes with their own agenda, low moral values, family tradition, superficial, et cetera.

The Bible teaches that people who follow false prophets love to have it so. Jeremiah 5:30-31, “A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” The Hebrew word Shammah for “wonderful” used here doesn't convey our modern splendid meaning; but rather it means, “ruin, that is, consternation: fear resulting from the awareness of danger.” The prophet Jeremiah is saying that he is frightened by something fearful (horrible) which has happened in the land. False prophets are preaching lies and God's people are gladly eating it up hook, line and sinker.

That's exactly what I have been saying for the past 24 years of my website ministry! The churches are full of lying incompetent pastors today who are wrong on repentance and the Gospel, damning the souls of men to Hell forever; and ungodly complicit churchgoers just continue to empower them to spread more lies. The truth is still being preached be a few faithful preachers today. So, the problem is not that churchgoers are innocently ignorant; but rather, they are entrapped by something in psychology called, 'Motivated Perception.' That is, they only see what they want to see. That is why only the pure in heart shall see God.

The man who believes nothing is better off than a man trapped in false religion, because the man who believes nothing is still searching for answers. I cannot warn you enough to avoid the Islam religion, as well as Judaism and other demonic manmade false religions. John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” Let God's Word ring true, but every man a liar.

Lordship Salvation Is A Million Times More Dangerous Than Halloween

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Acts 15:24, “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment.”

Every year in October all of the nuts come out of their closet, freaking out over Halloween. Although the holiday definitely has a Satanic origin, Americans do not celebrate it that way.

Likewise, Jeremiah 10:1-5 talks about the Babylonians decorating their trees to worship them, which passage is often used by nuts to condemn having a Christmas tree in December.

And just for the sake of argument, tens of millions of Christians celebrate Easter every year, which holiday also has a Satanic origin. But we do not celebrate the goddess Eostre, we celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead the third day.

I am tired of Christian believers getting all worked up into a frenzy on social media every October, condemning anyone who dares to take their children out to have a fun time Trick-Or-Treating, when they couldn't care less about the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation, which is one million times more of a threat to your family. Dear reader, many of us as believers have our priorities wrong!

Furthermore, today's hundreds of modern English Bible revisions are toxic! I am sick and fed up and tired of meeting stupid (brutish) pastors who see no harm in the Devil's Bible perversions. I cannot warn you enough dear reader. See for yourself how the modern traitors who pervert God's inspired Word attack Jesus' deity...

I teach the Satanic origin of Halloween on my website ministry, because I want Christians to know the truth about where the holiday comes from, but that doesn't mean I think taking your kids out to have a fun night of going door-to-door for candy is a wicked thing. Jesus wasn't born in December, yet we celebrate His birthday in December. Biblically, we are not taught to celebrate Jesus' birth. We are taught in the observance of the Lord's Supper to remember what Christ did to redeem us on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago.

If you feel led to cry aloud against the evils of celebrating Halloween, knock your socks off, but I won't join you. I'm going to spend my time exposing the deadly evils of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance and the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions that are sending billions of people to Hell forever. Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God alone be the glory!

America's Toxic Society

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Jeremiah 3:20, “Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.”

We have departed from the LORD in America. We are long over due for God's judgment upon the United States. Each year society descends lower and lower into pride, arrogance and the depth of wickedness. How low will we go?

I love hearing and playing the pedal steel guitar. It has been my hobby and passion since 1992. Here is my most recent recording, 'Do They See Jesus In Me?' There was no steel guitar in the original recording from Hyles-Anderson College. I added my pedal steel guitar just for fun. I am playing a Rittenberry single neck 10 string guitar, which are made in Cookeville, Tennessee. I bought mine around 2011. I also have two old Sho-Bud Pro II double necks, but they are mechanically limited for my particular pedal and knee lever setup.

That being said, I love country music, but only if there's a pedal steel guitar. I watch the Grand Ole Opry sometimes on Roku. Sadly, ninety percent of the music today is garbage, not true country. I enjoy watching and hearing Tommy White play his pedal steel guitar. But as a born again Christian and a fundamentalist Bible preacher, I cannot help but notice the wickedness behind the entire entertainment industry. Nearly everyone (and I mean everyone) in the country music business is shamefully divorced and remarried to someone else.

The Disgusting 'Grand Ole Opry'

Last week I watched Keith Urban sing on the Opry, but I was disgusted knowing that his wife Nicole Kidman (who appears butt naked in numerous Hollywood films) filed for divorce recently because Keith cheated on her with his younger girlfriend. I turned off the Opry, not wanting to have any part of those ungodly people. Americans affirm anything nowadays, no matter how wicked and wrong it may be.

We've lost our innocence and shame in American culture. When I was a kid in the 1970s all alcoholic beverages were sold in brown paper bags to hide the booze from the children's peering eyes, to set a good example. Drinking booze was still considered a shameful habit 50 years ago. Today, we see stacked cases of booze in retail and grocery stores. There is no shame anymore. We've lost our innocence in American society.

I was watching Rhonda Vincent sing on the Grand Ole Opry recently. She sang a couple pretty songs, but the immodest dress she wore was hanging half off her body, with only one shoulder strap. I had a strong gut feeling that she was likely divorced, so I went to check online. Sure enough, she divorced her husband in 2024. What really made me disgusted was reading some toxic feminists' ungodly comments on social media:

Donna Jean: She was smart and got rid of him.

Jean H. Martin: She finally got tired of him in my opinion. She works more than anyone I have ever seen. You go Rhonda, you will find someone who appreciates you.

Instead of mourning over sin and divorce as we should, people celebrate it. Those are wicked women! Only an ungodly woman with a defiant rebellious heart against God would make such calloused comments in praise of divorce. No God-fearing woman would speak so foolishly. We should express sadness when there is a divorce, regardless of the reason(s), and not rejoice and bid Godspeed to the person who sinfully quits their marriage. We are living in a toxic American society today. Filing for divorce doesn't eliminate your problems, you are just exchanging one set of problems for another. No one can escape life's miseries.

Such wickedness is nothing new. Cosmopolitan magazine actually published an ungodly article titled: "How To Cheat On Your Husband Without Getting Caught" in 1965. Helen Gurley Brown (an avowed feminist) and her ungodly husband David Brown took over Cosmopolitan in 1965 and transformed it into a despicable evil magazine aimed at promoting modern single career women (feminism) to destabilize society. I speak to their utter shame!

No Extenuating Circumstances For Cold Blooded Murder

It disgusts me that Lindsay Clancy (who brutally murdered her three children) will likely not go to prison. There are hundreds of angry white females protesting outside the courthouse who are demanding her release. If that were a white father, he'd be sentenced to three life sentences in prison, no questions asked. Why should white women receive special privileges? White women want the legal and moral right to do whatever they want while suffering no consequences for their actions. If there is justice, Miss Clancy should go to prison! Biblically, she should be sentenced to death.

We've all noticed that every time someone is indicted for committing a heinous crime, a large percentage of them suddenly claim that they were a victim of childhood sexual abuse. That is what Christa Pike (now age 50) is claiming, the woman who survived a botched lethal injection in Tennessee this week. She is presently in a coma. Our nation has become so inept that we cannot even put somebody to death properly anymore. Unreal.

When she was only 18, just a brat, Christa and her boyfriend murdered a fellow 19-year-old classmate, smashing and saving a piece of the girl's skull as a souvenir. What monsters! Kindly said, it doesn't matter if she was sexually abused (which claim has yet to be proven), that does not excuse somebody from the crime of murder. I think it it sad and wicked that our incompetent government refuses to execute murderers as the Bible requires. Capital Punishment is almost non-existent in the United States today.

And then there is the shameful case of Casey Anthony in Florida, who clearly murdered her child (Caylee) in 1988. Her own attorney later said that she is guilty. Casey led investigators on a wild goose chase, laughing in their faces when her claim led them to nothing. Casey lied about her father, maliciously accusing him of sexual child abuse, which he vehemently denied publicly and in court. But the stupid jury bought the defense attorney's charade and Casey was acquitted of murdering her own daughter. Show me the men who've committed murder who were granted such pardons. Our justice system is broken!

Shameful College Campus Orgies

It's been reported in the news this week about female student Lucy Craig, who admitted to police in October of 2024 that she wilfully engaging in an all night orgy with several males (four groups of her and two males in threesomes). This is where Cosmopolitan's ungodly philosophies lead females. I wholeheartedly agree with this truthful article by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, which is an indictment of our modern wicked American culture...

What the Cornell Rape Allegation Really Tells Us Is that Sexual Morality Is Stone Dead and that Men and Women Willingly Participate in Promiscuous Sexual Debauchery

Kindly said, this young perverse college female willingly went to a male fraternity, got high on booze and Ketamine (a horse tranquilizer), admittedly engaged in an all-night sex orgy with several males while being so intoxicated that she was seeing cross-eyed, out of her mind, and now she wants to burn those men by putting them into prison for the rest of their lives (for participating in a night of debauchery that she initiated). How were those males supposed to know that she didn't like what they were doing with her? Now she wants to play the role of being a victim. The moment she voluntarily engaged in an orgy, her credibility was gone.

