In Virginia Southern Baptists Encouraged To Embrace The Emerging Church, Apprising Ministries revealed the backgrounds of the co-editors of The Parish Paper (TPP) which the BGAV / Virginia Baptist Mission Board “is proud to provide copies of the Parish Paper free of charge to members of our constituency!”
In 2003, Co-editor Dr. Cynthia Woolever was [...]

A 4-DVD lecture series with Bob DeWaay and Warren B. Smith
The church and the world are being offered a new Christianity, and millions of people are buying into it. But when the outer layers of this New Spirituality are stripped away, what lies beneath is the Quantum Lie that started in the [...]

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches.
“We have affirmed our common foundation in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity [...]

The Baptist General Association of Virginia’s (BGAV) Mission Board shares The Parish Paper :
The Virginia Baptist Mission Board is proud to provide copies of the Parish Paper free of charge to members of our constituency!
The April 2010 edition asks the question: What Can We Learn from the Emerging Church Movement? ( Good timing considering the [...]

“My guy Erwin McManus (Mosaic Church) created a Doritos Superbowl Ad!” tweeted fellow megachurch pastor Rick Warren last week in support of “Casket.” “Church could win $! VOTE 4 him!”
From Church Executive Magazine:
Two of his buddies apparently know the scheme and called it a “genius” plan that provides free Doritos and gets him at least [...]

It’s hurry up back to the Dark Ages for evangelicalism:
This site has been created to promote networking and collaboration around the world and in the UK, for those who are seeking to build ecclesial communities out of contextual mission, utilising a new monastic model. To be clear, we are wanting to focus on those particuarly [...]

Christian Retailing tells us:
InterVarsity Press (IVP) books topped Leadership Journal’s top 10 books for church leaders from 2009, recently announced by the magazine.
Selected by a group of more than 100 pastors and leaders, including contributing editors of the magazine, the winners of the Golden Canon Leadership Book Awards were divided into two different sections–the Leader’s [...]

At his blog “Missiologist” Ed Stetzer, President of the SBC’s Lifeway Research, tells us:
We often hear of interfaith events and organizations, but is it possible for three very different religions to hold on to their beliefs, maintaining their differences, and still learn about one another? Bob Roberts, Pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, Texas, thinks [...]

The Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) is holding it’s annual church growth conference, 21-C : Leading Today’s Church Transition Into Tomorrow January 29-30, 2010.
Church growth leaders from the emerging missional sector include:
-Representatives from the UK’s Anglican Church “Fresh Expressions” church growth movement that promotes monasticism, the Sacramental & Contemplative
-A representative of the European [...]

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Next month, a general meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India will be held on the topic of ‘Year for Priests’, which Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed last June in order to renew the activity and contemplation by Catholic priests.
In order to cope with “the painful realities of the day,” [...]

Reformation schmeferation, emerging church theologian Scot McKnight wants us to know he’s pretty excited that: 
Baker Academic has done something that should lead all of us to a moment of thanksgiving: I could be wrong, but I think Baker is the first evangelical publishing house that has a commentary series on the Bible by and for Roman [...]

The Center for Action and Contemplation brings you the following conferences:
January 2010
FOLLOWING THE MYSTICS with:
James Finley, PhD lived as a monk at the cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where the world-renowned monk and author, Thomas Merton, was his spiritual director.
Father Richard Rohr, o.f.m., an internationally known author and spiritual teacher, [...]

Watcher’s Lamp shares a letter sent by a personal friend regarding Christian relief efforts of North West Haiti Christian Mission:
…We’ve had the opportunity to volunteer in Haiti twice in 2008 and plan to go again soon.
Both times we went with a surgical team to North West Haiti Christian Mission in Saint Louis du Nord [...]

Today’s headlines…
Largest earthquake in 200 years – 7.0 Magnitude
3 million affected
Thousands feared dead
International Relief Efforts Pour Into Haiti
32 – 4.0+ Magnitude Aftershocks
Port-au-Prince has been destroyed
Go to Watcher’s Lamp to see how you can help.

The new 4-DVD Emerging Church series by Roger Oakland of Understand the Times International.
Based on Roger Oakland’s book Faith Undone: The Emerging Church – A New Reformation Or An Endtime Deception, each DVD is 70 minutes long and features lecturer and author Roger Oakland of Understand the Times. This is a hard-hitting [...]

From Virtue Online
by Paul M. Elliott
www.trinityfoundation.org
In recent years, the Emergent Church movement has become a headline-grabbing favorite of the religious media establishment. Emergent leaders’ books and videos line the shelves of religious bookstores. Press coverage of their activities and pronouncements is overwhelmingly favorable. The movement has received national exposure in a two-hour PBS television special [...]

In The Emergent Church – Undefining Christianity Bob DeWaay exposes the core belief that unifies the Emergent Church – its eschatology. He demonstrates that in their system every other Christian concept is open to discussion and contradiction, yet their definition of eschatology remains constant and fixed; it is their sole unifying foundation. Without their eschatology [...]

A most interesting read in this post by emerging church theologian Scot McKnight where he discusses:
The white paper written by Tim Keller for the November workshop “In Search of a Theology of Celebration” is posted on the BioLogos web site: Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople (or direct link).
In his paper Keller gives what he finds [...]

I was honored to be on the radio with Jan Markell this month. She is a real warrior for the truth, no matter the cost. It was a pleasure to talk with her about all Jesus has done through this ministry and what a joy it is to tell others about Him. Here is a [...]

Examples:
Happy He, whom Christ shall find, watching to see Him come. Him the Judge of all Mankind shall bear triumphant home: Who can answer to His Word? Which of you dares meet His Day! “Rise, and come to Judgment” – Lord, we rise, and come away! -Hearken to the Solemn Voice
He wears no kingly crown, [...]

The answer would appear reveal itself in this post at From the Lighthouse…:
In an article written by Driscoll himself, ironically titled Obedience, Driscoll tells readers to turn to Richard Foster and contemplative Gary Thomas. Driscoll states: 

If you would like to study the spiritual disciplines in greater detail … helpful are Celebration of Discipline, by Richard Foster, and Sacred Pathways, [...]

ANSAmed.com reports: Exorcisms and alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary are occurring in Cairo, in two of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods, and the two phenomena are drawing in throngs of the faithful, mostly Christian Copts but Muslims as well. The most recent event is the one which occurred last Friday in the El Waaraq [...]

At the Resurgence website, of Mark Driscoll and his Acts 29, Winfield Bevins begins leading us toward the thin ice at the edge of contemplative spirituality in this post.

Our friend Joel Taylor of 5 pt. Salt tells us:
5ptsalt.com recently reported in this post how purpose-driven Carolina pope and Rick Warren underling Perry Noble and his NewSpring Church had basically tried to ruin the life of Dr. James Duncan, and we pointed you to his site for a very detailed explanation.
In case you missed [...]

This is not an endorsement and is placed here for those who may not be familiar with it. Christianity Today offers this review of the book Deep Church by Jim Belcher.