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John MacArthur
Mar 21, 2022: Brent Detwiler: Will Keith & Kristyn Getty Disinvite John MacArthur & Bob Kauflin from the Sing! Worship Conference Given History of Serial Lying & the Cover Up of Sexual Abuse?
In July 2019 I was stunned to see Keith and Kristyn Getty invite John MacArthur as a speaker to their mega Sing! Worship Conference in Nashville. I did everything possible to dissuade them. It was all to no avail.
In July 2019 I was stunned to see Keith and Kristyn Getty invite John MacArthur as a speaker to their mega Sing! Worship Conference in Nashville. I did everything possible to dissuade them. It was all to no avail.
September 2, 2020:
👉California pastor and author John MacArthur has been steadily going off the deep end for awhile now..MacArthur has referred to Catholicism as the "Kingdom of Satan, attacking Steven Furtick and Beth Moore. .But if you read his theology about 10 years ago you could see the beginning. In a nutshell, it's a desire for power which is primary motivation over proclaiming Jesus as Lord to a state that could use the message.,
👉California pastor and author John MacArthur has been steadily going off the deep end for awhile now..MacArthur has referred to Catholicism as the "Kingdom of Satan, attacking Steven Furtick and Beth Moore. .But if you read his theology about 10 years ago you could see the beginning. In a nutshell, it's a desire for power which is primary motivation over proclaiming Jesus as Lord to a state that could use the message.,
C.J. Mahaney
Apr 20, 2022: Kentucky Today: Southern Baptists reflect on the legacy of ‘Together for the Gospel’
Dever was among the group of four evangelical leaders who founded the T4G event including Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; C.J. Mahaney, founder of Sovereign Grace Ministries; and Ligon Duncan, now chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary.
Dever was among the group of four evangelical leaders who founded the T4G event including Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; C.J. Mahaney, founder of Sovereign Grace Ministries; and Ligon Duncan, now chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary.
June 10, 2021: Religious Dispatches: LESS FOR MOORE? IF RUSSELL MOORE LEFT THE SBC DUE TO CONSCIENCE AND CONVICTIONS HIS NEXT MOVE IS A CURIOUS ONE
On that note, Immanuel Church has exhibited, including in the very recent past, an uncomfortable friendliness with C.J. Mahaney, the founder of Sovereign Grace Ministries.
On that note, Immanuel Church has exhibited, including in the very recent past, an uncomfortable friendliness with C.J. Mahaney, the founder of Sovereign Grace Ministries.
Nov 17, 2016: Brent DeWiler: Todd Pruitt Lies about His Knowledge of C.J. Mahaney’s Guilt in Order to Appear Neutral
While interacting with Phil Johnson (John MacArthur’s executive director) on his Facebook page in April, Todd Pruitt from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals chimed in and claimed he had no knowledge, even second hand knowledge, of C.J. Mahaney’s guilt or innocence. He put forth this lie to thousands of readers so he could justify his claim of moral neutrality toward Mahaney.
While interacting with Phil Johnson (John MacArthur’s executive director) on his Facebook page in April, Todd Pruitt from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals chimed in and claimed he had no knowledge, even second hand knowledge, of C.J. Mahaney’s guilt or innocence. He put forth this lie to thousands of readers so he could justify his claim of moral neutrality toward Mahaney.
Nov 17, 2016: Brent DeWiler: Todd Pruitt Lies about His Knowledge of C.J. Mahaney’s Guilt in Order to Appear Neutral
While interacting with Phil Johnson (John MacArthur’s executive director) on his Facebook page in April, Todd Pruitt from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals chimed in and claimed he had no knowledge, even second hand knowledge, of C.J. Mahaney’s guilt or innocence. He put forth this lie to thousands of readers so he could justify his claim of moral neutrality toward Mahaney.
While interacting with Phil Johnson (John MacArthur’s executive director) on his Facebook page in April, Todd Pruitt from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals chimed in and claimed he had no knowledge, even second hand knowledge, of C.J. Mahaney’s guilt or innocence. He put forth this lie to thousands of readers so he could justify his claim of moral neutrality toward Mahaney.
Jan 22, 2016: Wartburg Watch 2016: Washingtonian Magazine Spotlights C.J. Mahaney, CLC, SGM
It's hard to believe that it's been almost seven years since Dee and I went to hear C.J. Mahaney speak at a Sovereign Grace Church in our area.
It's hard to believe that it's been almost seven years since Dee and I went to hear C.J. Mahaney speak at a Sovereign Grace Church in our area.
Sept 16, 2015: Wartburg 2015: Brother CJ Mahaney: He’s Done Gone and Joined the Southern Baptists!