Personally, I think the state's attorney general should prosecute all of them, but to our society's shame there is no law against sex orgies. This wicked country is a ticking moral timebomb! The entire moral base of society in America has been compromised and bottomed out, so that you simply cannot trust anybody anymore. This has been Satan's goal all along to corrupt and undermine our nation's families. Satan's minions have been hard at work—via the demonic entertainment industry, damnable false religion and corrupt churches, controlled social media platforms, public schools, and a corrupt court system—to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10).

America Is Long Overdue For God's Judgment

I am not sure how much longer free speech will last in the United States, but as long as I have a voice for righteousness and truth I will take a Biblical stand against the sins of immodesty, sexual immorality, abortion and divorce. One day at a time. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” —Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President 1801-1809

I am a guilty sinner too, so I do not condemn anyone, but somebody needs to say: “This is wrong!” If we don't, think of how low society will go! John the Baptist took a Biblical stand against wicked Herod's adultery, which cost John his life. John wasn't condemning Herod and his brother's wife for their sins, he was telling the truth. Like me, John was a Bible preacher prepared by God to preach the truth. The truth offends many people. The old adage is true: The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay.

God's judgment is coming upon this wicked nation, and I for one cannot wait. I am so sick and fed up and tired of our wicked American culture. Isaiah 13:11, “And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”

Our country's founding fathers feared God...

“We have not government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —U.S. President John Adams

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” —Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President 1801-1809

How much more abortion, homosexual marriage, college campus orgies, false bibles, false religion, counterfeit gospels, public nudity, greed, arrogance, blasphemy, unpunished crime, sexual immorality and divorce is God going to tolerate before He decides it is enough?

There is an increasing spirit of antagonization toward Bible believing Christians in the United States. The heathen mindset is that everyone should just love each other (affirm everyone) and not take offense toward homosexuals, effeminate males, masculine females, abortion, sexual depravity, et cetera. But what saith the Scripture? Proverbs 29:27, “An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.” As a Bible-believing Christian who fears God, I will NEVER accept the homosexual agenda. I will NEVER accept the “pro-death” abortion crowd.

I will NEVER stop preaching the Bible against ungodly pastor's wives who wears pants in public. We are living in a toxic society in America today where even pastor's wives have such low moral standards, that they see nothing wrong with wearing immodest attire (Proverbs 7:10). Shame! I'm tired of seeing Christian mothers wearing skintight Spandex while walking their babies. They either have no idea what that does to a man's mind, or else they couldn't care less. The Bible calls sexual lust a “war against the soul” (1st Peter 2:11). Yet, your average pastor and pastor's wife today defend a female's right to wear pants in public. Shame!

Dark days are ahead for the United States if the LORD tarries His return. China and Russia are just waiting for the next Joe Biden to run the White House into the ground, and we just might lose our nation to a nuclear attack. Just like smoke disorients bees, sin always makes a people comatose and vulnerable. We've got children running our nation into the ground. First the borders were wide open for 4 years, and now they are closed. What next?

Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Christians everywhere are rallying behind Donald Trump, who openly supports the homosexual agenda. I do not support Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA); I never have and I never will. It's all bullcrap! Trump is a bold-faced liar who has failed to keep his promises. I am tired of professed Christians who wear rose-colored glasses, thinking Trump can do no wrong. The guy is a failure! No man is a true success who supports a wicked tongues-speaking false prophetess like Paula White.

We need to Make America Godly Again, and I don't see that ever happening! I think we are beyond the hope of any revivals bringing Americans back to God. As long as Satan controls the mainstream media, and stupid Americans sit in their living rooms glued to their televisions, believing whatever the media tells them to think, we are doomed to failure as a nation.

While He Was Yet Speaking

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

“While he was yet speaking” (Job 1:16a)
“While he was yet speaking” (Job 1:17a)
“While he was yet speaking” (Job 1:18a)

The old adage is true: When it rains it pours. The Morton salt company uses that adage. When my father used to drive us home from the Chicago United Mission at 34 S. Desplaines in downtown Chicago (now a parking lot), his rescue mission ministry, I'd see that adage on the large roof of the Morton salt factory as we passed by along the Kennedy expressway: “When it rains it pours.” That is so true of life as well. When bad things happen, they pile up!

Job was living for the Lord. One day God bragged to Satan about Job, opening a can of worms. Satan challenged God, alleging that Job only served God because everything was going good in Job's life, and that the Lord had placed a hedge around Job's life to protect him. So the Lord wagered Satan, making a bet that he couldn't shake Job's faith. God permitted the Devil to ruin Job's life utterly. First Job's oxen and donkeys were stolen, and their caregivers killed by invaders. And while one servant was bringing this bad news, “While he was yet speaking,” another servant brought more bad horrific news that Job's sheep were all gone, and the servants killed. And if that weren't devastating enough, “While he was yet speaking,” yet another servant came and told Job that his camels had been stolen, and their handlers murdered by thieves. And “While he was yet speaking,” another panicked servant ran to tell Job that a great wind had killed all of his ten children. That is the way life often is, just one negative thing after another, ruining our day.

The Devil murdered Job's servants and stole his livestock, murdered his ten children, took away his good health, and then Mrs. Job sinfully suggested that Job just get it over with by cursing God and dying. Essentially she told Job to eat worms and die! We must try to be empathetic by placing ourselves in her shoes. Mrs. Job had just lost ten of her precious children that she went through the jaws of death to bring into the world. Her oldest children must have already been young adults, because the Bible says: “his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.” The oldest child had his own house. So these weren't all little children who died. A strong wind (likely a tornado) took the lives of all her children in one moment. Can you imagine?

I remember many years ago in a Chicago suburb that a female bus driver was blocking the train tracks with her bus. The gates were lowered onto the bus and the warnings lights and bells were sounding. The traffic light was red and there was a car in front of her. So she just sat there in indecision, like a fool, while a speeding commuter train plowed through the bus at 70 mph, ripping and spinning the bus off its frame and instantly killing seven teenagers on board and seriously injuring the others.

The tragic aftermath was gruesome for rescue workers who had to extricate the mutilated lifeless bodies from the wreckage. If I had been that driver, without hesitation I would have nailed the fuel pedal and pushed that vehicle in front of me into the intersection, even if it meant killing the driver to save the school children. Forgive my bias dear reader, but that is exactly why women shouldn't be bus drivers, because they are not decisive and aggressive like men are (with few exceptions). I read a stupid comment recently by author Christy Leigh Stewart where she said there would be no wars if women ruled the world. That is such an arrogant feminist thing to claim, and she is very wrong. Who do you think taught the terrorists? Their mothers! If women ruled the world it would be just as chaotic, because we are all wretched sinners.

Life is full of surprises. The adage is also true: Life is what happens while you're making big plans. Proverbs 27:2 warns not to boast about tomorrow, because none of us know what a day might bring. My next door neighbour in 2023 kindly handed me some fruit to taste from his Japanese fig tree growing in his yard. Today he is serving life in prison for a conviction of allegedly sexually assaulting a minor in 2024. He and his wife never saw that coming! I saw that fig tree today, in his backyard now overrun with weeds, and my heart broke for him and his family. Oh how sin thrills and then it kills! Sin fascinates and then it assassinates! This is exactly why my favorite Bible verse is Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Always be on guard!

There are no unimportant things. Little things often lead to big things. Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968) rightly said, “Behind every tragedy of human character lies a long process of wicked thinking.” That is so very true. This is why I regularly listen to the inspired King James Bible, and I also listen to fundamentalist Bible preaching. Bible preaching helps us think and live right (Titus 1:3). The fools who scoff at hearing God's Word and Bible preaching, choosing instead to watch worldly television, are the ones who often end up in the hog pen of wickedness.

There have been a lot of drug-related celebrity deaths this year. Case in point is the death of Cindy Crawford's son Presley Gerber, age 27, which has been investigated as an overdose after Presley was found dead at a rehab facility in Los Angeles on September 20, 2026. He was rushed to a rehab center after he overdosed on illegal drugs. When I learn about tragic stories like this, I am often reminded of something that Jesus said in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” The ungodly world seeks peace from substance abuse and immoral sex, but the inner peace that Jesus gives transcends this empty wicked world (1st John 5:19).

It's been said that God the Father only had one Son without sin, but He's never had a son without suffering. So true! Every saint is an adopted son of God (John 1:12; Romans 8:15). But Jesus is the only begotten (biological) Son of God. That is why it is blatant false doctrine when ALL of the modern English Bible revisions completely remove the word “begotten” from John 3:16. Jesus is not God's only son, He is the Father's only “begotten” Son, which makes Jesus God also. Jesus is almighty God (John 1-3, 14; 10:33; 1st Timothy 3:16; Revelation 1:8 - All citations only to inspired King James Bible).

John 16:33,“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” In Rocky Balboa (2006), Sylvester Stallone tells his real son (who plays in the movie):

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

I like what Rocky told his son, because it is very true and practical advice. Pastor Jack Hyles used to warn us preachers boys: “Fellas, it's a jungle out there!” The world never meets anyone half way on anything.

