The White Stone Zone

Harold Camping’s prediction of the coming Rapture ushering in Judgment Day was a blatantly obvious error because everyone knows Jesus said, “No one knows the day or the hour.” However, Brother Harold has been preaching a legalistic, morbid gospel for years. According to Harold, anyone who did not believe like He did was following “another Gospel” and was condemned to hell. He has been preaching that for over 30 years. Likewise, Harold Camping’s call to repentance is morbid, and Harold Camping’s view of God is very impersonal. He view’s God’s holiness as a reason for God to be angry and wrathful and unwilling to show grace and mercy unless we beg and plead with God as though the begging and pleading might get God to be merciful and kind. He writes on his website: Sadly, the Holy Bible tells us that only a small percentage of today’s world will turn from their evil ways, and with great humility and fear will cry to God for mercy. Nevertheless, the Bible assures us that many of the p...

2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.      In this passage, we have Jesus Christ, King of Kings washing the disciples feet which was the task of a common house servant. That is wonderful in and of itself; however, Judas was included in those disciples whose feet Jesus washed. Jesus knew that Judas had already conspired to hand Jesus over to the politicians and preachers who wanted to kill him.  Jesus spoke to each disciple, including Judas with love and compassion.  What kept Jesus from hating Judas and calling him out in fr...

The great news that a believer is under no condemnation is often squelched with the statement, and I have heard it often, "God does not condemen us when we sin, but He will convict us." Really? Is that what the Scriptures teach? As baby Christians, we so often buy hookline and sinker things that are said by preachers, teachers or "mature" Christians because the "BIBLE" says its true. I have found and have been guilty of the same thing, that many folks know what the "BIBLE SAYS," but they have no clue what it means. The present example of God convicting His children is one of those lies. The idea that God won't condemn, but will convict comes from Jesus statement in the upper room. Jesus was telling the disciples about the coming and work of the Holy Spirit. He told them, "Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righ...

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? All too often, the Christian life is seen as an aesthetic, boring monontonous task of being miserable in the here and now so that we can have a glorious eternal life; in other words, God is presented as an uptight killjoy who prefers a stick in the mud over muddy children laughing and playing. This is the one lie the father of lies has spread to God's children since the garden--before we expose that lie, we need to see that satan is one unoriginal bastard. What did he tell Eve in the garden? Basically he told her that God is withholding from her. He gets her to focus on what she did not have instead of the abundance available to her. He also told her that she is not like God and if she wants to be like God, she needs to act independently and begin t...

"8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." If you are like me, you may often wonder if God really loves you and how much does he really love you. We can toss this thought about in our mind and vary from day to day, moment to moment and feeling to feeling. Sometimes we may think He really loves us, and other times we may think God is pretty sick of us. The good news is, we don't have to guess, fall victim to our feelings or be tossed about by the opinions of others. God is quite clear in the Scriptures and in history in demonstrating His love for us. In the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, we see that God declares His love for us by laying down His life for us. By submitting to death on the cross so that we could be forgiven and made alive in Christ. Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness and removal of sins, yes, but in the passion of Christ, His historical death, the event, we see how mu...

Psalm 111 2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them. 3 Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever. God's righteousness endures forever. God's righteousness is found in the Person of Jesus Christ. He possessed a righteousness where he never sinned, is not sinning now, and will never sin. This is the righteous life God requires. He can not join Himself to that which is unrighteous for it is against His character and if joined to unrighteousness, His righteousness would be tainted. If one wants to dwell with God here on earth and in the kingdom beyond this life and world, one must possess the same righteousness. You have never sinned, you are not sinning now, and you will never sin. That is how you can approach God in freedom and confidence. If we are honest, we know that we are behind the 8 ball on that type of righteousness quite early on in life. The Scriptures testify that no man can approach ...

I have been a school teacher for more than 15 years, and more than a few times I have had students whom I knew outside of school before they became my student. In some cases, I had built a pretty close relationship with the youngster through the church, the neighborhood, or through family ties. When some of these students came into my class, they were surprised to find out that I did not relate to them in the same way. They were taken back that I could not maintain a relationship with them, and they struggled with feelings of rejection. What happened? On the outside, there were no rules or law systems to keep us from relating to each other freely. Now, there was a law system to be followed and it hindered our relationship. This is precisely what happens to young Christians who receive the good news gladly, and then are told that they have to do something to be a "good Christian." In other words, the law kills our relationship with God; in fact, you can't live for God unde...