Although none of us likes exposing this skubalon in the Lord’s Church, it has to be done. In that context Christian Research Net is pleased to point you to this post by Steve Camp, which features an offensive video clip from emerging pastor Mark Driscoll Camp begins: This was a heart-wrenching day yesterday watching the above video [...]

Watch Rick Warren’s protege, Kerry Mackey coach PDL network pastors on preparing for the crowds that will come on Easter Weekend… "…You need to have a good Communication strategy…remember our target is the community, we are going to get 30-40% increase in attendance… " Read more about leveraging and manipulating the crowds at your local [...]

A recent front-page story in our local newspaper hailed the upcoming wedding of two lesbian women in our county who are travelling to Canada for their ceremony. The younger of the two women boldly declared, "How can love ever be wrong? I think God would take up a fight for me on that one. He’d be [...]

So reads the headline of this piece in the St. Petersburg Times: If Jesus walked the earth today, he’d drink fair-trade coffee and fill his Blackberry with non-church activities. So says Brian McLaren, author of more than a dozen books on modern Christianity – most recently Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crisis, and a Revolution [...]

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. (2 Corinthians 3:5) That is the difference between Christianity and all the Oriental cults and religions. All cult religions try to wake up what you already have, and Christianity says, "What you have is not enough– [...]

In this insightful article Berit Kjos writes: Two books (one new, one old) have suddenly grabbed public attention and captured the hearts of multitudes. One is long and instructional — a dictation from a channeled spirit guide. The other is a fictional testimony full of tear-jerking dialogue. A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is obviously occult, [...]

I am in the process of reading a book that is a collection of works by John Owen. One of the works is his masterpiece The Mortification of Sin, which I have read several times already. The other two works are Of Temptation: The Nature and Power of It and Indwelling Sin. This is not [...]

A very aptly named story from Christian Post: Cutting-edge leaders of the emerging, missional, mosaic and monastic streams are convening Thursday evening in Washington state to re-imagine ways to express the Christian faith. Under the banner of “The New Conspirators Conference,” attendees will contemplate what “God is conspiring” through the new generation of Christian leaders [...]

In this piece Shane Trammel informs us: Several days ago, to our surprise, we found out that Wheaton College had invited leftist, Pro-Homosexual Evangelical Jim Wallis to speak and promote his new book. In the interest of our readers, we have collected several links that are very informative regarding Wallis and his recent visit to [...]

If there’s one point where Jesus is clear talking about “some go to heaven and some go to hell” that’s it [Matthew 25:35-40] and it’s based not on “because I’m going to a cross to die for you” now…in Romans that’s how Paul understood how we go to heaven. But when Jesus talked about it [...]

Pastor John Chisham has placed up a video inteview he did with Tony Jones of the emerging church over at The Down Grade. In his intro Chisham says concerning this interview with Jones, a leading theologian in the Emergent Church: Tony Jones asked me to Minneapolis to Solomons Porch to do an off the cuff [...]

"By this we believe . . . Jesus answered, Do ye now believe?" John 16:30-31 Now we believe. Jesus says – Do you? The time is coming when you will leave Me alone. Many a Christian worker has left Jesus Christ alone and gone into work from a sense of duty, or from a sense of [...]

and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19) Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have [...]

Maybe a more apt title for this piece from Zondervan’s 2008 NPC blog gushing about Claiborne ought to be Shane for President: National Pastors Convention 2008 is a buzz this afternoon after Shane Claiborne, co-author of Zondervan’s upcoming book Jesus for President, spoke at two sessions. The first session titled "The Relationship Between Politics and [...]

At Slice of Ladicea Ingrid Schlueter writes: If you don’t read anything else on Slice today, please read this post. Following in the footsteps of The Secret and its teachings on the Law of Attraction, a movie is opening April 5 called “The Moses Code”. Please read about it,…

I had a friend tell me several days ago that her father had made the comment that most believers nowadays have never experienced real Christianity. I agree with that statement. Why? Most professing Christians are not regenerate. They are in the Religion of Do. They practice the same righteousness that the scribes and Pharisees practiced [...]

In this piece Steve Camp begins: The other day, blogger Tim Challies (who I like) put up a pretty balanced book review about Mark Driscoll’s latest book, "Vintage Jesus." It was a mixed review. He likes the book, but has some real problems with it (as do I). He didn’t address his concerns about the [...]

Watcher’s Lamp shares two revealing articles from commercial sector professionals regarding the emerging Evangelical industry : From The Advertising Age:When Evangelism is the Ad Model – Mara Einstein’s ‘Brands of Faith’ Eyes Movement as Product with a Shelf Life by Mya Frazier  Is the evangelical movement suffering a midlife crisis? Or, for those with a more brand-centric [...]

The website tells us: "Since 1998, over 200,000 people have heard the life-changing truths about relationships found in the Song of Solomon." The intro page, which features Mark Driscoll, also says "Be looking for Mark at an SOS conference in Dallas, November 21-22, 2008."

The Lord enabled me to open my mouth boldly against unconverted ministers; for, I am persuaded, the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ. The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How [...]

Chris Rosebrough of ExtremeTheology.com has just published the 3rd part of his critique of the Evolve 08 Church Planter conference. This installment focuses on how far too many pastors in the Church Planter Movement in their seeker-sensitive/purpose-driven methods have abandoned gospel preaching and as a result have turned Christianity into a performance based religion. Click [...]

As if the Episcopal Church doesn’t have enough problems with homosxual clergy and liberal theologians spreading their divisive cancer, from the Emergent Village website we read of an "historic Anglimergent gathering": Last week, there was a historic Anglimergent gathering at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis, featuring 18 people, described by Phyllis Tickle as a mixture of [...]

Are You “Being Led Away with the Error of the Wicked” to the New Age Ark of Oneness? by Tamara Hartzell outlines the emerging Global Ark of Oneness.  Below is a trailer for the soon to be released movie " The Shift".  The movie is the result of the efforts of Deepak Chopra and the [...]

As I prayed today in light of yesterday’s post on what Biblical Phariseeism really is, I asked for direction and discernment in what direction to go next. As usual, I simply went to work. At my job as a Database Administrator I am surrounded by cubicles. Some of those I work with love to have [...]