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue;
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door,
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

Hear hymn

When I was younger, I admit that I didn't know how to cope with this mean ungodly world, and I really still don't. People equal pain. I have been deeply hurt by countless religious people, by corrupt pastors and their carnal ungodly followers (minions). So, I emotionally withdrew into my shell like a box turtle, which many people do. I have never recovered to be honest. I hate this wicked world. I loathe today's lifeless pathetic churches. I loathe the hatred of the New IFB that is akin to deadly cancer. You can count me out! I'd rather just stay home and listen to sermons.

I was listening to Pastor Tom Cucuzza yesterday in a sermon about Eternal Security, who said that he doesn't want to live to be 80 years old; he wants to go home to be with Jesus. Pastor Cucuzza took the very words right out of my mouth. I want to go home, but in God's time. Philippians 1:21, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

By God's grace, I am living a quite life the way that I like it. I mind my own business and stay busy laboring for Christ on my website and blog ministry. I enjoy playing my 5-string banjo and pedal steel guitar. I am listening to 'Grasshopper Sitting On A Sweet Potato Vine' as I work...lol. Gotta love the banjo! I have no local friends in Pensacola. My ministry friends are scattered throughout the world. I've been kicked out of numerous ungodly local churches for telling the truth (Galatians 4:16). God will be their only Judge (James 4:12: Romans 3:4; Galatians 6:7; Proverbs 24:12; Matthew 12:36). Proverbs 14:25, “A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.”

These Are Perilous Times In America

These are the “perilous times” foretold of in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7 when people have become rotten, selfish, dishonest, corrupt, scary and as wicked as can be. In the 1978 movie Superman, Lex Luthor's father was absolutely right, “People are no damn good.” The Bible warns in 2nd Timothy 3:5b that churchgoers will possess “a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” That “power” is a free grace Gospel according to Romans 1:16.

The “repent of your sins” garbage that is being preached in 95% of Baptist and other bad churches today is a counterfeit plan of salvation, which cannot produce the required new birth (John 3:3). Anyone who insists that you must “be willing to turn from your sins” (which toxic lie all Chick Tracts contain) to get to Heaven is denying the saving power of the Gospel. Instead they are wickedly adding human effort to Christ's finished work of redemption. We are saved by resting in what Jesus did through Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago to pay for our sins, and not because we commit to live a better life that has less sin (Hebrews 4:10-11).

Wicked incompetent pastors have perverted God's simple plan of salvation in a futile attempt to force carnal people to live holy lives, but corrupting the Gospel is not how to do that. The Gospel must not be altered or embellished in any way (1st Corinthians 15:1-6). The great need of the hour is preaching preachers! I cannot remember the last time I heard a Baptist pastor preach about Hell, or against sin by name, or contend for the faith. Today's pastors are a sad joke! They do not impress God one bit, I assure you. It is a pastor's duty to preach the truth. Damn the torpedoes! Talking to the average pastor is like talking to a mule.

That is why young people today refuse to attend church anymore, because today's pastors are afraid to preach against feminism, abortion, homosexuality, et cetera. God pity the preacher that the world don't hate! They are afraid to preach the truth that 911 was a blatant Inside Job! They are afraid (or to ignorant) to preach against the fraudulent Federal Reserve scam since 1913. They are afraid to rock the boat, offend their listeners, and be put outside the gate with Jesus.

They are afraid to expose President Donald Trump for the phony that he is, who lied his way into office in 2024. I do not support MAGA! You can keep your stupid bullcrap hat too. Trump hasn't kept his promise to lower inflation. All he has done is blame Joe Biden, claiming that he inherited the problem, so it is beyond his ability to fix it. That is totally unacceptable Mr. President! You made a solemn promise to the American people.

Financially hurting U.S. farmers and ranchers are still very angry at Trump for undermining their profits by imposing tariffs and opening new markets abroad. Charity should start at home. We never should have engaged in this unnecessary war with Iran, nor given hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. It is not the job of Americans to police the world. Tens of millions of Americans need dental care but cannot afford it. Homelessness is getting worse every year.

I Come From The Future: I Bring Bad News!

Rough times are ahead for the American people. The wage gap between the rich and the poor will continue to widen. God only knows the evil that will ensue when the wicked Democrats retake the White House in 2029 or 2033. All the homosexual DEI (diversity, equality and inclusion) junk is coming back! The bottom will fall out spiritually as the wicked retake the government and society. Proverbs 28:28, “When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.”

We cannot stop the Devil from killing, stealing and destroying (John 10:10). Yet, the Bible tells us in 1st John 4:4-6, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” I love that! The indwelling Holy Spirit inside every believer is GREATER that the Devil who is at work corrupting the world.

The heathen world hears the world, giving regard to their ungodly advice (John 15:19); but those who are led by the Spirit of God listen to truth-tellers who preach the inspired Word of God. 1st Corinthians 1:18b says that “the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” I have shared the Gospel with countless thousands of people throughout my lifetime. I have handed people Gospel tracts, just to watch them literally walk 10 feet and toss the tract into a garbage pail. Woe unto those fools at the Great White Throne of Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15).

I'm sure that at some time in all of our lives we have been able to relate to Job's calamity, whom the Bible says was bombarded with one negative report after another, “While he was yet speaking” (Job 1:16a). And then again in verse 17, and again in verse 18. When it rains, it pours! I have been there friend, where things just kept getting worse, more crap on the pile.

Don't Worry Be Happy In The Lord

At those bitter times in life all we can do is look up to our blessed Savior like the psalmist, who cried out to God in Psalm 6:2-6, “Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”

Being a Christian doesn't make life any easer, but it does make life better knowing that we can bring our every burden to the Lord in prayer and leave it there. Philippians 4:6-7, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” As the great contemporary philosopher Bobby McFerrin said in 1988, “Don't Worry Be Happy.”

The Joy Of The Lord Is Your Strength

Nehemiah 8:10, “Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” I do not believe that this verse is teaching that God gives us His joy to be strong; but rather, our strength comes from knowing that God is joyful in Heaven. I find great peace in knowing that God is at perfect peace. I find great comfort in knowing that nothing ever rattles God's cage, so to speak; nothing every occurs to Him. God doesn't need a secretary to handle his complex schedule. Everything's alright in my Father's house!

We read in Revelation 20:12b that “the books were opened,” but those books aren't for God. They are for the damned to see a record of their sins, from which “works” they will be judged. God doesn't ever remember anything; He is omniscient (all knowing). Nehemiah said the joy of the Lord is your strength. In other words, if God is happy you will also be happy. If God is pleased, so am I. If God is calm, then so am I. I do not know what tomorrow holds, which is why I tend to worry. But my heavenly Father know what tomorrows holds.

I admit that I am a worrier. That is why I cautiously try to live my life in such a way, that I avoid creating unpleasant situations where I would need to worry more than I already am tempted to do. There's already enough stuff to worry about without creating more problems. Right? I learned that you cannot trust God and worry at the same time. The moment we start having faith in God, our worries begin to subside. When we put our faith in our blessed Savior, life's worries start to fade in comparison to the great hope of eternal life. Always remember,

UNSHAKABLE FAITH COMES FROM HAVING OUR FAITH SHAKEN.

While one servant was giving Job the horrible news that his oxen and asses had been stolen and men killed, “While he was yet speaking” another servant came to bring more bad news that his sheep were gone and workers dead; and then “While he was yet speaking” yet another servant came to tell Job that all of his camels were gone and those servants killed; and then “While he was yet speaking” still another distraught t servant ran in, informing Job that all of his ten children were dead. Can you image how Job felt? To say that he felt overwhelmed would be the understatement of that century.

Dear reader, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22b). Those are Jesus' words, not mine. When life doesn't give you a break, and everything seems to be going wrong, just hang in there for God, so that you may exclaim with the dear saint of God in Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Refuting Pastor Loran Livingstone On Speaking In Tongues

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

1st Corinthians 14:23, “If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?”

Pastor Loran Livingstone (born 1952) is a false prophet who leads Central Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has done so for more than four decades. Dr. Livingstone moved to Charlotte in 1977 to pastor the newly formed Central Church.

Unfortunately, Pastor Livingstone is a Church of God Pentecostal preacher who teaches the unbiblical modern-day pagan practice of speaking in tongues. Dear reader, heathen false prophets like Loran Livingstone and Paula White speaking such gibberish garbage, which is sinful nonsense...

1st Corinthians 14:23, “...will they not say that ye are mad?”

Trump's White House Faith Leader Speaks in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues as practiced today in Charismatic and Pentecostal churches has its origin in African witchcraft. The truth may shock you!

In the Bible tongues (languages) were used for the purpose of preaching the Gospel. This is made clear in Acts chapter 2 concerning the Day of Pentecost, because 3,000 men were born again by gladly receiving (believing) the Gospel which the Apostle Peter preached unto them (Acts 2:41).

In sharp contrast, Pastor Loran Livingstone perverts the Scripture, claiming that the Christians in the upper room spoke among other believers in tongues. ...

