by Pastor Jack Wellman | Jesus is coming again, and believer’s live in eager expectation of this great event, so here are 13 important Bible verse quotes about the second coming of Jesus Christ.

“The Bible talks a lot about heaven, and as believers, it’s a place that we all dream about and look forward to. Christians throughout the centuries have written about heaven – that glorious place where God lives and where one day we will join Him.” —Pastor Jack Wellman (Christianquotes.info)

Here are three quotes:

“I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.” —Martin Luther

“For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him.” —William Barclay

“I have all that I need here and heaven hereafter! How much richer could anybody want to be?” —Lester Roloff

[Read more quotes about Heaven at the link here.]

A Seared Conscience

The idea of a reprobate mind may start with the mind that becomes seared, or having a seared conscience.

Continually living in sin has a way of making us grow comfortable with it, but there’s danger in that.

We become desensitized to sin & see it as less & less of an issue, however the Apostle Paul warned that

           1 Timothy 4:1-2 | Now the SPIRIT expressly states            that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow            deceitful spirits & the teachings of demons, influenced            by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are            seared with a hot iron.

If you put a branding iron to your hand (don’t do this!), it’ll burn the pain receptors away, & that part of the hand will not feel pain again (after it heals),

     so sin sears our conscience &      takes away the conviction of sin.

This is bad. This happened in ancient Israel where Jeremiah the Prophet asked the rhetorical question,

     “Were they ashamed when they      committed abomination? No,      they were not at all ashamed;      they did not know how to blush.

Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD” (Jeremiah 8:12).

They were so callous to sin that they had even lost the ability to blush (Jer 6:15).

That means, nothing embarrassed them; nothing was too much for them; & everything was permissible because they had seared their conscience & no longer felt guilt or conviction of sin.

Their conscience’s voice, after having been ignored & suppressed for years, was finally silenced once & for all. 

What is the GOSPEL? It’s good news, very good news. But it’s only very good news to terrified wo/men.

It’s only good news to a needy wo/man.

You see what you need to understand, let me put it this way (just to cut straight to the chase):

Let me tell you the most terrifying thing, that I can possibly tell you. The most terrifying truth that I can speak to you. Are you ready? Here it is,

      the most terrifying thing I can tell a       wo/man, a child is this: GOD is good

I said that a few years ago, over in Europe where I was preaching at a secular university.

I said if you want to get down to it. The most terrifying news for mankind is this: GOD is Good.

And someone kind of laughed, & said basically, “And what’s the problem with that?”

The problem with that is: You’re not good.

Now what does a good GOD do with someone like you?

That’s the greatest theological & philosophical problem in SCRIPTURE. GOD is good & that is terrifying.

      A hardened criminal working from some       criminal organization, if before he goes       to court he's told the judge is corrupt,       he is full of joy.

      The most terrifying thing you can tell that       criminal is the judge is not corrupt, s/he's good.       It will fill him with terror.

See this is the greatest problem of mankind, the greatest problem of mankind is that GOD is Good.

      Don't you see that?       Because you're not!

There in lies the problem, with modern day evangelical preaching.

No one tells you who GOD really is!

They just speak in cliches.

      You see the other preachers can       tell you: GOD is Good.

And you'll walk out feeling like you're totally released from any responsibility. I want to tell you that GOD is good & you ought to be terrified because you are not good.

And there's a second half of the problem, no one's telling you what that means either.

1.] What does it mean that you're not good?      How non-good, or ungood, are you?

     Let me put it this way, if you reject CHRIST,      then the moment you take your first step through      the gates of hell—the only thing you will hear is

     All of creation standing on its feet &      applauding & praising GOD because      GOD has rid the earth of you.

     That’s how not good you are.

     You say, but my sin, I'm not that big of a sinner!

     Adam sinned once & through him      the entire universe entered total chaos      & condemnation.

     You do not understand who this GOD is.

           HE really is good, you're not!            HE really is love! You are the            very opposite of that.

     So how can HE let evil loveless people into      fellowship with HIM? [6:21]

2.] Well why can’t HE simply forgive?

     Because HE's just.

     You see you have grown up in a culture      that has no justice.

     There's no pastor writing books like,      "Lex Rex: The Law of the King."

     There's no one speaking about justice biblically,      you see GOD is just. The greatest theological problem,      in the BIBLE is this:

           If GOD is just, HE cannot forgive you.

     You hear me?! If HE's just, HE cannot forgive you.

     Unless first HIS justice is satisfied; & that is what      happened on the cross.

           That is why the cross is EVERYTHING!

     It is absolutely everything!

