Spiritual Harm Alert: ‘Discovering Christian Witchcraft: A Beginner’s Guide for Everyday Practice’

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“On the site Witches Lore (not recommended) I stumbled on 100 Beginner Witchcraft Tips. Here are several practices that undiscerning Christians are involved in, hopefully because they’re unfamiliar with the occult origins.”

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) In my Bible, Ephesians 6:10-21 bears the heading: The Whole Armor of God. In these verses the Apostle Paul uses both metaphor and allegory to paint a picture of the Christian life as an ongoing battle against the “spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”

Wut? Are you saying that Christians are to wear some sort of armor in our battle against demons?

Yes. Spiritual armor.

Why?

So that you will “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.” Paul urges believers to “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.”

Wait. Wearing invisible armor seems a bit over the top, doesn’t it?

No. All Scripture is God-breathed. Since Ephesians 6:10-12 is in the Bible believers must take the Apostle Paul seriously in everything he has written in his letters. Thus, followers of Jesus Christ should pay attention to Paul’s Armor of God metaphor. The Christian’s spiritual armor must be worn throughout his waking hours. That’s because cosmic powers target God’s people and want to do them great harm. To be clear, believers never go to battle alone. Wearing spiritual armor means we literally put on the Lord Jesus Christ and His mighty power. The power to defeat evil issues from Almighty God!

Note that in verse 18 Paul reminds the Church to persevere in prayer for him so that he might preach the gospel with boldness. Someone once said that prayer is firing the winning shot against powers and principalities in high places.

Wearing the Armor of God applies to all Christians. Again, we’re defending ourselves against wicked evil deceptive demons who mean business, and they never take a nap.

Clearly, professing Christian Sara Raztresen hasn’t read Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. If she had she’d know that Satan’s minions have zeroed in on her – ready, aim, spiritual blindness!

Since Sara is spiritually blind and biblically illiterate, she doesn’t understand the true meaning of God’s protective armor.

You ask, who’s Sara Raztresen? Sara is a Slovene-American writer who penned Where the Gods Left Off: A Dialogue with Jesus, Angels, Demons, Saints and Gods About Our World. The book’s title reveals a lot about this woman. Continue reading

4 Years After The Biden Laptop Coverup, Media Election Interference Is Worse Than Ever

“The good news is, after seeing how cravenly the corporate press carried water for the Clinton campaign’s false narrative about Trump and Russia, America is recognizing and dismissing media hoaxes more quickly these days. And as the life cycle of each media lie shrinks, the dishonesty — dare I say, disinformation? — has been attempted even more rapidly and more desperately.”

(Elle Purnelle – The Federalist) Four years ago this week, the corporate press helped airlift Joe Biden to the White House by blacking out coverage of his international pay-for-play scandal, after the New York Post discovered evidence of the scandal on an abandoned Biden laptop…. Continue reading

The Disturbing Trend of Continuationism Embraced by the Modern Church

What’s next? “God told me this, God told me that.” And who’s to say otherwise? When personal revelation becomes the standard, truth becomes relative. It’s a theological free-for-all, where anyone can claim God’s voice to justify their whims, and who can argue with “God told me”?

(The Dissenter) I’ve observed over the last several years a phenomenon that is deeply distressing—the increasing embrace of various forms of continuationism by evangelicals and even within traditionally Reformed circles. Whether it’s the full-blown charismaticism that promotes the continuation of the apostolic sign gifts or the more subtle forms of mystical subjectivism, this dangerous trend is creeping into the church. Continue reading

Bret Baier Interview: Kamala Attempts to Shift Blame onto Private Citizen Trump for Unprecedented Surge in Illegal Immigration

“Even more alarming is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently tracking over 425,000 illegal immigrants convicted of various crimes, while 226,000 face pending criminal charges, all of whom have been released into the United States under the regime’s lenient immigration enforcement.”

(Jim Hoft – Gateway Pundit) Kamala Harris, who was given the title of Border Czar by President Joe Biden in early 2021, faced intense scrutiny over her handling of the immigration crisis in an interview with Bret Baier. Continue reading

It’s Not Always Nice to Be Nice

“The Church in the west has been passive for far too long. We have forgotten what it means to fight for our convictions. We live at a time when the wolves are at the door and many of the supposed gatekeepers have not only welcomed them in with open arms but have strongly chastised those who tried to stop them. They pat the wolves, stone the prophets, and wonder why their sheep keep disappearing.” 

(Aaron Edwards – Clear Truth Media) One of the many ways we must “fight the good fight” (1Tim. 6:12) in our time is the recovery of robust Biblical speech to combat the many errors, compromises, and assaults upon faithful Christian belief both inside and outside the Church. Continue reading

Dr. Michael Brown Gives Cover to Todd White’s Fake ‘Leg Lengthening’ Miracles, Then Deletes Video

“Either Brown is the most gullible dupe in all of Christian history or he is intentionally participating in White’s deceptions.”

