[T]he author speaks of the “first and everlasting love of a God who is Father as well as Mother.”
(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) The author writes, “What I see here is God as Mother, receiving back into her womb the one whom she has made in her own image.” The author claims the return to “God’s womb” is the “deeper meaning” to the story of the prodigal son.
God as Mother? Nowhere in the Bible are we ever instructed to address God in this manner…. Continue reading
The headline, fittingly sharing the front page with other no-doubt theologically rich fare as “Jamie Foxx on Why the Church Should Be More Loving, Inclusive, and Unifying,” and “God ‘Making All Things New’ Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Ignore the Environment,” screamed, “Yes, Jesus Was a Refugee. He Still Is.”
(Peter Heck – Disrn) There’s a famous Babylon Bee headline that satirically reads, “Man Bravely Abandons Unpopular Christian Belief to Affirm Extremely Popular Cultural Belief.” I can’t help but think the writer of that headline must have just finished reading the latest offering from the online Christian publication, “RELEVANT Magazine,” given their increasing propensity to publish stories heavy on culture, light on biblical truth. Continue reading
“Regarding adultery, that sin is for spouses and God to judge. There is no connection between marital sexual fidelity and moral leadership. I wish there were. And as regards the “Access Hollywood” tape, every religious person, indeed every thinking person, should understand that there is no connection between what people say privately and their ability to be a moral leader.”
(Dennis Prager – OneNewsNow) The editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, wrote an editorial calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. In my view, this editorial only serves to confirm one of the sadder realizations of my life: that religious conviction guarantees neither moral clarity nor common sense. Continue reading
“The toleration of Side B Gay Christianity, to include the hosting of the Revoice conference at a PCA church, the continued organizing and participation in Revoice conferences by members of the PCA, the presence of PCA pastors who have very publicly declared themselves to be “gay but celibate,” and the presence of other Side B gay-Christian candidates at the PCA’s seminary.”
(Andrew Webb – Aquila Report) This year marked the 25th anniversary of my joining the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). While I was converted outside of the PCA, largely through radio ministries, it was in the PCA that I was introduced to Reformed theology, and it was in the PCA that I was mentored by very patient and very learned men…. Continue reading
“Is it time to look into the teachings of Mrs Jen Wilkin? It seems so. Subsequently I was asked to look into her biblical positions and her activities, in a discernment review.”
(Elizabeth Prata – The End Time) Hosea 5:10 speaks of moving the property boundary stones.
The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary; On them I will pour out My wrath like water. (Hosea 5:10)
So does Deuteronomy.
In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess, you shall not move your neighbor’s boundary marker which men of old have set (Deuteronomy 19:14). Continue reading
Celebrate Christmas, exalt our Savior, linger long over His word and in worship of Him. In doing so, we are “beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit”
(Jim Stitzinger – The Cripplegate) The concerts are over and candle-light services are nearly complete. No more caroling, food drives, corporate holiday parties and the sound of Salvation army bells are quickly fading. The world will soon say goodbye to “the holidays” and will soon pivot its attention to New Year’s and Super Bowls. Continue reading
“The backlash was instant, and it was severe, with Rowling being tagged a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (TERF) by a significant portion of the movement she has proudly championed. Please note the irony in such a designation. The transgender movement is seeking to functionally erase the identity of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals by establishing the preposterous notion that there is no gender binary (i.e., male and female) but rather a fluid scale that every human traverses freely.”
(Peter Heck – Disrn) About two weeks ago, in a piece I wrote predicting the coming inner-LGBT acronym war between the LGB’s and the T’s, I wrote these words: Continue reading
[M]edical professionals are under “immense pressure” to give “distressed” children with gender dysphoria procedures to make them look like members of the opposite sex. Bell noted that many medical professionals are worried about being called “transphobic” or accused of a “hate crime.” Hutchison said medical professionals are accused of “transphobia” just for asking for more research to be done.
(Dorothy Cummings McLean – LifeSiteNews) ― A crowd of 200 people turned out for the world’s first gender detransition conference on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading
“To this date, still, no evidence has been presented to prove any wrongdoing on the part of the president, yet, leftists Evangelicals are using this as a way to move forward with their progressive agendas. If you believe that this isn’t a concerted effort on the part of leftist evangelicals — namely, Russell Moore — to advance a politically left movement to increase the Democrat voter base in the Church, think again.”