One of the advantages of blogging for years is that we get to see stories evolve. Through the years, we have followed the Sovereign Grace Ministries (now Sovereign Grace Churches) debacle. We heard the horrific allegations of child sex abuse and watched as this once thriving organization took a nosedive, losing both churches and money.
One of the advantages of blogging for years is that we get to see stories evolve. Through the years, we have followed the Sovereign Grace Ministries (now Sovereign Grace Churches) debacle. We heard the horrific allegations of child sex abuse and watched as this once thriving organization took a nosedive, losing both churches and money.
Mar 8, 2015: SGC: Setting the Sadducees Straight | C.J. Mahaney | Mark 12:18-27
Oct 27, 2014: Wartburg Watch: Jon Payne Adores C.J. Mahaney – Guest Post by Todd Wilhelm
Dee and I are honored to feature the writings of our friend Todd Wilhelm from time to time. It has been a while since we have focused on Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), so here is the latest concerning Sovereign Grace Church Louisville, where C. J. Mahaney serves as senior pastor.
Dee and I are honored to feature the writings of our friend Todd Wilhelm from time to time. It has been a while since we have focused on Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), so here is the latest concerning Sovereign Grace Church Louisville, where C. J. Mahaney serves as senior pastor.
Oct 12, 2014: Brent Detwiler: Executive Director Mark Prater Effectively Calls Victims of Sexual Abuse Liars on Behalf of All Sovereign Grace Leaders
Mark Prater is the Executive Director for Sovereign Grace Churches, formerly Sovereign Grace Ministries. Yesterday, he put out a statement declaring all the accusations in the civil lawsuit against C.J. Mahaney, John Loftness and Gary Ricucci were untrue. This was not based upon any presentation of facts or refutation of evidence.
Mark Prater is the Executive Director for Sovereign Grace Churches, formerly Sovereign Grace Ministries. Yesterday, he put out a statement declaring all the accusations in the civil lawsuit against C.J. Mahaney, John Loftness and Gary Ricucci were untrue. This was not based upon any presentation of facts or refutation of evidence.
May 22, 2014: Christianity Today: Tullian Tchividjian on CJ Mahaney and the Sovereign Grace Ministries sex abuse scandal: 'Of course he knew'
Nathaniel Morales, now 56, was convicted on May 15 this year of sexually abusing three underage boys between 1983 and 1991 during his time as youth pastor at Covenant Life. Sovereign Grace is a coalition of 80 Reformed evangelical churches.
Nathaniel Morales, now 56, was convicted on May 15 this year of sexually abusing three underage boys between 1983 and 1991 during his time as youth pastor at Covenant Life. Sovereign Grace is a coalition of 80 Reformed evangelical churches.
| Charles Joseph Mahaney, commonly known as C.J., is the former president of Sovereign Grace Ministries (formerly People of Destiny International or PDI, co-founded with Larry Tomczak), a network formed to establish and support local churches, and was one of the founding pastors and leaders of Covenant Life Church, in Gaithersburg, Maryland and presently is the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville |
Josh McDowell
| Joslin "Josh" McDowell (born August 17, 1939) is an evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He is the author or co-author of over 150 books.
In 2006, his book Evidence That Demands a Verdict was ranked 13th in Christianity Today's list of most influential evangelical books published after World War II. Other well-known titles are More Than a Carpenter, A Ready Defense and Right from Wrong.. [SOURCE: Wikipedia} |
brian mclaren
June 27, 2021: MilleLacs Messenger: Koinonia ‘The older I get, the less I know’
For those wanting more, I recommend to you Brian McLaren’s recent book, Faith After Doubt.
For those wanting more, I recommend to you Brian McLaren’s recent book, Faith After Doubt.
Aug 27, 2020: Religious News Service: More than 350 faith leaders to back Biden for president, including many first-time endorsers
Other endorsers — most of whom organizers said are acting as individuals and not on behalf of their affiliated organizations — include a number of liberal-leaning voices, such as the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, an author and Lutheran pastor; David Gushee, an author and Christian ethicist; David Beckmann, president emeritus of the Christian organization Bread for the World; Diana Butler Bass, author and historian of religion; Rabbi Jack Moline, head of Interfaith Alliance; Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action; the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, pastor at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City; Rabbi Sharon Brous, head of IKAR Jewish community in California; Valarie Kaur, Sikh activist and head of the Revolutionary Love Project; Anju Bhargava, former member of Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and board member of the Hindu American Seva Communities; Imam Talib Shareef of Masjid Muhammad, also known as “The Nation’s Mosque”; Greg M. Epstein, Humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT; and Brian McLaren, Christian author and activist.
