Our pride is insidious. When we are convicted of our prideful behaviour or thoughts it takes cover and transforms itself into false humility. We take pride in our humility or our service or our devotion. Pride is idolatry of self. When we are not humble our pride actually displaces God with self as our center. [...]

Indeed this is becoming a very familiar theme for Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. More in a post over at Apprising Ministries where, as a former Roman Catholic and now an SBC pastor myself, I have already pointed out in Rick Warren: “Every Facet of Christianity — Including Catholicism” that Warren is dead wrong daring to try and reverse [...]

by John Hendryx
First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.” Acts 26:20
“I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have [...]

May 30 marks the Roman Catholic feast day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This feast commemorates the apparitions of "Jesus" to Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial, France from 1673 to 1675.  Alacoque had four apparition experiences, three of which occurred during Alacogue’s devotion to the Roman Catholic Eucharist.  The experiences included images of a "heart [...]

In Part One of this series we showed you that the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t even attempting to hide its open embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian.
In this [...]

The theological climate in the Church today  has taken on the characteristics of a free-for-all. Most professing believers’ Bible knowledge is extremely shallow. On top of that we are also in a period of intellectual barbarianism in which is marked by relativism. This causes the truth to be perceived as unknowable. Those holding this form [...]

The Desert Pastor has a word of encouragement for who are suffering within the barren, desolate landscape of the self-centered modern professing church.  I pray you’ll be lifted up by the spiritual food being offered at his cyber-oasis:
ENCOURAGED IN THE PRESENCE OF HERETICS
Not only as a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, but as a [...]

There are so many people, especially in my own denomination…because of the pathetic theology and pathetic preaching…on church membership rolls—and they are as lost as they can be. Because we have forgotten that salvation does not come by praying and asking Jesus to come into your heart; salvation does not come by going through [...]

Reuters btings this story romanticizing the unbiblical practice of monastics:

A speck of green in a sea of sand, St. Anthony’s Monastery in Egypt welcomes those seeking God in silence broken only by the whisper of the wind.
Monks at what is considered by many to be the world’s oldest active Christian monastery still rise before dawn to [...]

From the Christian Post:

In an unparalleled historical development, a major Orthodox Jewish institution has announced its decision to begin theological dialogue and fellowship with Christians.
Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel, and founding member of The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Cooperation, said that the center would help bridge gaps between Jews and Christians while [...]

Over at the Website Burn Your Plastic Jesus we read: Mark Driscoll, one night only August 27 at the Sydney, AU Entertainment Centre for 2.5 hours. Of what you may ask? The about page fills in a bit more detail:

Mark Driscoll takes a blow torch to the 21st century Jesus… Who else is like Jesus? [...]

Much of the spiritual bankruptcy of the Church in our day can be attributed to the dire lack of Biblical discipleship within the Body of Christ. It seems that little is heard of the necessity of being separate from the world and not be conformed to it. That, combined with most professing believers having a [...]

Pope to Meet Leaders of Other Faiths In a show of openness and unity, Pope Benedict XVI has asked to meet leaders and representatives of other faiths while visiting Sydney for World Youth Day.
Ahmadinejad Requests Audience with Pope Benedict Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has requested an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during his upcoming visit [...]

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 1 Corinthians 10:20-21, [...]

With this feature article Apprising Ministries does what we can with our limited forum to bring this to your attention. At the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention there isn’t even an attempt to hide its openly embracing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in [...]

This isn’t intended to be a post pitting two people against each other, per say, but it is meant to contrast how two people present the Gospel and their own testimony to what Christ has done. Notice what is left out of Bently’s. CRN knows which testimony we find credible.

Apprising Ministries brings you a quote encouraging the practice of  Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP) from ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard, who works closely with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. And together they are busy spreading Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions apostate Roman Catholicism—throughout the Body of Christ under the [...]

I grew up as a Southern Baptist, however, I was not a Christian until January, 1986 a few months after turning 34. After that, my wife and I were members of 5 different SBC churches in the Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Kansas City areas. I am sure that not all SBC churches teach the exactly [...]

This article from Apprising Ministries is a bit of a companion to the post Apostasy, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) in the SBC and Disease in the Church. And using some comments about AM at the Baptist Bulletin Board as a teaching illustration we also discussed the epidemic within evangelical circles of me-no-wanna-see-i-tis.
This time we turn your attention to some thoughts expressed [...]

Red-Letter leftist Jim Wallis describes his vision to "change the wind" in this story from Christian Post:

In an era of broken politics and bad religion, faith is making a serious comeback as a force for social change, says Christian author and speaker Jim Wallis…

“[Martin Luther] King and [Mahatma] Ghandi knew you have to change the wind,” he said. [...]

Christian Post brings us a piece which so accurately encapsulates these tepid times:

The Church of England is divided over a proposed motion for it to proclaim Christianity as the only way to salvation and offer strategies on how to evangelize Muslims.
Senior church leaders as well as some Muslim figures have voiced anger at the motion proposed by [...]

Even though it is discounted by many today, the Protestant Reformation was a wonderful work by God in that the Gospel was freed from the captivity of the apostate Roman Catholic Church. Over the centuries the Gospel had become obscured as the Bishop of Rome was declared perfect with authority over Scripture. Any resistance to [...]

Ready; Set; Go–Not; to Envision: The Gospel, Politics & the Future during the Envision 08 Conference at Princeton University, June 8-10, 2008:

Envision ‘08 is about the power of the gospel to transform the public square. It’s about Jesus and justice, evangelical history and heritage, and practiced theology. It’s about the next one hundred years of the [...]

This CIC Radio show with Bob DeWaay–which you can download here–critiques Velvet Elvis, the first book by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell:

We explain how Bell denies the principle of Scripture alone, puts the church above Scripture, claims that the Bible is paradox and mystery, and that his "Elvis" is abstract and could look like anything.

The CIC program [...]

Rick Warren’s press release announces the rollout of the PEACE Coalition: 

Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered in Lake Forest, California, May 20-22, to create The PEACE Coalition, a new international alliance of churches, businesses, ministries, universities, and other institutions.

Watcher’s Lamp examines the press release [...]