February 17, 2025
Christ the Healer, FF Bosworth, healing, evangelism
Published by Emily Tomko at February 17, 2025
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Christ the Healer: the astonishing life and legacy of F.F. Bosworth

"After being sufficiently enlightened [by God's word] our attitude toward sickness should be the same as our attitude toward sin. Our purpose to have our body healed should be as definite as our purpose to have our soul healed." F. F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer 225,000 written testimonies of physical healing coming in via mail (if in ministry for 50 years) would equal 4,500+ testimonies per year that people took the time to send, and more than 12 testimonies every single day. This was the legacy of Fred Francis Bosworth, or F.F. Bosworth as he was known. Moreover, he saw over one million individuals come to Christ in his lifetime.
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January 31, 2025
intercession and prevailing prayer
Published by Emily Tomko at January 31, 2025
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Targeted Prayer: tips from a 93 year-old warrior saint

You're ready to see the citadels crumble around unbelieving loved ones, and the furnace fired up in the lukewarm. You're longing to see the supernatural override natural law "far as the curse is found." You hunger and thirst for righteousness and are no longer content to live in the deficit. This is the year the tide turns.
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January 20, 2025
Appeal to Heaven, George Washington Valley Forge, prayer walk, PA Capitol
Published by Emily Tomko at January 20, 2025
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“The Lord watches over His word to perform it”

Did you ever hear the Lord speak to you and then second guess what you heard because circumstances didn’t change? In the final two months of 2020, and indeed as long as a decade ago, the Lord spoke specific words to me that I am only now seeing come to pass. I share this as an encouragement, remembering how difficult it was to walk through circumstances that did not match what He said.
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December 27, 2024
L'Angelus
Published by Emily Tomko at December 27, 2024
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“The Right Arm of the Lord does valiantly”: remembering God’s faithful intervention

Do you keep a prayer journal? Even if you are not much of a writer, this is a good time to start. Jotting down a key scripture, a persistent thought, and an answered prayer from day to day are excellent means to remember how the Lord has faithfully guided your steps and led you to pray His transformative promises into being.
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December 2, 2024
Bonhoeffer, German Christians, Confessing Church, Eric Metaxas, Angel Studios
Published by Emily Tomko at December 2, 2024
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Bonhoeffer: the film, the book, and the challenge to the church

In 1932, Hitler gave his personal assurance to prominent pastor and veteran WWI Naval Chaplain Martin Niemöller that he would keep his hands off the church and never institute a pogrom against the Jews. But in order to conform German culture to his schemes, Hitler needed to compromise the church. Thus accelerated the church struggle, in which German Christians abandoned whole segments of the bible that did not fit Nazi objectives, and the Confessing Church found itself increasingly at odds with the culture around it.
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November 22, 2024
Judgment of God, Great White Throne, Final Judgment, Day of the Lord
Published by Emily Tomko at November 22, 2024
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“This was your life!” The Great White Throne and the Judgment Seat of Christ

"We have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sundown to win them," said Amy Carmichael. Every member of the human race will appear before one of two thrones at the end of the age. In this final post on the Judgments of God, we reflect on this important reality that is sometimes shadowy in the mind of the Christian.
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November 10, 2024
sword of the Spirit, spoken word, confession, profession, judge righteously
Published by Emily Tomko at November 10, 2024
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Judging: a forbidden sin or the Christian’s divine duty?

So you see for the Christian it is not enough simply to live in quiet integrity. Fervent, aggressive prayer against the enemy in the knowledge of how Christ through Calvary whipped him and his nobles for our sake - that is, foremost that we might see Christ's kingdom manifest here on earth (Matthew 6:10) and destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), is the daily duty of every serious disciple of Christ. But even that is not enough. Scripture makes it clear that the Lord requires His faithful ones to open their mouths in the public square and speak truth.
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November 4, 2024
Justice and mercy; G K Chesterton, Planned Parenthood abortion
Published by Emily Tomko at November 4, 2024
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Justice vs. Charity: when the church and government switch roles

"It is for the king to ensure justice, and the saint to ensure charity." G. K. Chesterton Scripture designates the role of government as an institution designed to punish wickedness. Over the last one hundred years in the United States, the government has usurped the role of the church, offering "charitable benefits" in the form of many social programs. Robbing Peter to pay Paul secures the vote of Paul, it's been observed. Moreover, government "benevolence" ensures that the bloated monstrosity of bureaucracy grows unchecked, thereby acquiring ever more power and less accountability with its citizens. The government increasingly is revealing itself hostile to the nation's Christian roots, and slack on crime. Meanwhile, the trend of modern evangelicalism has become "Justice."
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October 29, 2024
The judgments of God, postmodernism in American evangelical church
Published by Emily Tomko at October 29, 2024
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Five ways the church gets God’s judgments wrong

  Napoleon stands out as perhaps the ultimate example of a tyrant who, when brought to justice, has the opportunity to reflect on life and eternity. Napoleon in exile on St. Helena observed of Christ, “What a conqueror! A conqueror who…wins to Himself not only one nation, but the whole human race. What a marvel! He attaches to Himself the human soul with all its energies. And how? By a miracle which surpasses all others. He claims the love of men – that is to say, the most difficult thing in the world to obtain…..He claims it; He requires it absolutely and undividedly….Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Lous X!V strove in vain to secure this…He kindles the flame of a love which causes a man’s self love to die.”
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October 11, 2024
Published by Emily Tomko at October 11, 2024
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God’s justice is a mercy: why we pray for His intervention

The satirist and statesman Jonathan Swift compared laws to cobwebs, "which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." Lawfare and two-tiered justice are not new.     God's justice, which is His will, is not automatic. When Christ instructed His disciples to pray "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done" (Matthew 6:10) He was giving them a directive to overthrow the works of the ruler of this world (2 Cor. 4:4) and displace them with His own righteous edicts.
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