From World News Daily: A prison menu offering ham sandwiches has prompted a multi-million-dollar lawsuit by Muslim inmates who claim their human rights were violated… The Muslim prisoners complained after discovering ham sandwiches were one of three options on the menu. Prison officers on duty explained the menus had been printed in error.  Ah, it’s [...]

Word Faith pastor John Hagee from his book In Defense of Israel: It has been my privilege to join Congregation Rodfei Sholom in San Antonio for the celebration of Passover with Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg. Four cups of wine are served at the Passover with a meal that symbolized the tears and suffering of the Hebrew [...]

As we have seen in the last two posts in our examination of the Word-Faith movement, one of the teachings from their leadership is that Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross was insufficient to accomplish the salvation of His people. They teach that Jesus then had to go to Hell to suffer as a [...]

Spiritual blindness and apostasy continues to increase as CNN tells of a couple of professing Christian "pastors" who have turned to embrace the non-Christian cult of Scientology supposedly to "augment" their faith. Pretty good indication that their faith isn’t in Christ: Some Christian congregations, particularly in lower income, urban areas, are turning to an unlikely source [...]

A couple of my Christian friends wrote CRM recently to let the president know they were withdrawing support due to CRM supporting the Emergent Church and compromising on sound doctrine. Details are here. Denver Seminary is also becoming more and more "emergent." Denver Seminary and CRM hosted a lecture by Alan Hirsch earlier this month. [...]

Fact: Rupert Murdoch is one the world’s greatest distributors of pornography. Yet, he is one of the speakers for Robert Schuller’s upcoming Rethink Conference. Why on Earth should Christ’s church learn to “rethink itself” in light of the advice offered by the world’s greatest pornographer? That is just as inappropriate as asking Larry Flint to [...]

Jim Bublitz of Old Truth.com writes in this insightful post: It’s no secret that many in the Emerging Church Movement would prefer that this day be erased from their calendar. No not Halloween, though I’m sure we won’t find many Emergents out today wearing Martin Luther costumes. I am instead referring to Reformation Day. One [...]

Today is the 490th anniversary of the Reformation. Sadly, the church in America is in need of Reformation just as much as the medieval church. This video shows the abuses of the Catholic church through the selling of indulgences. This spurned Martin Luther to pen the 95 Theses. Indulgences are every bit as evil as [...]

From Fox News: Malaysia’s Muslim men are suffering sleepless nights and cannot pray properly because their thoughts are distracted by a growing number of women who wear sexy clothes in public, a prominent cleric said. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, said he wanted to speak about [...]

I for one, will be eternally grateful that the Lord will one day set us free from the sordid spiritual bondage of The Deceivers like “Pastor” Silva. The Lord be praised that “Pastor” Silva is only pastor to 4 other poor deluded souls… Chris Lyons So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither [...]

"Faith as a grain of mustard seed. . ." (Matthew 17:20) We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be so in the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith, faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity. God has frequently to knock the [...]

This comes to us from Fox News. For anyone following the rapid decline of the American Christian Church–and the United Methodist Church in particular–this will come as absolutely no surprise: At a session over the weekend in San Francisco, the United Methodist Judicial Council considered whether to remove the Rev. Drew Phoenix from his post. [...]

Bob Burney shares some interesting comments over at Town Hall concerning the recent announcement at Willow Creek that their methodology didn’t work: If you are older than 40 the name Benjamin Spock is more than familiar. It was Spock that told an entire generation of parents to take it easy, don’t discipline your children and allow [...]

The Vatican and the World Council of Churches addressed the United Nations Monday on peace and climate change: WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia stated the WCC is committed "to the principles and purposes of the UN". The two general secretaries discussed climate change, and affirmed the interrelatedness of the concerns about the integrity of creation, [...]

"Visionary Art Museum’s ‘All Faiths Beautiful’ Looks at Outsiders and Their Burning-Bush Moments," says the Washington Post: In the ’50s, Edith Valentine Tenbrink decamped from Iowa to Los Angeles to find a more lively spiritual scene. There, she and her husband established the "Ancient Order of the Golden Precept," a kind of Ten Commandments religion [...]

At Slice of Laodicea Ingrid notes a rather startling similarity between some quite disparate gurus of the new spirituality and Brian McLaren, leading theologian in the emerging church: author/speaker Brian McLaren’s campaign and message [is much like] that of this cadre of outspoken New Spiritual/New Age teachers and leaders. Such New Age luminaries as Marianne Williamson, Dennis [...]

I have debated Pelagians. I have debated Atheists. I have debated Agnostics. I have debated Campbellites. I have debated Semi-Pelagians and Arminians. I have debated Antinomians. I have debated Hyper-Calvinists. In every case I must say that I would much rather debate believers who have the same respect for the Word of God that I [...]

It was brought to my attention that in the midst of a post attacking our Lord’s Reformation using the logical fallacy of the false analogy we read the following; which also happens to be a very pervasive view today within the dying American Christian Church: there was good reason to depart from the direction taken by the systematic [...]

O no, says the dreamer Robert Schuller–grandfather of the seeker-sensitive Church Growth Spiritual Dung Movement, "[God] only loves to dream successful ideas." Obviously he is not speaking of the glorious and majestic LORD God Almighty of the Bible Who doesn’t need to dream anything–Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. [...]

The fact is, Truth will both unite and divide. There is simply no way around it. Truth will unite all those who will believe it, and it will always divide them from all those who won’t.

In a fine defense of the proper way to stand for Biblical truth in this time of an American Christian Church chock full of spiritual sissies Phil Johnson wrote over at Pyromaniacs: The esteemed Dr. Warnock has made yet another post (plus a bonus follow-up comment) objecting to the look and feel of our polemic against some stylish [...]

As much as it grieves me to see false prophets like Robert Schuller continue to spread their venom in the historic pattern of Hymenaeus and Philetus, whose teaching spread like gangrene (2 Tim. 2:16-19), we must remember why it is necessary that deceivers like him remain visible in the professing church. The Apostle Paul warned [...]

ACLU Helps Prisoner Win Right to Continue Preaching

…from us to you today…you know who you are… But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses… As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed. (2 Corinthians 6:4,9) Unsung but singing: this is the short and simple [...]

Ingrid Schlueter weighs in over at Slice of Laodicea on Robert Schuller’s ReThink Conference. Being more "man" than most "leaders" within apostatizing evangelicalism–certainly moreso than the Christian compromisers participating in it–she at least has the spiritual guts to say: Author Warren Smith called me yesterday to discuss our upcoming radio program on Robert Schuller’s Rethink Conference. He didn’t [...]