Acts 2:5-8, “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

Nothing in this Scripture passage confirms that unsaved people were not present while the miracle of tongues occurred. The Bible plainly tells us that the result of speaking (and hearing) in tongues was the conversation of 3,000 men at Pentecost. Whatever started in the upper room was intended for the thousands of unsaved people who came on the Day of Pentecost.

The modern-day entertainment of speaking in tongues (unknown jibber-jabber) is totally foreign to the Word of God. 1st Corinthians 14:23, “If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?”

Legitimate Biblical tongues ALWAYS deals with known, earthly, established languages; but never some unknown, strange, mumbo-jumbo unknown earthly language. If it's not an earthly established language, it's of the Devil. God is still a miracle-working God, but His power is not available at our whim for the purpose of entertainment and dazzling the crowd, preying upon people's pocket books like Paula White wickedly does.

Please RUN from any preacher who speaks in gibberish unearthly tongues!!!

And for that matter, RUN from all female preachers, who are defiant against God's holy commandment for women to keep silence in the churches, and to leave men to lead the church (1st Timothy 2:11-12).

That being said, I think Pastor Loran Livingstone is a good man, and I have enjoyed listening to much of his Bible preaching. But speaking in tongues is an unbiblical practice. The only legitimate “tongues” always involves known, earthly, established languages. A translator is often required. But this is a very different scenario than uttering some unknown gibberish that no human being has ever heard, which somebody can allegedly understand (which they don't). This is spiritual fraud! What Miss Paula White is doing is spiritual fraud! It sickens me that President Donald Trump appointed Paula White as his White House spiritual advisor.

I also applaud Pastor Livingstone for exposing the corrupt Health, Wealth and Prosperity false gospel movement. He comes closer to being right than wrong. I felt it necessary to refute Dr. Livingstone's false teaching that there are legitimate forms of Pentecostal speaking in tongues. There are not! If you don't know what they are saying, and they don't know what they're saying, that is of the Devil. Any spirit that is not the Holy Spirit is a familiar spirit (demon).

And also, I need to mention that Dr. Loran Livingstone is a strong supporter of Pastor John MacArthur (1939-2025), who was the Godfather of the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation. Tragically, Livingstone also preaches a perverted view of the Gospel, mixing works with grace. Your behavior has absolutely nothing to do with receiving God's free gift of eternal life by faith.

I encourage you dear reader to read the following insightful free online book by Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980):

Speaking In Tongues

Conan O'Brien Mocks The Bible, Wants To Go To Hell

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Luke 16:22-24, “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”

One of the most famous Late Night TV hosts is Conan O'Brien. On his popular NBC's 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien' (1993-2009), in 2008 he sang a horrible song mocking the reality of Hell. Conan Mocks God! Romans 1:18, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” Here is the song if you want to hear it, but I warn you the lyrics may be offensive to some listeners. This was aired on national television. ...

“I'm a Gonna Go To Hell When I Die” —Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien makes a mockery of Hell. In the despicable song titled: “Go To Hell When I Die” by a group of perverts who call themselves The Booty Boys, Conan is the featured singer. Conan has really hit rock bottom with this sleaze. Here are the sinful lyrics:

Editor's note: The crude lyrics cited in this song may be offensive to some readers.

Here are the sinful lyrics:
I'm Gonna Go To Hell When I Die
I'm Gonna Go To Hell When I Die
I'm Gonna Go To Hell When I Die
I'm Gonna Go To Hell When I Die
I can't be saved, it's too late for me
I'm going to H-E Double L when I D-I-E
You could say I'm messed up, but I'm keepin' it real
I'll sleep with your mom for a home cooked meal
Give a guy with no legs a new pair of shoes
And give Ben Affleck a bottle of booze
I Call up Nick Lechey, tell him he's gay
Then ask Jessica to spell Chevrolet
ChorusI sent Al Roker a box of crullers
With a dozen jelly donuts and a staple remover
I sent Abe Vigoda a cookie basket
With some flowers and a catalogue to pick out a casket
Jacked Michael J. Fox for his time machine
Then I grabbed a couple hookers and Charlie Sheen
And got 'em all to take a trip back in time with me
So we could pee on R. Kelly when he turned 14
ChorusI pick Kirstie Alley up out of the gutter
Throw her in a ring with Sally Struthers
Cover them with syrup and melted butter
And see how long it takes before they eat each other
I challenge Stephen Hawkings to some one on one
Slam dunk on that bitch like Alan Iverson
Tried to race Andy Dick but he lost control
Ran his mother-f**king car into Billy Joel
ChorusPush an old lady down a flight of stairs
And pull out the rest of Ron Howard's hair
And lock a PETA member in a room full of bears
And hook Gary Coleman up with a job at the fair
Keep an unofficial count of Star Jones' chins
Cast Hillary Swank and Matt Damon as twins
Start a petition that Conan will hate
Get the Tonight Show cancelled in 2008
SONG: 'GO TO HELL WHEN I DIE'

Do you think God is humored by such wickedness? Do you think God laughs in good humor while unsaved sinners sing about going to Hell. God's wrath rests upon all Christ-rejecting sinners. Psalm 7:11 states that God is angry with the wicked EVERY DAY. We read in Proverb 14:9, “Fools make a mock at sin...” To no surprise, Conan O'Brien legally officiated over Late Night TV's first same-sex marriage in New York on November 4, 2011. That is shameful.

All they do on Late Night TV is joke about sin—homosexuality, adultery, drunkenness and going to Hell. In another episode, Conan portrays Jesus as being a homosexual voyeur (a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others). This is how they portray the sinless Lamb of God on TV. This is the horrible way they mock and desecrate the Son of God. Most of their guests do the same. Everything is about sex, perversion, substance abuse, mocking God's Word, blaspheming the Lord, et cetera. Why should God bless America? No Sir, we need for God to curse our wicked nation.

Conan sings that he's going to Hell when he dies. Sadly, he will one day be condemned out of the words of his own mouth. Matthew 12:36, “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” How much more shall men give account for blasphemy? Kindly, Conan's Roman Catholic religion won't help him escape the fires of Hell on Judgment Day. Religious sacraments never saved anybody. ONLY through faith in the cross of Jesus Christ WITHOUT WORKS can anyone be saved, NOT through religion or personal merit.

I don't condemn anyone, God forbid; for the Bible condemns all of us as guilty, rotten, hell-deserving, sinners (Romans 3:10-23). For someone to openly sing with cheer that they're going to burn in Hell is truly heart-breaking. Hell is forever! Conan, just as Mandy Moore (an atheist), and other God-haters, has sold his soul to Satan. Why would anyone joke of such a horrible place as Hell, where lost sinners burn in fire and brimstone forever? Clearly, Conan doesn't take Hell seriously. I pray for his salvation, but as Jesus said in Luke 18:24, “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!” What further saith the Scripture? ...

"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." —2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9

Is Hell a joke to you too dear reader? God is not willing for any to perish (2nd Peter 3:9). If you've never been born again, please come to Jesus Christ while you still can. Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” God created Hell for the Devil and his angels, not for humanity. Matthew 25:41, “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” Matthew 25:46, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” I assure you dear friend, on the authority of the inspired Word of God, that nobody is laughing in Hell. There are no parties in the Lake of Fire.

The Beatles' John Lennon (1940-1980) became infamous on March 4, 1966 when in an interview with the London Evening Standard he stated that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” Although he tried to downplay his words years later in an attempt to do damage control, John couldn't weasel his way out of the crass comment that “Christianity will end.” The 25-year-old young John Lennon clearly felt and expressed resentment for Christianity. We can only wonder where John went in the afterlife. Sadly, I think he is in Hell suffering forever.

God knows that I didn't write this article to be mean or to criticize anyone, but simply because I care about people and I want all of my blog readers to go to Heaven someday. There are only two places to go when someone dies—Heaven or Hell. There is nothing in between. Annihilation (ceasing to exist) is a false teaching. Life is short, Hell is hot, and eternity is a long time!!! It is a matter of whether or not you believe the Holy Bible. Please don't go to Hell!

For the sake of argument, what if Conan O'Brien made fun of the 19 firefighters who tragically lost their lives in the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona on June 30, 2013, when they were overtaken by the flames? The firefighters had deployed emergency shelters, but those protective measures were no match for the raging forest inferno, and the intense heat and deadly conditions proved fatal to all 19 men. What if Conan mocked and made fun of them? Well, in the first place he would have been fired that same very day from the network. Second, I seriously doubt if any other network would have rehired him because the stigma sticks. The public would have crucified him. Why? Because the lives of those 19 firefighters matter.

Yet, according to the inspired Holy Scripture most people die in their sins and go to Hell to suffer and burn in fire and brimstone for all eternity (Matthew 7:13-15; Luke 13:23-24). Dear reader, that means billions of human beings are already suffering in Hell forever. If there is even the slightest remote possibility that the Holy Bible may actually be true (and I am betting my eternal destiny that it is), why on earth would anyone (let alone a famous role model like Conan O'Brien) mock and make jokes about such a frightening place as Hell? Shame.

Clearly, heathen people do not take God's Word seriously, which they will someday. They will rue the day that they didn't believe (Luke 16:19-31). The world does not fear God. Romans 3:18, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” I'll bet Conan O' Brien takes his salary seriously! But that's only money. Hell is nothing to scoff at.

