My new blog, Justification by Grace, is active and online with the first article, “Justification by Grace through Faith.” You can read it HERE.

I am switching over to a new blog site for postings that may be included here at Christian Research Net. The new site is call Justification by Grace and it should launch with an article or two tomorrow, the anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his famous 95 Theses to door of Wittenberg’s “Castle Church.” Even [...]

Pastor John Chisham takes a look in this post at a video containing the conversion story of heretical emerging church pastor Doug Pagitt: I was really excited to see this video; what I believed would be a testimony of Doug Pagitt’s conversion! I do not know about you, but I was disappointed, and not really surprised [...]

You’ll find the link to listen to this program here.

An encouraging devotional quote from Charles Spurgeon in this post.

In this time when the orthodox Christian faith is currently under attack on mulitiple fronts, tonight emergent church leader Doug Pagitt felt it important enough to make sure we knew: Liz Lemon just farted on 30 Rock. Fantastic.

Today emerging church pastrix Nadia Bolz-Weber wanted to share with the world her experience getting a new tat. She tweets: Getting ready. Lazarus tattoo! http://twitpic.com/nezzv Then a little later: Progress http://twitpic.com/nfe7x And finally: Lazarus http://twitpic.com/nfr98 This sure has some people around the emergent church pretty excited. For example Jay Bakker: @sarcasticluther  http://twitpic.com/nfr98 - Killer! Bakker’s assistant pastor: @sarcasticluther looks amazing! [...]

Today chief outlaw preacher and homopressive gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker wants us to know: German Lutheran Church Elects First Female Leader: http://bit.ly/3SDDvH That link takes us to this report from Reuters concerning more pretending to be “Protestant” apostasy: German Protestants on Wednesday elected Margot Kaessmann, a divorcee and the Lutheran bishop of Hanover, to lead them, the [...]

Yesterday at her Confessing Queer (CQ) blog Seth Donovan, one of the alleged “innovative” and “most important voices for the future of Christianity” who spoke “into our future” in order to “shape the future of our faith” at the recently concluded emerging church conference Christianity 21 (c 21), shares her thoughts on what she talked about at [...]

Irish Times.com Thousands of Irish people claim to have witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the skies over Knock shrine in Co Mayo. About 5,000 people gathered at the holy Catholic shrine earlier this month amid a Dublin-based clairvoyant’s predictions that an apparition would appear on October 11. They reported that they could see [...]

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6:35-36 ESV) Probably the command from our Lord [...]

From Dr. John MaArthur: “…1 Timothy 4, and it seems to me that in this text from verses 6 to 16, there is a wonderful summary of what ministries should look like. These are not things that the men do not know. They are things they know very well. They are certainly truths that most [...]

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect [...]

Some encouragement in this post during these troubling times.

Today Sojourners tweets: A Prayer for the Earth by Brian McLaren http://bit.ly/2EGe01 The link takes you to McLaren’s A Prayer for the Earth at the God’s Politics blog of Jim Wallis.

Built around an excellent teaching by fav Emerging Church punching bag Dr. John MacArthur from my morning devotion, in this post we’ll take a quick look at a pet Emergent Church straw man concerning Scripture.

God’s ways are amazing to me. I put together last night’s post, Bearing Fruit, with the focus of the disciple of Christ Jesus being revealed through their abiding in Him. However, the focus at the end of the post and in the discussion that followed it soon became apparent that the real focus of this [...]

In his book The Gospel-Driven Life, Prof. Michael Horton addresses how the Gospel in its fullness is materially sufficient for all of life. After addressing the Purpose Driven life paradigm, Horton continues to briefly address the issue of contemplative spirituality, especially as promoted by the Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Horton starts off by mentioning Foster’s [...]

The fruit of a ministry in God’s economy is not the number of people “converted” under it. No, the fruit, which will be what God will use to judge, refers to the effectiveness that ministry has in leading and developing within those who are ministered to by it unto a Christ-like life produced by the [...]

CRN contributor Lane Chaplin intros Episode 2 of his webcast: These days, it seems like everyone declares themselves to be evangelical, but what does this term really mean? Does it have any historical basis? Who are some that are calling themselves evangelical that really aren’t, and why is it important to defend the historic position? These questions [...]

Doctrine is a vital part of the true Church. Many of us may disagree on some things pertaining to our faith and still call one another brother or sister, but there are some things, from the sound doctrines from God, that are non-negotiable. I am constantly amazed when those who disagree with the clear exegesis [...]

CRN presents this from Jonathan Brink, who is hooked into the emerging church, as a good illustration of a fulfillment of 2 Timothy 3:2; the EC is in love with themselves i.e. mankind.

For those who wish to make the effort, in this article containing a transcription of a July 2009 sermon at Mars Hill Bible Church, you’ll see the new co-teaching pastor with his friend Rob Bell teaching transcendental mediation-lite aka “silence” at MHBC.

You’ll find the link to the video at 5 pt. Salt.

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