How I Almost Became a False Teacher

What does a false teacher in the church look like?

Some of them are easy to spot. Health-and-wealth, prosperity preachers hardly require any effort at all. Those who ignore or sneeringly distort the Bible also are fairly obvious.

But what if they look like me? What if they attend church regularly, read the Bible, encourage their children to participate in Sunday School and Wednesday evening services, lead family devotions, pray, support missionaries, volunteer? 

What if, by most visible accounts, they are healthy Christians?

The problem is: that isn’t the whole picture.   Continue at John Knight

Shouldn’t They Know Better?

One of the more successful tactics of our enemy is to turn our hearts against the ones under our care — to turn protectors into executioners.

For decades parents and doctors have legally killed unborn children in the name of “compassion” because the child would have lived with disabilities or would have died shortly after birth.

But killing unborn children apparently isn’t enough.

Child Euthanasia

Belgium’s Upper House approved a measure that would allow children to be legally murdered based on pain and suffering, as reported by AFP:

The bill allows minors to ask for euthanasia on the grounds that their illness is terminal, that they are in great pain and that there is no treatment to alleviate their distress.

The request has to be agreed by the patient’s medical team and approved by the child’s parents.   Continue at John Knight

God Wins, Again

Pat Robertson’s comments about abandoning a marriage when a spouse has Alzheimer’s are reprehensible.  Dr. Russell Moore and Ed Stetzer have both provided helpful responses.

Greg Lucas did an equally helpful thing – he pointed to how God has won, again, in this tweet from Friday:

"Thankful to God for using Pat Robertson’s mouth to ignite a firestorm of passion for His glory in disability." (Romans 8:28)

There are dozens, maybe hundreds, maybe thousands, of stories being told today that refute Mr. Robertson’s remarks – stories of faithful men and women who persevered for years in caring for and loving a disabled spouse (ironically, Mr. Robertson references one such man in his remarks).  Those stories may never have been told otherwise.  How many people in that exact situation today are being encouraged that they aren’t crazy and they aren’t alone, that it is both right and worth it to care right to the end.

God uses even thoughtless, sinful remarks to bring glory to his name and to help people living with disability.  He is entirely, eternally amazing!  And he is entirely trustworthy to keep all his promises:”He will not leave you or forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6).    The Works of God