There's a fine line between badass and dumbass.
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
There's a fine line between faith and foolishness.

Some skeptics say that “hell” (Hebrew: Sheol) in the Old Testament just means “grave.” If that were true, then the following Bible verse would make absolutely no sense. Psalms 9:17, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” How could the wicked and the righteous go to the same place in the afterlife for this verse to make any sense? Clearly the wicked and the righteous go to different places.

It is a sin to make light of Hell and the things of God. Proverbs 14:9, “Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.” Our faithful Creator deserves more respect than that. God is good to all of us. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The Miracle Of Salvation

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

John 1:12-17, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

On September 30, 2026, I heard in the news about a disturbing incident in the Middle East involving flight 1073. The lunatic co-pilot suddenly started stabbing the 39 year old pilot from India, and then using the plane's controls put the aircraft into a deadly nose dive. The troubled plane descended 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds, ripping off part of the tail wing section of the aircraft. The pilot by some miracle was able to unlock the cockpit door and holler for help. The pilot was severally disabled and lying on the cabin floor. One of the courageous passengers had seen how to operate the throttle in a movie, so he took the plane out of a nose dive and saved everyone. It is an absolute miracle that those 174 passages and crew survived:

The fact that the pilot after being stabbed multiple times was able to make it to the cockpit door and unlock it, and then yell for help while bleeding profusely and still fighting off the madman, is a miracle.
The fact that one courageous passenger took the initiative to fight the lunatic co-pilot is rare. A true hero!
I saw the damage to the tail wing section. After plunging over 14,000 feet in just 30 seconds, it is a miracle that the tail wing section wasn't completely torn off from the extreme wind shock at 700 mph.
And the fact that the courageous man (a plumber by trade) knew how to recover the plane out of a nose dive, which he later said he had learned from watching movies, is absolutely astounding.
The fact that by chance there was a passenger on that plane who is a pilot was incredibly fortunate and rare.

I cannot believe they are alive! When we think about all the things that could have gone wrong, and all of the amazing things that went right, it is mind boggling to realize in hindsight that 174 people survived this traumatic ordeal. Praise God!

I think there is a good spiritual illustration here. Jesus Christ is our pilot. Satan bruises His heal, trying to hinder Him from flying the plane. Like salvation, under normal circumstances when passengers get onboard a plane, they have no part in reaching their destiny except to just trust the pilot. We have no part in our eternal salvation except to get onboard by trusting the pilot (i.e., the Savior). That's all Noah and his family did to be saved from the flood, they just got aboard the ark, by faith trusting that it would save them.

The popular damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation teaches that to reach their destination, the passengers must behave well, remain in their seat, and turn from their sinful bad habits. Clearly, this is false teaching. It doesn't matter how the passengers think, live or behave; all that matters is that they trust the pilot enough to get aboard the plane. The pilot does the rest.

Likewise, Noah and his family simply got onboard the ark. It didn't matter how they behaved once the ark's door was closed and sealed by God. It didn't matter if they took daily baths or kept the ark tidy, or if they got along with each other and the animals. They were saved for one reason and one reason only, because they obeyed the Lord to get on the ark.

God deliberately made His plan of salvation so easy, simple and free that even a small child can be saved (2nd Timothy 3:15). With that truth in mind, it is tragic that many corrupt preachers today, such as Pastor John MacArthur (1939-2025), are making salvation difficult, complicated and hard...

"There is no such thing as a childhood conversion." —Pastor John MacArthur; September 25, 1990 at the Calvary Baptist Church; SOURCE

Blasphemy! In Dr. MacArthur's complicated plan of salvation, it is so difficult and demanding that a child cannot be saved. MacArthur says that salvation is an “adult experience,” because it requires the wherewithal to commit one's entire will and personality to God to be converted. The disgraced preacher even calls salvation "an exchange" or "a trade of sorts." Eternal life is a “free gift” the Bible teaches in Romans 5:15-18, that does not require anything to be given in exchange or a trade to receive it.

It is alarming how many pastors and clergy still idolize John MacArthur, succumbing to his toxic theology which contradicts the inspired Word of God. In our illustration of the co-pilot (Satan) attacking the pilot (Jesus), Mr. MacArthur could easily take the place of the lunatic co-pilot who attempted to deliberately crash the plane by perverting "the grace of God that bringeth salvation" (Titus 2:11b).

Salvation is a supernatural new birth (a bona fide miracle) wrought by the Holy Spirit of God, in response to a man's faith in the GOOD NEWS (Gospel) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and bodily ressurected three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). When we think about all the things that could go wrong, and the things that didn't go wrong, it is truly a miracle that anybody ever gets saved. That is why we can truly exclaim with the prophet Jonah in the belly of the whale in Jonah 2:9b, “Salvation is of the LORD.”

Mark 10:25-27, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.”

It is a part of our inherent sinful nature to corrupt God's simple plan of redemption, by adding human effort to the equation. Adam sewed fig leaves together in an attempt to cover his sin and shame, but God rejected Adam's fig-leaf religion. Cain tried to impress the LORD with the most delectable produce that his fields could yield, but it was an offense to God. These men failed to understand God's simple plan of salvation. Ah, but Abel understood, which is why he simply offered up a lamb sacrifice as a demonstration of his faith in the Lamb of God (John 1:29). God doesn't save anyone who is TRYING to be saved; He only saves those who are TRUSTING to be saved. The free gift of eternal life is RECEIVED, not ACHIEVED.

Salvation is of the LORD, and please don't ever forget that beautiful truth. All of these foolish pastors and evangelists today, who go around requiring that you “repent of your sins” or “be willing to turn from sin” to get to Heaven, have no idea of the woeful damage they are doing to the cause of Christ. They are wickedly preaching “another gospel” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).

The Good Thing About Not Going To Church

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Ephesians 4:30-32, “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

I admit that I have a contrarian way of looking at things. God is a contrarian too...

Isaiah 55:58-59, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

When I attended the Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola for several months in 2024, I cried often from my pew. I cried when I heard the old hymns of the Christian faith being played beautifully on the church piano. I cried being around God's children.

But then I met the horrible pastor's wife, who is rude and obnoxious to say the least. When I attended their 2024 Memorial Day picnic, Pastor Bill Adams sat in his chair under a tee and never so much as waved to me. He never welcomed me or cared that I bothered to show up as a newcomer to their so-called “church.” I kindly said “hello” to a woman carrying food from the church to the picnic area, but she totally ignored me all three times, which hurt my feelings.

After the picnic they invited everyone to watch a religious film inside the church, so I went. I needed to take my prescription pain medications, and kindly asked the pastor's wife who was standing in the kitchen with a few other females if I could please have some water. The rude pastor's wife said, “Why didn't you get some water outside?” She was so lazy that she refused to walk over to the sink and pour me a glass of water. That is so horrible. This is today's pathetic churches! Shame on Bill Adams' terrible carnal wife; and he is just as carnal.

I titled this article, “The Good Thing About Not Going To Church.” Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) used to wisely say that the easiest place to backslide is in Bible college, because you hear Bible preaching every day of the week and become accustomed to it. The same is true of those who attend church for a long times, three times per week. Bill Adams and his wife have been playing church as a game for so long (for decades) that they have become immune to the Holy Spirit's conviction. I have seen this again and again throughout my life, where people who live a religious life become hardened and calloused toward people.

To be honest, I do not attend church regularly, simply because those ungodly churches keep kicking me out their door. But a good thing, a silver lining to the storm clouds you might say, is that by not being in church on a regular basis my heart has remained tender and submissive toward the Holy Spirit's leading. That is why I cry when I do sit in a church service. My heart is still soft and tender toward God, truth and people. I don't ever want to grow thicker skin. I don't ever want to become tough and calloused like the sinful world (1st John 5:19).

I love what Brother Hyles said about this problem in professed Christians today:

“One of the great sins of Christianity, and especially fundamental Christianity, is this sin of losing our responsiveness; and losing our response to stimuli, or to a given stimulus. That's the first step that sets in when churches begin to die. The first step—no response, no response.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Piping And No Dancing”

Dr. Hyles nailed it! People in today's churches, particularly fundamentalist Baptists, have become cold, unresponsive and calloused toward people. That is why Pastor Bob Gray Sr. recently unfriended and blocked me out on Facebook, as did also Steven Anderson. These two cold-hearted phonies know nothing about God's unconditional love for sinners. They do more harm than good when they elevate hard preaching over compassion and love. People just want to be loved. Positions and titles will come and go, but the way that you treat people will always be remembered. There is a coldness in churches today toward people.

