The neo-evangelists in our day push their evangelical emphasis to the forefront where it has become the golden calf in their churches. Instead of obeying our Lord to make disciples they seek to multiply their numbers through easy believism. They use shame tactics to get their flocks to bring their friends and relatives to church [...]

Or — Emerging/Emergent Errors; Puerile Pomo Prattle; Abominable Antinomian Aberrations; Novel New-Perspective Nonsense; Crazy Charismaniac Charlatanism; Sanctimonious Sacramentalist Superstitions; Cynical, Condescending Catholicity; Private Prophetic Phantasms; and Seeker-Sensitive Silliness: What Do They All Have in Common?
A most unusual post over at Pyromaniacs which is sure to generate discussion re. "the conversation."

A Little Leaven has an exhibit that brilliantly demonstrates the deceit and shallowness of Rick Warren’s Deeds NOT Creeds mantra. The exhibit shows how Jehovah’s Witnesses have adopted the EXACT same type of seeker-sensitive messages that we find in today’s modern mega-churches. The exhibit then asks if we should now consider the JW’s to [...]

From Blatzkrieg, "An interesting conversation is underfoot following a Christianity Today editorial criticizing Christian critics (Attack Dogs of Christendom)."

Jim Bublitz over at Old Truth has a great teaching from Horatius Bonar which dwarfs the new breed pastor-wannabes currently spreading their man-centered manure: 

Christianity is both a life and a dogma; quite as much the one as the other. But it is a dogma before it is a life; it cannot be the latter till it has been [...]

Where does altering your body become sinful? Where does altering your body become nothing more than vanity which is sin. I know that many out there want to push "Christian Liberty" but where is the line?
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 From page 104, Chapter 5 of Redefining Christianity by Pastor Bob DeWaay:
The gospel of The Purpose Driven Life is not the same as the gospel of the Bible.  The Purpose Driven Life gospel is inoffensive, attractive, winsome, popular and easy to believe.  The gospel of the Bible is offensive and hard to believe.  It is [...]

I have written a new article recently published over at Christian Worldview Network on the Kabbalah and this current occult fascination.

Our God is beyond our understanding. Thankfully, He has revealed Himself to us, to a degree, in His Word. Those who claim to serve Him, but treat His Word as if it was not important, or refuse to submit to the truths therein are fools. That has always puzzled me about those who take a [...]

If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord’s will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.
Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going [...]

Filed Under: New Evangelical Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Here’s the Pole Dancing Ministry being spoken of in a prior post here at Christian Research Net. From The Ledger:

From the ankles up, B.J. Montes looked ready for an aerobics class or a weight-training session in her outfit of pink athletic shorts and a white tank top. [...]

From The Expositor:
How To a Become a Mature Christian ala Rick Warren
You got to give Rick Warren one thing, he is consistent if nothing else, even though his spiritual drivel is leading millions to a false sense of salvation and/or leading them away from the truth.
In a post at Christian Post.com, Warren published a story entitled [...]

The slide into apostasy continues to pick up speed. A Little Leaven has an exhibit on a health club started by two Christian women that features strip club style Pole Dancing. A Little Leaven speculates that it is just a matter of time before some innovative pastor tries to incorporate Pole Dancing into [...]

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Over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes:

Brian McLaren sent me an email today (and the rest on his mailing list) promoting his Deep Shift Tour. I’ve written about this tour before but a look at his Deep Shift site is extremely helpful in understanding how he is drawing young people in to his re-defined, [...]

According to Perry Noble, those church leaders who ‘go deep’ in their study and preaching of God’s word are NOT like Jesus and are ‘Giving the Middle Finger’ to world. Here’s the relevant quote from “Pastor” Noble’s blog.
Like it or not–Jesus didn’t go to a bookstore, get a theology book by a dead white [...]

 From Chapter 1, page 2 of The Truth War, by Dr. John MacArthur:  So what is truth?  Here is a simple definition drawn from what the Bible teaches:  truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God.  Even more to the point:  truth is the self-expression of God.  [...]

Perry Noble is a prime example of the seeker sensitive movement next generation and their using what A.W. Tozer referred to as "modern salesmanship." Men and women, you don’t need a degree in theology to figure out that sales techniques designed by men to appeal to the flesh of other men will prove successful in motivating them to the desired end. [...]

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:19)
In our eagerness to make converts I am afraid we have [...]

This comes to us from Rocky Mountain News.com:

Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard won’t be fundraising for a Monument nonprofit run by a sex offender, won’t be ministering to anyone and needs to get a job, his overseers said in a statement released Wednesday.
"Mr. Haggard’s solicitation for personal support was inappropriate," his church supervisors said. The statement [...]

Hmm, it appears Christian Research Net was not alone. Christian Post reports:

The public apology of professional football player Michael Vick regarding his involvement in an illegal dogfighting operation is raising skepticism among conservatives and the media. While he took "full responsibility" for his actions, pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy and involvement in [...]

As most everyone knows "Attack Dogs of Christendom" from the August 2007 edition of Christianity Today by David Aikman has now been posted on the CT website.  I have seen a marked jump in traffic and in email inquiries so with this renewed interest it seems best that I respond further.
In this missive over at Apprising Ministries I [...]

Phil Johnson over at Pyromaniacs apparently is still seeking someone to respond to something he’s been wondering about:

 We’ve all seen the vigor, passion, and persistence with which angry friends of Emergent have been willing to argue and complain about the propriety of the Po-Motivators. I had wondered aloud if there has ever been an equivalent [...]

The Apostle Paul often used the analogy of a runner to describe our spiritual growth. Unlike a race that has an ending with one runner reaching the goal and attaining the prize of victory, our spiritual race will continue as long as we live. We will never reach the goal of Christlikeness, but like the [...]

Anyone with discernment can see that this current apostasy is spreading like an Oklahoma wildfire through the nearly spiritually comatose evangelical community. As I have said, No Controversy in the New Downgrade. And it’s rapidly being blown along by the wind of lies concerning the true nature of man and the sovereignty of God promulgated by the Devil’s Ecumenical Church of Deceit.
The evangelical house is a raging inferno [...]