Monthly e-Teachings

Since 2005, David Servant has penned provocative monthly e-teachings. You can subscribe to his future e-teachings by clicking here. You can read all his former e-teachings by clicking the links below.

e-Teachings from 2024


• The Sorrow that Leads to Salvation
• Should You Always Submit to Spiritual Leaders?
• Will There Only be Old Order Amish People in Heaven?
• The Lure of the World
• The Very Wise Fool
• The Assurance of Salvation: A Blessing for Every Believer
• Original Sin?
• The Parables of Life
• Is the Phrase, “We are Saved by Grace Alone,” Biblical?
• At the Heart of “Once-Saved-Always-Saved”
• A Very Strange Grace
• If Salvation is a “One-and-Done” Event, there Really is No Need for Pastors or Churches
• The “Two Categories of Christians” Heresy
• Is Being Christ’s Disciple Optional?
• Avoid these “Works”!
• Gratefully Guilty as Charged
• Paul’s Great Fear
• The Impossibility of Assurance of Salvation for All Who Believe in “Once-Saved-Always-Saved”
• Permanently Sealed?
• Don’t be a “Bible Baby”
• Why Do I Use a Pseudonym?
• Every Word
• Hebrew Roots? Yes. Hebrew Fruits? No.
• The “Sin” of Adding Our Works to What Jesus Did on the Cross?
• The Cessna Citation Samaritan
• God, the Relentless Evangelist
• The Prodigal Son Discovers the Christians
• The Perfect Daily Morning Prayer
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Think About Thinking
• Jesus’ Unfinished “Finished Work”
• Biblical Grace
• The Parable of the Pardoning King
• The Great Tragedy of Resolving Guilt with False Theology
• The Goal of Discipleship: Knowledge or Obedience?
• The Power of Encouragement
• Time to Pray Some Imprecatory Prayers? Part 2
• Far-Away False Christians
• If You Didn’t Earn Your Salvation, How are You Going to Un-Earn it?
• Time to Pray Some Imprecatory Prayers? Part 1
• The Virtue of Seeking Glory and Honor
• Questions for Pastors of New Testament Churches to Ponder
• Jealousy: Cancer in the Bones
• Staying Balanced
• Jesus the Gentleman
• Some Food for Thought
• The Prevalence of Jesus’ Lordship in the New Testament

e-Teachings from 2023


• The Undeniable Biblical Connection Between Holiness and Heaven
• Three Kinds of Death, and Their Remedy
• The Spectrum of Grace
• Why Did Jesus Never Use the Word “Grace”?
• Two Kinds of Righteousness
• “Come out, in Jesus’ Name!”
• How Gracious is Our Lord?
• Grace Alone and Faith Alone: What is Wrong with the First Two Solas?
• The Twisting and Truth About Jesus’ Olivet Discourse Parables

e-Teachings from 2022


• The Hyper-Grace Twisting of Paul’s Teaching About Salvation
• The Radical Redefinition of Repentance
• “You Have Heard…But I Say”—Jesus’ Six Counterpoints: Moral Upgrade or Moral Reclamation?
• The Wolves Among Us
• Senior Sex
• Your Sexy Temple

e-Teachings from 2021


• You are So Beautiful
• Sexual Secrets of a Shulammite and a Shepherd
• Solomon’s Sex-Filled Song
• The Dating/Courting Christian: How Far Can We Go?
• More about Masturbation
• This is the Chapter About Masturbation
• Single and Sexual
• Porn is Not Your Friend
• The Mosaic Moral Upgrade
• Seven Strange Scriptural Sexual Stories, Part 2
• Seven Strange Scriptural Sexual Stories, Part 1
• Has the Great Delusion Begun?
• The Silliness of “Christian Fluffy Love”
• Fourteen Words to Fix or Upgrade Your Marriage

e-Teachings from 2020


• “Better Than Sex Cake,” and Other Urban Myths
• The Brownie Surprise
• #Me Too, Men Too
• Why Does God’s Judgment Sometimes Fall on Entire Families?
• The End of Racism
• There’s a Sheep Born Every Second
• Want the Coronavirus to “Pass Over” You? Here’s How.
• The Coronavirus: How Should We Pray?
• The Coronavirus: A Message from the God who Died of Something Much Worse
• Have I Conformed to a Cult?
• Dear Pastor, Will You Repent With Me?

e-Teachings from 2019


• Trump is God’s Man (…and so Was Obama)
• The Divine Limitations to Fruitfulness in Ministry
• So Glad to be a Christian Traditionalist (even without the proper head covering!)
• Totally Loving My Tiny Church
• Shunning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Sharing Your Faith: It’s Not as Scary as You Think!
• Why Revivalists Tarry, Part 2 (Some Very Good News for Every Saint Who Longs for Revival)
• Why Revivalists Tarry, Part 1 (Some Very Good News for Every Saint Who Longs for Revival)
• Think Before You Clink! (And Maybe Bring Jesus Back Sooner!) Part 2

