Over at the Lighthouse Trails blog M. Danielsen has done a stellar job of exposing Obama’s spiritual advisor, Rev. Jim Wallis, as a committed Marxist.  Lately Wallis has been given a bull horn to deliver his anti-Christian social justice gospel.  Hold on to your hat.  Comrad Wallis will be a key note speaker this summer,  along with evangelist Luis Palau, at [...]

Over at the Christianity Today (CT) Liveblog, editor Colin Hansen, author of the book Young, Restless, Reformed has written a post on the Warrengate fiasco. Consistent with CT’s founding philosophy, Hansen has taken the New Evangelical stand on this topic, which we shall see and examine later. [more]

I’m not going to draw the circle there. And supposed you disagree with me on that. Now, you’re faced with the question: “OK, I’m with John Piper theologically, I’m not with Rick Warren on a bunch of things, John Piper has just chosen to hang out with Rick Warren. What do I do with John [...]

W. Robert Godfrey, president of Westminster Seminary California, has written an interesting and provocative essay on the Tabletalk magazine, here. Many American churches are in a mess. Theologically they are indifferent, confused, or dangerously wrong. Liturgically they are the captives of superficial fads. Morally they live lives indistinguishable from the world. They often have a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

[continued from here, here, here, here and here] 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 [...]

[continued from here, here, here and here] 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 [...]

[continued from here and here] 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 [...]

[continued from here] 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] [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]