Month: April 2015

Ours is a death-denying age. We mourn briefly. Scatter ashes. Out are wakes and open caskets. We push the idea of dying as far out of sight as possible. But in China they’ve taken death and dying to a whole new level by inviting strippers, complete with pole dancing, to funerals. So few people in China bother to honor the dead these days that funeral parlors have taken to inviting strippers to entertain and draw a crowd. China’s Ministry of Culture wants to eliminate the practice, which is seen as a national embarrassment. The last straw was when a dancer in the city of Handan removed her bra with assembled family and children watching. The erotic show was for the farewell of an elderly gentleman, who was no longer alive to grimace or leer. Some strippers have performed with snakes, a sign of good fortune to some Chinese.

It should be obvious that this is an extension of Communist ideology. Even though the Peking regime may not like the funeral strippers, what’s to be expected when God is officially expunged from society by Marxism? While most Americans might not go that far, who is to say that some won’t? In Las Vegas a group of atheists, including magician Penn Jillette, have formed a United Church of Bacon, that’s right  bacon, and claim 4,000- members worldwide. In Tennessee a swinger’s club has opened next door to a Christian school, claiming they are a church. (Their S&M “dungeon” room has been relabeled a “choir room.”) In today’s climate of “emerging” church thinking, where evangelicals are encouraged to drink beer and go light on Hell and sin, the door is open for Satan to work overtime. More important, when deliverance is eschewed and the idea that Christians can have demons is mocked, evil has an open door. Too many churches in America have “stripped” the Gospel of its power over demons and the devil.

An encouraging word: THE HEAVENS SPEAK

In our age of militant atheism, we need to pause and ponder Psalm 19:3.Of the glory and wonders of heavens, David declared, “Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.” Creation is not silent. The sun, moon, and stars speak of His glory and wonder. Only a fool would deny what the eye beholds. All this could not have existed in its complexity by chance. And the God who made it all conveys His awe by the “things which are made” (Romans 1:20). Tonight, gaze upward and remember that He is not silent. The heavens speak loudly of his majesty.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did ® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

He claims to be a Christian but hardly ever goes to church. Try to name the last night you saw Barack and Michelle Obama, with their children, exiting a church on Sunday morning. Rare. He’s not exactly compliant with Hebrews 10:25 to not forsake the assembling of believers. But open a mosque, and he’s there on the spot, or at least he plans to be. A 15-acre, $100 million mega-mosque is about to open in Lanham Maryland, not far from Washington, D. C. It was paid for mostly by foreign money and will be dedicated by Turkey’s repressive Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. America is a free country and if Muslims want to build a mosque, they can. But one has to wonder about the extraordinary infusion of such massive state money, supplied by a foreign government, to impress upon America a religious viewpoint that has factions which have pledged our destruction and the annihilation of Israel.

But more to the point. Show me a single photo of Obama attending the dedication of a church, any church, let alone an evangelical one. But Islam calls, and he comes running. That’s not to say that our President is a Muslim, but you have to wonder what’s really going on in his heart. Most are aware of his refusal to label ISIS terrorists as “Islamic.” More important, what does this mean for our country’s future? We are slowly slip-sliding away from our Christian heritage to a more secularist society, but also a more Islamic culture, aided by our President. If Mr. Obama feels he has to attend the Lanham mosque to promote international relations, that’s one thing. But at a time when radical Muslims around the world are beheading Christians and throwing them off boats to drown, this would be a good time for the President to get his family in a solid Bible-preaching church on Sunday morning to hear the Gospel. I recommend a good African-American deliverance church where he can get a dose of Holy Ghost power. I’ll be speaking in such a church in Raleigh this weekend, and the invitation is open for him to come.

An encouraging word: DELIVERANCE FROM ENEMIES

Do you have enemies? Everyone does. They may be casual acquaintances or even family members. Those are sometimes the worst. Well, I have good news from Psalm 18:48. The promise of God as expressed by King David was that the Lord “saves me [you] from my enemies.” Not only that but the Lord also will also “lift you up above” your enemies. Deliverance and exaltation. It doesn’t get much better. But this is a promise you must possess by faith, so start now declaring its truth in your life. Watch how God will keep you safe from all your adversaries and help you rise higher than all their attacks.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

The photo above could represent a life-saving procedure to rescue a terminally ill patient who needs a new lung or liver. But what if the container held a human head? Would that seem so noble? Well, a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant.  Because his lower boy suffers a debilitating disease, he will have his head removed and installed on another person’s body.  A team of 150 doctors, led by an Italian physician, will perform the 36-hour operation to transplant Spiridonov’s functional head to a recipient who is brain dead but with a healthy body. Even if the head and body accept each other, what will happen to the brain? Critics suggest that with two sets of body chemistry uniting, the result could be some kind of new mental illness.  Spiridonov might live with a healthy body and have a crazy mind.

I also have to wonder: What if either the body or mind has demons? Will the body get the demons of the transplanted head? Will the head/mind/soul consciousness get the demons of the new body? Plus, the folly of submitting to such a procedure could combine the curses from both head and body to result in a life of unspeakable torment. Either way it seems like medical science, in this case, is playing God with Valery assuming the role of a Frankenstein-like existence, should he actually live. You have to wonder what other diabolically ingenious acts the devil has planned in a world were ethical boundaries are falling fast.

