What kind of follower of Jesus will you be?  Will you be led astray by the lying preachers and politicians in our day, or will you take a stand and speak out against the corruption and deceit in our churches and our nation? What legacy will you leave behind? For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Confronting the wickedness of Israel’s king, Elijah announces the inevitable judgment that will come to Ahab and his family. While the other so-called prophets in the land were busy sucking up to Ahab, Elijah wasn’t afraid to confront this wicked leader. Are you willing to do the same? For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Moses expressed his desire that all God’s people would be prophets. Jesus answered Moses when he promised his disciples that they would be talked about, lied about, and rejected like “the prophets before you.” If you are one who clearly sees the spiritual drought in the wayward church of our day, you are a prophet. Stand tall. Speak out. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Elijah expected immediate results after the fire fell on Mount Carmel. Instead, Queen Jezebel vows to end his life. Questions and doubts fill the prophets heart and mind. He takes those doubts to God. And God honors Elijah’s transparency and vulnerability. He will do the same for you. Don’t walk away from it all. Take your anger, pain, doubts, and questions to God. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

The confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal is a turning point in this great story. The drought will end, the rains will fall, and God’s Living Word will return. It won’t be all at once. In fact, it will be a process that takes several years. But it begins when one man courageously confronts the source of spiritual drought among his people. Do you have the courage to confront the spiritual drought in today’s church? For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Ahab called Elijah a troublemaker. And so he was! Today’s comfortable, drought-stricken church needs more troublemakers. More followers of Jesus who refuse to go along with the crowd. More willing to question the authority of leaders whose track record in our day demonstrates how far from the way of Jesus they have fallen. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Carrying a dead Gentile boy up to his room wasn’t exactly kosher for a Jewish prophet. Neither was placing that boy on his bed and laying his body over the boy’s dead body. Clearly prohibited according to God’s Word in Leviticus. But mercy trumps sacrifice, and religious rule keeping contradicts the love of God demonstrated so clearly in Jesus. We need more rule breakers in today’s church. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

Jesus’s parable of the “Good Samaritan” is not unique. It is anchored in the teaching of Scripture. God sends Elijah to Zarephath, the stronghold of Baal worship, to be cared for by a Gentile widow with an orphan. When Jesus implied that this was because there were no widows in Israel with this kind of faith, his fellow members in the synagogue at Nazareth tried to push him off a cliff. The more things change . . . For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

“The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.” These are the words of Jesus to the Roman politician, Pilate. Pilate responded cynically, “What is truth?” In these days of alternative facts and conspiracy theories, of high paid lawyers who know how to “work” the system, Pilate’s question makes a lot of sense. But truth can be found for those who seek it. We just have to know where to look. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=

I’ll be back. Until then just read the Book. That’s not what Jesus said, but you wouldn’t know it by the way many teach in today’s American church. The worship of the Bible has replaced the worship of God. God’s Living Word is desperately needed. For more from Dan check out his website, medium articles, and books at: www.danarmistead.com www.medium.com/church-on-the-edge https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Armistead/e/B08HY8JLVF/ref=