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Mike Gendron: the Gospel, Decline of Discernment, and the One World Religion

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 23, 2020 | Bible Prophecy, Catholic, Christianity, Evangelism, Podcast, the Gospel | 0 |

Believers are told to know the truth, and hold fast until the end so we will not fall for strong delusions, but few would deny the rapid decline of discernment in the church today.

The gospel must be preached without compromise to those who are perishing or they cannot be saved. We know the truth of Christianity is not popular today and the world would rather turn to Satan and eventually, the anti-Christ for solutions to the crisis coming upon the earth.

Mike Gendron: The True Gospel, Tradition, and Catholic Church History

by Stand Up For The Truth | Nov 17, 2019 | American Church, Catholic, Christianity, Evangelism, Gospel, Podcast, Social Justice | 1 |

Why so many religions and denominations? Nearly one in five people worldwide identify with the Roman Catholic Church. Many are serious practitioners while others have no idea what their church’s teachings include. But it is a very popular religion that feeds the need many people have to rely on good works. The problem is they miss the importance of the authority of Scripture, the true gospel, and justification by faith. Today’s guest is author and evangelist, Mike Gendron.

God Determines What Satisfies

by Stand Up For The Truth | Oct 22, 2019 | American Church, Anxiety, Apologetics, Apostacy, Beliefs, Catholic, Christian Church, Christian Growth, Christianity, Dave Wager, Gospel, Moral Relativism, Podcast, the Gospel | 0 |

Today’s discussion is a powerful one that everyone in Christ needs to hear. Dave spoke the assertion that “many attending churches today think they are saved, but they are not.” Is that scriptural?

The “Forbidden” Topics of Religion and Politics

by Stand Up For The Truth | Aug 26, 2019 | American Church, American History, Apologetics, Apostacy, Catholic, Christianity, Globalism, Government, Liberalism, One world religion, Podcast, Progressive Christianity, Prophecy, Religious Freedom, Socialism | 2 |

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The Condition of the American Church – Part 2

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jun 20, 2019 | American Church, American History, Apologetics, Apostacy, Best of!, Catholic, Christianity, Church Leadership, Cults, Culture & Morality, Elijah Abraham, False Teaching, Gospel, Islam, Jay Seegert, LGBTQ, Muslims, Persecution, Podcast, Progressive Christianity, Prosperity Gospel, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |

Wednesday, we aired the first hour of a conversation with former muslim, now born-again evangelist/missionary Elijah Abraham and Apologist Jay Segert of The Starting Point Project when they were in town for our Watchman Conference. Today, this tough conversation continues. Mike and our guests discuss the challenges and the possible future of “organized church” in America.

Cracks in Radical Liberalism’s Foundations

by Stand Up For The Truth | Mar 18, 2019 | Apologetics, Catholic, Christian Church, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Evangelism, gender confusion, Government, Liberalism, Podcast, Politics and Faith, Religious Freedom, the Gospel | 0 |

We often discuss how radical liberalism is eventually exposed and dismissed because of its obvious self-defeating contradictions. In their zeal to develop more and more “protected classes” of people, they eventually run into a contradiction they cannot reconcile with their attempts to make everyone feel like a victim. This morning we look at liberals and feminists along with conservative women in pushing back against the awful “Equality Act” introduced by House Democrats that would impose national protections and special rights to those who identify as transgender.We also look at a growing number of Catholics who are now considering leaving their church because of the wide ranging sexual abuse scandals within their church.In our first segment we talk with Preston Condra, of Sufficient Word Publishing, about his new book aimed at helping parents explain the gospel to their children and helping them develop a biblical world view as they head into the dangerous waters of public education.

Christian Concerns, Comments, and Questions

by Stand Up For The Truth | Mar 8, 2019 | Apologetics, Catholic, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, False Teaching, Hebrew Roots, Liberalism, Mike's book, Podcast | 0 |

Pastors and elders are called to be strong, loving, spiritually mature men that guard and protect the flock of Jesus Christ assigned to them. They are to stand and fight against disguised wolves that bring false doctrines into the church, guarding the people Jesus has entrusted to them. But a growing number of Christians are seeing that biblical job description morphing into something completely different, where some pastors are corporate leaders and CEOs instead of teachers, nurturers and protectors. This is one of the subjects on the minds of our listeners in today’s Q&A podcast.

