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By Pastor Steven Wenner of St. Paul's Bible Church.
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Book of Jude Quick Reference guide.  The book of Jude deals with the nature of false teachers and how we as Christians are to respond to them.  There is not a more needed message for the Church, because wolves have slipped into the Church and are denying the only Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  They are turning the grace in to a license for immorality.  More than ever we need to "contend for the faith once for all handed to the saints."  As Jude warns us we must take seriously the certainty of the coming Judgment and snatch people from the fire.


How do I know that I am a genuine Christian?  This is an article that I wrote for our Churches newsletter that deals with the issue of assurance of salvation. 

 

Moral Issues.


Statement on Biblical Sexuality                                                                                                                     This statement was drawn up by Don Nelson (Pastor of Beverly Evangelical Covenant Church) and me in response to compromise that was happing in our area over the issue of Homosexuality.  The statement is written in the form of a creed and it deal with a total Biblical world view on the nature of salvation and sanctification, and their relationship to sexual issues.  Our prayer is that you may find this as a useful resource.

 

     Penguin Baptism

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Passion Week A paper that gives the chronology of the final week of Christ's life beginning on Friday.  Each event is broken down for each day.  Use this as a refection tool as you prepare for Easter.

 

Eschatology: Post-Trib and Pre-Millennial


Left Behind?

 

My Eschatology Chart

 

Is The Olivet Discourse for the Church? Yes!!


Does the Bible Teach Pre-Trib?  A Biblical examination of the arguments for the Pre-Trib rapture of the church.


ChartMy Prophecy seminar in a HTML Format with explanations






My Mahdi Watch Page
My site to track various information that I find on the Mahdi.  Any articles that interests me I post on this page.

Other’s Writings on this site .


Hackberry House      This is Bob Faulkner's Hackberry House web site. Hackberry house has a variety of teaching available.  Topics such as: the Roman Catholic Church, Eschatology, Apologetics, and much much more.  You will find this a wealth of information that you will enjoy digging through.  Much of Bob's Stuff is available on sermon audio web site at www.sermonaudio.com then look under Bob Falkner's name.  He has almost 300 audio files available.

 

triumph coverTriumph Through Tribulation by Dr. Norman Spurgeon MacPherson  This is Dr. Norman Spurgeon MacPherson’s brilliant doctoral dissertation where he assesses 20 Pre-Trib. arguments for a two coming view.  He clearly shows that the Bible only teaches one coming and Christ and that coming is Post-Trib.   Very well reasoned and powerfully presented.  You will be thoroughly blessed by this book.  Dr. MacPherson is the father of Dave MacPherson who wrote The Incredible Cover-up (Omega), The Rapture Plot (Millennium III), and The Three R's (Millennium III)” (All of these books are good research on the origins and teachings of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture view).   I was given permission from his two son’s Bruce and Dave MacPherson to post his book on my site. 

 

 

Tells us CoverTell It Like It Will Be  This is a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) version of Dr. MacPherson’s book, written in 1970, calling the Church to be biblical and humble in interpretation and  warns of the danger of dogmatism and pride.   In this book he gives a wonderful explanation of the terms and signs of the second advent with some very passionate application at the end of the book.   Post-Trib and Pre-Mil a good read and a great resource enjoy. 


More Thoughts from a  Post-Tribulational Author  by Dr. Norman MacPherson


Dave MacPherson's Stuff  This is some papers written by Dave MacPherson author of books on the origin of the Pretrib rapture.   Why I believe in the Post-trib rapture, Origins of the Pre-Trib rapture theory, who was Margret MacDonald, and a long list of Post Tribs. 


The Blessed Hope
I think the author of this is Dave MacPherson's but it may be his dad.
 

Prophecy Stuff of intrest

Blessed Hope "The Blessed Hope"George Eldon Ladd Classic Ladd.    "The Blessed Hope" it is still available and is in print from Eerdmans.  It is a must for any Eschatology library.  I challenge any Pre-Tribbers to read and refute what Ladd has to say.  I would love to see it.  I think that Pre-Tribbers have ignored Ladd rather than reading his book and trying refute it.    Ladd is the one of the foremost New Testament Scholars of our time his "A Theology of the New Testament" is still considered to be on of the greatest works on the subject. 

 

Tribulation or Rapture--Which? Oswald J. Smith describes his conversion from Pre to Post Trib must read!!!