Other endorsers — most of whom organizers said are acting as individuals and not on behalf of their affiliated organizations — include a number of liberal-leaning voices, such as the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, an author and Lutheran pastor; David Gushee, an author and Christian ethicist; David Beckmann, president emeritus of the Christian organization Bread for the World; Diana Butler Bass, author and historian of religion; Rabbi Jack Moline, head of Interfaith Alliance; Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action; the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, pastor at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City; Rabbi Sharon Brous, head of IKAR Jewish community in California; Valarie Kaur, Sikh activist and head of the Revolutionary Love Project; Anju Bhargava, former member of Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and board member of the Hindu American Seva Communities; Imam Talib Shareef of Masjid Muhammad, also known as “The Nation’s Mosque”; Greg M. Epstein, Humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT; and Brian McLaren, Christian author and activist.
Apr 5, 2015: Brian McLaren: The Uprising Begins: An Easter Sunday Reflection
Sept 4, 2014: Christian Today: Brian McLaren: 'We've entered a new era of Bible reading'
We've moved into a new era of approaching the Bible, controversial Christian author and speaker Brian McLaren says. It's an era that could see Christians abandoning the idea that there is one 'right' way of interpreting Scripture – an era he calls Bible 3.0.
We've moved into a new era of approaching the Bible, controversial Christian author and speaker Brian McLaren says. It's an era that could see Christians abandoning the idea that there is one 'right' way of interpreting Scripture – an era he calls Bible 3.0.
May 1, 2014: Challies.com: The False Teachers: Brian McLaren
Today we turn to a man who helped lead the Emerging Church and who was once named by TIME as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. Brian McLaren
Today we turn to a man who helped lead the Emerging Church and who was once named by TIME as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. Brian McLaren
In A New Kind of Christianity he insists that Christians have long been reading the Bible through the distorted lens of a Greco-Roman narrative. This narrative produced many false dualisms, an air of superiority, and a false distinction between those who were “in” and those who were “out.” These three marks of false narrative have so impacted our faith that we can hardly see past them. His book attempts to do that, and to reconstruct the Christian faith as it is meant to be.
Leading the way is his view of the Bible. He does not see the Bible as God’s inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word. He displays this, for example, in his interpretation of the account of Noah by saying, “a god who mandates an intentional supernatural disaster leading to unparalleled genocide is hardly worthy of belief, much less worship” (A New Kind of Christianity).
He goes on to say, “I’m recommending we read the Bible as an inspired library. This inspired library preserves, presents, and inspires an ongoing vigorous conversation with and about God, a living and vital civil argument into which we are all invited and through which God is revealed” (New Kind). After all, “revelation doesn’t simply happen in statements. It happens in conversations and arguments that take place within and among communities of people who share the same essential questions across generations. Revelation accumulates in the relationships, interactions, and interplay between statements.” He understands the Bible to be a slowly-evolving human understanding of God. “Scripture faithfully reveals the evolution of our ancestors’ best attempts to communicate their successive best understandings of God. As human capacity grows to conceive of a higher and wiser view of God, each new vision is faithfully preserved in Scripture like fossils in layers of sediment.”
This is nothing less than theological liberalism in twenty-first century, post-modern clothing (which is why Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism offers a rebuttal, though it was written 90 years earlier). Like Fosdick and other liberals before him, McLaren has assumed authority over the Bible instead of placing himself under its authority. His understanding of Scripture frees him to see Christian doctrine as evolving, and himself as an instrument of this evolution. In this way he revisits and reinterprets whatever does not accord with modern sensibilities. He has denied the literal nature of hell along with its eternality; he has denied the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ; he has denied Jesus Christ as the only way to the Father; he has affirmed homosexuality as good and pleasing to God. And he continues to think and to write, meaning that his theological development is not yet complete. --Tim Challis
Leading the way is his view of the Bible. He does not see the Bible as God’s inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word. He displays this, for example, in his interpretation of the account of Noah by saying, “a god who mandates an intentional supernatural disaster leading to unparalleled genocide is hardly worthy of belief, much less worship” (A New Kind of Christianity).
He goes on to say, “I’m recommending we read the Bible as an inspired library. This inspired library preserves, presents, and inspires an ongoing vigorous conversation with and about God, a living and vital civil argument into which we are all invited and through which God is revealed” (New Kind). After all, “revelation doesn’t simply happen in statements. It happens in conversations and arguments that take place within and among communities of people who share the same essential questions across generations. Revelation accumulates in the relationships, interactions, and interplay between statements.” He understands the Bible to be a slowly-evolving human understanding of God. “Scripture faithfully reveals the evolution of our ancestors’ best attempts to communicate their successive best understandings of God. As human capacity grows to conceive of a higher and wiser view of God, each new vision is faithfully preserved in Scripture like fossils in layers of sediment.”
