By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew The Bible teaches there is a righteous indignation. In fact, if we don’t show this kind of anger on some occasions, we may be sinning. When we see blatant injustice and corruption, if its presence never sets a fire in our spirits to rebuke and resist, it’s evidence we […]
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Covid 19: Panic and Fear
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew I recently read the following by Rev. Glen. A. Land on the website of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri: “As we are confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic…we should face this and every crisis that comes our way with courage. Fear has no place in the life of […]
Persuasive Political TV
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I hate political jokes. Too many of them get elected.” –Milton Berle
Put on the full Armor of God 2020 +CDC Guidelines
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I have a cartoon in my office which shows a hospitalized man on a bed. He’s green in the face, looking haggard, with several tubes and IVs attached to his body. A preacher stands over him with a Bible in one hand while pointing toward heaven with the other, and […]
Pigs and Pearls
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “We understand that every effort, whether personal or corporate, that leaves out the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, that doesn’t make God central to the need, is no solution but just lipstick on a pig. Whether it be education, or science, or psychology, or any kind of social […]
Row Faster or Take my Hand
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “President Ronald Reagan used to tell a story about a man who fell off a cliff and, at the last minute as he was falling, he grabbed hold of a shrubby bush. As he dangled on the side of the precipice, he was filled with terror and called out […]
Operation: Church Body Edition
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “A man had visited church after church trying to find a congenial congregation, and finally he stopped at a little church just as the congregation was participating in a responsive reading with the minister, ‘We have left undone those things we ought to have done, and we have done […]
Pray for America
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “America stands on the brink of disaster. Your freedoms are at stake. The name and character of God are at stake. ‘Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”‘ As never before, we are in desperate need of the forgiving, healing hand of God. Let us join together […]
Meet John the ‘Non-Denominational’
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The late evangelist Billy Sunday used to tell this story to audiences of various denominations. He said that he was in Duluth, Minnesota, when a Jewish man was run over in an iron mine. They rushed him to a Catholic hospital where an Episcopalian surgeon amputated his leg. A […]
The Woman Helps Keep Him in Line
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “It may sound silly to some, but a fundamental purpose for marriage is to domesticate or civilize men. You may not know, but unmarried men cause society more trouble than married men. It’s not likely that you’ll see many, if any, married men roving the neighborhood in a street […]