The Unshakable Kingdom
The Unshakable Kingdom
November 7, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? - Habakkuk 1:2-3 Has there ever been a time when the faith of God's people been so sorely tested? The answer is, 'yes'; and the little Book of Habakkuk offers prophetic encouragement for us in an hour when the forces of darkness seem to hold the upper hand.
The Unshakable Kingdom
October 24, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, so that you and your children may live. - Deuteronomy 30:19 Rev. Mark Creech has summed up our situation perfectly: "This is a time of great testing for our country. We are now at a tipping point, and the differences between the candidates and the two parties represented couldn’t be more precise."
The Unshakable Kingdom
October 17, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, so that you and your children may live. - Deuteronomy 30:19 Rev. Mark Creech has summed up our situation perfectly: "This is a time of great testing for our country. We are now at a tipping point, and the differences between the candidates and the two parties represented couldn’t be more precise."
The Unshakable Kingdom
October 10, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, to him it is sin. - James 4:7 As we approach the most important election in American history, statistics tell us that 40 million Christians will not vote at all and 15 million are not even registered to vote. How can these things be?
The Unshakable Kingdom
October 3, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
"Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." - French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Many are not aware of the fact that America's Christian pulpits shaped the formation and foundation of our great nation. But why are so many of them silent in our present day?
The Unshakable Kingdom
September 26, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
“If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.” - Rev. Charles G. Finney As the fate of our nation hangs in the balance, God will hold His ministers accountable for which way she goes.
The Unshakable Kingdom
September 19, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have." - 1 Samuel 8:4-5 (1050 B.C.) America, as a nation, is coming to a defining moment on the November 3rd election day. It may surprise you to see the similarities with an election day in Israel that took place over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
The Unshakable Kingdom
September 12, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. - Isaiah 8:12 In her book "Republic of Lies", author Anna Merlan writes, "The greatest threat to society today is disinformation, misinformation, and the monetization of lies.” It is true that American Christians are confronted every day with 'Fake News' and "Conspiracy Theories'. What is the right response?
The Unshakable Kingdom
September 5, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Now the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy...1 Timothy 4:1-2 “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” - Adolf Hitler Surveys show that a majority of American voters and an alarming number of professing Christians now lean toward socialism, a 'big lie' that is truly a 'doctrine of demons'.
The Unshakable Kingdom
August 29, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to His works. - Matthew 16:27 One of the most insidious signs of socialistic ideology is how it displaces the biblical doctrine of personal responsibility by creating a sense of victimization and entitlement in the people groups it seeks to control. Jesus was not a Socialist!
The Unshakable Kingdom
August 15, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Be careful, Jesus said to them, be on your guard against the yeast (leaven) of the Pharisees and http://sadducees...then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees." - Matthew 16:6,12 In Matthew 13, Jesus had taught His disciples that the Kingdom of God would leaven the earth like yeast leavens bread. But in Matthew 16 He warned them to beware of another kind of http://yeast...bad teaching.
The Unshakable Kingdom
August 8, 2020 • Pastor Ray McCollum
Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened." - Matthew 13:33 Jesus leavened the earth with the Kingdom of God and promised us that it would leaven the whole world. So how does it happen that the socialists seem to be using the principle of the leaven better than the Christians?