This is nothing less than theological liberalism in twenty-first century, post-modern clothing (which is why Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism offers a rebuttal, though it was written 90 years earlier). Like Fosdick and other liberals before him, McLaren has assumed authority over the Bible instead of placing himself under its authority. His understanding of Scripture frees him to see Christian doctrine as evolving, and himself as an instrument of this evolution. In this way he revisits and reinterprets whatever does not accord with modern sensibilities. He has denied the literal nature of hell along with its eternality; he has denied the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ; he has denied Jesus Christ as the only way to the Father; he has affirmed homosexuality as good and pleasing to God. And he continues to think and to write, meaning that his theological development is not yet complete. --Tim Challis
Gay Christian Movement Watch: September 26, 2012 Brian McLauren, emergent church, false teachers, homosexual marriage, marriage perversion
Its been proven again and again. The main motivation for these false teachers approving homosexual conduct comes down to two things: their families or themselves. It had just been a couple of years when McLaren shifted his thinking and abandoned the traditional view of homosexuality being a sin that he grew up with. “I had gone through my change in this view before I ever guessed that any of my kids might be gay,” he said on the radio program.” [source]
How very convenient, Mr. McLaren. Either way, putting either one over the will of God is idolatrous but idolatry isn’t a big concern with false teachers.
We’ve reported on Brian McLaren and his emergent church loonies here, here and here. As a leader in the emergent church movement, GCM Watch was the first to tell you that a marriage of the two false ideologies was inevitable. Both are cut from the same doctrinal error cloth. The lies false teachers tell are always self-serving. Always. The ones who spit out the gay is not a sin lie are profiting and personally benefitting from the telling of lies.
McLaren was the co-performer of his son’s “wedding” to another man in Washington.
Its been proven again and again. The main motivation for these false teachers approving homosexual conduct comes down to two things: their families or themselves. It had just been a couple of years when McLaren shifted his thinking and abandoned the traditional view of homosexuality being a sin that he grew up with. “I had gone through my change in this view before I ever guessed that any of my kids might be gay,” he said on the radio program.” [source]
How very convenient, Mr. McLaren. Either way, putting either one over the will of God is idolatrous but idolatry isn’t a big concern with false teachers.
We’ve reported on Brian McLaren and his emergent church loonies here, here and here. As a leader in the emergent church movement, GCM Watch was the first to tell you that a marriage of the two false ideologies was inevitable. Both are cut from the same doctrinal error cloth. The lies false teachers tell are always self-serving. Always. The ones who spit out the gay is not a sin lie are profiting and personally benefitting from the telling of lies.
McLaren was the co-performer of his son’s “wedding” to another man in Washington.
Mar 23, 2011: Albert Mohler: A Theological Conversation Worth Having: A Response to Brian McLaren
That is why a recent essay by Brian McLaren helps us all to understand what is at stake in the controversy over Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins. Beyond this, his argument reveals a great deal about the actual beliefs and trajectories of what has become known as the emerging church. As such, his essay is a welcome addition to this important conversation.
That is why a recent essay by Brian McLaren helps us all to understand what is at stake in the controversy over Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins. Beyond this, his argument reveals a great deal about the actual beliefs and trajectories of what has become known as the emerging church. As such, his essay is a welcome addition to this important conversation.
| Brian D. McLaren (born 1956) is a prominent Christian pastor, author, activist and speaker and leading figure in the emerging church movement. McLaren is also associated with postmodern Christianity and progressive Christianity and is a major figure in post-evangelical thought. He has often been named one of the most influential Christian leaders in America and was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America in 2005. McLaren was also the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, which he left in 2006 to pursue writing and speaking full-time. |
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Russell MOore
Jan 20, 2022: Russell Moore: Christianity Today: What Liz Cheney Can Teach American Evangelicals
Some people in her own party want Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to lose her membership on committees and even her place within her party’s conference in the United States House of Representatives, all because she won’t “move on” from her beliefs that the attempts to overturn the last election—leading up to last January’s attack on the Capitol—are a clear and present danger to democracy.
Some people in her own party want Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to lose her membership on committees and even her place within her party’s conference in the United States House of Representatives, all because she won’t “move on” from her beliefs that the attempts to overturn the last election—leading up to last January’s attack on the Capitol—are a clear and present danger to democracy.
Carey Nieuwhof
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Dec 13, 2015: One In Jesus: Carey Nieuwhof: How Pastoral Care Stunts Church Growth
I’m quickly becoming a fan of the writings of Carey Nieuwhof on church leadership. He writes very much in the manner of Thom Rainer, but he writes as the pastor of a megachurch (Connexus Church, north of Toronto Canada). |
May 20, 2021: Greenfield Daily Reporter: Hope for Living: Will post-COVID-19 church attendance move from in-person to virtual?