(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte) Last week, the Evangelical blogosphere made waves after the far-left George Soros-funded Evangelical publication, Christianity Today ran a hit piece calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment over moral issues. Continue reading
Olive Heiligenthal, daughter of Bethel worship leader, died suddenly – Photo credit: Instagram / @kalleyheili
“Last weekend, Bethel Worship leader, Jenn Johnson, sparked controversy for asking that God raise a dead female child back to life. Thousands upon thousands of Bethel followers began to decree and declare her resurrection through the power of positive confession. Bethel Church teaches the Kenotic Gospel, which views believers as little gods who do similar things to Jesus just as the Apostles. Kenosis means “to empty” and they hold that Jesus emptied himself of divinity and accomplished miracles by faith and not divinity…”
(Pulpit & Pen) What do you do when you’re a celebrity pastor with a crisis? You call Hunter Frederick to manage publicity for you. It’s what he does. Continue reading
“Christianity Today has joined the ERLC and a host of other infiltrated evangelical organizations spreading the Woke Social Justice agenda.”
(Capstone Report) Christianity Today is Woke. It has embraced Identity Politics. Now it wants to let you know that it is apostate.
Doubt it? For example from their newest offering Trump Should Be Removed From Office: “We want CT to be a place that welcomes Christians from across the political spectrum, and reminds everyone that politics is not the end and purpose of our being.” Continue reading
It’s hard to believe the Speaker’s latest stunt will go on for very long. In the Senate this morning, the Democrats’ minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, renewed his demands about trial procedures, discovery, and witness testimony. There was no discernible hint of doubt that the House would soon deliver its impeachment articles, such as they are.
(Andrew C. McCarthy – National Review) I’ll confess: Last night, when I was first told that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was toying with the idea of not delivering the two articles of impeachment voted by the House against President Trump, I assumed it was a joke. Continue reading
“In a page on the ministry’s website titled Choosing an Abortion Provider: 12 Considerations, Stanton instructs women on how to seek an abortion provider once they’ve made the decision to do so. Giving them a list of “considerations,” some of the advice they give includes…”
(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte) As Christians, we are to look at abortion as murder — the unjust taking of innocent life — and a non-option not only for believers but society as a whole. It is not something that we look at as a last resort after we’ve sought exhaustively all other options…. Continue reading
By voting to impeach Trump on Wednesday, “Speaker Pelosi’s House just gave in to a temptation that every other House in our history has managed to resist,” moving to “impeach a president whom they do not even allege to have committed a crime” because they “disagree with a presidential act and question the motive behind it.”
(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media) On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned Democrats’ “partisan crusade” of impeachment, warning that Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives crossed a political “Rubicon” and “opened the Pandora’s box of subjective political impeachments,” a move that no previous House has done in American history…. Continue reading
“Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God’s house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.” – Henri Nouwen (heretic)
(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) In The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen explains contemplative prayer:
The quiet repetition of a single word can help us descend with the mind into the heart. …a word or sentence repeated frequently can help us to concentrate, to move to the center, to create an inner stillness and thus listen to the voice of God. (pg.81) Continue reading
“Since I know few will say it, I must. You cannot expect miracles when your base is actively working against God. The bible says that we are either gathering people to Christ or scattering them away. Which do you think Kris Vallotton does? What about ecumenicalist Darlene Zschech? Rich Wilkerson? Really?”
(Anthony Wade – 828 Ministries) When practicing discernment regarding false theologies we often here the lament, “what’s the big deal?” Joel Osteen has encouraged millions of people, leave him alone. Joyce Meyer has helped countless women, don’t pick on her! In defending Bill Johnson and Bethel Church, Dr. Michael Brown once told me, “You do not know them, they love Jesus.”…. Continue reading
“God “sitting with you” in the “middle of you being the worst of who you are” is not the gospel — it’s a false gospel.”
(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte) Recently, Lauren Daigle visited a maximum-security prison in Louisiana and told a stadium filled with 6300 prisoners that God “sits with them” and “doesn’t point the finger” at them or “give them shame.”