(Protestia) Todd White is perhaps best known for his dreadlocks and debunked leg-lengthening scam, which is pure, calculated, and intentional deception.

This is in addition to the fact that he is routinely unsound in his teaching. He has insisted he hasn’t told a lie in nearly 20 years, since the day he was saved, claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the crosssampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, famously taught that God’s in bed with you watching porn and wants to be your ‘climax,’ and recently said that God wants to have ‘intercourse’  with us. Continue reading

Pure in Heart Peacemakers

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:8-10 (LSB) 

The most peace I have in this life is as I meditate on passages like Matthew 5:2-12, which is The Beatitudes. On the other hand, one thing that causes me to take on a countenance of righteous indignation occurs as I observe Christian preachers, teachers, and writers functioning in the role of “prophet” leading their followers to discount personal holiness…. Continue reading

Another Editing Scandal Plagues CBS News

“How do we know that this is what Johnson said and that CBS deceptively edited the interview to avoid airing information damaging to Brennan’s preferred narrative? Because Johnson recorded the interview himself as he was doing it.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Last week, CBS got caught in a scandal for editing Kamala Harris’s interview with Bill Whitaker on “60 Minutes.” Now, less than a week later, another editing controversy has surfaced — this time involving House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview with Margaret Brennan, in which CBS deceptively cut key information that Johnson shared. Continue reading

Winning is the Only Thing

“Kamala has zero interest in confronting those problems, and even if she did, she wouldn’t know how.  If she had any specific solutions to vexing problems, we would have already heard them.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Can’t make a prediction as to who will be the 47th president, but my opinion is that Donald Trump will win. I could be wrong because the race is emotional, not based on rational thinking. There is also a hyper-partisan and, in many cases, blatantly corrupt media propagandizing around the clock.

Hard to assess how that might influence voters.

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Feds Admit: Child Sex Trafficking Reports Triple under Harris and Biden

“Mayorkas’ easy migration policies were unchallenged by Harris when she “ran away” from the border issue in 2021 as Biden tried — weakly — to get control over Mayorkas and his business backers. She also endorsed Mayorkas’ overall policies in her campaign’s economic platform.”

(Neil Munro – Breitbart) Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.

TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies sex by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure: Continue reading

Calls for CBS to Release the Kamala Interview Transcript Grow Deafening As Their Reputation Burns

“What we witnessed is journalistic malfeasance on an epic level. I won’t go so far as to accuse CBS of “rigging” the election because they are not actually interfering in the voting process nor physically meddling in the operations. What they certainly do seem to be guilty of however is trying to influence the election by gaslighting the American public and basically lying to them.” 

(Bob Hoge – Red State) We’ve seen so much malpractice from the corrupt media, especially since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, that it’s hard to be surprised anymore. We’ve seen them bury the Hunter Biden laptop story right before an election, we saw them prattle on for years about a fake Russia Collusion narrative, and witnessed them lie endlessly about Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline. Continue reading

[Possible?] Third Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump’s Life

(Mary Dowling) A third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump was thwarted on Saturday after a Las Vegas man was arrested with weapons and fake passes about a half mile from Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday.

The media reports that it is a third assassination attempt, but the details are peculiar. Some reports say he got within feet of the president, but that isn’t what sheriffs who caught him are reporting. Continue reading

32 Million Regular Churchgoers Expected To Abstain from Voting in November

(Protestia) A new report from George Branas’s Cultural Research Center suggests that 104 million “people of faith” are not planning to vote in the upcoming election, including 32 million regular churchgoers.

One of the most important findings of the research is the depressed voting intent of “people of faith”. The survey defined “people of faith” as either someone who described themselves as “a person of religious faith” or as someone who associated with some recognized religious faith (such as Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, Islam, etc.). Continue reading

A Legacy Lost: The Tragedy of a Fallen Leader

“First, for Lawson, it is far better to expose your sin and have the possibility of confession, repentance, and forgiveness than for the sin to remain hidden until the judgment. It is infinitely better for sin to be revealed than for it to remain concealed—even though it rarely feels that way in the moment. No ministry success can compare to our fellowship with the risen Christ. To know Him is far better than even to preach Him (Phil 3:10)”

(Grant Castleberry – Unashamed Truth) I was shocked three weeks ago to find out about the moral failure and disqualification of Steven Lawson from ministry due to an adulterous relationship with a younger woman.  In many ways, I am still shocked. I attended Lawson’s Bible study in Dallas when I served at a church in the metroplex, which met at Herb’s Coffee Shop off Greenville Avenue. After the Bible study, Steve and I would talk about preaching and Jonathan Edwards. Steve was always kind to me, and I looked up to him as one of the stalwarts and baton carriers in the reformed evangelical movement. Earlier this year, I did a short interview about his preaching with David Wheaton of The Christian Worldview (listen at the 48-minute mark).  And I have written about his preaching at Unashamed Truth. Continue reading