In his blog post “8 Disruptive Church Trends that will Rule 2021,” Carey Nieuwhof predicts that growing churches will shift their focus from in-person gathering at a set location and a set hour to connecting. 
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Carlton Pearson
Jan 15, 2022: Christian Post: Pastor Michael Todd admits wiping spit on brother’s face in church was ‘too extreme and disgusting’
Bishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1990s and stirred controversy for declaring there is no Hell, came to Todd’s defense.
Pearson is the senior minister of Christ Universal Temple, a large New Thought congregation in Chicago, Illinois. He is also the head of a new Higher Dimensions fellowship in Chicago and an affiliate minister at Tulsa’s All Souls Unitarian Church. He said Todd and his brother are like family to him.
Bishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1990s and stirred controversy for declaring there is no Hell, came to Todd’s defense.
Pearson is the senior minister of Christ Universal Temple, a large New Thought congregation in Chicago, Illinois. He is also the head of a new Higher Dimensions fellowship in Chicago and an affiliate minister at Tulsa’s All Souls Unitarian Church. He said Todd and his brother are like family to him.
Richard D Phillips
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"Few of us are eager to proclaim ourselves prophets, and yet is the duty of Christians — and especially of ministers in the church — to serve in the office of prophets, voicing truth from God's Word to the church. Yet there is a great principle of deformation that always opposes this calling, a principle that is especially influential in our own day. This is the idea that it is more important to be winsome, more excellent to be pleasing in the sight of men, regardless of what you do or say, than it is to guard and proclaim the truth of God. Just as in Jeremiah's day, the pragmatists and the lovers of the new and the allies of the world hate and attack the prophetic voice because it unsettles the people. "Your words mark you as a traitor," they said to Jeremiah, and so they still say today.
If there is one certainty in the Evangelical Movement today, it is that those who confront error and compromise, those who deliver bad though biblical news, just like those reformers the prophets, will be cast aide, will be mocked and abused, will be denied access to major media, will be ridiculed and marginalized, just as the prophets of old were put to death with stones and cast into cisterns. Indeed, as Jesus Himself lamented, this treatment of prophets is veritably the spectator sport of deformation history" - Richard D. Phillips, Turning Back the Darkness: The Biblical Pattern of Reformation, (Crossway Books, Wheaton, Il, USA, 2002), p. 107-108 |
The Gospel is relevent; it is always relevent, as long as there are sinners, as long as God sits upon a holy throne of judgment, as long as lawbreakers are under the condemnation and in the bondage of sin. The Gospel is relevent to the ultimate and greatest needs of every man and woman, needs that do not change with the generations or intellectual fashions."
- Richard D. Phillips, Turning Back the Darkness: The Biblical Pattern of Reformation, (Crossway Books, Wheaton, Il, USA, 2002), p. 167
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John Piper
Mar 22, 2022: The Transformed Wife: SHOULD WOMEN BE POLICE OFFICERS?
A woman asked John Piper if it was okay for women to become police officers. He answered her here. I will give a few comments from his article and then respond.
A woman asked John Piper if it was okay for women to become police officers. He answered her here. I will give a few comments from his article and then respond.
“Sometimes people ask, “Why would God have bothered to create such a microscopic speck called the earth and humanity and then get involved with us?" Beneath this questions is a fundamental failure to see what the universe is about. It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about Himself. And He says it is for us to learn and enjoy— namely, that He is infinitely great and powerful and wise and beautiful. The more the Hubble Telescope sends back to us about the unfathomable depths of space, the more we should stand in awe of God. The disproportion between us and the universe is a parable about the disproportion between us and God. And it is an understatement. But the point is not to nullify us but to glorify Him." — John Piper, from “Don’t Waste Your Life"
Vance Pitman
Feb 4, 2022: Baptist Press: Churches not holy huddles; ‘We’re an army,’ Pitman says
One-hundred twenty. Vance Pitman wants Southern Baptists of Texas Convention churches to understand two significant things about that number: it’s the size of the crowd that took Jesus seriously when He first delivered His mission, and the size of the average SBTC church. In fact, a majority of churches affiliated with the state convention have an average attendance of 120 or fewer
One-hundred twenty. Vance Pitman wants Southern Baptists of Texas Convention churches to understand two significant things about that number: it’s the size of the crowd that took Jesus seriously when He first delivered His mission, and the size of the average SBTC church. In fact, a majority of churches affiliated with the state convention have an average attendance of 120 or fewer
| “The size of the church does not determine its significance. The size of the mission determines its significance – and the mission is big. Whether your church runs 10 or 10,000, both have the responsibility for the same mission, which is to locally engage their city with the Gospel and globally engage people and nations with the Gospel.” |
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Chris Reed
Jan 19, 2022: Charisma: Chris Reed Prophetic Vision: Joe Biden Will Not Finish His First Term as President
Chris Reed, who recently took over the mantle of leadership from Rick Joyner at MorningStar Ministries, revealed in a recent service many startling visions that the Lord has shown him for the year 2022 and beyond. One of the more shocking revelations from the Lord was that President Joe Biden would not finish his first term in office.