Indoctrination: ‘Coexist’ With Lies and False Teachings?

by David Fiorazo | Mar 6, 2019 | Apologetics, Catholic, Christianity, Education, False Teaching, Liberalism, Mormonism, Religious Freedom | 0 |

Government education in America kicked God, prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments out of public schools over fifty years ago leaving a massive spiritual void. The doors were then flung open to Atheism, evolution, Humanism, witchcraft, Islam, Liberalism, sexual promiscuity, the LGBTQ agenda, and recently, Buddhism.

All the religions in the world cannot possibly be true, but in a secular culture influenced by postmodernism, people don’t want to hear there is only one way to God. But if you’re sincerely seeking truth, I suggest you take a look at Jesus before trying everything else. But many people prefer the coexist philosophy even though world religions contradict each other. The coexist slogan was actually created to oppose Christianity, and demand that we keep our beliefs to ourselves. Public schools follow this philosophy and insist we conform and tolerate all behavior as well as other religious claims.

Comments and Questions Every Friday

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 22, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Ask Mike, Catholic, Christianity, Government, LGBTQ, Listener Questions, Podcast | 0 |

Every week we receive so many great comments and questions from listeners to Stand Up for the Truth. We’ll get to as many as we can today!

Question of the week: What are your thoughts on the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) having Nancy Pelosi speak to Christian college leaders recently?

A few responses: “one of the many reasons I no longer call myself Evangelical,” “What could she even remotely bring of value to a discussion?” “That’s like having an atheist preach from the pulpit,” and “I think the NAE needs to share the gospel with Nancy Pelosi and the importance of repentance and obeying God’s Word.”

We also share a stirring testimony from a Christian woman that had an abortion years ago and kept it to herself. Now after all this time she has received the forgiveness and healing of Jesus, and has been encouraging the body of Christ to stop being silent on this pivotal issue.

We also discuss:

Home churches: when is it time to consider leaving your seeker-sensitive or unbibilcal church?
What has happened to rational, respectful debate and dialogue?
Pastors that rarely ever preach on the Old Testament
What does it mean to enter into the rest of God, Hebrews 4?

All Aboard the Globalism Express

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 20, 2019 | Abortion, Biblical Social Justice, Catholic, Christian Church, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Dominionism, False Teaching, Globalism, Government, Leadership, Media Bias, Podcast | 0 |

The Bible warns us that globalism is inevitable and that one day the world will be united in purpose. But that purpose is to defy God and worship Satan through his puppet, Anti-Christ. This march toward globalism comes in many colors including politics, environmental issues, population control, and centralized governmental authority. It is being propagated regularly through academia and national media.

Christians are called to be unique and set apart from this world, but even increasingly in many churches we see a progressive worldview rearing its ugly head as some churches are so enamored with being seen as loving and tolerant by the world that even the precepts of God are set aside. The mantra of American Christianity seems to be how we can better fit into the world instead of being light to a dark world.

Today we look at the subtle and not so subtle ways globalist thinking is affecting everything from politics to national security, to how we conduct “church” these days. Gary Kah of Hope For the World has researched and written about the coming one world government and religion for more than 25 years. His early books were a clarion warning to the creeping globalism we now see being openly promoted in almost every institution in our world, including a growing number of Christian Churches.

Why Am I So Passionate About Being A Watchman?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 8, 2019 | Abortion, American History, Bill Hybels, Catholic, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, LGBTQ, Persecution, Prophecy, Religious Freedom | 0 |

I received a phone call earlier this week from a listener asking me if I could take a few minutes and give the “big picture” of what I am seeing in our nation and the warning message I am trying to deliver. So here goes:

America, founded on Judeo-Christian law and principles, has abandoned that foundation over the past 50 years. God has been kicked out of our schools and government; we have murdered more than 60 million babies in the womb; we have redefined marriage; and we have told God that He is flawed in how He created us—that just because he created us male or female that he had no right to do that since we should be able to choose ourselves the gender we prefer.

