Archive for September, 2009

Pride Humility and Servanthood

Humility for the Christian is not optional. That is, if a Christian is going to walk before the face of God as one who brings Him glory while growing in Christlikeness and shedding all vestiges of worldliness, then the part of that that is both container and major ingredient of it all is genuine biblical [...]

Frank Viola Reacting To Issues, Etc.?

Frank Viola tweets: pastors continue to write & thank Barna and I for “pagan christianity” agreeing with the message, admitting they always knew it was true.less than a minute ago from web Viola then goes on: 1 pastor who came out against it in 2008 now admits it was because he feared losing his income. u [...]

For those who actually care anymore this piece contains a transcript of a sermon preached by Hipps, which exposes the antibiblical neo-Gnosticism your youth ministers are exposing your youth to through emerging church teachers like Hipps, “a beloved friend” of the Elvis of Emergence Christianity Rob Bell.

Latest Bull From Pope Perry Noble

Perry Noble, one of the pragmatic popes of the Carolinas, has decreed 14 Things That Jesus Did Not Say…

While the threat of global terrorism and the global financial crisis have been the catalyst for global,political unity,climate change is the motivation for global,religious unity… By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Adherents of the world’s major religions urged political leaders, businessmen and individuals Wednesday to renounce short-term gains and greed, telling a U.N. climate conference [...]

Biblical Humility What It Is and What It Is Not

One of the main contentions of the Emergents is that it is an arrogant thing to teach from the Bible as if it is absolute truth. They say that the truly humble are those who confess to know nothing precisely, but only in a nebulous sort of way. This is primarily an attempt to appear [...]

You may be aware of an upcoming emerging church conference called Christianity 21, which is slated for October 9-11. We’re told this C 21 will feature 21 women who’ll be revealing “the way the Christianity will be changing in coming days.” Among “the most provocative and innovative voices in the faith” is Makeesha Fisher who’ll speak on “doubt [...]

Rick Warren Shares Some Personal Instruction From “God”

PDL pope Rick Warren tweets moments ago, which you’d best check quick before he deletes it: @RickWarren God taught me the 5 Purposes of Church at 24, but few paid attention.Now, in my50s, I ask, “What 24yrold should I be listening to?

Gay Friend Of Apprising Ministries

A short discussion on homosexuality in this post using an email as the backdrop.

Today heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, half of the dubious duo JoPa Productions within the postliberal cult of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—along with his equally heretical “theologian in residence Tony Jones, sent out this tweet: Heading to Southern Baptist University in Bolivar, MO for 2 days of speaking.

Rob Bell and Evangelism

In post related to Rob Bell On Faith, Suffering, And “Christians” pastor John Chisham brings out an important point concerning postliberal preacher Rob Bell, his man-centered message, and his reluctance to proclaim the Gospel in this piece.

Correcting Quaker William Penn

Quaker Quotes tweets: Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns – William Penn So; how about: Some are so living in the world with the “postmoderns” they know not how to be very studious of learning what proper Biblical Christianity [...]

More on Rob Bell and his mythical non-gospel.

You’ll have to follow the link within this post and hear the absolute foolishness preached by Shane Hipps, a friend of Rob Bell whom he featured at his recently concluded “pastors conference,” for yourself to believe it.

Miracle on the mountain: ‘My Mother is here’ By June Keithley Castro Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines—I was there on Sept. 7 when more than 1,000 Marian devotees huddled for hours in the rain, under umbrellas and tarpaulins on a mountain in Batangas. They were waiting to see if their beloved Mama Mary would appear [...]

An interesting piece concerning God the Holy Spirit from Got Questions: Answer: A common mistake made with regard to the Holy Spirit is referring to the Spirit as “it,” which the Bible never does. This is because the Holy Spirit is a person. He has the attributes of personhood, performs the actions of persons, and [...]

At the website of ostensibly evangelical Mars Hill Bible Church, where Rob Bell is teaching pastor, we’re told that last Sunday they were treated to Whistling past the graveyard – Father Sirico. According to the post Rev. Robert Sirico at Mars Hill from something known as the Acton Institute of Grand Rapids, MI., which is ”a non-profit think tank dedicated [...]

George Fox, the founder of the heretical Quakers, rejected Sola Scriptura in favor of contemplative mystical “revelations” such as the dead wrong teaching of classic mysticism of some “spark of the divine” within all mankind. Consider this tweet today from Quaker Quotes: …walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone – George [...]

The following from Dr Volf, as it concerns the false religion of Islam cited in Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, is absolutely false: [The] Christian God is different, is different than the Muslim God, but it’s not other than the Muslim God. I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they [...]

This new post contains an important clip from yesterday’s Issues, Etc. radio program featuring Dr. James Nestingen, professor emeritus of church history at Luther Seminary, now leaving the ELCA because of the tragic recent vote to affirm openly sinning homosexual clergy. It discusses some of the results the ELCA’s rejection of God’s Word set against the larger issue of the emerging church [...]

My CREDO500 article on the PD paradigm

The ongoing CREDO500 blog conference saw the publication of a new paper I have written on the PD paradigm. It can be accessed here. An excerpt: The center of Christianity is the person of Jesus Christ, and His Gospel by which we are being saved. Apart from Christ, there is nothing but darkness and death. [...]

By Grace Through Faith

The more I deal with those who are adamantly against the fact that God’s Word is absolute truth as they claim the correct way to understand the gospel is as if it is some sort of smorgasbord or rotating buffet in which the sound doctrines taught to us from the Bible are simply one of [...]

Miroslav Volf is a disciple of emerging church icon Jurgen Moltmann. In this post Joshua Blanchard shraes an eyewitness testimony of “a two-part lecture by the Yale theologian Miroslav Volf, hosted by the First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor.” Blanchard tells us Volf: was primarily addressing the question of whether or not the Muslim God and [...]

For those who don’t think the emerging church has inflitrated mainstream evangelicalism, consider this tweet from Perry Noble, one of the popes of the church planting: All packed and ready to head out to the Youth Specialties Conference in LA tomorrow…really looking forward to it!  CRN now refers you to Lighthouse Trails Research for more information [...]

No One Outloves/Outgives Rick Warren Baby!

Rick Warren trumpets tweets: J,at17 I knew Id never b smartest or cutest.So I decided Id try 2b themost generous.Id never let anyone outlove/outgive me,Try it!


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