Jesus is coming back soon. If that statement brought a surge of joy into your heart then more than likely, you are actively preparing for His return and are looking forward to it with eagerness. However, there may be some of you who reacted with a sense of dread or foreboding. If that is the [...]

Over at Emerging Pensees emerging church pastor Mike Clawson has just weighed in on the posters recently featured at Pyromaniacs. Mike Clawson is the "founding pastor" of  Via Christus Community Church where his wife Julie "co-pastors the church" with him and he recently helped bring together the Midwest Emergent Gathering featuring Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, Denise Van Eck and Spencer [...]

I just saw  an interview on CNN with Pastor Marty Baker of Stevens Creek Community Church,  re: atm kiosks in church foyers that take tithes off of your debit card. I did a search and found this article. Now one can argue the appropriateness of  atm’s in the church lobby, but what got me was this; this guy started [...]

is how the headline reads on the Christianity Today website. And in this "cotton-candy" piece Caryn Rivadeneira tells us why the young fictional witch Harry Potter has become so inspirational for this new evangelical Christiani-ME religion: what’s so enthralling is that what we see happen with Harry is what we’d love for our own lives (though [...]

The Lord be praised that my friend John Pipes over at The Boroean was kind enought of make me aware of this so I could bring it to you at Christian Research Net: The Master’s College has converted 15 years of past chapel messages delivered by John MacArthur to mp3 and have posted them online [...]

Christian Research Net disclaimer: Make sure you are sitting down and not operating heavy machinery before reading this. Prepare to be shocked, stunned and amazed ahead!!! According to the Christian Post, amazingly enough, all of the candidates running for President are…now, how is it those new evangelicals put it…oh yeah–Christ-followers?!: All the candidates in the 2008 presidential race [...]

Christian Post is reporting on: A new movie set to be released this Friday will feature the Ten Commandments from the Bible in a very unflattering way. ”The Ten,” written by the same director of Wet Hot American Summer, is a compilation of ten different stories, each depicting one of the ancient commandments given to [...]

There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers. (Proverbs 6:16-19) If [...]

Over at Camp On This Alan Kurschner writes:  The "Calvinist vs. Arminian" debate throughout church history is substantially a debate between what is called "synergism" and "monergism." It is impossible for there to be any third option (well, ok, if one is willing to be a Pelagian). For those who are new to the Calvinist-Arminian [...]

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent for Times on Line tells us: The openly gay bishop whose ordination sparked the crisis in the Anglican Communion has claimed the Church of England would be close to shutting down if it was forced to manage without its gay clergy. The Bishop of New Hampshire in the US, the Right [...]

People want to feel that they have a free will. I think it all boils down to the fact of pride. We want to feel like we have a say in what goes on. We want to think that "God does His part and we do ours." "…Jesus is knocking on the door of your [...]

One of the most tragic aspects of the growing apostasy of the Church, with its roots in Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism, is the viewing of salvation as “easy” or something that can be planned or manipulated by men. Along with this, those who are its proponents must necessarily view God as somewhat less than Sovereign. They [...]

Here at CRN we have been chronicling the slow, inexorable drift of the SBC into ecumenism. Let me be perfectly clear, I grew up in a deeply religious Irish-Catholic community and I am well-acquainted with the doctrine from Rome. Firstly, ROME NEVER CHANGES THEIR DOCTRINE, EVER. If Rome sits down with you to "dialogue", the [...]

And emerging church hypocrites continue their whimsical whining e.g. over at OneHand Clapping in this polite hit piece Motivation or Ridicule?: So the blog buzz over the weekend were the anti-emergent motivational posters and then Emerging Grace’s beautiful response. She took what was an attempt to tear down others, and focused on the true message of [...]

A Little Leaven has a couple more sad exhibits for The Museum of Idolatry. Our first would be for those of you looking for a great gimmick conversation piece that will entice your unbelieving friends to ask you questions about the Bible and the Christian faith? Well, nothing works better than the Ten Plagues of Exodus Plaguedomes. And [...]

Over at Pyromaniacs Frank Turk shares some thoughts about what we here at Christian Research Net are beginning to see as the mighty "Relevant" elite. And men and women, O how very thankful we must be for these humble, yet loquacious lukewarm magnificent men [and token woman] on the extreme cutting edge of worldliness. Today, I for one, do mousse my hair and style my goat-ee [...]

This video clip will give you a look at one of the new breed pastors who will be teaching the most egregious emerging pseudo-Christian faith to your youth. As you’ll hear for yourself: "Jay Bakker is preaching a new kind of faith."

This can also be filed under: Actions Speak Much Louder Than Words. Ingrid Schlueter has more on Tammy Faye Bakker/Messner over at Slice of Laodicea: claimed Tammy Faye taught us “how to die.” That she has become, in death, something of an evangelical cultural icon surprises me very little in our lawless age. The news [...]

As the great Apostasy of the Church deepens and widens it seems that even those we once looked up to as solid and faithful servants of the Most High are slipping into unbelief. It is these failures that seem to strike the hardest at our hearts. We even begin to wonder, “Who’s next?” However, we [...]

In a piece from Alex Murphy we read: Josefina De Jesus Torres gently runs her perfect French manicure across the pages of her wedding album, ruminating on life as the wife of the self-proclaimed Antichrist… ”He was my apostle, the perfect man . . . the Prince Charming — even better: God himself had come to [...]

At Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes:  For the Lord’s Day I am posting this sermon by Pastor Tom Chantry of Christ Reformed Baptist Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This timely sermon is from a series on the life of Samuel. Here’s a summary: "Saul’s failure to fully obey the command of God was entirely in [...]

Twenty years ago Dr. Walter Martin stated: "The Church in the United States is in full blown apostasy." If you’re really serious about wanting to understand how the American Christian Church and its evanjellyfish got to this point of apostasy then make the time to listen to this audio clip from Paris Reidhead over at [...]

As soon as you try to turn the flock everybody says you’re against everything. Of course, I’m against the devil, I’m against sin, I’m against worldliness, I’m against the flesh and I’m against Christianity that pretends to be Christianity and isn’t. I’m against spiritual ignorance that tries to harmonize Christianity with the world. It’s absolutely [...]

Another example of the self interests promoted as Christianity by evanjellyfish. This post from Loretta Heiden over at Witnessing. Encouragement. tells us about the Women of Faith Conferences being held across the country: Listening to the video, it sounds like it is all Psychobabble and New Age ‘lite’. If this dream they are referring to is [...]

"Do as thou wilt" i.e. I want what I want and I want it now.  This video clip below kind of follows up on the Christian Research Net post The Idol of Evangelicalism. Here is the late "Black Pope" and high priest of Satanism Anton LaVey discussing his religion and philosophy. Actually in this clip the observant [...]