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Egalitarians harm ministries and marriages by pushing women into pastoral roles and calling biblical marriage oppressive

Everything Women Can and Can't Do According to the Bible： Women in Ministry part 13

Pastoral warning: there are people who think they know Christ but do not — James 2 is a wake-up call, not a condemnation

The Debate Over James 2： Catholic or Protestant View

Q&A: can someone have saving faith yet commit murder? — Mike argues sin is not binary; Jesus elevated even hatred and lust to the level of murder and adultery

The Debate Over James 2： Catholic or Protestant View

Sin damages the relational walk with God for believers without severing salvation; New Testament epistles urge repentance precisely because ongoing sin harms fellowship.

Are Some Sins Worse Than Others？ Please don't get this wrong!

Q&A: 'Forgive and forget' is imprecise; forgiveness is unilateral but restoration of relationship requires the other person's repentance and change.

A Calm and Biblical View of Anger

Q&A: Anger at oneself often masks avoidance of personal accountability — treating oneself as a victim of one's own actions.

A Calm and Biblical View of Anger

The real offense of the gospel is not Jesus' love but Jesus' holiness — and that is what must be proclaimed

Lauren Daigle and the Homosexuality Question

Definition of repentance: turning from one direction to another

Ben Shapiro, a Catholic Bishop and the Gospel.

Abortion and slavery — both involve culturally hardened consciences that must be awakened; the church must keep speaking

Why Every Pro-Choice Argument Fails

Call to repentance for those who have had or supported abortions — women were often deceived by dishonest medical language; the gospel offers forgiveness

Why Every Pro-Choice Argument Fails

Nicene and Apostles' Creed: Mike affirms them but would add content on repentance

Live Q&A - Theology, Apologetics and The Christian Life

Repentance functions in both justification and sanctification

Live Q&A - Theology, Apologetics and The Christian Life

Ezekiel 18:23: God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked

Steven Anderson vs The Biblical Gospel

2 Peter 3:9: God is patient, not wishing any to perish but all to come to repentance

Steven Anderson vs The Biblical Gospel

The Christian message is not targeting homosexuality but all behavior against God

Steven Anderson vs The Biblical Gospel

Anderson teaches that preaching repentance is a false gospel

Steven Anderson vs The Biblical Gospel

Q&A: Sin unto death in 1 John 5 — physical death (unrepentant sin) or spiritual death (apostasy)

Did God Create Evil？ A Misunderstood Bible Verse： Isaiah 45_7

Q&A: 2 Corinthians 7:10 — godly grief vs. worldly grief, applied to lust

My Ministry Update and Q&A

Closing exhortation: Be the tortoise, not the hare

My Ministry Update and Q&A

2 Peter 3:9 — God is not willing that any should perish but that all should reach repentance

Responding to Calvinist Arguments for Limited Atonement

God's wrath and love can both be directed at the same person simultaneously

Why God's Wrath is Good

2 Peter 3:9 — God delays judgment because He desires all to repent

Why God's Wrath is Good

Ezekiel 33:11 — God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked

Why God's Wrath is Good

Ezekiel 18:31 — God urges Israel to make new hearts and turn from wickedness

Why God's Wrath is Good

God's wrath is meant to drive people to Jesus

Why God's Wrath is Good

Revelation 19 — the saints praise God for His judgment; wrath is recognized as good

Why God's Wrath is Good

Q&A: Did Judas Iscariot commit the unforgivable sin?

Did Jesus Die on a Cross or a Stake？ Here's the Evidence.

Q&A: Does Matthew 11:21-22 (Tyre and Sidon) challenge Calvinism?

Stop Saying All Roads Lead to God!

Baptism represents identification with the death and resurrection of Christ — Romans 6:3-4

A Biblical Analysis of Infant Baptism

Acts 2:38 — baptism is commanded alongside repentance, ruling out infants; "for your children" means descendants not infants

A Biblical Analysis of Infant Baptism

Repentance from lust should be immediate; do not delay until emotional relief arrives

How You Can Know and Show Christianity Is True (Understanding Apologetic Methodology)

Pastoral counsel for Christians with habitual sin: radical repentance, not patchwork solutions

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 2)

1 John 5:16-17: sin leading to death likely refers to physical death, not Catholic mortal/venial sin distinction

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 2)

Lordship salvation: repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin, not moral prerequisites for merit

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 11)

Pluck out your eye (Matthew 5:29) vs. having an advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1)

Subscriber Hangout and Q&A - LIVE!

Revival is biblical; Mike defines it as significant corporate repentance and walking rightly with God, not primarily as an outpouring of spectacular spiritual gifts.

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 14)

Was Solomon saved? Ecclesiastes may imply a late-life repentance and return to God despite idolatrous period

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 20)

Christians must stop following those who prophesied falsely about 2020; those prophets should repent and abandon their prophetic status

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 22)

Q20: Do we need to feel bad for sin when we repent, or is knowing it is wrong enough? Feeling is healthy but not required — emotions are the caboose of the train

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 22)

Lines Mike will not cross for ecumenism: false gospel and sexual ethics compromise

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 23)

Ministry in strip clubs: evangelism principles and personal holiness

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 19)

Self-hatred often functions as a mismanagement of guilt — projecting sin onto an "other self" to adopt victim mentality instead of genuine repentance.