When I attended Campus Church at PCC in 2021, their phony pastor Jeff Redlin just coldheartedly walked away when I told him at their July 4th picnic that I was sleeping homeless in Walmart's parking lot. I had just landed the day before from Guam. I flew 9,000 miles to find out that the wicked Woodspring Suites Hotel in Pensacola abruptly cancelled my 30-day confirmed reservation (which I had reserved over a month in advance) without notice. Redlin couldn't have cared less! 1st John 3:17, “But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”

Sadly, most fundamentalist Baptist churches are spiritually dead today. There is a woeful lack of genuine love, concern and compassion for human beings. The very thought that a pastor's wife would refuse to give a cup of water to a 57 year old man who needs to take his pain medication is alarming. Pastor Adam's rude wife at Smyrna Baptist Church asked me why I didn't get some water outside. I didn't need to take my pain medication outside. She is very wrong and irresponsible as a pastor's wife to antagonize a man who just needed some water. Even the heathen world isn't usually that cruel. Unreal. God will be their only Judge (Romans 14:10-12; Matthew 12:36; James 4:12; Matthew 7:1-2). But I believe in “word of mouth” reviews.

In the months to follow at Smyrna Baptist Church, it became clear that they all hated me because of my website ministry, specifically over my preaching against Pensacola Christian College (PCC) where the pastor's daughter attends. As far as I am concerned, she is a victim of PCC! I make no apologies for preaching THE TRUTH. The Apostle Paul was despised, rejected and hated by phony churchgoers too for telling THE TRUTH. Galatians 4:16-17, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.” PCC zealously affect many churches, but not for good. PCC is wrong on God's simple plan of salvation!

When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola, I saw that they distribute toxic Chick Tracts. Jack Chick (1924-2016) was a religious cartoonist, not a sound Bible preacher. Mr. Chick was wrong on God's simple plan of salvation. Since 1960 they have distributed well over one billion of their poisonous religious Chick Tracts throughout the world. Chick Tracts preach another gospel. Bible repentance does not mean to be willing to turn from your sin.

Am I such a horrible troublemaker because I refuse to go along with PCC's, Smyrna's and Jack Chick's counterfeit plan of salvation, to just pretend that everything is okay and play church while singing pretty songs, dropping some money into the offering plate, and staying quiet amidst blatant false teaching? And to be transparent, I never once brought up any doctrinal matters while attending Smyrna. I was a complete gentleman, but they scrutinized my website ministry and condemned me for telling the truth.

Ladies and gentlemen, somebody needs to preach THE TRUTH...

“The world will go to Hell unless somebody is authoritative!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “I Shall Not Be Moved”

My only crime is that I cared enough to TELL THE TRUTH. It is shocking that human behavior is so corrupt that even professed Christian leaders would be calloused and unresponsive toward truth and hurting people. In August of 2024, Bill Adams' ungodly wife deliberately approached me in a Sunday morning church service to shake my hand, but when I did she suddenly looked hard right 45 degrees off at the wall with an impudent face to diss me. She wanted to offend me, hoping that I would leave and never return. I am not that shallow.

I contacted her husband, the pastor, when I got home, but he completely ignored me. I reached out to Pastor Adams again a few days later, and to his secretary in case he was away. I mentioned in my correspondence to Pastor Adams that I am divorced, suffering from chronic neck pain with burning nerves and related health afflictions, and would appreciate his friendship. His response, to his utter shame, was to completely ignore me. Great pastor, huh? Of course I never went back, who would? They got their wicked way. John 8:45, “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.”

These ungodly hypocrites have joined together with the deadly cult at Pensacola Christian College. PCC's present net assets is roughly $650,000,000. Their college president Troy Shoemaker gets paid $219,000 per year. That is sickening! PCC are not serving the Lord, they are serving their own bellies, preaching another gospel...

Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

The good thing about not going to church these days is manifold.

First, you won't be corrupted by another gospel in the case of PCC's Campus Church and all the fake churches (like Smyrna Baptist Church) that wickedly support and bid their college Godspeed. Other corrupt churches in Pensacola include: Victor Baptist Church, Family Baptist Church, Bible Baptist Church, Fairfield Drive Baptist Church, et cetera.

Second, you won't become so used to going through the motions of playing church that you are no longer sensitive to the conviction of the indwelling Holy Spirit if you are saved. I don't want to lose my tender heart for Christ. I am a caring person. That is why I make an issue over false doctrine that affects where men will spend eternity. Right doctrine matters!

The Importance of Local New Testament Churches

I am not endorsing staying home from church. Pastor Jack Hyles spent the third act of his life preaching THE BOOK (the inspired King James Bible), THE BLOOD (Jesus' literal liquid blood sprinkled upon the heavenly Mercy Seat), and THE BODY (the importance of attending a local New Testament church). I believe those truths as well. But sometimes staying home is truly the best option. I am often encouraged by this passage from Michael Bowen...

According to many verses in the bible, especially those warnings God gave to us through Paul in the book of Galatians, you should never listen to anyone’s message that runs counter to the message given to us by Christ, and you should never attend a church where the pastor tells the flock that they must add works of discipleship to faith in Christ’s “finished work” as the way to enter heaven. That’s exactly the reason why I no longer attend any of the local churches in my current hometown. [emphasis added] —Michael P. Bowen, “I Never Knew You,” p. 115

I am glad to know that I am not alone in my difficulties with local churches. In fact, as a faithful minister of the free grace Gospel, I have gratefully received tens of thousands of emails over the past 24 years from people around the world, many from hurting people who cannot find a doctrinally sound church to attend in their area. If that is you, you are not alone friend.

God knows that I do not hate those corrupt pastors and churches. Ironically, I had extended an olive branch of friendship to Marty Herron at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, and to Jeff Redlin at Campus Church at PCC, and to Bill Adams at Smyrna Baptist Church. Sadly, none of them wanted to touch me with a 10 foot pole. I know how our dear Savior felt, who was prophesied about in Isaiah 53:3, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” The prophet Isaiah penned those inspired words 700 years before Christ lived on earth. Jesus was a man despised and rejected by people.

What saith the Scripture? 2nd Timothy 3:12, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” To the wicked world their Bible only contains two words, “Judge not” (Matthew 7:1a). We see and hear it all the time from the heathen world.

In June of 2024, Canadian singer Justin Timberlake was arrested for a DUI after dining at a hotel in New York. The next day the media asked singer Billy Joel who dined at the same hotel what he thought about the arrest, and Billy Joel interestingly quoted Matthew 7:1, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” The ironic and interesting thing is that Mr. Joel is an avowed atheist who is quoting the Holy Bible:

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — Music legend Billy Joel spoke Tuesday afternoon about Justin Timberlake’s arrest for allegedly driving while intoxicated on Long Island.

The “Piano Man” was eating at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor, the same East End town where Timberlake was arrested earlier Tuesday morning.

“Judge not lest ye be judged,” Billy Joel told PIX11 News.

Timberlake was arrested after police pulled him over for allegedly not stopping at a stop sign and failing to keep right twice, according to court documents. Timberlake’s mug shot was released Tuesday evening. SOURCE

John 15:19-20, “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

I think it is tragic that along with the heathen world, most of the clergy today are no better. The vast majority of churches and Bible colleges have turned sour, preaching another gospel. People are out of necessity leaving the churches to find a closer walk with God. The Lord never intended for local churches to become mere fun centers, retirement clubs and spiritual museums for self-righteous relics. Today's churches are pathetic!

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The Stupid Country Of Sweden

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Proverbs 13:24, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”

Proverbs 23:13, “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”

The inspired Holy Bible teaches that parents must spank disobedient children to teach them to be responsible. God put that padded area on the backside for a reason, for spankings. Yet, the wicked liberals in the country of Sweden think they know more than God does. You couldn't make this stuff up! Since 1979, the government of Sweden has outlawed spanking children...

The first anti-spanking law in the world. Historical background to the Swedish legislation

In 1979, the International Year of the Child, Sweden became the first country in the world to prohibit all physical punishment of children. That same year, the Swedish Ministry of Justice financed an information campaign on TV and other mass media.

The law was discussed in schools. It was advertised on milk cartons and a brochure called “Can you bring up children successfully without smacking and spanking? was distributed, in order to introduce the law and the reasons for it. The brochure also referred to family support services that provide advice and assistance to families and children who find it helpful to talk to someone outside the family.

The brochure was disseminated to all households in Sweden and was translated into English, German, French, and Spanish and into some other immigrant languages. SOURCE

Two generations later and Sweden doesn't know how to handle their criminal youth...

Sweden Mulls Prison For Young Teens As Violent Crime Rises

Andreas Noll | June 7, 2026

In the fight against escalating gang crime, Sweden's parliament will vote on plans to hold 13-year-olds criminally responsible and, in serious cases, imprison them. Other European nations are also lowering age limits.

Children aged 13 and 14 should still be in school. But in Sweden, young teenagers are being recruited by criminal networks to carry out attacks and contract killings — even shooting people in broad daylight.

Under Swedish law, those under the age of 15 are not criminally liable, a fact that is being exploited by organized crime and gang members who often operate out of sight. Under current laws, children cannot be convicted as criminals, but instead fall under the jurisdiction of social services and youth welfare.

But in its battle against rising gang violence and organized crime, Sweden wants to toughen its legal tool set. Parliament has already approved a measure allowing 15- to 17-year-olds convicted of serious crimes to serve prison sentences in specially adapted juvenile units.