An encouraging word: HIS STRENGTH

When struggles come, where is the hope of a Christian? “You armed me with strength for battle,” Psalm 18:39 declares. Victory is nearer when we realize that we cannot do it on our own. The flesh is too weak. Our faith is often not sufficient. That’s when HIS STRENGTH takes over. He deals with the failures, betrayals, hurts, disappointments, pain, and losses of our lives. God knows the battle you are in today. He understands the frailty of your human condition. And he wants to equip you with His strength to survive and thrive. Let Him do it.  

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is everywhere these days. You can hardly escape his influence in the media. He’s an astrophysicist, cosmologist, and “science communicator,” plus Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. Pretty heft credentials. He rose to prominence last year in his retake of the 80s Carl Sagan Cosmos series, rechristened Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. As a media gadfly he has been an effective communicator for the forces of unbelief in America. Tyson says, “For me, when I say spiritual, I’m referring to a feeling you would have that connects you to the universe in a way that it may defy simple vocabulary. We think about the universe as an intellectual playground, which it surely is, but the moment you learn something that touches an emotion rather than just something intellectual, I would call that a spiritual encounter with the universe.” Now, if you understand what he’s saying, you tell me. Officially he claims agnosticism. Tyson says, “I’m not trying to convert people. I don’t care.” And he adds: “I remain unconvinced by any claims anyone has ever made about the existence or the power of a divine force operating in the universe.”

All this from one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In fact, he’s probably not THE Antichrist, but he is a precursor, a harbinger, preparing the way. Doubt me? Listen to some of his most outrageous quotes. He recently defended the diabolical cult of Scientology by a comparison of L. Ron Hubbard’s spiritual silliness to Catholicism. To The Daily Beast he said, “So, you have people who are certain that a man in a robe transforms a cracker into the literal body of Jesus saying that what goes on in Scientology is crazy?” So much for poking in the eye all devout Catholics. To Jews he said, “If you attend a Seder, there’s an empty chair sitting right there and the door is unlocked because Elijah might walk in. OK. These are educated people who do this. Now, some will say it’s ritual, some will say it could literally happen. But religions, if you analyze them, who is to say that one religion is rational and another isn’t?” With total stupidity for any sociological understanding of world religions he further opines, “It looks like the older those thoughts have been around, the likelier it is to be declared a religion. If you’ve been around 1,000 years you’re a religion, and if you’ve been around 100 years, you’re a cult.”

The devil has to love this. As for my accusation that Neil deGrasse Tyson is an Anti-Christ, listen to the words of 1 John 2:22: Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist. And in 2 John 7: For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

An encouraging word: CALL ON THE LORD NOW
 

Most humans like to believe that no matter how bad things are, the clouds will eventually have a silver lining. There will be light at the end of the tunnel. But for those lost without Christ, a day is coming when there will be no hope. David spoke of this in Psalm 18:41: They cried for help, but there was no one to save them . . . He did not answer. Even those who don’t believe in prayer usually cry out to God when tragedy strikes. But what if He weren’t there? Better call the Lord while you can, and not be as those who will someday realize that God WILL NOT answer no matter how much they plead.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

I’m disgusted, angered, and profoundly disturbed by the events of this past week. It was Easter. And timed perfectly for maximum effect, in Kenya, Islamic militants from Somali’s al-Shabaab branch of terrorism murdered 150 students of Garissa University in cold blood. They were deliberately selected apart from other students because they were Christians. All this approaching Good Friday. Killers stalked the campus looking for more victims. Bullets were sprayed indiscriminately. Carnage spread everywhere, except among Muslims. All this to establish an Islamic state. And our President gloats over a dangerous deal with Iran and won’t utter the word “Islamic.” Meanwhile, the news media was still obsessed, a week later, with the story of the Germanwings suicidal pilot. Nearly as many Christians died in Kenya as in those French Alps, but received not 1% of the news coverage, comparatively. To make matters worse, a major report surfaced from the credible Pew Research Center that in less than 40 years Muslims will outnumber Christians on a global scale. The chart below says it all (blue is Christian, red is Muslim).

If this isn’t a wake-up call, what is? I’m not suggesting a war against Islam, but a war for Christianity against our real Enemy, the devil. (He’s the Enemy of Muslims too, and all humanity.) North American churches must stop their market-driven mission and return to biblical basics. They also need to resurrect the almost archaic ideas of hell, demons, judgment, morality, and restore the role of faith in the political, social, and cultural arenas. My old friend Barry McGuire sang about the Eve of Destruction in 1965. I haven’t seen you for a while, Barry, but can you please bring that song back one more time? American really needs to hear it now!

An encouraging word: HAVE FEET LIKE A DEER

If it feels like trials and troubles are about to overtake you, note the promise of Psalm 18:33: He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. David was writing about escaping his enemies. He described the abilities that God gave him to allude his captors as being like the swift feet of a deer. Deer are fast, sure-footed, and maneuver almost anywhere without slipping. The can climb, dart quickly, and get away from most any predator. When you trust the Lord, that’s the way out of trouble that the Lord provides. No matter how well-laid the plans of your opposition may be, with the Lord on your side you can run away from the schemes of Satan like a fast-running deer.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.