     On that tree, the only servant that YHWH has ever had,      hung there. A perfect man, & the sins of GOD's people      were cast on HIM. And all the wrath, GOD's holy hatred      for evil, for sin, for the wicked; everything that should fall      down upon your head throughout all of eternity, fell      down upon the head of GOD's only beloved SON.

The ideas in Lex Rex predate modern concepts of nationalism & politics. They are older than the United States Constitution, as well as the American Revolution - where many modern ideas of liberty originated.

Lex Rex is even older than the Enlightenment that receives so much credit for concepts such as popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, & individual liberty.

Nevertheless, Samuel Rutherford's Lex Rex—written at a time that viewed kings as vessels of divine power —raised a Scriptural standard arguing for the dignity of the people & the accountability of earthly governments.

Article by Jack Wellman | via officialyourdailyinspiration whatchristianswanttoknow.com/what-is-a-reprobate-mind-can-we-become-a-reprobate/

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The Fre at The Flea, by Taylor Mac

Two Broadway veterans — Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of “Gary” and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of “Urinetown” – are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that surprise anybody? That’s where they began, it’s where they honed their craft, and it continues to reflect their sensibility,

Theirs are among the 11 shows I highlight in my first-ever Off-Off Broadway season preview guide.

Now, I’ve been doing separate semi-annual preview guides for Broadway and Off-Broadway for a decade – and I also put together a monthly calendar of openings that includes Off-Off Broadway.

But Off-Off Broadway always struck me as too vast*, too ill-defined* and too complicated** to fit neatly into a preview guide. Typically Off-Off Broadway theaters give little advance notice of what’s coming up, the runs are very short and the official descriptions are often too vague, coy or hallucinogenic to be of much help . Yet an Off-Off Broadway show can be groundbreaking, and sublime. This is relatively rare, yes, but the surprise of seeing something sublime Off-Off Broadway – and for as little as $10 – is so much more satisfying than paying through the nose for the pre-certified sublimity of a Broadway hit. Also it’s year-round, not limited to the similar fare in the theater festivals that get so much concentrated attention in January and during the summer. So in the spirit of experimenting that characterizes Off-Off Broadway itself, below are 11 shows that I’m looking forward to checking out this season, organized by the theaters in which they are appearing, many of which are my favorites. And below that, a list of other Off-Off Broadway venues of repute, linked to their websites.  See for yourself what else is playing this season.

  La MaMa ETC

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club is one of the quartet of theaters that gave birth to the Off-Off Broadway movement in the 1960s, and the only one that still survives. Since Ellen Stewart launched the theater in an East Village basement in 1961, it has presented more than 150,000 artists from over 70 nations. It launched the careers of an astonishing array of notable American performers and playwrights. It found a worthy successor in Mia Yoo,  and won the 2018 Regional Tony Award. It is, in other words, the place to start. There are 20 shows at LaMaMa from now until the end of April. I could make LaMaMa my entire preview guide, but I’ve selected three.

The Transfiguration Of Benjamin Banneker January 23 – February 2 This show by Theodora Skipitares, renowned puppet artist, celebrates the life of Benjamin Banneker, a free black man living in Maryland from 1731 to 1806, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, and made groundbreaking scientific discoveries. It features dance, live music, the Soul Tigers Marching Band, and a multi-generational cast of Brooklynites, including students from Benjamin Banneker High School , a pioneering puppet artist whose Radiant City ,about Robert Moses using giant puppets of his head, was eye-opening and memorable.

One Green Bottle February 29 – March 8 Bo, Boo and Pickle all have plans, but someone must stay home to care for their pregnant dog, Princess. Trivial disputes and slapstick mischief quickly morph into family feuds and also, possibly, to the end of the world. Playwright Hideki Noda is one of the most celebrated theater artists of japan.

The Beautiful Lady April 30 – May 17 With music by the late Elizabeth Swados, and direction by Anne Bogart,

The Flea

Begun in 1996 by a group including down avant-garde legend Mac Wellman, Jim Simpson and Sigourney Weaver, this theater won me over way back after 9/11, with Ann Nelson’s “The Guys,” and I’ve written about its ambitious plans , its new building and new artistic director,, Niegel Smith who took over in 2015.

Leaving the Blues January 16 – February 8

African-American blues and jazz singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter  follows her long-dead friend, black comedian Bert Williams. Written by Jewelle Gomez and produced by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), which bills itself as New York City’s oldest professional LGBTQ+ theater I had the pleasure of interviewing Hunter when, after working as a nurse for twenty years, she resumed her singing career at the age of 82.