Chris Reed, who recently took over the mantle of leadership from Rick Joyner at MorningStar Ministries, revealed in a recent service many startling visions that the Lord has shown him for the year 2022 and beyond. One of the more shocking revelations from the Lord was that President Joe Biden would not finish his first term in office.
alan rudnick
Feb 17, 2021: Christian Post: 'Ashes to Go': Ash Wednesday observances altered as COVID-19, snow create difficulties
Alan Rudnick, the pastor of DeWitt Community Church, said it is important to maintain the tradition even though the process is different this year
Nov 19, 2015: Alan Rudnick: BaptistGlobal News: The biblical reality of refugees
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Sept 25, 2015: Alan Rudnick: Baptist Global News: Pope Francis is good for Christianity
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Aug 21, 2015: Baptist News Global: For some, another threat to church survival: natural beauty
“We’re already down and now you want to kick us?” said Alan Rudnick, an American Baptist minister and executive pastor at DeWitt Community Church in DeWitt, N.Y. - |
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Mar 23, 2015: Inquistr: Jesus Swagger’ Author Calls Out ‘Poser Christians,’ But Is Accused Of Being Just That
Also equated with the 30-year-old “seeker movement,” poser Christianity has been blamed for a relentless watering down of many of the tenets of Christian teaching, but Baptist Alan Rudnick sees hope within the pages of Wilson’s book. “I think it’s reached its zenith with coffee and hipster pastors and bands — there was more style over substance,” said Rudnick, pastor of First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa, N.Y. “I hope we’re done with that superficial Christianity.”
Also equated with the 30-year-old “seeker movement,” poser Christianity has been blamed for a relentless watering down of many of the tenets of Christian teaching, but Baptist Alan Rudnick sees hope within the pages of Wilson’s book. “I think it’s reached its zenith with coffee and hipster pastors and bands — there was more style over substance,” said Rudnick, pastor of First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa, N.Y. “I hope we’re done with that superficial Christianity.”
RJ Rushdoony
Because God is God, the absolute lord and law-giver, fear of God is the essence of sanity and common sense. To depart from a fear of God is to lack any real sense of reality. -RJ Rusdoony "Institutes of Biblical Law"
Pope Francis
Jan 26, 2022: Vatican News: Christians across the world join in prayer for Ukraine
Answering Pope Francis’ appeal for Christians to mark Wednesday as a special day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, the World Council of Churches joins in pleading for dialogue instead of threats.
Answering Pope Francis’ appeal for Christians to mark Wednesday as a special day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, the World Council of Churches joins in pleading for dialogue instead of threats.
Jan 19, 2022: Catholic Herald: People's mistakes and sins do not frighten God, pope says at audience
God is not frightened by people's sins, mistakes or failures, Pope Francis said.
What God is afraid of is "the closure of our hearts — this, yes, this makes him suffer — he is frightened by our lack of faith in his love," the pope said Jan. 19 during his weekly general audience.
God is not frightened by people's sins, mistakes or failures, Pope Francis said.
What God is afraid of is "the closure of our hearts — this, yes, this makes him suffer — he is frightened by our lack of faith in his love," the pope said Jan. 19 during his weekly general audience.
charles sell
"If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer. But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior." --Charles Sell
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Jim Wallis
Jan 12, 2022: Freelance Christianity: Throwing Away the Image of God
At the beginning of a recent episode of “Consider This,” NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast, Rev. Jim Wallis, the chair of the Faith and Justice Center at Georgetown University, commented on the fact that many of those who participated in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection began their activities with a prayer thanking God for “gracing us with this opportunity to stand up for our God-given unalienable rights.” While part of the motivation for the insurrectionists that day was the “Big Lie” that the November 2020 election had been stolen, Wallis focused his attention elsewhere.
At the beginning of a recent episode of “Consider This,” NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast, Rev. Jim Wallis, the chair of the Faith and Justice Center at Georgetown University, commented on the fact that many of those who participated in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection began their activities with a prayer thanking God for “gracing us with this opportunity to stand up for our God-given unalienable rights.” While part of the motivation for the insurrectionists that day was the “Big Lie” that the November 2020 election had been stolen, Wallis focused his attention elsewhere.
