In this recent e-Journal by 9Marks ministry (Jan/Feb 2010, 7:1), various notable evangelical theologians including Carl Trueman, R. Albert Mohler, Phil Johnson, Mike Horton and Darryl Hart have written excellent articles on the state of the church — On the “New Evangelical Liberalism”.
As written in the editor’s note:
In general, the danger of liberalism, which we [...]

USA TODAY
Going to church this Sunday? Look around.
The chances are that one in five of the people there find “spiritual energy” in mountains or trees, and one in six believe in the “evil eye,” that certain people can cast curses with a look — beliefs your Christian pastor doesn’t preach.
In a Catholic church? Chances are [...]

Red Letter Socialist Jim Wallis and former president Jimmy “New Covenant” Carter join the Dahlia Lama and a host of representives of the world’s religions in this annual international event.
See the video at Watcher’s Lamp.

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All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for [...]

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This is a more extensive section evaluating the New Evangelical idea of positivity compared to the review of Challies’ articles here.

The idea of being positive or seen as positive was one aspect of the New Evangelical movement [33] which is however not as easily recognized as demarcating New Evangelicalism [...]

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Will we embrace the material principle of the Gospel without embracing the formal principle of Sola Scriptura?
During the Reformation, the material principle was the principle of Justification by Faith alone, while the formal principle was Scripture Alone or Sola Scriptura. In an interaction on a blog I have had with some [...]

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Armed with God’s Word and transformed by the Holy Spirit, these churches’ leaders faithfully proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ week after week, through tragedy and triumph. Culture has conspired to give their message a wider audience. Desire for transcendence and tradition among young evangelicals has contributed to a Reformed resurgence. [1]

A phenomenon [...]

After much thought, and feedback from my good friend, brother and fellow CRN contributor Stephen Macasil, I have finally came up with a paper on the New [Evangelical] Calvinism. The full article has now been uploaded to my website here, of which I will post sections of it in the near future since the subject [...]

I have been writing for quite some time and am now polishing up my article on New Evangelical Calvinism or the “New Calvinism”, after receiving constructive feedback from my friend and fellow CRN contributor Stephen Macasil.
Anyway, I thought I would post my belated response to Tim Challies’ horrible posts attacking watchblogs. For those who have [...]

With a recent Times article mentioning “New Calvinism” as the third most influential idea changing the world right now, Driscoll just have to draw up a list contrasting “Old Calvinism” with “New Calvinism”. This is his list as posted on his website:

Four Ways ‘New Calvinism’ is So Powerful
1) Old Calvinism was fundamental or liberal and separated from [...]

Pastor-teacher Jamey Day of Grace Fellowship surveys gospel preaching over the last several hundred years. What is discovered is a significant difference between the self help gospel of today’s evangelicalism and the True Gospel that caused many to be martyred over the centuries.

Listen to this three part series from Pastor Day of Grace Fellowship [...]

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at [...]

Leadership Network’s “Timeline for Innovation and the Church” starts with “Where’s the Beef?” here.
Gotta love Leadership Network–it makes me chuckle from barely containable amusement. Its timeline (including Ozzy Osbourne) culminates in “a two day gathering of church leaders and innovators for the purpose of connecting, networking, and collaboration” with no mention of Jesus. Where [...]

I got an invitation to “the innovation.” I am happy to be passing up the “party”. I think John 3:30 would certainly serve as “innovative” for a “new direction” (away from self) for the people attending.
So, here is a verse for each person attending to ponder: “He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30). [...]

The bishop was asked, “Do you believe in heaven and hell, the blissful heaven and the burning hell? And do you believe in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?” He answers:
“…You define heaven and hell as places of reward and punishment where God evens out life here on Earth. I regard that as primitive, childlike [...]

From Christianity Today Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., best known among evangelicals for his ecumenical work with Evangelicals and Catholics Together, died at 6:30 this morning at a Jesuit infirmary in Bronx, New York, first reported by In All Things, the blog of national Catholic weekly America. His health had been failing from the effects [...]

Apprising Ministries originally reported that The Baptist General Association of Virginia and it’s agency, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board have invited Red Letter Christian Tony Campolo to address the 185th Annual Meeting, November 11 & 12.
Watcher’s Lamp compares a BGAV / VBMB frequently-asked-questions document to Tony Campolo’s public position on abortion, gay rights and [...]

As I’ve written before there are many common themes which are interwoven throughout the seemingly disparate emergent/emerging, seeker sensitive, purpose driven, and word faith movements.
In my article entitled “Deathwish” I wrote:
Like many other believers I’ve noticed the most common theme among the Emergent/Emerging, Seeker Sensitive, and Purpose Driven church growth apostates is their man-centered gospel. [...]

This is the year where we as solid bible believing Christians are going to start seeing the intolerance grow towards us more and more. Can you guess where the majority of these attacks will come from? The mainstream churches.
One of the most surprising predictions was made several decades ago by one of my favorite pastors, [...]

The Christian Socialist Revolution from the UK’s Acton Institute:
The rise of the Christian neo-socialists has been quite surprising. These Marxists have been using the Sermon of the Mount and Beatitudes and “Jesus’ teaching” to smoke screen the resurgence of a Christian Socialist agenda. It’s amazing.
We see this clearly in socialist redistributionists like Barack Obama, Jim [...]

From The Christian Examiner

NEW YORK, Calif. — Evangelical Christians—whose central doctrine centers on Jesus as the only way to salvation—are increasingly abandoning the cornerstones of the faith to embrace broader, more inclusive interpretations.
That’s the findings of a new poll released June 24 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Its study of 35,000 [...]

Brad A. Greenberg of the Jewish Journal comments on Jeff Sharlet’s new book, The Family, the incredibly influential organization behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Highlights from Greenberg’s article speak for themselves…

Sharlet describes the organization’s theology as built upon Jesus the strongman and revolutionary, not the savior and street preacher…Hitler gets positive treatment by The Family’s [...]

On the eve of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting, Indiana and the Midwest west were pummeled with deadly, record-setting storms. The headlines tell the story:
FOX NEWS: Indiana In State of Disaster,  President declares portion of central and Southern Indiana ‘major disaster area’

Ironic that the SBC Annual Meeting’s Pastor Conference had a near-charismatics theme of [...]

On the heels of Sunday evening’s SBC Pastor’s conference theme of "Prepare for Rain", references to the "wind of God" and prayer for revival…
The Monday morning’s session of the SBC Annual Meeting opened with Dr. Alan Day of Edmond, Oklahoma speaking on "Brokeness". In his presentation Dr. Day made the excellent point that God does [...]

Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren has linked up with the Vatican’s most famous convert Tony Blair and his ecumenical Faith Foundation calling for   " acts for global good…"

…In any effort to help people learn to live and work together, we must engage the vast networks, resources, wisdom, and influence of the faith communities…I agreed to [...]