(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Justin Peters canceled the Babylon Bee in 2022 over their interview with Elon Musk where they jokingly treated Elon Musk as a believer because he accepted the “golden rule” and showed appreciation for the teachings of Jesus. Believing that they blew it, Justin Peters stated that he would not share another Babylon Bee article no matter how funny. In that interview, Elon Musk was more interested in talking about Jesus and the Bible than a Christian ministry. Musk seemingly has unanswered questions, but no attempt was made to answer them. They instead laughed them off. Justin Peters’s decision would age well as the Babylon Bee has only descended from that point. Continue reading
Former Reformed Podcaster-turned-feminist, Aimee Byrd, Ordains Herself and Officiates Her Brother’s Wedding
“It was subtle at first, only noticed by those pesky “discernment blogs” of the 20-teens who had nothing better to do than to “nitpick” at everything and “cause division” in the body of Christ.”
(The Dissenter) Once a co-host of the popular Reformed podcast The Mortification of Spin, alongside Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt, Aimee Byrd seemed to be aligned with these self-proclaimed champions of Reformed theology. But it didn’t take long before this seemingly orthodox voice in the conservative Reformed world unraveled in spectacular fashion. Continue reading
‘No Concessions’: Kamala Harris’s Alarming Response to Religious Freedom on Abortion
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“There are no two ways about it. Kamala Harris utterly fails to understand the American project. She is not only anti-Constitution and anti-American. She is anti-human. She has revealed her religion for all to see, and it isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the American founding.”
(Colin Smothers – