A little bit ABOUT ME
AUTHOR / WEBMASTER...
Salvation
On April 15th, 1989, I accepted Jesus Christ as both my Savior and Lord through the Holy Spirit and apologetics. My life verses are Romans 10:9 and Ephesians 2:8-9.
Service
Initially attending non-denominational and Presbyterian PCA churches, I have been a member of a Baptist Church since 1995, serving in many capacities, including as an Elder. Over the past twenty years, the Lord has allowed me to work in a ministry that employs pastors across the country, focused on evangelism. Ending as President, I have transitioned into building both internet (bcworldview.org) and recreational (romansroadparks.com) evangelistic ministries.
Life Focus
This website began with a desire to provide resources for Biblical teaching and theology. However, our country has experienced an unprecedented amount of false information from the media on current events. Consequently, this site has also become a source of sound analysis of our culture through the lens of a Biblical Christian Worldview. Our mission is to challenge media accuracy from both the left and the right using Scripture as our measuring rod.
It is important to remember, God chooses to work through the human condition to perfect His will, and “the greatest expression of love we can show our neighbors is to gently tell them about our Lord and Savior.”
AUTHOR... Jeff Hilles
The Conundrum of the Christian Life
Biblical Christians are called by God to conduct themselves in two, sometimes contradictory ways, all at the same time. Love Your Neighbor As Christians, we are clearly commanded by God to "love our neighbor". You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. - Leviticus 19:18 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. - Matthew 7:12 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. - James 2:8 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as...
What Are the Four Meanings of “Deconstruction”
Like so many other words in the English language, the word “deconstruction” means different things to different people. 1. A Rejection of God There are many who have turned away from a traditional Christian worldview, rejecting God, Christ, the church, and the Bible. For them, deconstruction means secularism to the point of being agnostic or, worst case, atheistic. 2. A Rejection of the Monotheistic Christian God There are those who have broadened (deconstructed) their view of religion beyond Christianity, to the view that there are multiple paths to an eternal paradise just as there are perhaps multiple gods (ex. Pantheism). 3. A Rejection of the Church There are others who see the traditional church as an evil institution but have kept their faith in God and Jesus Christ. Often they...
When Deacons & Elders Feel They Must Leave the Church
How many Christians today have used bad church governance as an excuse for rejecting the entire, God ordained, institution of Sunday morning church attendance (Heb. 10:24-25)? Jumping From Church to Church In the past, when one was frustrated, they would choose to move their family from one church to another. There is a joke that has been around for a long time about a Presbyterian, marooned for 10 years on a deserted island. When rescued, his benefactors asked him why he had three huts on the beach. The answer was, that one was his house, the second was his church, and the third was his old church. The Underbelly of the Church Sadly when we get behind the scenes of church politics, we can discover man’s sinful nature...
What Does a “Bad Church Experience” Look Like
As a regular Christian church attender, there can be the impression that when someone says they have had a “bad experience” with their past church, it was likely that either a member called them out for a sin they didn’t want to hear about, or snubbed them in some other way. Or perhaps the music was not to their liking, or the Pastor did not smile at them when they neglected to attend last Wednesday night’s fellowship dinner. Whatever the reason, often it is based on a personal slight the reality of which happens both inside and outside the brick-and-mortar church. Over the last two years, I have had readers express frustrations over the “church” as if it is some separate living being that needs...
Secular vs. Traditional Church – Who is Brave and Who is Foolish
Our nation is polarized on many levels. One aspect can be found within the Christian church. The continued deterioration in attendance (see post) over the past 30 years has, as we all know, leaped in its impact following the pandemic. As church leaders see both a financial and spiritual crisis looming, many have chosen polar opposite approaches as a solution. On one side are the pastors attempting to placate their congregations by becoming inclusive, watering down, ignoring, or downright rejecting Biblical theology on controversial subjects such as sin, Hell, abortion, marriage, and homosexuality. On the other side of the spectrum are those leaders who hold fast to Biblical Christian traditional theology from the pulpit. Many suggest this latter group is either brave or foolish...
AMA Recommending Uterine Transplants in Transgender Men
The American Medical Association recently offered insight into their position on “first, do no harm” by presenting a moral argument for uterine transplants in biological men. AMA Journal of "Ethics" - June 2023 The June issue of AMA’s “Journal of Ethics” offered a strong defense for transgender biological men to “consolidate their identities” with the ability to have children. Though the article states that there have been no documented successful transplants to date, the procedure is seen to be reasonable under their Hippocratic Oath. The article further postulates that government funds should be made available for these surgeries, since insurance companies may be slow to adopt coverage in this area, due to its cost, efficacy, and controversies. The AMA article ends with, “the case could be...
Secularism is Succeeding in America
Secularism is defined by Webster as, " indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations". If humanity was rooted in a supernaturally accepted view of morality, then a clean separation between church and state would seem appropriate. However, the framers of the Constitution recognized the importance of boundaries to protect religious beliefs from government intrusion (Church/State). Of course today, the loudest voices are focused the other way around, desiring to isolate the government from the supposed tyranny of a Biblical Christian worldview (Secularization is good for American democracy). In this divisive climate, there seem to be more and more voices yelling from the extremes, which increasingly makes a clean and antiseptic application of "secularism" unobtainable. The Lord calls Christians to be in the...
Lone-Ranger Christians and the Church
I recently reviewed an article, written by someone who referred to himself as a "Jesus follower, getting back to my faith". Surprisingly, he choose to use John 10:28-29 as Scriptural proof-text, supporting a rejection of the church. Those verses read... "I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." This is one of the most significant and often quoted verses in Scripture and for good reason. It speaks to the view that, once saved, always saved. Whether you accept that theology or not, the verse has nothing to do with...
The Deterioration of Christianity and Church Attendance
Our current Christian Status as a Nation The pandemic impacted the church, as it did all social interaction. It forced the faithful to disconnect from intimate fellowship, teaching, and accountability with fellow Christians and God Himself. It accelerated “deconstructionism”, the establishment of an anemic form of Christianity. It offered a pathway and a rationalization to form new, bad habits on Sunday mornings, underpinning a departure from our closeness with the living God. These trends have been forming for decades, COVID just aggravated them. So, where are we, as “a Christian nation” today? Gallup Polling of American Adults Last week, Gallup published their survey of the state of American Christianity. The headline accompanying the results succinctly summarized what should be no surprise to anyone… “Belief in Five Spiritual Entities...
What Does Biblical Fear Look Like
The Bible presents concepts that might seem to contradict themselves. Those who reject God’s Word enjoy quoting what would seem to be confusing and conflicting passages as a basis for man’s hand in the writing of the Scriptures. On the surface, the subject of “fear’ is one of those theological constructs. At times, God seems to challenge mankind that we should not be fearful of anything. At other times, He reminds us that fear is part of our life on this earth and our spiritual walk. Scripture on the subject of “fear”. Isaiah 41:10 - fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Joshua...
Controversial Dive Into Loving God and Our Neighbor
When Jesus offers the command to love our neighbor as ourselves, He is not only asking us to be kind to others, He is also reminding us of our selfishness. Mark 12:30-31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Can We Love God Like That Does anyone really believe we can love God with ALL our heart, soul, mind and strength? As born-again believers we remain sinners, yet saved by God’s grace. There is nothing we do that fully consumes every aspect of our being, even loving God....
Man Cannot Defend God
Who is God God is all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere, sovereign, and the creator of all things. We are His children, made in His image but woefully lacking in the attributes just mentioned. One of the greatest fallacies of mankind is the statement, “there is no God”. To make that claim, one would have to be all-knowing, and who on this earth could make that claim? Man Defending God However, Christians are called to both define and defend God from an onslaught of false teachers and those who claim to “know” there is no Creator. We are forced to use human language to justify the supernatural. We constantly try to explain the world from God’s perspective, by interpreting Scripture, while admitting “His ways are above our ways”. Sunday School...
Biblical Dichotomy in the book of Revelation
A reader offered the thought that, “Revelation assumes a strict dichotomy between good people and bad people, with no people in between.” I offered the view that the dichotomy he is referring to is represented throughout the Bible, not just in its last book. In fact, the “strict dichotomy between good and bad people” is the basis of Biblical Christianity beginning with Lucifer in Heaven, through sinless Adam who ultimately is thrown from the garden, to mankind’s sin nature on earth. The dichotomy of good and evil is not limited to the book of Revelation, nor is it limited to the only two locations one can go following death. Human Perspective We do live in a world of shades of gray. Often we are forced to choose the...
A Biblical Request to “Wake Up The Woke”
I recently published a short-form post playing on the words “woke” and “wake” with a desire to open minds beyond the human challenges we face here on earth. To look beyond the natural, which has a clear endpoint at death, toward the supernatural, which is eternal. The day it came out, I received a thoughtful response from a long-time atheist reader as follows… Oh dear! So out of touch with reality! Down here in the real world, the climate change crisis is the most important problem that everyone faces - there is a lot that can be done to at least slow down the rate of increase in global warming, but putting your head in the sands and relying on prayer is not the answer. If...
Graham, Hong Kong, AI, Planned Parenthood Staffing, More…
• What the shifting religious landscape means for American politics
• Hong Kong Experiences 'Sinicization of Christianity' Amidst Cultural Shift
• AI can read your mind and help the paralyzed walk: Should we be afraid?
• Planned Parenthood Laying off 20% of Workforce, Pro-Life Leader Offers Them 'Life-Affirming' Options
• Hallow's Prayer App Makes Historic Breakthrough, Enters App Store's Top 10
• Education Department warns against schools encouraging private prayer, other religious activity
• Franklin Graham at Christian media convention: Every 'demon from hell' has been 'turned loose' in society
• Hong Kong Experiences 'Sinicization of Christianity' Amidst Cultural Shift
• AI can read your mind and help the paralyzed walk: Should we be afraid?
• Planned Parenthood Laying off 20% of Workforce, Pro-Life Leader Offers Them 'Life-Affirming' Options
• Hallow's Prayer App Makes Historic Breakthrough, Enters App Store's Top 10
• Education Department warns against schools encouraging private prayer, other religious activity
• Franklin Graham at Christian media convention: Every 'demon from hell' has been 'turned loose' in society