.The Fre February 28 – April 12 The Fre is written by Taylor Mac, and directed by The Flea’s artistic director Niegel Smith, his collaborator on “Hir” and “24 Decade History of Popular Music” and that makes this show a must-see no matter how weird or uncomfortable it winds up being. “In this queer love story, audiences will literally and figuratively jump into the mud with the Fre to hash out the current cultural divide.”

HERE Arts

Doctors Jane and Alexander January 24 – February 15 A new play by Edward Einhorn about his grandfather, Alexander S. Wiener, who discovered the Rh Factor in Blood. Told through the lens of interviews with his mother, Jane Einhorn, a PhD psychologist and visual artist who had recently experienced a stroke at the time of the interviews Nearly everything I’ve seen by Einhorn and his Untitled Theater Company #61 – from Money Lab  to The Iron Heel  to The Neurology of the Soul  has been, as promised, “a theater of ideas” — inventive and intelligent

  The Tank

I Am Nobody March 5 – 29 An unhinged computer chip engineer threatens to destroy the world. What’s most noteworthy about this production is that it’s written by Greg Kotis, the author of arguably the most successful Off-Off Broadway show ever, “Urinetown.”

  Dixon Place 

One of the venues that simply doesn’t offer much advance notice of its shows, almost all of which have short runs. But I’ve lucked out often enough here to feel it more than a coincidence, and I share their interest in puppetry.

Packrat

January 31 – February 14 nspired by the adventure novel “Watership Down,” this multimedia puppet play follows one peculiar rodent on his journey to discover the interconnectedness of life

NYTW Next Door

New York Theater Workshop offers support and the use of the 60-seat Fourth Street Theatre to a wide range of companies.

La Paloma Prisoner

Based on the true story of a group of incarcerated women selected as beauty queen contestants at the Buen Pastor prison in Bogotá, Colombia, the play centers on a woman who avenged the raped women of Bogotá.

The Bushwick Starr

Bushwick has become something of its own cultural center now, but those not in the know should at least know that it’s just a block and a half from the subway.

The Conversationalists January 8 – 25

I was impressed enough with a  previous show by James & Jerome to be drawn to theirnew one despite the confusion engendered by its description: “James & Jerome create an original movie that plays only inside the audience’s minds. This live “movie” is an international melodrama about the triangular friendship (and sometimes enemyship) between a Colombian-born Mexican-raised pop-ranchera star, her teenage son, and a Palestinian-born Jordanian-raised owner of a chess shop in Greenwich Village. The Conversationalists is experienced at once as a theater piece, a concert, a radio play, a night of storytelling, and a movie dreamed together.”

Jack

Best Life In Melissa Tien’s play, a woman of color can rewind time, but only within the last five minutes. The result: her exchange with a white woman in a cafe becomes increasingly alarming

  Among the other Off-Off Broadway theaters worth exploring:

  Ars Nova Although still offering programs at its Off-Off Broadway building in midtown, it has has taken over Greenwich House Theater, which with 199 seats is an Off-Broadway house.

The Brick has a new artistic director with a stated aim of “multi-week theatrical runs and a dynamic line-up of singular one-off events”

The Clemente , a former school building on the Lower East Side that includes three Off-Off Broadway theaters.

The Invisible Dog

Labyrinth Theater

New Ohio Check out their Producers Club series “we invite familiar and new-to-our-orbit companies into the New Ohio for a couple of days to…test their next great idea.” And DirectorFest

New York Live Arts

Target Margin Theater

Triskelion Arts

Theater for the New City

  *Technically, Off-Off Broadway simply means theaters with fewer than 100 seats, but it’s used as a description of companies as well, not just physical buildings. Many of these companies have no permanent home. A recent report issued by the Mayor’s Office Of Media and Entertainment found “748 small venue theater organizations” spread out across the city. **Few Off-Off Broadway companies give much advance notice: For example, one of my favorite Off-Off Broadway theaters, Labyrinth, lists “World Premiere Play TBA Spring/Summer 2020” on its website.  In addition, some venues offer a mix of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway-sized theaters. Most of the venues aren’t producing their own shows, but presenting the work of other companies. So does it even make sense to organize a look at Off-Off Broadway via venues?

Off-Off Broadway Season Preview Guide Two Broadway veterans -- Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" - are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that surprise anybody?

A Superlua, Lua Azul e Lua de Sangue coincidem e teólogos comentam significados bíblicos

Os fenômenos da Superlua, Lua Azul e Lua de Sangue poderão ser coincidentemente vistos no céu nesta quarta-feira (31), em uma junção denominada pela Nasa de “Superlua Azul de Sangue” (Super Blue Blood Moon, em inglês).

