We live in an age of disinformation, a time when nothing can be trusted, when all information is to be treated with suspicion. It is an age marked by rumor, conjecture, opinion, and bias, a time of both conspiracy and theory. Christians have claimed for 2,000 years to know the truth, but what happens when the foundations of the faith entrusted to the church are being compromised from within? How is such a situation identified, and what are we to do in response?
Jude, the servant (and half brother) of Christ, is concerned with these very issues. Within the first generation of churches, peddlers of disinformation had wormed their way into positions of leadership among the people of God. These wolves in shepherd’s clothing claimed to offer the Good News, while offering something else altogether. Jude was not content to allow this to happen, and Christians today must heed his warnings.
The Fake News is a call for the church of today to contend for the faith entrusted to it, to stand guard and defend it, working to strengthen its faith while trusting in the keeping power of God. The greatest threat today is not persecution of the truth from without, but perversion of the truth from within.
Series Playlist
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Contending for the Faith
Jan 29, 2023 • 51:17
We live in an age of disinformation. But there is one place that you can go to for Truth—a place that the world, and even many who call themselves Christians, will tell you cannot be trusted. It is the Word of God, for the people of God. Thanks be to…
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Sound the Alarm!
Feb 5, 2023 • 52:51
The greatest threat to the church today is not persecution of the faith from without, but perversion of the faith within. Only belief in the Christ of the Scriptures and perseverance in the truth of the good news of God has the power to save. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Fake…
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The True Gospel
Feb 12, 2023 • 45:38
To turn from the Scriptures is to turn from God himself. Therefore, the place the Bible holds among the hierarchies of authority in your life has very real implications for your eternal destiny. Salvation itself rests upon the integrity of the gospel’s truth and its transforming impact upon your life.…
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The Keeping Power of God
Feb 19, 2023 • 1:04:47
We are living in hard times, but take heart: Jude’s letter may be marked by the presence of passion, but it is also marked by the absence of panic. God is still at work, in control, and He who is in you is greater than he who is in the…
“And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.” (Acts 2:44, NLT)
The story of Advent is the story of light and life coming to darkness and death. It is the story of a good, faithful God and his plans to rescue and redeem that which has been lost. After centuries of silence, he speaks. And when he does, what happens is amazing. His word does not come to the halls of power or to the appointed sovereign leaders of the world, but through a voice crying out in the wilderness.
C.S. Lewis famously once wrote, “When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.” He was referring to, of course, the second coming of Jesus Christ. It will be an event unparalleled in all of human history, and it will be a time of consequence. As Lewis notes, “It will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not.”
There is a burning desire in the heart of God to bring the nations to himself. It isn’t because he in any way needs something outside of himself to be complete. It is because God himself is love—persons in perfect communion. From the very nature of his being he has created all things and invites humanity into the joy he offers and is.
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