How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy Quotes

“We will plant our feet firmly on the solid rock of God’s Word and refuse to be moved by spirits of seduction that are luring the rest of the world into deception offered in a myriad of forms.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Let Me tell you unequivocally what is going to happen at the end of the age: There will be an invasion of seducing spirits with doctrines of demons that will attempt to lead the world into widespread, wide-scale deception and delusion. I am telling you up front and in language so clear that you cannot misunderstand — unprecedented delusion will enter the world in that hour.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a “perverted” adaptation of what was originally intended.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“these leaders were promoting was a twisted version of truth. It was error packaged with elements of truth and then stealthily posed to believers in the guise of authenticity to make it more appetizing.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“People’s desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“many experts assert that this may be the most gullible and easy-to-deceive generation that has ever lived.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Speaking as God’s spokesmen is one of the greatest responsibilities ever given to us as believers. We must handle His Word carefully and do our best to impart its powerful truth in its purest form to others.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“It’s our responsibility to determine to use our sound minds, hold fast to the Scriptures, and refuse to budge from God’s truth.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“What happens when the Church ceases to stand for truth or to live holy lives separate from the world? When that type of wrong doctrine gains ascendancy, it produces a weak Church so contaminated with spiritual sickness that very little power remains in it.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Jude’s use of epagonidzomai means to fight over an issue or to fight for a truth, and it pictures people who are wrestling between issues of truth and deception.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world’s way of thinking isn’t sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual “atmosphere”?”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“This prophesied period of deception will be so intense that people will believe what is false over what is obviously true, even denying facts and truths that are common sense and that nature itself teaches (see Romans 1:20).”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Jesus made it very clear in His discourse about the end of the age in Matthew 24 that deception and delusion in society — and even in certain sectors of the Church — will be the primary sign that we are near the end of the age.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“To bring the Church back to where God wants it to be will require great courage on the part of God’s leaders, His spokesmen. They must be willing to acknowledge the present sad condition of large portions of the Church. Then they must rise up and both publicly and privately refute every form of deception with a steadfast stance on God’s truth — regardless of the consequences to them personally.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Like Jesus, we must make the decision that we will never alter, amend, compromise, dilute, or mitigate truth to make our listeners more comfortable or to gain a following.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Because they no longer wanted to retain God in their minds and lives, Paul informed us in Romans 1:28 that “God gave them over.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“A normal heart pumps blood, but the heart of a God-rejecting society pumps and proliferates foolishness until it is filled with darkness that eventually spawns depravity, immorality, and godless behaviors. The so-called leaders of a God-rejecting society constantly assert that they are brilliant intellectuals of a new way of thinking, even though it is difficult to fathom how they could claim such a thing. Regardless of what they assert, their words and their ways of thinking make them sound like those who are mentally ill or mentally deranged. How could anyone think what they propose is normal? Make no mistake about it — those who think this way are clearly morons.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“The challenge before us as God’s people is to refuse to allow our thinking to be muddied by the spirit of this age.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“2 Corinthians 6:17). We are called to come out from the catacombs of intimidation, as well as from the defilement of the world — and to stand as beacons of God’s truth, regardless of opposition or backlash.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“It’s our responsibility to take an uncompromising stance on God’s Word and to serve as the restraining force that impedes deception’s forward progress in society so it cannot take hold and entrench itself in people’s minds as “just the way things are.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Proponents of eugenics pursued this policy of racial improvement through controlled breeding, providing justification for such policies as forced sterilization, segregation laws, marriage restrictions — and, later, abortion. The”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“WIDESPREAD EVIL ALWAYS HAS ITS ROOTS IN WIDESPREAD DECEPTION”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“many pagans harbored ill feelings about Christians and widely believed them to be antisocial, contrary, incompliant, intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible, obstinate, and uncompromising. That means if many Christians today feel like they take the brunt of hostility from an unbelieving world, they can rest assured that this has been felt by myriads of believers in times past.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“Have we forgotten that what we tolerate, we empower? Silence is communication! Silence communicates agreement and grants permission. We enable deception when we refuse to confront the lies. Silence is not an option!”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days

“With selective hearing, these individuals will hold to the status quo and gravitate toward those who will tell them what they want to hear at the neglect of what they need to hear.”
― Rick Renner, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days