What does the cross mean to you?
What does the cross mean to you? Don’t live your life with a question mark here.

Shane Idleman is the founder and lead pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, just North of Los Angeles. Shane's sermons, articles, books, and radio program can all be found at shaneidleman.com or wcfav.org. He is the author of Feasting & Fasting, If My People, Desperate for More of God, and Help! I'm Addicted. Follow him on Facebook at: facebook.com/confusedchurch. You can also follow Pastor Shane on the new free speech platform Parler https://parler.com/profile/ShaneIdleman/posts.
What does the cross mean to you? Don’t live your life with a question mark here.
Pastors, I’m writing this to you to encourage you to be bold as you lead your congregation through these difficult and challenging times.
I once shared with our congregation that one of the most difficult challenges associated with pastoring is not sermon preparation or taxing counseling appointments.
Fasting doesn’t twist God’s arm; it realigns our heart with His and gets us back on track; it gives us wisdom and discernment for crucial issues.
Over the years, we’ve seen many failures and fallings in the Evangelical church. And it begs the question: What is going on?
The great need today is less pride and a lot more humility — we must begin here.
I often preach about the desperate need for repentance — it’s one of the hallmarks of my ministry — as a result, I’m often labeled “hard-core,” “extreme,” “un-loving,” and “narrow-minded.”
To truly understand the political division, we must remember three things.
To say that authentic Christians hate or fear homosexuals or the trans community demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of Christianity.
How deceived are we when things such as murdering and exploiting the innocent are no big deal, but Trump’s character is? At least be consistent.