Christ, Constitution, & Capitalism vs. Secularism, Statism, & Socialism (Part 1)
Pastor Bass compares and contrasts the state of our spiritual life, political life, and economic life in the way it was founded; Christ for the spirit, the Constitution for the political, and Capitalism for the economy, for what we’ve traded it; Secularism for the spirit, Statism for the political, and Socialism for the economy.
April 12, 2015
Christ, Constitution, & Capitalism vs. Secularism, Statism, & Socialism (Part 2)
Pastor Bass continues his series on our spiritual, political, and economic life.
April 26, 2015
The Libertarian Agenda: The Wrong Agenda
Pastor Bass unfolds that while Libertarians espouse much with which Christians can agree, like fiscal responsibility and a strong defense, we must part ways with them on social issues. A constitutional republic depends upon a strong moral ethic for its survival and our founders presumed a Christian moral ethic as its standard.
May 10, 2015
Christ, the Desire of the Nations
Pastor Bass shows that one day all nations will acknowledge what they now deny: That Jesus Christ is Lord of all nations – and this by right of creation, redemption, and inheritance.
May 24, 2015
Spiritual Change Precedes Political and Cultural Change
Pastor Bass unfolds the absolute necessity of the reformation of the American spiritual landscape before any true political and cultural return to constitutional principles occurs. This was true in our past during revivals and awakenings and must and will happen again – Lord willing!
June 7, 2015
Christianity and Islam: Whom Do I Worship?
Pastor Bass compares Christianity and Islam by 1st asking: Who is it I am to worship? Detail is given to the origins of respective Scriptures, messengers, and deities. In particular the God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran are compared and contrasted.
June 21, 2015
Christianity and Islam: How Am I Saved?
Pastor Bass compares Christianity and Islam by secondly asking: How Am I Saved? He examines how both religions account for why we need to be saved and the means and mode of salvation offered by each.
July 5, 2015
Christianity and Islam: What are My Fruits?
Pastor Bass compares Christianity and Islam by thirdly asking: What are My Fruits? Every religion bears real spiritual fruit, i.e., actions prompted by its internal principles motivating the heart.
July 19, 2015
The Crusades: A Monument to Myth, (Part 1)
Pastor Bass explodes the myths propagated by our society concerning the Crusades. These include the Crusades were launched by warmongering Christians against a peaceful Muslim people, the Crusaders were bent upon conquest and colonies, and Jews and Muslims were better off under Islam than the Crusader Kingdom.
August 2, 2015
The Crusades: A Monument to Myth, (Part 2)
Pastor Bass continues to explode the blithe myths believed and perpetuated by our society about the Crusades. The last 2 include the so-called atrocities of the Crusaders that far exceeded anything done by the Muslims and that the Crusades violated every standard of Christianity and its founder, Jesus Christ.
August 16, 2015
Why Should we as American Christians Oppose the Gay Agenda
Pastor Bass brings 3 arguments opposing the gay agenda: First, a theological argument (which one might expect a pastor to make), secondly a demographic argument, and thirdly a cultural argument.
August 30, 2015
The Pedophile Agenda: Coming in the Wake of the Gay Agenda
Pastor Bass articulates the Progressive/Marxist method for revolution, the dialectical method with particular application to the pedophile agenda. It is following the same pattern of acceptance pioneered by the gay agenda and both movements are intended to destroy the traditional family.
September 13, 2015
Church History: The Mormon Teaching of The Great Apostasy
Pastor Bass takes up the Mormon doctrine of The Great Apostasy of the church. He makes 3 points: There is much biblical/historical evidence to the contrary, apostasy-restoration is a favorite tactic of sectarians and heretics, and upon LDS premises there is no assurance that the same thing has not happened to the LDS church.
September 27, 2015
Church History: The Modern Evangelical Neglect and Contempt for History
Pastor Bass articulates the pitfalls and dangers for evangelicals of living in ignorance of Church History. These include a discussion of the presuppositions we bring, the lack of appreciation for who and what has gone before, and the danger of repeating the mistakes of history when we refuse to learn from it.
October 11, 2015
The Ten Most Important Events in Church History
October 25, 2015
Border and the Beast
Pastor Bass provides a model for how John intended the Book of Revelation to be interpreted and applied for our generation – in this case the Beast from the land and the Red Dragon from chapters 12 & 13. The text is interpreted and applied to our current circumstances.
November 8, 2015
The Rapture of the Church and the Rupture of Eschatology
Pastor Bass compares and contrasts what the Church has always taught concerning the Rapture and what the recent innovations are to it made by dispensational premillennialists in the doctrine of the pretribulation rapture. Various texts, exegetical methods, and doctrinal histories are carefully examined.
November 22, 2015
Lesson #666… oh-oh!
Pastor Bass compares and contrasts the interpretations of the identification of the Beast of Revelation 13 (and his further clarification in 17) that have been offered by dispensational premillennialists and the classic view of the church through history. This includes the ominous number 666!
December 6, 2015