Our enemy is pretty smart. He has been around long enough that he believes he knows us. He knows that lost people are enslaved to him via their sin nature. He knows that the little flock, our Lord’s sheep, may be new creations via the washing of regeneration, but they still have their flesh and [...]

Chris Rosebrough of Extreme Theology has a new article posted that soberly looks at the Biblical warnings about “pastors” like Bill Hybels and Steven Furtick who refuse to feed their starving sheep. The word that Rosebrough brings us from the Lord should cause all of us to pause and pray.
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Following on the heels of Rick Warren and Saddleback: Megachurch Aims to “Disturb: Christians here at Christian Research Net comes I Hate Christians a month back by Tadd Grandstaff, “Church Planter and the Lead Guitarist Pastor of Pine Ridge Church in Burlington, North Carolina.” Kind of duck and cover time for Christians being accosted by…well, other Christians.
By the way, [...]

While our friend Jim Bublitz is on a live-blogging break he is reposting some of his excellent work at Old Truth.com. CRN recommends this must read piece which speaks volumes about the "Christian" crud coming out of the spiritual sewer of seeker sensitivity: 

During a time of a revival, a pastor that I had not known very [...]

"When tolerance is valued over truth, the cause of truth always suffers. Church history shows this to be so. Only when the people of God have mounted a hardy defense of truth and sound doctrine has the church flourished and grown strong." (John MacArthur, Reckless Faith, p. 22)

The website Defending the Truth shares this teaching which concerns some of the growing deceptions in the Church today e.g. the Word Faith movement:

It is time to stop being afraid of offending people, take a stand for truth and expose the deception in the church. Call it name dropping if you will, but the true Christian [...]

Jeffrey Ressner of Politico gives us his take on the AIDS Summit put on by America’s Purpose Driven megapastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church:

Speaking at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., today, Hillary Rodham Clinton used a forum on AIDS and religion to burnish her spiritual faith credentials, dropping in verses from James, [...]

Some thoughts on the subject over at Apprising Ministries.

Excerpts from Joseph Farah’s excellent article at WorldNet Daily:
While mega-pastor Rick Warren has joined a group of 100 church leaders calling for interfaith dialogue and the building of "common ground" with Muslims, he has a slightly different outlook toward Christians with whom he disagrees.
In his latest missive to fellow pastors, he writes: "You’ve got to protect the [...]

This post  over at Pyromaniacs features Todd Friel’s video clip responses to Rob Bell’s "Bulhorn" and also includes this dead on target parody below:

Fox News with the latest on the AIDS summit:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton used an appearance at one of the nation’s largest evangelical churches Thursday to sketch a broad agenda to take on disease around the globe, calling it "the right thing to do."
The centerpiece of a speech laced with Biblical references and reflections on her [...]

From the Christian Post:

Saddleback Church’s AIDS summit kicked off Wednesday with hopes to “disturb” the hearts of those in attendance and mobilize congregations around the world to defeat the global pandemic.
The third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church has attracted about 1,000 people to the southern California megachurch to learn how churches and [...]

The Fighting for the Faith Podcast has a great new episode that takes a hard Biblical look at Rick Warren’s preaching and how it adds strings and conditions to the gospel. This a great resource. In fact, after hearing this expose of Rick Warren’s Gospel of Works, it begins to become very clear [...]

In addition to In His Own Words: Brian McLaren on the Atonement Ingrid Schlueter tells us at Slice of Laodicea that she contacted Willow Creek in an attempt to find out about their invitation to emerging church leader Brian McLaren:

I called Willow Creek today and spoke with someone named Lori. She refused to answer my questions [...]

The more we discuss our sanctification, the more the topic of idols and idolatry keeps coming up. Idols are anyone or anything that keeps us from genuine worship of the Living God in spirit and in truth. The consequences of being enslaved to Idolatry of the Heart is what we are witnessing right now in [...]

Christian Post brings us up to speed concerning a movie arguing from silence with "missing facts" about the "missing years" of the life of Jesus Christ. Ooh, yeah; mystery…zowie, Rob Bell must love this:

Hollywood’s production of a movie in which Jesus Christ visits the Indian subcontinent during his "missing years" may end up in creating confusion and [...]

A Little Leaven has created a haunting photographic art exhibit that takes the messages of Paula White and Joel Osteen out of their American contexts and places them in other parts of the world. It starkly shows the decadence and deceit of their false “gospels”.
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Slice of Laodicea posts some of the supposedly superior erudition of emerging church leader Brian McLaren where he discusses "the huge problems [with] the traditional understanding of hell."
O, what in the world did the Church ever do before Brian and the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church showed up to restore true Christianity?
See also: BRIAN MCLAREN: CULT [...]

After emerging church pastor Dan Kimball it’s a toss-up as to who endorses more books–Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren or Emergent Church Guru Brian McLaren. In this missive from Apprising Ministries you’ll see that Warren has endorsed a book by Dr. Ron Wolfson which informs us:

—from the Introduction
All human beings are made in the image of [...]

As an illustration of the man-centered pragmatism of the new evangelicalism Truth Matters presents 5 videos. And then encourages one to:

Compare the first video with the remaining four. Is Spurgeon wrong? Are the 4 church videos Biblical? Please share your comments. They both can’t be right. So who is?

Christian Post brings us this story:

When life coach and televangelist Paula White went into her marriage 18 years ago, she thought she’d end her life with her husband, Randy. Divorce was not anything she ever wanted to happen, she recently said.
Now separated from Randy and continuing her own ministry, White has found herself in the [...]

The older I become as I journey down this narrow way the more what passes for Christianity seems more and more absurd. Why? I suppose it is that I have become very convicted that we are very guilty of taking God for granted. Instead of worshiping Him for who He is, we seem to be [...]

Christian Research Net provides this link to an address by Pastor-Teacher Jeff Noblitt. And he’s dead on target when he says:

Someone asked me a while back, “How would you define the difference between using the Scriptures to support a more man-centered pragmatic message and just preaching the Word?”
And I do not mean this as a personal attack; [...]

Christian Post tells us about some celebrity "Christians" who read the Bible. CRN reminds you that the Pharisees, whom the Lord referred to as "children of the Devil," read the Bible every day as well:

Music star Carrie Underwood and award-winning actor Denzel Washington lead the way for Hollywood celebrities who are devoted Bible readers, according [...]