In addition, the government plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 on a trial basis for particularly serious offenses. This would apply to crimes such as murder, manslaughter, serious bombings or other offenses carrying very high minimum sentences. SOURCE

Oh foolish government of Sweden! Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” That “sentence against an evil work” should begin with proper spankings when a child is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Sweden's leaders are absolutely insane to outlaw spanking children, which the Lord commands parents to do.

The government of Sweden are in direct opposition to God almighty, and their society is paying for it dearly. Teen crime is out of control in Sweden. So much so, that they want to lower the age limit to incarcerate 13 year old teenagers. What next, 10 year olds? Instead of permitting parents to properly spank their own children as God commands in His inspired Word, they'd rather put the undisciplined misbehaving adolescents into prisons. What fools for leaders!

Furthermore, Sweden has the highest divorce rate in the European Union, with around one in two marriages ending in divorce. This trend has remained consistent over the past two decades. Gee, I wonder what caused that?

Sweden is considered the most feminist country, with 46% of its population identifying as feminists, and it is often viewed as a leader in gender equality due to its comprehensive policies and social protections.

Sweden is considered one of the most LGBTQ-friendly countries in the world, with progressive laws supporting same-sex marriage, adoption, and anti-discrimination protections. The country has a high level of social acceptance for LGBTQ individuals, making it a welcoming destination for the community.

Starting to get the picture? Instead of training up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, they've raised up a couple generations of spoiled brats who are now out of control. Sweden has tragically become a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

Ancient Romans Considered Life In Prison Inhumane

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Proverbs 12:10, “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”

This video is very interesting, about punishments in ancient Rome.

Here's What It Was Like For Prisoners In Ancient Rome

Incarcerating citizens for life was unheard of in ancient times...

Wealthy Romans and government officials grappled with how to confine individuals ethically. Figures like emperors and jurists criticized imprisonment as a form of punishment, suggesting it should only serve to keep individuals until their trial or penalty was decided. Execution was common, especially for serious offenses.

During this period, provincial governors were restricted from condemning anyone to life imprisonment. Prominent Romans, if punished, often faced house arrest or opted for exile instead. Overall, this led to a growing network of holding areas, which included underground dungeons, private creditor-owned jails, and even family homes with makeshift cells. The increase in places of confinement reflected a society grappling with complex legal and social changes. SOURCE

As of early 2020, there were 1,465 people serving Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) sentences in the United States for crimes committed before turning age 18. This number has been decreasing as more states eliminate such sentences. I think such cruel sentences should be outlawed completely! I wish we'd get rid of prisons entirely. God never intended for humans to be locked in cages, which the good Lord didn't even intend for animals.

That being said, although the ancient Romans didn't incarcerate citizens for life, they did impose cruel forms of punishment. For example: Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide (murdering one's parents). The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water (the alternative was being thrown to the beasts in the arena). Can you imagine?

The penalty for adultery was that the Roman government would confiscate part of your land and wealth. I sure wish we had harsh punishments for adultery in the United States today. The state of Maryland mocks God's laws, imposing a mere $10 penalty for the crime of adultery. Proverbs 14:9, “Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.”

The Unfair Prosecution Of Daniel Holtzclaw

I was reading recently about a former Oklahoma police offer named Daniel Holtzclaw. The sad story caught my attention because Daniel was born in 1986 and grew up on the island of Guam, where I also lived for 17 years (2004-2021). Daniel allegedly abused his position and authority as a law enforcement officer, sexually taking advantage of prostitutes and African American women as a trusted officer of the law. Daniel was convicted by a jury in court. If guilty, which it appears that he is, he certainly deserves to be punished, but 263 years in prison? No way! The average time served in prison for murder in the United States is 17.5 years. What they did to Daniel was politically motivated in my opinion. It is obvious.

I much better like Norway's penal system. Norway's maximum custodial sentence is 21 years, with life imprisonment applicable only under military law. For crimes against humanity, the maximum sentence can be extended to 30 years, but traditional life imprisonment is not used in the civilian penal code. Something is broken in our American court system! They might as well have given Daniel Holtzclaw 263,000 years in prison, leaving him no hope. That is cruel and inhumane. The guy never murdered anyone. He allegedly took advantage of prostitutes who were drug addicts, which hardly puts him in the same boat as a killer.

In the state of Oklahoma a life sentence is considered 38 years. The state of Oklahoma effectively gave Daniel Holtzclaw seven life sentences (263 years) for the crime of rape, which is cruel and unusual punishment. The average murderer in America only serves 17.5 years! They gave him the equivalent prison sentence as if he had murdered 15 people.

Child Rapist Gets Probation In Oklahoma

In February of 2018, a convicted child rapist in Oklahoma was sentenced to 15 years… of probation. Benjamin Lawrence Petty pled guilty to first degree rape and forcible sodomy of a 13 year old girl following his arrest. Petty, who is blind, was issued the light sentence by Judge Wallace Coppedge partially on the basis of his disability. An online petition to remove Judge Wallace received over 60,000 signatures from outraged citizens. Judge Wallace, however, remains on the bench. SOURCE

What is wrong with the justice system in Oklahoma? You crucify one criminal by showing no mercy, but insanely set the next one free? Although I would never exonerate a guilty criminal, I do believe that Daniel is the victim of a politically motivated racial agenda, since all of his alleged victims were black females. The cowardly state's attorney general and politicians were more worried about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton showing up at the courthouse than they were about giving the victims and Daniel justice. You know it's true!

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” ―Montesquieu (1689–1755)

This quote highlights how tyranny can disguise itself as a legitimate authority, making it more oppressive. Daniel was 29 years old when sentenced. He never should have received more than 20 years time in prison at most, which the victims I am sure would have been content with. But 263 years is cruel and unusual inhumane punishment by an out of control abusive injustice system that wanted to make an example of the poor guy.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ―C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)

That's the only reason why officer Derek Chauvin is rotting in a Minnesota prison, for simply doing exactly what his official training taught him to do, by putting his foot on the perpetrator's neck. That man ought not be in prison! He lost his wife, his home, his wealth and his life. George Floyd passed a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenient store (which is why the police were called in the first place), he was high on an assortment of illegal drugs, and he resisted arrest by refusing to get into the police car. What is wrong with our country today? Derek Chauvin, like Daniel Holtzclaw, are both victims of racial pressure upon our legal system. You couldn't pay me enough money to become a police officer in this insane American society today.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

There Is Such A Thing As Carnal Christians

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0000

1st Corinthians 3:1, “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”

I ran across a disturbing YouTube video today by Evangelist Phil Kidd, in which he teaches that if you are still living in unrepentant sin you were never really saved. ...

Can You REALLY Lose Your Salvation?
(Evangelist Phil Kidd)

Kindly, Dr. Kidd is making the same error as the Lordship Salvation crowd. In fact, he is preaching Lordship Salvation. I love what Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) said:

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan

Phil Kidd is mixing service with salvation. He is confusing discipleship with sonship. He fails to put a difference between the change (fruit) which the Holy Spirit produces versus salvation (justification) itself.

Consider also these helpful words by Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965):

"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)

Yes, bravo! Not all believers are disciples! Not all believers choose to walk in the Spirit. The fact that Galatians 5:25 exhorts believers to “walk in the Spirit” proves that some believers don't. The Bible is full of carnal saints who dropped the ball for God, living sordid lives of sin (Lot, Samson, Solomon, Demas). When Jesus raised up from the dead, he found the Apostle Peter butt naked in public. The problem is not the Biblical truth of eternal security which Dr. Kidd denies; but rather, pastors today have stopped preaching holy living and crying aloud against the wickedness of this perverse generation.

There is such a thing as a carnal Christian. The church at Corinth proves this (1 Corinthians 3:1). And the Apostle Paul challenged them to make sure they were saved (2 Corinthians 13:5). But Paul didn't say they would all "fry like a sausage in Hell" (Phil Kidd's favorite line) for being carnal and immature. Like it or not, there are millions of carnal Christians who live open lives of fornication, adultery, substance abuse and misery, but they are saved.

The inspired King James Bible warns if you can sin without any conviction whatsoever from the Holy Spirit, you are a bastard and not a child of God (Hebrews 12:8). That is to say, If you can sin and win you're not in. But there are countless saints today who choose to live another day with the frogs, like Pharaoh who refused to repent when Moses warned him.

I am sick and fed up and tired of hearing ignorant preachers teach that Christians who choose to live lives of sinfulness are not saved. We all live lives of sinfulness. The only difference is that some believers live above reproach, but NO ONE can live above sinning (Romans 7:14-25). Psalm 130:3, “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”

I need to warn you about Phil Kidd, because he is a subtle false prophet. In 2020, he preached a heretical sermon titled: 'The Heresy Of Eternal Security,' in which he foolishly says:

This eternal security stuff. They believe that God can move in you, and it doesn’t necessarily change you. [13:22 time in sermon]

I do believe that when someone is indwelt with the Holy Spirit of God, something inside that person's soul will change (2nd Corinthians 5:17). However, the claim of some preachers that, “Where there is fire there will be smoke,” is unbiblical and wrong. I read this heresy on Twitter by Pastor R. A. Torrey (1856-1928):

"Many attempt to be disciples of Jesus and not let the world know it. To be a secret disciple means to be no disciple at all. If one really has received Christ he cannot keep it to himself."