O eclipse não será visto no Brasil, com exceção de algumas localidades do extremo norte do país. Portanto, resta à maioria dos brasileiros apenas observar a Superlua, que ocorre quando a Lua cheia está em seu ponto mais perto da Terra (perigeu), quando o satélite aparece no céu cerca de 14% maior e 30% mais brilhante do que no apogeu, quando está mais distante.

Já a Lua Azul — apelido dado à segunda lua cheia que acontece em um mesmo mês — por ser apenas uma referência ao calendário, não tem de fato uma relação com alguma alteração de cor ou aparência do satélite. A Lua de Sangue, no entanto, adquire uma tonalidade avermelhada.

A coincidência da Superlua com um eclipse não acontece desde 1982, segundo o Instituto de Astrofísica das Ilhas Canárias (IAC, sigla em espanhol). Ele poderá ser visto melhor na América do Norte, Oriente Médio, Ásia, Rússia Oriental, Austrália e Nova Zelândia.

Significado espiritual?

Em 2014, uma rara série de quatro luas de sangue que coincidiam com feriados judaicos despertou um intenso interesse pelos cristãos ao redor do mundo. Na época, os pastores americanos John Hagee e Mark Biltz defenderam que estes eram sinais do fim dos tempos.

“Há uma sensação no mundo que as coisas estão mudando e Deus está tentando se comunicar com a gente de uma forma sobrenatural”, disse Hagee ao site CBN News na ocasião.

Na época da tétrade, Hagee declarou que entre 2014 e 2016 algo dramático aconteceria no Oriente Médio envolvendo Israel, “mudando o curso da história e impactar o mundo inteiro”. Alguns argumentam que o reconhecimento de Jerusalém como capital de Israel pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, poderia fazer parte disso.

Na visão do rabino Yosef Berger, que atua no Túmulo do rei Davi, o fenômeno é um sinal para aqueles que são inimigos de Israel. “O Talmude (coletânea de livros sagrados dos judeus) afirma que Israel é julgado por nossas ações, pelo nosso compromisso com Hashem (Deus) e não por sinais astrológicos. De fato, o Talmude afirma que um eclipse lunar é um mau sinal para aqueles que odeiam Israel”, disse ele ao site Breaking Israel News.

Já para o pastor Jack Wellman, de Kansas (EUA), as Luas de Sangue não são sinais apocalípticos. “Nós provavelmente vamos ouvir falar de outras profecias da Lua de Sangue prenunciando um desastre, mas o desastre virá sobre aqueles que tentam usar esta profecia como um sinal certo da volta de Jesus”, disse ele ao site Patheos.

“Não podemos saber o dia, hora ou ano da volta de Jesus, e as Luas de Sangue não podem nos ajudar a saber quando isso vai ocorrer”, ele acrescentou. “O que sabemos, com certeza, é que Ele virá num momento em que ninguém espera, como ‘o senhor daquele servo chegou num dia em que ele não esperava, e numa hora que ele não sabia (Mateus 24:50)’”.

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5 Things You May Have Been Told in Church that are UnBiblical

5 Things You May Have Been Told in Church that are UnBiblical

As Christians, we should be constantly seeking out Truth from the Bible for wisdom, direction, and correction. This involves reading more than just a single verse here and there, but instead diving in deep and searching for the true meaning and context behind a verse. If we are not careful, we can easily create a statement about God that is unbiblical.