Matt Walsh
Jan 20, 2022: Daily Citizen: Matt Walsh Speaks the Truth About ‘Gender Ideology’ on Dr. Phil – Upsets ‘Non-Binary’ Activists
Kudos to Matt Walsh, a conservative Christian author and activist, who participated in a Dr. Phil show with two “non-binary,” “transgender” activists. He explained the truth about the false “gender ideology” that has swept across our culture, courageously speaking before a hostile audience.
Kudos to Matt Walsh, a conservative Christian author and activist, who participated in a Dr. Phil show with two “non-binary,” “transgender” activists. He explained the truth about the false “gender ideology” that has swept across our culture, courageously speaking before a hostile audience.
Peter Wehner
Justin Welby
Jan 11, 2022: Christian Today: Justin Welby says he's 'not personally in favour' of vaccine mandates
Justin Welby has been one of many Church leaders encouraging people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 but he is not in favour of making it a legal requirement.
Justin Welby has been one of many Church leaders encouraging people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 but he is not in favour of making it a legal requirement.
Sept 16, 2021: Archbishop of Canterbury: Church of England to go net-zero by 2030
Sky News published this video item, entitled “Archbishop of Canterbury: Church of England to go net-zero by 2030” – below is their description.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has got rid of his diesel car and reduced his meat consumption. He says these are some of the small steps he has taken in support of climate action, but ‘it can’t be up to the individual.’
Sky News published this video item, entitled “Archbishop of Canterbury: Church of England to go net-zero by 2030” – below is their description.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has got rid of his diesel car and reduced his meat consumption. He says these are some of the small steps he has taken in support of climate action, but ‘it can’t be up to the individual.’
Howard-John Wesley
Apr 6, 2015: Christian Post: Obama Family Attends Prominent African-American Megachurch for Easter; Pastor Touches on Questions of Same-Sex Marriage, Healthcare, Resurrection of Christ
President Barack Obama and his family attended the prominent Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, on Easter Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Howard-John Wesley, touched on a number of social issues in his sermon, including same-sex marriage, healthcare, and the resurrection of Christ.
President Barack Obama and his family attended the prominent Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, on Easter Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Howard-John Wesley, touched on a number of social issues in his sermon, including same-sex marriage, healthcare, and the resurrection of Christ.
Donald Whitney
Nov 19, 2021: Southern Equip: How God Helps Us Pray According to His Will
To pray the Bible, you simply go through a passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text. See how easy that is? Anyone can do that.
To pray the Bible, you simply go through a passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text. See how easy that is? Anyone can do that.
Apr 1, 2016: Crossway: An Interview with Donald Whitney
In this video, Justin Taylor sits down with Donald Whitney to discuss his new book, Family Worship.
In this video, Justin Taylor sits down with Donald Whitney to discuss his new book, Family Worship.
George Yancey
| There is a lot of literature on hostility toward many different groups but just about none on hostility toward Christians. Yet when we collected qualitative data from cultural progressive activists we quickly saw some of the unnecessary vitriol and fears within many of our respondents. We also saw the social status of those who exhibited this hatred and many of them would be in positions that allowed them to at least subtly act on their anger and fears. That motivated us to take a more systematic look at Christianophobia and speculate on how this phenomenon influences certain social aspects in the United States.
Another aspect that drove me to work on this project was that while I consistently saw evidence of Christianophobia in other areas of my life and in our society, unlike other types of intolerances, those who exhibited Christianophobia do not tend to think that they are intolerant. Usually those who do not like blacks or Muslims admit that they are intolerant but simply try to justify their intolerance. Those with Christianophobia tend to deny that they are intolerant but rather that they are fairly interpreting social reality. Envisioning themselves as fair and free of intolerance allows them to blame those they detest rather than recognize how their emotions have distorted their intellectual judgments. |
Phillip Yancey
Jan 14, 2022: Church Times: Philip Yancey: how I survived my brutal Christian childhood
His memoir Where the Light Fell took him three years to write, and a draft in 2015 was more than twice as long as the book that was finally published at the end of last year. It reads like the best of fiction, Angela’s Ashes, say, or Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. It is searing and sensory, brutally honest, and frequently humorous: the story of an impoverished childhood and youth in a fundamentalist church, dominated by fear of hellfire and a wildly unpredictable mother
His memoir Where the Light Fell took him three years to write, and a draft in 2015 was more than twice as long as the book that was finally published at the end of last year. It reads like the best of fiction, Angela’s Ashes, say, or Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. It is searing and sensory, brutally honest, and frequently humorous: the story of an impoverished childhood and youth in a fundamentalist church, dominated by fear of hellfire and a wildly unpredictable mother
| This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth “Today, if I had to answer the question: “Where is God when it hurts?” in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: “Where is the church when it hurts?” We form the front line of God’s response to the suffering world.”