Daigle — who says she doesn’t know if homosexuality is sinful or not — is known for touring the world and giving a watered-down message that is devoid of the biblical gospel…. Continue reading
“Every single cell in the human body is coded male or female. This is why the transgender movement is simple rebellion against the authority of God in creation that codes the 37 trillion cells in your body as male or female. It is a social, sinful, emotional rebellious construct. Transgender people are simply actors in the theater of the absurd. Gender is unchangeable.” — Pastor Scott Brown
(Pulpit & Pen) In August, Pulpit & Pen reported that ‘transgender women’ (aka men) are demanding womb-transplants from corpses in order to shove a baby in their abdomen and carry it until it has to be cut out of them. Because of the law in Great Britain granting ‘transgender’ people the same medical treatment, they are entitled to this grotesque procedure as ‘fertility treatment’ because they’re legally recognized as women…. Continue reading
“We constantly need to be reminded of the fulness of Christ in order for us to turn our eyes away from any and all counterfeits and put them onto the Lord Jesus Christ. If the divine, cosmic, redemptive, and mediatorial glory of Christ was the solution to the problem of counterfeit gospels, religions, philosophies, and spiritual practices in the early days of the New Testament church, how much more necessary is it for us in a day when false ideologies stream into our living rooms by means of the television and internet!”
(Nicholas Batzig – Feeding On Christ) In a day in which we are inundated with counterfeit gospels, counterfeit spirituality, counterfeit religions, and counterfeit devotional practices it is important for us to keep in mind that believers are ever in danger of falling into what older theologians called, “a half-learned Christ.”…. Continue reading
“Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A opposed same-sex marriage, stood up for traditional marriage and was attacked. Grassroots supporters turned out to support the company, and Chick-fil-A profited. Rather than follow up on that victory, Chick-fil-A chickened out and surrendered to the Same-Sex Marriage Agenda.”
(Allan Wall – News With Views) What does a chicken sandwich have to do with the Homosexual Lobby?
Quite a lot, if you’re referring to Chick-fil-A. Continue reading
Mental-health practitioners have excoriated AAP for its pro-experimentation policy. Dr. James Cantor, a (gay) psychologist from the Toronto Gender Identity clinic, analyzed the AAP statement and found that the studies on which AAP based its policy simply don’t say what AAP claimed they do.“In fact, the references that AAP cited as the basis of their policy instead outright contradicted that policy, repeatedly endorsing watchful waiting [rather than medical intervention].”
(Jane Robbins – Townhall) The transgender industry profits handsomely from experimenting on children who are confused about their sex…. Continue reading
“There are sins of omission and sins of commission. The FBI didn’t just fail to do right here. The agents involved in this investigation did evil. They used their power as law enforcement agents in pursuit of a perceived political enemy.”
(Washington Examiner) The FBI sought a warrant to wiretap a U.S. citizen and, in effect, a U.S. presidential campaign, based on a shoddy Democrat-funded pile of conspiracy theories known as the Steele dossier. The dossier’s allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump were based on “multiple layers of hearsay upon hearsay,” and the document also took seriously comments made in jest. Continue reading
“Sadly, Christian institutions will likely respond to the Fuller case by moving into defensive mode, crying “First Amendment!” and putting lawyers on speed-dial. If that is all that happens, then that reaction in itself will speak eloquently of the moral tenor of such places. For the first reaction should be one of serious and prolonged institutional heart-searching and, where necessary, of true repentance and change.”
(Carl Trueman – First Things) Fuller Theological Seminary is facing a Title IX lawsuit from a former student, whom Fuller had expelled for entering into a civil same-sex marriage. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at any institution of higher education receiving federal funding…. Continue reading
“It is the brainchild of leaders at Bethel Church, working in partnership with some AG pastors and officials in the AG Northern California and Nevada District who have close personal ties to Bethel Church. And these individuals have, from the beginning, intentionally modeled BSSD after Bethel’s BSSM. This is a deep-seated connection, and Bethel plays an ongoing and important role in all aspects of the school.”
(Holly Pivec – Spirit of Error) You’ve probably heard of a single church being taken over by an individual or group from within. But have you ever heard of an entire network of churches within a denomination being taken over? As unprecedented as that may sound, that is exactly what appears to be happening now in the Assemblies of God (AG) denomination in Northern California and Nevada. Continue reading
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference to announce plans to proceed with articles of impeachment. But she would not say which particular charges would be brought against the president.”
(Victor Davis Hanson) Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth.
But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. Continue reading