Jesus reminded us to identify the wicked among us. But oh, how often we fail.
In our endeavors to be accepting, we have unwittingly become a church that accommodates wickedness, both in our homes and in the body itself. In "Wise as Serpents" Pastor Crippen offers us a powerful refresher course on what Scripture teaches - how evil operates, and what we can do about it.
Pastor Crippen writes, “…this thing we call evil is not a nothing. It even has a king, the ruler of t his present fallen world, the devil. And while it may be defined as an absence of that which is good, evil is a “nothing” that effects misery, harm, and death.
“In this book, based upon a series of sermons I preached in 2016 at Christ Reformation Church, I want to show you how this darkness works to disguise itself, creep in among us – especially among us in the Christian church – and work its destruction on the most vulnerable innocents it can find.
“It is past time for us all to become wise as serpents about evil, while remaining innocent as doves by not being duped into becoming its ally.”