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 28)

What to do to be saved (Romans 10:9): (1) "Believe in your heart" = intellectual belief PLUS reliance/trust (Greek pisteuo = entrust). Know the resurrection is true AND rely on Christ for salvation. (2) "Confess Jesus is Lord" = honest commitment to his authority, not just saying words. Lordship means he's your boss, king, authority. Repentance = turning from rebellion to yielding to God.

How to Get Saved

Mike leads a salvation prayer: admitting sin, believing in Jesus's death and resurrection, confessing him as Lord, thanking God for forgiveness, asking to be filled with the Spirit to walk in new life. He emphasizes the prayer is a step of faith — salvation comes from the heart posture, not the words themselves.

How to Get Saved

Can someone who unjustly divorced, repented, but whose ex has remarried, now marry someone else? Yes — the previous marriage is clearly over both legally and morally once the ex has remarried. The wrongly-divorcing party has repented. The alternatives (permanent singleness as unforgivable punishment, or pretending the marriage still exists) don't make biblical sense.

Answering Your Questions and Push-Back on My Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

Todd White's refusal to call people to repentance — arguing that is the Holy Spirit's job — is critiqued using Revelation 22:17: 'the Spirit and the bride say come,' showing the bride (the church) also calls people to Christ.

Fake Healing Videos Evaluated： Todd White, Tom Fischer and more

Camping's public repentance: he acknowledged he should never have predicted the end; Mike grants measured respect for this

End of the World Predictions and Why They're Wrong

Q&A: Can someone who made false prophecies be restored to vocational ministry after genuine repentance?

End of the World Predictions and Why They're Wrong

Repentance restores relationship with God, not salvific status; analogy of marriage reconciliation

Skeptics Wrongly Claim Apostle Paul Didn’t Know Jesus

Should two Christians who fornicated marry? — Consider it, but do not treat marriage as a required patch on the sin

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 4)

In Jesse Morrell’s article here are some of the areas that he has gotten wrong. Under II. Why homosexuals say that they are born that way: > A. If the fault is their nature, and not their choice, the...

Mara, great response. Words have set meanings and always will. Do you use a dictionary? I reckon you do like me when I am not sure of a word’s meaning. All sin is henious and will reap the wrath ...

So sorry, Kerryn I hadn’t realized that I didn’t get to your questions. You said: > “Once we start ‘judging’ sin into different categories i think we can get ourselves into trouble. Are you saying t...

Cheryl I am digesting your very interesting teaching here… I guess just as Jesus was born with a sign of sin in his body to identify with sinful humanity … so too he chose to be identified with us ...

Hello Dennis, Thanks for stopping by and providing your comments. You said: > “Moore does not mean (nor does anyone one else I know who uses the terms “spiritual warfare”) that this is an in-hous...

I believe a person can be a believer and also be a Roman Catholic, an Eastern Orthodox, a Evangelical, or a Messianic Jew; yet these groups believe some very different things and even they are not mon...

Ryan, Thanks son for the reminder that dealing with Christians is sometimes akin to skillfully dealing with the cults where you must win them to truth in a loving and non-combative way. I do have to ...

The (mostly) redundant 2nd hesuchia would tie these ideas together into one thought. The basic thought is “The woman/wife must be allowed to learn, while doing this she is not to teach.” Hy and Al a...

FWIW, Cheryl, I learned in counseling that the crises are the opportunites for the greatest growth and progress; and that the furnace gets really hot before the breakthrough. The crises in my marriage...

I believe that what John is writing about is the fruit of practiced sin. In other words this is the habit that one practices i.e. one practices hatred and therefore unforgiveness. A true Christian may...

> Men are to set the example in spiritual leadership—in their lives and through their words. I pulled this quote out of one of HPK’s posts. I was looking for the fruit that followed from this poster ...

As a learning experience for all, I would like to copy from a blog that Happy Promise Keeper was “happy” to also dive bomb. Notice the common words about “God led” him to leave the post? The following...

Cheryl, I just read that recent post on Bayly’s blog about Carolyn Custis James and Suzanne’s comments. Lord have mercy! Suzanne held it down, truly! You go, Sister Sue! I’ve never read so much arrog...

Don, While I can see “tender” is a by-product of circumcision, I think there is a much greater application concerning what is **cut off** not what is left. This is why I believe very strongly that t...

MetalWolf, Amen! You are also one brave soul. I pray for many more like yourself who will openly call CARM “higher ups” to task for their un-Christlike attitude. When we call people like this to acc...

Psalmist, Thank you! I have a strong desire for truth and this kind of disrespectful talk needs to be accounted for by those who think it okay to treat other Christians this way. When will it stop? I...

Exegetist, What you said was the truth and not a lie. In over two years of history on this blog only once did a name come up (“christdependent”) from CARM’s discussion board and it was only regarding...

***This is a very serious matter and must be addressed so that there can be repentance and turning away from this bad behavior and forgiveness.  How many more precious sisters in Christ will be hurt b...

Hi Don, > ” The lot was an accepted way to make decisions and besides being random it might mean they voted.” While the “lot” was an accepted way to make decisions in the OT, it is not shown to be a...

Truthseeker. Thanks for the welcome. When I came to the Lord I was a research physicist with a very scientific world view. This was back when Bill Gothard was starting out—I knew him personally. I w...