Why Christians must walk humbly before the Lord

 5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’” 6 Then Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly by telling the man whether you still had another brother?” Genesis 43:5-6 (LSB)

Unforgiveness is poison for the Soul as it ensnares those who refuse to forgive by binding them into the prison of bitterness. This world is not a peaceful, easy, benign place. It is fallen. The world system is the product of Man’s rebellion against God. There is war. There is crime. There is oppression…. Continue reading

Idolatry, Demons and Ecumenism (Reprise)

“Every false religion in the world is not just wrong. It is demonic. It is energized and powered by the kingdom of darkness that is ruled by Satan himself,” says Mike Riccardi. Mike goes on to say “There is absolutely no fellowship or spiritual partnership between the people of God and the people of this world.” So, if we’re in relationship with those who teach doctrines of demons, should we break fellowship with them? You must, says Riccardi. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. And he offers plenty of Scripture to back up what he says. Bottom line: “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 Cor 10:21

In the comments below the article, Riccardi responds to a question. In his thoughtful answer he urges believers not to pray with apostates: Continue reading

Lose the Gospel, Return to Childishness

“To seek relevance therefore requires not capitulation to, or emulation of, the infantile, but rather a recapturing of what it means to be an adult. The church must bear witness to a grown-up faith. That means that we need a renewed sense of the holy, the sacred, and the transcendent. And that must start at the top, where it is too often most absent. The X feeds of many of the loudest Christian pastors today indicate little difference from the categories, attitudes, and preoccupations of secular leaders.” 

(Carl R. Trueman – First Things) In Milan Kundera’s 1975 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Czechoslovakian president Gustav Husak—the “President of Forgetting”—declares, “Children! You are the future!” Kundera goes on to say that this is true “not because they will one day be adults but because humanity is becoming more and more a child, because childhood is the image of the future.” Continue reading

Catherine Herridge Spills the Tea on CBS Over Kamala Interview Editing Scandal

“Now former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge is calling CBS out with an example of what journalistic integrity and transparency are about. She began posting on X calling for them to release the full, unedited transcript.”

(Nick Arama – Red State) Kamala Harris was hoping to move the needle with her media tour.

She may have moved the needle alright, but in the wrong direction for her. She seems to be completely imploding along with her knuckle-headed running mate, Tim Walz. Interviews with friendly outlets are supposed to help prop you up. But her interview with “The View” just decimated her and her interview with “60 Minutes” has evolved into a full-blown scandal.  Continue reading

Why Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween

Halloween is a devil’s holiday, not a Christian observance.

(Nila Eslit)  Anton LaVey, the founder of the church of Satan, himself declared that by dressing up, either by wearing a costume or by coloring oneself in celebration of Halloween, signifies that you allow Satan to own you. He further said that when you adopt the pagan practices, you subconsciously dedicate yourself to the devil. He took joy in Christians who take part in the tradition, saying:

I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year. Welcome to Halloween.

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Christ’s Blood and the Atonement

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our transgressions, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight, 9 making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him 10 for an administration of the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth in Him. 11 In Him, we also have been made an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 to the end that we who first have hoped in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:7-12 (LSB) 

A proper study of the doctrine of Penal Substitution will reveal that it is actually a line of contention, or line of demarcation if you will, that divides Orthodox Christianity from those forms whose advocates have in some way come up with their own version of the Gospel. These forms are diverse and too numerous to go into here…. Continue reading

CDC: One in 30 High Schoolers Is Transgender

“If these numbers are even close to accurate, then some profound and unprecedented influence has driven this dramatic rise. That is most likely a “social contagion.” The phenomenon refers to the spread of behaviors, ideas, and attitudes through peer influence, media exposure, and cultural shifts.” 

A new government report from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has drawn attention to alarming trends related to the promotion of transgenderism among young Americans. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.3 percent of high school students now identify as transgender, with an additional 2.2 percent “questioning” their sex. Continue reading

Cru Ends Gay Affirming Curriculum Amid Backlash

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dak Web) Back in May, Evangelical Dark Web, Protestia, and Jon Harris of Conversations That Matter exposed the gay-affirming curriculum of Cru, the most prominent campus evangelism organization. Cru was heavily influenced by Preston Sprinkle of the Center For Faith Sexuality and Gender, as well as other people in the Side B Theology movement. The curriculum is characterized by its effeminate language push, villainizing the church, affirming transgenderism, and promoting a gay seeker-friendly model. Side B Theology asserts that homosexual and transvestite identities and desires are not sin. Continue reading