e-Teachings from 2018


• Think Before You Clink! (And Maybe Bring Jesus Back Sooner!) Part 1
• Five Times Paul Did Not “Turn the Other Cheek”
• Don’t Resist! Assist! (The Truncated Commandment)
• A Biblical Challenge to Christian Pacifism
• A “Holy” Guy Tells a Lie
• The Coming Holocaust in Israel (and America, and Europe, and…)
• The 20th-Century Regathering of Jews to Israel: A Fulfillment of Prophecy?
• Three Questionable Beliefs Christians Hold Concerning Modern Israel
• Four Feasting Fellows (Who Felt an Unction to Function)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Polygamy (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• I’m Divorced and Remarried. Am I Living in Adultery? Part 3

e-Teachings from 2017


• “I’m Divorced and Remarried. Am I Living in Adultery?” Part 2
• A Lesson from the Pilgrims
• “I’m Divorced and Remarried. Am I Living in Adultery?”
• Chapter Three-One Thing You Still Lack
• Hurricane Jesus, Part 1
• Chapter Two-Jesus Loves a Rich, Young Ruler, Part 1
• Chapter One–The Untimely Passing of a Wealthy Fool
• Through the Needle’s Eye, Introduction
• Orphan Care or Child Exploitation?
• The End of Political Polarization
• The End of Abortion, Part 2
• The End of Abortion, Part 1
• The End of Misogyny, Part 2

e-Teachings from 2016


• The End of Misogyny, Part 1
• For Whom Should You Vote? Part 4
• Words for the Working Poor
• For Whom Should You Vote? Part 3
• For Whom Should You Vote? Part 2
• For Whom Should You Vote? Part 1
• Ignorance is Bliss, Temporarily
• More About Fundraising

e-Teachings from 2015


• Fundraising
• My Tenth Confession
• Tithing to the Local Church?
• The Confessions of a Nonprofit Director, Part 3
• The Confessions of a Nonprofit Director, Part 2
• The Confessions of a Nonprofit Director, Part 1
• A Profit-Making Nonprofit

e-Teachings from 2014


• Another Look at Nonresistance, Part 2
• Another Look at Nonresistance, Part 1
• When God Sends Mixed Messages
• You Be Jesus (But Not Me)
• The New Gay Bible, Part 2
• The New Gay Bible
• Hairy Men and Smooth Men
• A Homosexual You Will Love
• I Love Homosexuals, and I’m Frustrated

e-Teachings from 2013


• Food Facts and Fads—Whom Should We Trust?
• The Inward Voice
• The True Grace of God
• Lord, Please Bless This Poison
• A Lot of Profit from a Little Exercise
• Sell Everything? Part 2
• Sell Everything? Part 1
• All Christians Believe “Works” are Essential for Salvation
• The Rich Young Ruler
• Forever Rich, Chapter 6

e-Teachings from 2012


• Forever Rich, Chapter 5
• Forever Rich, Chapter 4
• Forever Rich, Chapter 3
• Forever Rich, Chapter 1
• The Faith of an Atheist
• The Hell Debate, Part 3 – Annihilationism
• The Hell Debate, Part 2 – Annihilationism
• The Hell Debate – Annihilationism

e-Teachings from 2010


• How to Keep Poor People Poor
• Christians in Politics?
• Christians for Hitler
• About Time to Abort the Abortionists
• Feedback to “Government Theft”
• Government Theft
• To Ponder with Prayer

e-Teachings from 2009


• Lend, Expecting Nothing
• Other Than an Occasional Problem With Pride, I Believe I’ve Reached Sinless Perfection
• A Question for My Beloved Calvinists
• As a Father
• A Closer Look at Forgiving
• A Tribute to Michael
• Salvation B.C. and A.D. Part 2
• Salvation B.C. and A.D.
• Infidel for Christ
• Perplexed Without Context
• Laugh, then Cry

e-Teachings from 2008


• God’s Regrets and Man’s Free Will
• Surprised by Jesus
• Three Lessons from the Lakeland Outpouring and Todd Bentley
• Is This It?
• Pastoring with Less Pain, Part 2 of 2
• Pastoring with Less Pain, Part 1 of 2
• Why?
• I Could Be Wrong About Some Things
• Deeds that Determine Destinies
• An Inconvenient Truth

e-Teachings from 2007


• Who Can We Trust?
• A Prophet Among Profits
• Jesus, the Greatest Prosperity Preacher
• A Parable about Frank, the Wise Investor
• It’s Time to Try Pond #2!
• Oh, the Luck that Saves Us?
• The Snack We Call Supper
• Lessons from Children
• Only Eunuchs Never Struggle With Lust

e-Teachings from 2006


• Can a Christian Have a Demon?
• The Day Jesus Lied?
• The Ennoblement of a Secular Vocation
• Straining Out Gnats
• Scaling Down in Disneyland
• Is Greed Only an Attitude?
• Silver and Gold Have I Quite a Large Sum
• American Idol
• What God Wants
• Deception is an Election

e-Teachings from 2005


• The Inward Voice
• “Judge Not!”
• Hurricane Jesus, Part 2
• A Silly Gospel
• God’s Love/Hate Relationship with the World
• Christian Clichés that Contradict Christ
• Is it Biblical to “Accept Jesus as Your Savior”?
• So Glad for Guilt
• Do I Believe Jesus or Paul?
• The Limits of God’s Grace
• Why the Tsunami?