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| “If you look at history, every time the Church and State get in bed together, it’s the Church that loses in the long term. I fear for the divisions in America now, the way it’s shaping out, especially the Republicans’ being so identified with what are really right-wing causes, and choosing someone like Donald Trump, who is the opposite of what Evangelicals should be.”"
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Conrade Yap
Aug 21, 2015: Conrade Yap: Panorama of a Book Saint: "Understanding Prophecy" (Alan S. Bandy and Benjamin L. Merkle)
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Sarah Young
Nov 19, 2015: True Discernment: 10 Serious Problems with Jesus Calling
Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling is a phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down. According to publisher Thomas Nelson, it “continues to grow in units sold each year since it was released [and] has surpassed 15 million copies sold.”
Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling is a phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down. According to publisher Thomas Nelson, it “continues to grow in units sold each year since it was released [and] has surpassed 15 million copies sold.”
William P Young
Apr 9, 2015: Christianity Today: Don't Believe Everything Twitter Says About That Lifeway Blacklist
Joel Osteen, William P. Young, and Joyce Meyer are three of the biggest names in Christian publishing. None of their titles are sold through Lifeway Christian Resources.
Joel Osteen, William P. Young, and Joyce Meyer are three of the biggest names in Christian publishing. None of their titles are sold through Lifeway Christian Resources.
Christopher Yuan
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Mar 10, 2015: Radical: “And such were some of you.”
This gospel testimony, true of all believers, is clearly seen in the life of Christopher Yuan. Christopher lived as a promiscuous gay man until he met Jesus in prison, where he was serving time for dealing drugs. Listen to the story of God’s great mercy in his life and be encouraged by God’s amazing grace. Mar 9, 2015: Vimeo: Christopher Yuan's Testimony
Christopher Yuan talks about how the Lord saved him from drug dealing and promiscuous homosexuality to follow and proclaim Christ. |
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Aug 28, 2020: Christian Headlines: Citing Scripture, Pence Switches out Jesus for the American Flag in Convention Speech“Glad Pence seems to know Scripture; grieved & appalled he’d believe substituting ‘Old Glory’ for ‘Jesus’ wasn’t blasphemous and equating the freedom Paul was referring to with civil liberties,” tweeted Greg Jao, senior assistant to the president of InterVarsity, an evangelical Christian organization.
“This is Babylon. This is idolatry,” tweeted Brian Zahnd, pastor of Word of Life Church. July 22, 2015: Charisma: What? Evangelicals Come Against Franklin Graham's Views on Islam
And Brian Zahnd, an author and pastor of Word Life Church, said Graham's remarks were nothing short of "xenophobia." Even Chick-fil-A's general manager for leadership development, Tim Sweetman, came against Graham, saying his remarks were "despicable" and the opposite of Christian love and American freedom. |
Mar 19, 2015: Experimental Theology: Brian Zahnd on Praying Well
Many of you know Brian Zahnd, author of the recent book Farewell to Mars. Recently Brian did a second podcast with my friend Luke Norsworthy on the subject of prayer. (The first twenty minutes is mainly a discussion of the impact of the work of NT Wright, the part on prayer picks up at the twenty-minute mark.)
Many of you know Brian Zahnd, author of the recent book Farewell to Mars. Recently Brian did a second podcast with my friend Luke Norsworthy on the subject of prayer. (The first twenty minutes is mainly a discussion of the impact of the work of NT Wright, the part on prayer picks up at the twenty-minute mark.)
Mar 8,2015: Brian Zahnd: Clarion: Love Never Ends: A Meditation Brian Zahnd
Dec 11, 2014: Brian Zahnd: Clarion Journal: You Cannot Be Christian and Support Torture
Dec 11, 2014: Brian Zahnd: Clarion Journal: You Cannot Be Christian and Support Torture
Sept 20, 2014: Alpha & Omega Ministries: The Monster God Debate: Why Those Under the Authority of Scripture Struggle to Speak to Those Who Are Not
Took the time to actually watch all of the opening statement of Brian Zahnd in the debate that took place over the weekend in Kansas City against Michael Brown.
Took the time to actually watch all of the opening statement of Brian Zahnd in the debate that took place over the weekend in Kansas City against Michael Brown.
| Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a Christian congregation located in the heartland of America in Saint Joseph, Missouri. For 31 years, Brian and his wife Peri’s vision for the church has been to be an authentic expression of the Kingdom of Jesus in a modern world. Brian is known for his focus on embracing the deep and long history of the Church and wholeheartedly participating in God’s mission to redeem and restore His world. Brian and Peri founded Word of Life Church in the autumn of 1981 with a handful of other young people in an old Methodist church building. For years, the church struggled to draw members. But as Brian began to be formed in a spirit of faith and prayer, the church proceeded to grow dramatically. After years of moving and expansion, the church moved to its present ministry campus on the east side of the city in 2006. |