America has gone from a Christian nation to an “Anti-Christ nation”. And while we should use our freedom of speech and religious expression, along with our voting power, to try to reverse the slide of this once-great nation, we must accept the inevitability of what the Bible forecasts: That one day soon every nation will turn on Israel and against God in defiance. There is no “USA” exclusion in the Word of God…

Is American Christianity Selling its Soul?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 6, 2019 | Abortion, Beliefs, Catholic, Christian Church, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, False Teaching, Globalism, Government, Leadership, Podcast, Politics and Faith, Progressive Christianity | 0 |

The abandonment of God’s Word and principles by Christian leaders in America continues to kick into increase with each passing year. Willow Creek’s Global Leadership Summit keeps bringing in speakers who defy God’s Word and Law, elevating them (secular progressives) as leaders that Christians should emulate. And now, the National Association of Evangelicals invites House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to speak to Christian College professors about the need for Evangelicals to support her fight against legal immigration policies and common sense.

This is the same Nancy Pelosi who at every opportunity supports legislation leading to more abortions, and a professing Catholic that is allowed to remain a Catholic in good standing in spite of her support of infanticide. Has the leadership of American Christianity completely sold the “church” out by compromising with and embracing an anti-biblical world view?

In our first segment, Mike and David talk about Christianity and athletics with our guest Kellen Cox of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. And in segments two and three, we tackle compromising denominations and church organizations.

The Church in America Must Be the Church!

by David Fiorazo | Jan 15, 2021 | American Church, Church Leadership, COVID 19, Pastor's Perspective, Religious Freedom | 0 |

As we saw in 2020, forces of darkness have been hard at work. The enemy – both human and demonic – coming against us hard. It is stunning, the speed with which our country, culture, freedoms, and very way of life have been attacked and dismantled!

If there was ever a time in American history that the Christian Church needs to be an essential, gospel-preaching, influential, faith-building, fruit-bearing, saint-equipping church, it’s now.

Mike Abendroth: Comfort for the Oppressed, Pastor’s Perspective

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 14, 2021 | Christianity, Pastor's Perspective, Podcast, Teaching | 0 |

Today, we catch up with Mike Abendroth and discuss how Christians can maintain a balanced, biblical perspective through all that is happening in America and the world. We also look at some lessons from the Old Testament Book of Nahum, discuss its context, and some practical points from Pastor Mike.

Steve Smothermon: We Must Never Stop Being The Church!

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 13, 2021 | American Church, Church Leadership, COVID 19, Leadership, Pastor's Perspective, Podcast, Politics and Faith | 0 |

Steve’s church was fined $10,000 for holding a Christmas Eve service and not following New Mexico governor’s mandates; we discuss also the battle between Christians and government, unreasonable state restrictions on churches, obeying God or man, open censorship of American citizens by Big Tech and liberal media activists, and the responsibility of pastors to lead in these dark times.

Mike Gendron: Converging Events, Prophecy, and Pope Francis

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 12, 2021 | American Church, Apostacy, Bible Prophecy, Christianity, Discernment, Gospel, One world religion, Podcast | 0 |

We discuss the prophetic implications of all that is going on in the world including the economic, psychological, and spiritual impact of converging events. Mike emphasizes the urgent need for Christians to be obedient to the great commission. We also talk about the apostasy of Pope Francis and his continued departure from Romans Catholic and biblical faith

Jay Seegert: Christian Youth are Leaving the Faith; Why?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 11, 2021 | American Church, Christianity, Culture & Morality, Education, Government, Podcast, Public Schools | 0 |

An alarmingly high percentage of youth are walking away from their faith today. We now know it is at much younger ages when children begin to doubt what they have learned. Many studies have been done and the evidence is clear. What are we doing wrong as Christian parents and the church in general?