“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” — Matthew 7:13-14

God did not design the path to heaven wide because He knew the great majority of people would refuse to surrender fully to Him. There is a good reason there will be few people ushered into heaven. Certainly, the number that fully surrender will be significant, but only because of God’s interaction with humanity for thousands of years. Satan drew a third of the angels into rebellion. He will draw many more into deception. There will be a small number that remain faithful relatively to how many that reject or depart from God. Continue reading

I’m mostly a failure at writing pleasing exhortations. I realize I am as sand on a picnic, a grinding noise during a philharmonic concert, or the smell of sulfur in a flower garden.

A frequent question is, “Why don’t you just be diplomatic and gentle?”

They seldom ask the same about the individual that scream warnings to save people’s lives. Warnings of imminent danger will irritate people, and many people will ignore them. We are in a very precarious situation in this nation. Concerning the Great War between light and darkness, millions of professing Christians have left Gideon to follow Saul. Saul had the charisma and the profile—Gideon had the message and the faith. The darkest hour is just before dawn. Continue reading

It’s here. Dark clouds. Rumbling in the heavens. Extreme cold. Little bits of white ice falling on my windshield. Trash cans lying on their sides, mouths gaping. The windchill will fall to -4 to -7 degrees before day’s end. The moisture from rain will flash freeze into tributaries of black ice. Power may go out. It is likely the worst storm since we moved to North Carolina, Christmas season 1988.

And yet I hear and read people asking, “What storm?” There was a time that people could sense urgency. They knew something big was going to occur and asked questions. Now they wander about in a cloud single-mindedly attempting to get from here to there. There is little concern about the danger that lies between those two points. That is why they drive into floodwater and drown. It is the reason they drive onto black ice and crash. More importantly, it is why they are completely unprepared for the great and brutal spiritual storm that will settle on this earth.

The truth is that people currently ignore or reject warnings. They fantasize that our sin-soaked nation with leaders that have despotic inclinations will be great again, i.e., Christian-friendly. They focus on secular news, talking heads, and professing Christian hirelings. They are fighting for an earthly utopia when God’s word declares the earth will be melted with a fervent heat.

The indisputable fact is that an unprecedented winter storm is here or coming to most of our nation. Just as certain, this wicked nation cannot escape the consequences of its secular wickedness and religious apostasy. Apathy will provide a cozy blanket to block out the warnings, but one day it will come suddenly on the entire earth.

The prominent sign that one has apostasy is when ears and hearts are closed to truth and eyes are blind to the signs. There will be no one around to say, “I warned you!” When it comes it will be an overwhelming and crushing satanic storm that weak professing Christian’s will be immediately crushed by.

I take no pleasure in spoiling people’s Christmas cheer, but there is no season when we can lower our guard and lose our focus on the essentials.