What saith the Scripture? John 19:38a, "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews..." Clearly, the Holy Bible DOES teach that a person can be born-again and yet keep it A SECRET. Beware of everything you read and hear dear friend, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1st John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."

Dr. Kidd further states:

You’re distorting the Scripture, if you think the grace of God is a license for you to live ungodly. [14:50 time in sermon]

I fully agree (Romans 6:1-2), but if a believer does choose to use their liberty in Christ to live like the Devil, God's saving grace will more abound (Romans 5:20) so that they do have ETERNAL SECURITY. To wrongly accuse carnal believers of never being saved is unbiblical.

Here is a long quote from Dr. Kidd:

Lasciviousness means a license to sin. I worry about people, that when you address them about something in their life that is Biblically wrong, they say back to me: “Well, I'm saved anyhow it doesn't make any difference.” You didn’t get the same grace of God I got in my heart! Oh yeah, I don’t care if you shout or pout, I don’t care. When you confront somebody about drinking and the first thing they want to talk about is eternal security, that's lasciviousness! When you talk about people and shacking up, and say: “Look here's what the Bible said” and they say: “Well I'm saved anyway,” that's lasciviousness! Here's what your Bible said, “the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” What’s that grace of God do? “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present evil world.” If you say, “I know Jesus therefore I can live like I want to — that's eternal security,” that is heresy! You have been deceived! You are twisted in your doctrine, and you're gonna fry like a sausage in Hell when you die! You don't live like that and stay right with God. That is heresy! And for all you've fallen-from-gracers and free-willers, and all of you all that are hanging on; the next time I hear you go around talking about Baptists giving people a license to sin, I'm going to flat out call you a liar! I've never given anybody a license to sin. You get born again; you'll get out of the sinning business! [15:11 time in sermon - emphasis added]

Dr. Kidd is very wrong. Now, it is wrong for a Christian to have the bad attitude that they can live in sin, using their liberty in Christ as an occasion to sin; but just because a believer may have that negative attitude doesn't mean that they are not a born again child of God. The very fact that the Bible warns against using our liberty in Christ as an occasion to sin, proves that some believers do use their liberty to commit sin without worrying about going to Hell. ...

Galatians 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

Galatians 5:13, “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

This is why we read in Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” Do you see friend? Do you see what happens if a redeemed child of God chooses to live a lifestyle of sinning? The Bible doesn't warn that you might lose God's free gift of salvation, it says that GRACE WILL ABOUND!!!

We must be alert to the danger of the pulpit. Evangelist Phil Kidd is a FALSE PROPHET!

My Bird “Bebet” Died Yesterday

noreply@blogger.com (David J. Stewart) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000

James 4:13-14, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

I got married in August of 1987. Sadly, my wife of 19 years divorced me in 2006. We both remained divorced and alone for the next 19 years. I wanted to find another wife, but due to my constant neck pain and reclusive personality I never found anyone. I was delighted in 2025 when my former wife agreed to remarry me (I had asked her a dozen times over the years). We were remarried in May of 2025.

But sadly, she abandoned me again in February of 2026, only 9 months into our remarriage. She filed for divorce in June and it was finalized on September 8th of 2026. I told the judge in writing that I did not want the divorce, but it didn't matter. This country is so evil and far gone into depravity today that anybody who wants a divorce can get one. I am heartbroken and lonely again. But my faith in God and website ministry since 2002 keep me going for the Lord. God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9). My Redeemer liveth! Job 19:25, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”

When my wife abandoned me in February of 2026, I inherited three Zebra finches (Dr. Pepper, Gigi and Bebet) and a 5-year-old cockapoo dog (Miss Pickles). I had never owned birds before. I learned how to care for them. I gave them spray millet, cuttlebone for calcium, plenty of water and finch food, and chopped up lettuce. They are the only companions I have. Having some small birds and a dog adds life to the house, without which an empty house can feel like a coffin. God hates divorce for a very good reason, because He knows what it does to people.

Yesterday morning a little after 6 am I turned on their cage light. They have a nice 4' tall cage. I didn't see Bebet. She likes to forage at the bottom sometimes, so I looked down there but didn't see her at first. I kept looking up and down but didn't see her anywhere. Then I noticed her lifeless body laying at the bottom and I wept bitterly. My friend was dead. I had fed her every day. I had greeted the birds each morning to acknowledge them as living creatures. I invested into their happiness and did everything I could to give them a good life. I dug a hole in my backyard 18" deep yesterday morning at about 7 am and I buried Bebet with dignity. I know she's just a little bird, but she was my friend and I loved her.

I wept much after I found Bebet dead in her cage yesterday. That is why I never wanted any pets, and these were suddenly abandoned to me; because it is too painful when they die. I hate death! The Bible calls death “our enemy.” 1st Corinthians 15:26, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” Thanks be to God, through faith in Jesus Christ we need not fear death, who took the sting out of death for the saint (1st Corinthians 15:55-56).

I watched Bebet day by day enjoy pecking at her cuttlebone for the calcium she needed to lay eggs. I watched her enjoy eating the food, flying around and foraging at the bottom. I read that birds need 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, so that is what I set their Full Spectrum light for, that I bought for them. Dr. Pepper and Gigi are brothers. Zebra finches only live for be around 4 to 5 years old. I am not sure how old Bebet was. My former wife bought them in 2024, so she is not sure either. But at least I know I gave them the best life I could.

Although I was sad all day yesterday at the passing of my friend, I praised God for His goodness and for the gift of His precious only begotten Son. 1st Peter 2:7, “Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.” 1st Corinthians 1:18, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” I thank God I am born again! I thank God that I am a Christian! This world is a dark place of sin, shame and wickedness.

Life is so short dear friend. Larissa Nicole Rodriguez in Texas died at the age of 17 in October 2025 from drinking caffeine drinks. Chance Gainer age 18, died in September of 2024 while playing football. His heart failed. We never know what another day may bring. In March of 2009, 18-year-old Whitney Hendrickson of Colorado Springs was standing at a gas pump when another vehicle struck hers and pinned her underneath the vehicle, starting a fire. She screamed for help as the gasoline fire slowly burned her alive. Dear reader, today could be the last day of your life. Are you prepared to meet your Creator?

I know Bebet was just a little bird, but God created her. How much more is mankind precious to our Creator? Ecclesiastes 3:21, “Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” As I grow older I have a greater respect and appreciation for all living creatures. Bebet was my friend and I already miss her. Watching her play each day was a delight for me, and now that she is forever gone, my heart aches to see her again just for one more day, but I cannot. Life is a veil of tears.

God loves and cares about little birds, and He loves and cares about you too dear reader...

Luke 12:4-7, “And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
The Bible says that God cares and watches every bird. Jesus said in Luke 12:6 that NOT ONE OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN BEFORE GOD. Jesus tells us this, so that we will realize the extent to which God cares for us too, for even the number of hairs on our head are numbered by God. Think about that!!! If God keeps track of the ever-changing number of hairs on your head and mine, do you think He has missed the malicious people who have hurt you, cheated you, slandered and lied about you, and done evil against you? Not a chance! And the Lord sees all the little good and helpful things that we do as well.

Hopefully you're not the abusive and evil one. Jesus said in Matthew 12:36 that men will give account on Judgment Day even for the words they speak. God doesn't miss anything and nothing is too small a matter to our omnipotent and omniscient faithful God. The Bible tells us not to fear mankind; but rather, to FEAR God whose eyes are upon the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:3, “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”

The Bible teaches respect for animals and life. In the law of Moses, God forbade anyone from harming birds in a nest if it was in their way:
Deuteronomy 22:6-7, “If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam [mother] sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam [mother] with the young. But thou shalt in any wise let the dam [mother] go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.”
God is so wonderful! When I first read this Scripture passage, I immediately thought about pregnant Salmon and other species of fish, how they are often released by law to give birth to more fish. It very likely could be that God wanted the mother bird to be able to reproduce again, which is why He insisted that she be released back into the wild. God is a conservationist more than anyone, caring for His earth (1st Corinthians 10:26).

Whether that's what this passage means or not, it is certainly the ethical (right) thing to do to respect motherhood. I think that this Scripture passage is teaching respect for reproduction in life. Look at all the endangered species in the world today, and how many birds and animals are now extinct because of man's recklessness. It would certainly make sense that God, who cared to preserve His creation through the flood of Genesis Chapter 6, would be concerned about the preservation of the different species of life.

Little Things Matter To God

Matthew 10:29-30, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”

I was thinking this week about some general observations about people that Pastor Jack Hyles made in a sermon titled, “Who Cares Anyway?,” as he watched some uninterested teens idly pass by their 89 year old great grandmother's casket at a funeral...

“If you have one person in this world, one, in or out of your family, who really cares for you; and will care for you when you mistreat them, and will care for you when you cannot give them a thing; if you have one person who cares for you with Bible care, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”

“If you really care about one person, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”

Bebet's death reminded me yesterday of how short life is for all of us. Hebrews 9:27 warns that we all have an appointment with death someday. I am ready to meet my Maker. Are you dear friend? Thank you as always for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!!!