Pastor Jack Wellman believes that there are…

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Favorite Memory Essay

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6 Signs Of A Wicked and Hardened Heart By: Pastor Jack Wellman Here are six warning signs of a wicked and hardening heart. No Conviction When a person begins to feel no conviction from sinning, the Spirit may not be as easily recognized next time. When we resist the conviction of the Spirit, it’s like a little tiny callous starts forming over our heart….and the more we grieve the Holy Spirit, the less we’ll feel His telling us to stop and repent of this and then confess it to God. This is very dangerous for someone who’s not a Christian but does believe in God, since, if they fall away “it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them” (2nd Pet 2:21). No Contentment Whenever we start growing discontented with things in life, we are starting to harden our hearts a bit. It’s not that contentment comes naturally, because even the Apostle Paul had to learn contentment and despite beatings, stoning’s, lashes, and imprisonment, he says “I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content” (Phil 4:11). If anyone had a reason to be discontented in life it was Paul but he says, “I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need” (Phil 4:12). He learned it. He made a choice. When discontentment erupts into anger (which in time it will), that’s wickedness in a person’s heart. No Affliction How can we have been redeemed from the pit of hell and then withhold the good news from others is a mystery but some will settle into their pews and not be interested in leaving the church to bring others into the kingdom. The psalmist wrote that “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes” (Psalm 119:71). When we are no longer afflicted by this world’s evil we may be hardening our hearts. For the Psalmist, affliction was for the purpose of his learning God’s statutes because “Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word” (Psalm 119:67). No Tears In many Christian’s lives we have; prayers without tears, giving without sacrifice, living without fasting, profession without persecution, and prosperity without being poor in spirit. All of this while the world goes to hell. If we can’t cry for those who are perishing with tears asking God to save them, then we care more about ourselves than others. Notice I said “we” since I am not immune either. No Brokenness God says that He is close to those who are brokenhearted and the contrite of heart. Psalm 34:18 says, “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” God cannot fix what is first not broken and cannot fill us if we are full of ourselves. No Humility God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, so says James (4:6) but the Greek word for opposed is “to range in battle with” or to “be at war with” so if you read James 4:6 for the way it reads in the Greek, it says “God is at war with the proud” and who wants to be at war with God? Not me! Yes, if we are full of pride, we are more like Satan than God because Satan’s pride caused him to rebel against God and our hearts are wicked if we live a life of pride. Conclusion God says through Jeremiah the Prophet that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it” (Jer 17:9) but God can give us a heart of flesh and take out the heart of stone. A fleshly heart is more pliable and easier to penetrate, which is just what God wants to do, but if you or someone you know starts losing the conviction of the Spirit, grows in discontentment, never afflicts themselves over their sin, never sheds a tear in prayer or for others to be saved, no brokenness, and a lack of humility, it’s time to get on your (and my) knees and repent, ask for forgiveness, and find your satisfaction in Christ. If Jesus is all you have…you have all you need.

by Jack Wellman | Why should the sovereignty of God comfort us in times of trouble? What is Sovereignty? Why should the sovereignty of God comfort us in times of trouble? To begin with, God is in complete control of all things…good and bad. We too have free will just as God does but God has planned...

“Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God’s formula for success.” —Erwin Lutzer

Because we are imperfect humans and not perfect robots, we all have failures sometimes. Friend, if you are human and not a robot and you have failures, God loves you and He will help you get back on your feet! Here are “4 Reasons Failure’s Not Final” by Jack Wellman:

1. Failure Leads to Success

Failure can lead to success if one never gives up. Or failure can lead to giving up, and success will never come. The most famous inventors are those who accomplish great feats but usually through failed attempts. Thomas Edison was never discouraged when asked how many times he’d failed at making a working lightbulb. He simply used these failures to show what wouldn’t work to discover what finally would.

2. Failure Eliminates

When Thomas Edison was trying to invent a working lightbulb, he failed over a thousand times; but he never gave up. He must have thought the very next try might bring success. If he had given up, then it might have taken dozens of years for someone else to invent the lightbulb. Perseverance paid off for Thomas Edison because he used failure as a staircase, and each failure was a step closer to success.

3. Failure’s Not Final

When we see biblical figures fail in the Bible, we notice that their failure is never final. We learn more from defeat or failure than we could ever learn from success or everything going our way. Success is born in the furnace of adversity, and so often failure leads to the next attempt and the next until success finally comes. Failure is never fatal or final; failure brings us just that much closer to accomplishing something great for God, if we don’t give up.

4. True Failure

Real failure occurs when someone stops trying altogether because if they’re not even trying or they give up, then failure is inevitable. No success ever came from simply giving up. Look at all the human accomplishments in history and you will see the pattern of those who never gave up. But the surest way to fail is to just quit.

Conclusion

Pastor Erwin Lutzer said, “Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God’s formula for success,” which means you and me in whatever we are trying to accomplish. Look at failure as your friend. It is pointing you back to seek another solution until success finally comes.”

The Bible talks a lot about heaven, and as believers, it’s a place that we all dream about and look forward to. Christians throughout the centuries have written about heaven – that glorious place where God lives and where one day we will join Him...

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by Jack Wellman | To begin with, let’s ask this question: Why did Jesus have to come and be born in the flesh? Couldn’t He have just come straight from heaven as the Son of God? Apparently not because this was the only way we could ever “meet” God face to face and...

by Jack Wellman | It’s easy to slide into complacency in the Christian faith, but how can we avoid turning into a lukewarm Christian? Sin is compared to yeast in the Bible because it puffs up and enlarges the lump, but yeast works best in, guess what…lukewarm water! It’s the same thing that sin does in the believer when we’re lukewarm for Jesus Christ and holy living...