 

The Second Advent Bishop J.C. Ryle   This is a dynamite article by one of Evangelicalisms great leaders!!! Thoroughly Pre-Mil and Post Trib and Futurist, one of the most impassioned pleas to see and look forward to the coming Messianic kingdom.  A great article to give to your A-Mil and Post-Mil friends.


Every Eye--
Check out this great Flash presentation about the second coming called Every Eye. 

 

 

Eschatology Links

 

EscatalogyProvidence Baptist Ministries- Eschatology Page  Many great historic books and articles on eschatology.  

 


lasttrumpetLast Trumpet.com
Tim Warner has some excellent articles on Post-Trib issues.  I have found his writing very helpful.





lastdaysminsitries logoLast Days Mystery is a great site with a lot of good Post-Trib stuff.   I was very impressed with the content the first time I rolled onto the site.   Richard Perry has done a stellar Job of  research and presentation.


lastdays.infoLastday.info is a site with a lot of great post-trib stuff.  I am thrilled with the proliferation of Posties on the Internet.  Randy Loudenslager has put together a great site with a lot of information on end times plus news and information. 

 

Sola Scriptura Ministries End Times pages.  This site has end times writing by the my Old Professor at Moody Charles Cooper who was fired from Moody for differing from the "historical tradition" of the school of being Pre-Trib.  Charles Cooper was the best hermeneutics professor that I had and I loved him as a teacher. 

 

Biblical Studies Rev. Fred Zaspel  Has some excellent articles on Theology and I have appreciated the few articles that I have read by him on the topic of Eschatology.  He has a very thought provoking article on Daniel’s seventh week.


RichardsonJoel's Trumpet is a great site on Islam and Bible prophecy.  Joel has many iformative articles that are in the news that show "The Islamic Predominance of the Last-Days: An Emerging Paradiam"



Ralph Stice's messages on Islam and Bible Prophecy.

Ralph Stice Message 1
Ralph Stice Message 2


*Islamic Links*


podProphet of Doom:  Craig Winn's great  and wonderful book on the nature of Islam.  this book is a must read, because he is one of the few authors that deals in detail with the source documents of Islam.  This book is free and available on the Internet for download.


jihad WatchJihad Watch:  Robert Spenser's wonderful site that keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the world with Jihad.  He lists every news event that he finds it has to do with Jihad.  It is a great site to be up-to-date as far as what is happening with Islam.


End of Times Watch out for Al Mahdi!!! You are not going to believe what you are reading.  This is not a Christian site but is Islamic.    I was surprised to find the Muslims have a fully developed escatalogy and this site has much information on what they believe is going to happen.   What surprised me is that Al Mahdi sounds a lot like the Antichrist.  Check it out.  Not many Christians have covered this information.   If you don't believe that this belief is what is driving the Middle east today then just do a google search of "Mahdi".

Psalm 83   A Presenation  of Psalm 83 which is a prayer for  the salvation and protection of Isreal against their enemies.  Check it out.

Favorite Web Sites 

 

www.biblegateway. < all>You can read and hear Audio versions of almost any translation of the Bible. 


www.ccel.org  A site with Classical Christian books free to download.  They have the complete 38 volume of Church fathers.

OnLine Bible My favorite Bible software the best part it is free to download.  Modern version can be purchased as well.   I have been using their software since the dos days. 

www.desiringgod. < all>Site of John Piper pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Hall of Church HistoryCheck out the Hall of Church history.   A great resource for study!



Mozilla Do you want a better web browser for free try Mozilla Foxfire, much better than IE.



Open office--Are you tired of paying hundreds for an office suite try open office it is a free office suite that is completely compatible with Microsoft Office. 

 


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This is my Family at Mt . Rushmore.  My wife's name is Kelly and we have 4 children; Zachary, Janelle, Grace, and Nathan.   Kelly, formally Kelly Davis, and I were married in 1991 after meeting at Moody Bible Institute. She was a swimmer on a full scholarship at Miami University in Oxford Oh, and came to Moody to get one year of Bible training in order to be a  missionary.  Well she met me in the first semester and God called her to be a pastors wife instead, praise God!!!  I came to Moody after spending 4 years in the United States Marine Corps as an Avionics Technician.   I became the pastor of St. Paul's Bible Church in August 2001.  St. Paul's is an Interdemoninational Bible believing fellowship in  the Beverly Hills Neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.   My goal is that we would search the scriptures together and see if the things that we have been taught line up with the scriptures.   If you have any
questions please e-mail me at swenner64@yahoo.com 

The Aircraft I worked on in the Marine Corps was A-6E Tram and My Squadron was VMA AW-242 "the Bats"
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