Word-Faith Preaching

This false doctrine teaches that you should pray for things with expectation that God will answer your prayer. Oh I wish it were so! If all you needed to do was have enough faith their wouldn’t be any sick, poor or unloved person on the planet! Nor would there be any unsaved.
Yet many churches and [...]

Prosperity Preaching

Does God want you to be wealthy?
Maybe, maybe not. But there is a growing number of churches that teach this Prosperity doctrine. As with other false teachings, support for it is based on a twisted interpretation of a few verses. The main support for this one comes from “Give, and it will be given to [...]

Tithing/Passing the Plate

Church Means Business Today.
The church has become a business and passing the plate around in the weekly worship service is the major source of funding their enterprise. If this method could be supported biblically I would have to accept it. But making church goers feel obligated to give is not biblical. All new testament giving [...]

Thou Shalt Not Judge

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can [...]