Shane Idleman

Shane Idleman

CP Guest Contributor

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

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  • Divorce and Remarriage: A Biblical Perspective

    Divorce and Remarriage: A Biblical Perspective

    Those who find themselves in this situation must spend extended time in the Word and obedience to it, as well as extended times of prayer and fasting, and seeking godly counsel

  • What ​'Judge Not' Really Means

    What ​'Judge Not' Really Means

    News reports are featuring famous athletes, actors, and pop-stars being asked about abortion and gay-marriage. Often, they criticize Christians: "Doesn't the Bible say 'judge not'; who are you to tell people what they can, and cannot do?"

  • Gay Marriage: Why Are Christians Divided?

    Gay Marriage: Why Are Christians Divided?

    With best-selling Christian authors and popular worship leaders showing support for gay-marriage, many are left baffled and confused. These points may help us better understand the great divide:

  • Are Trump Voters Bad for America?

    Are Trump Voters Bad for America?

    This is a foreboding time for us all. Last week I was walking near our city's boulevard in the evening when a car drove by and yelled F___ Trump!! It was a dangerous atmosphere for me and my wife.

  • Proof That Our Conscience Has Been Seared

    Proof That Our Conscience Has Been Seared

    "Why didn't someone do something?" Those five words still haunt my thoughts today.

  • 5 Things Pastors Need to Stop Doing Immediately

    5 Things Pastors Need to Stop Doing Immediately

    Pastors, we are not just cheerleaders, we are game changers. We are called to stir and to convict so that change takes place. Granted, there are many wonderful pastors and churches — I appreciate their ministry, but, as a whole, the church has drifted off course.

  • Jesus on Homosexuality. Jen Hatmaker Should Read This.

    Jesus on Homosexuality. Jen Hatmaker Should Read This.

    Jen Hatmaker recently made the following comment in a question-and-answer-style interview published by the Religion News Service, "Not only are these [LGBT] our neighbors and friends, but they are brothers and sisters in Christ.

  • ​America Is a Broken Nation; Here's How to Fix It

    ​America Is a Broken Nation; Here's How to Fix It

    America cannot fall because she has already fallen. We are now picking up the pieces of a broken nation.

  • Why I'm Voting for Mike Pence

    Why I'm Voting for Mike Pence

    While we are concerned with terrorism, and rightly so, there is a greater threat from within. We are witnessing the rapid deterioration of a nation before our eyes. We have become one nation "above" God, rather than under God.

  • The Shirt Read, 'Shoot The Police'

    The Shirt Read, 'Shoot The Police'

    Stunned, I contemplated what I had read. Just days after Sergeant Owen in Lancaster, California, was brutally killed, a young high schooler was photographed at a local high school wearing a shirt that read, "Shoot the Police." Emotions surfaced from anger to sadness.