BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY, Plaintiff v. PURPOSE-DRIVEN PASTORS, Defendants. _____________________________ Case No. 0001 Trial Date: March 24, 2009 Dept: P Andrew DeLoach, Esq. host of the Take the Stand radio program that airs on Pirate Christian Radio has been holding a mock trial on his program. He has brought suit against many Seeker-Driven pastors claiming that they [...]

If Jesus were to ask, ‘Who do you say I am,’ the question He famously asked his disciple Peter, He would be disappointed by some of the answers He’d receive from contemporary Americans. A new nationwide survey conducted by The Barna Group among a representative sample of adults explored how many have what might be [...]

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.“ (Matthew 7:1-2 ESV) It is impossible to walk through one’s day without having to make judgments. In fact our Lord Jesus who made the oft misquoted [...]

One of the things I deal with a on a daily basis is comments from unbelievers and immature professors of Christ. I’ll usually block the abrasive unbelievers and try to at least converse with those who profess to believe but aren’t clear about things and even the unbelievers who are cordial. One thing that I [...]

After reading this new article at Apprising Ministries you will have a much better idea why Emergence Christianity has little regard for proper systematic theology and the penal substitutionary atonement. The fact is, these emerging deceivers are not nearly as clever as they wish to appear.

“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him Life for them that sin not unto death.” 1 John 5:16 If we are not heedful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other [...]

Pastor John Chisham brings to our attention the latest issue of News and Views from Rick Warren and shares: Pastor Rick Warren has invited people to come and become members this coming Saturday of Saddleback church. He has 2000 signed up, and wants 3000. To accomplish this goal, he has given some extra incentive to [...]

Over the last several days, perhaps even the last several weeks, I have been overwhelmed at work and in much of my personal life with pressure. As many of you know, I have a daytime job as a Database Administrator for a Hospital Group. I have worked at this job since 2001 and all has [...]

In our time of increasing ecumenicism where doctrinal lines are becoming more and more blurred comes this post over at Sharper Iron. Robert Delnay begins: Nearly four centuries ago the Puritan William Perkins drew a useful distinction. He suggested that there is a working difference between error and heresy. He wrote that error of itself is no ground for breaking [...]

From the Christian Post: Three members of a task force in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have released a statement, expressing their dissent against recommendations the panel made regarding homosexuality…  “Because we firmly believe the current polices of the ELCA, when enforced, are consistent with the biblical witness, Christian moral tradition, and the view [...]

From the Lighthouse blog has an important look at Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spurious spirituality rooted in the Counter Reformation of apostate Roman Catholicism: This article hopes to reveal the underlying nature of Foster’s spirituality and to reject the recommendations of these Christian figures who rather than warning the body of Christ about Foster’s spiritual [...]

A word of encouragement and exhortation in this difficult time.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. (2 Timothy 2:3-4) Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, its popularity or the amount [...]

In this fine piece pastor John Chisham begins: Do you testify with Christ? John 7:7 - The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. In my experiences as a Pastor and as an evangelist, I have run into many people who have criticized me for my [...]

I grew up in a Christian family. Not only was my immediate family all Christians, all of my extended family were as well. My Grandfather Ratliff was an evangelist who traveled all over Oklahoma, even before it became a state in 1907, preaching brush arbor “revivals” when there was no church building in town large [...]

Ok, being properly ”missional” and tres ”relevant” to this culture, I shall now speak in the celebrated celluloid language of American entertainment. Once upon a time, in the 1992 Rob Reiner film A Few Good Men, Colonel Nathan Jessep would shout at LTJG Daniel Kaffee the now famous line: “You can’t handle the truth!” And likewise, if you’re one who “can’t handle the truth,” then [...]

Even those who most ardently proclaim the sovereignty of man’s freewill must honestly deal with passages throughout Sacred Scripture which make it clear that the human will of the natural man is incapable of attaining such a high role. In fact, God’s Word actually makes it clear that the Human Will is simply the faculty [...]

In this article from the March/April 2009 issue of Modern Reformation Michael Horton, “J. Gresham Machen professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California (Escondido, California), host of The White Horse Inn national radio broadcast, and editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine,” begins by saying: Sharing his priorities for the next thirty years, best-selling author [...]

Built around a very informative section of John MacArthur’s oft-neglected book Reckless Faith, in this post, you’ll get a better understanding why Emergence Christianity needed to reject Sola Scriptura to open the door for the “revelations” gleaned from their contemplative spirituality to have the final authority over God’s Word.

A short piece on this critical subject from New Reformation: When we view suffering through the lens of the gospel, however, our response is entirely different. We understand that we were redeemed through suffering. He suffered that we might not suffer eternally. When we suffer, we’re better able to identify with Christ… Also 5pt. Salt [...]

The Kansas City Star tells us, in this story, that “Former President Jimmy Carter” is trying to lead unsuspecting Baptists “in search” of compromised Christianity “common ground”: He’s coming to Kansas City next week to push forward his efforts to unify Baptists, who tenaciously hold to both their faith and their freedom… “We are not trying [...]

Apprising Ministries with more on the new tour by Rob Bell, an icon of inclusive Emergence Christianity.

Chris Rosebrough of the Fighting for the Faith Radio Program which airs on Pirate Christian Radio recently did a segment on the problems with the statements that Rob Bell makes in the opening chapters to his book, Velvet Elvis. Rosebrough demonstrates how Bell’s theology and ideas redefine Christianity and flat out contradict the clear teachings [...]

Associated Content.com Howard Stern announced last week that he has accepted an invitation from acclaimed film director David Lynch to appear at the “Change Begins Within” concert to benefit the cause of teaching transcendental meditation to children. …The sold-out “Change Begins Within” concert will take place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City [...]

Pride is the natural state of man. The lost person is driven by it. After salvation, the believer is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). This state of being is very different from that of the natural man. Pride still exists in the believer and its method of operation within is to utilize the flesh [...]