The Sentinel Watch

When I first joined a Pentecostal church, I was taught along with others that if we prayed really hard, God would tell us the person we are to marry. We hear many stories about how God told this brother or that sister who their life partner would be. There was this brother I was close to that told us that God had shown him the lady he would marry. After all was said and done the parents of the girl swore he won't marry their daughter. After a while the brother told us that God had shown him a different girl would be his wife. To end the story he married none of those two girls. There was also this sister who ran to a brother in the church yard after a Sunday morning service and planted a kiss on his lips in full view of the entire church membership as they emptied the church auditorium. When queried as to why she had done such an abominable act,  she retorted that God had revealed to her that the brother was her husband. The brother got so pissed that he never looked at her again. ...

Religious pluralism and ecumenism teaches that every religion is a valid way to God. Hence, no religion should be criticized and their followers proselytized. The Bible however is not in bed with religious pluralism and if you claim it as the word of God, you should know that Christianity has no equal when it come to revealing the heart of the Father.  Jesus said that if you confess me before men, I will confess you before my father and the Holy angels. Of what good is such a confession if we confess him only in our Christian homes and congregations ? Aren't we supposed to confess him before those who resist him and make it crystal clear to them that he is the only way to life eternal ?  Should we keep quiet for fear for our lives ? Did Jesus keep quiet when they picked stones to kill him ? Did the apostles keep quiet when the Sanhedrin threatened them with death never to speak the name of Jesus again ? Did Stephen keep quiet as the stones sucked his life away ? Did Paul rearr...

But honestly it's better to go clean the street gutters than to stay in a room and sing songs with no Christ filled doctrinal content. Some of the songs are: 1. No so we de hail you oh. Who are you hailing ?  I saw some soldiers hailing their commander with the same song. It could be your village chief or even your friend. My point there is no way for anyone to know who you're hailing because the song doesn't tell. 2. We go de hail hail your name day by day.  Whose name are you hailing ? What name are you hailing ? The song doesn't say. Everybody is left to imagine for himself the name you are hailing. It could be Mohammed, Baal, Allah, or even Marduk or Isis you're hailing. 3. Ah ah ah komole. Sincerely I have no idea what this one means. If you know, please enlighten me. All the people I've asked didn't know what it means. But they always jump out of their seats when this song is raised. Well I know that they don't jump to the meaning of the words....

According to some people who believe coming to Christ should change our social status,  the early church certainly got it wrong as the social status of the slaves in their midst didn't change as they remained slaves after coming to Christ.  Paul himself sent Onesimus who was a runaway slave back to Philemon his master. He even promised to pay Philemon whatever Onesimus owned him. Paul wrote instructions in his epistles encouraging Christians who were slaves to obey their masters. Which one is worse ? Being poor or being a slave ? I would rather be poor than being a slave. The believers were slaves and Paul and Peter didn't tell them that they had been free from slavery by the death of Jesus on the cross ? Actually some were even worse. They were slaves and they were poor. Can anyone go lower than that socially ? Yet there is no single verse in scripture that says that Jesus paid for their slavery and that they were now free ? The apostles instead of telling them of their fr...

Kris Vallotton is an associate of the highly charismatic false teacher, Bill Johnson of Bethel Church. The church has been feeding spiritual poison to the world since its inception. It’s known for its false manifestations of the Holy Spirit–that which it calls “glory clouds.” They also practice the spiritually dangerous practice of “grave sucking,” where one lays on the grave of a dead person to literally “suck” the “anointing” out of them. In a recent video, Vallotton actually suggests that because he can lay hands on people to heal them (he can’t), that he could also lay hands on cars to fix them, and that God even “tells him” what things are broken on the vehicles when he lays hands on them.

Listen to a discussion about eternal security and you’ll eventually hear this question: “Are you saying that since we’re secure as Christians, we can do whatever we want to?” It’s the “once saved, always saved” idea that says, once you are saved, you’re saved no matter how you may behave. But the question really misunderstands the biblical teaching about our sin and God’s grace in our lives. Pursuing Godliness Christians have struggled over the years with the best way to deal with sin in their lives. That struggle has produced unbiblical doctrines that promise to “aid” Christians along with their own endeavors to obtain personal godliness. Perhaps you have encountered some of them. One of the more notorious false doctrines is perfectionism. It’s the belief that we can obtain perfect sinlessness in this life. In his book,  The Vanishing Conscience , John MacArthur describes the dangers of Christian perfectionism, Church history is littered with examples of sects and factions...

Have you heard of Grave Sucking? Can the  Word of Faith  hyper-charismatic crowd get any more bizarre? What is with this new  occult  sounding practice often referred to as  grave sucking ? When I first heard of grave sucking I assumed it must be a joke.  Surely no one would buy into something so silly.  Well my friends, this is for real.  Grave sucking or mantle grabbing is the belief and practice of pulling the supposed Holy Spirit powers from the dead bones of a previously empowered believer.  It is taught that when a Spirit empowered individual dies their mantle or mission dies with them.  In other words God’s mission for that believer was thwarted when that believer died. “ There are anointings , mantles, revelations and mysteries that have lain unclaimed, literally where they were left because the generation that walked in them never passed them on . I believe it’s possible for us to recover realms...