• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

false teaching

  1. Christsfreeservant

    Nonsense, Nonsense

    An Original Work / February 4, 2022 Nonsense, nonsense coming from their mouths, Raise their banners, raise them very loud, Bold in witness, that but not of God, Please the world and draw in their large crowds. “Win the world to us, but not to God, Please the crowds and make sure music’s loud...
  2. Christsfreeservant

    The Teaching that Accords with Godliness

    1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV “If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about...
  3. Christsfreeservant

    Put Not Your Trust in Humans

    Psalms 146:3-4 ESV “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.” Masters of Smooth Talk The picture the Lord gave me here was of a black dog with a long snout...
  4. Christsfreeservant

    They Secretly Bring in Destructive Heresies

    2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and...
  5. Christsfreeservant

    Mice, Not Nice

    September 5, 2021 So, about a month ago I started hearing noises in our kitchen very early in the morning. I am up writing devotions until the wee hours of the morning, so it is fairly quiet during that time. Now, our air conditioning unit is noisy. It makes lots of quirky noises, as does our...
  6. Christsfreeservant

    Times of Difficulty Have Come

    2 Timothy 3 ESV “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not...
  7. Christsfreeservant

    A Good Servant of Christ Jesus

    The Apostle Paul wrote this as a letter to Timothy, but that doesn’t mean that some or all of it can’t be applied to our lives in some way. For, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be...
  8. Christsfreeservant

    They Exploit You with Fabricated Stories

    2 Peter 2:1-3 NIV “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved...
  9. Christsfreeservant

    How to Discern False Teachers

    I am going to say upfront that many believers in Jesus who are teaching the true gospel today are being accused falsely of being false teachers. The ironic thing about this is that it is mostly the false teachers who are accusing the Lord’s true messengers of teaching what is false. “Woe to...
  10. Christsfreeservant

    Teach Me Your Truth

    To Know Your Ways Psalms 25:4-5 ESV “Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.” There are a lot of things being taught today as truth which are not truth at all...
  11. Christsfreeservant

    Who's Refining?

    An Original Work / September 21, 2020 Drummers drumming. Singers humming. Look to God, for soon He’s coming. Nailers twisting. Snakers glistening. Gospel told. Is no one listening? Trappers trapping. Biters snapping. Pay attention. See what’s happening. Miners dining. Who’s refining? Barely...
  12. Christsfreeservant

    Toxic Authority

    Titus 3:1-2 ESV “Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.” As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be law-abiding...
  13. Christsfreeservant

    On Account of These

    Colossians 3:5-6 ESV “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming." Because these types of sins have been able to run rampant within the church for a long...
  14. Christsfreeservant

    The Way of Truth

    Do Not Love Worldliness 1 John 2:15-17 ESV “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from...
  15. Christsfreeservant

    Examine What You Hear

    Do Also to Them Matthew 7:12 ESV “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” This is another one of those verses that must be read in context, not just of the chapter, but of the whole of the New Testament, and which must be...
  16. Christsfreeservant

    The Journey

    When we trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, we begin what is to be a journey with Christ, a walk of faith of a lifetime. It begins with us dying with Christ to sin and with us being resurrected with Christ to new lives in him to be lived to him and to his righteousness...
  17. bèlla

    The Dangers of Leaven

    A little leaven leavens the whole lump. —Galatians 5:9 Secular ideals are infiltrating the church and being championed by believers. What are the greatest dangers of “leaven” we’re facing and how are you standing against them? What do you say to fellow Christians whose convictions are in...
  18. Christsfreeservant

    Our One and Only

    Philippians 3:2-4a ESV Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the...
  19. LightLoveHope

    By this they will know you are my disciples through healing

    What did Jesus say "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" John 13:35 It is love and intimacy, care and support which is the foundation of the gospel. Healing comes as a gift of the Spirit, and where the Spirit is so there will be healing. But above...
  20. H

    Unbiblical "Christian" platitudes that Christians need to stop saying

    Say what you will. You may agree with me, you may not. But these are things that Christians need to stop saying. It doesn't matter whether it's your heart or not, to put people down with these words. It doesn't matter how genuine you are. It doesn't matter how you are wanting it to come across...