by Allen Ray Johnson | Mar 7, 2020 | Atrocities, Church, Following Jesus
“I just cannot believe that Christian leaders and churches aren’t talking about this in every congregation in every corner of the [United States]. Boko Haram killed more Christians than ISIS in the year of the height of ISIS. This is the worst place in the world, at least in the northeast, where these terrorists are.” –Johnnie Moore (Christian Post, Feb. 28, 2020
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by Allen Ray Johnson | Jan 15, 2020 | Church, Following Jesus, Scandal, Uncategorized
The “Prosperity Gospel” is a seductive syncretism of orthodox traditional Christian belief with idolatrous Baal worship. In this, the new Baal priests promise prosperous lives of health, wealth, and security to followers if they sacrifice to them lots of their money.
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by Allen Ray Johnson | Feb 18, 2019 | Following Jesus, Uncategorized
It is fitting that my first post on this new edition of Creation Song should honor Jesus.
Yes, I am a follower of Jesus. I’m not always faithful or true; nor is He easy to follow. But my heart is to follow Him. I want to want to love Him and be true to Him. Here is some of my personal “why Jesus?”
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by Allen Ray Johnson | Feb 18, 2019 | Following Jesus, Miracle, Uncategorized
A timing chain breakdown on an almost deserted highway around 11 pm on a Saturday night in the least populated county in the East. Heading for a Christian conference Sunday morning I very much felt led to attend. It would take a miracle to make it.
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by Allen Ray Johnson | Feb 18, 2019 | Church, Following Jesus, Scandal, Uncategorized
Nothing is worse than the use of the name of Jesus to prey on the vulnerable.”
Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
If there is one good thing about the plethora of sexual abuse revelations in church bodies, it is that some of the wolves preying on the sheep are being caught.
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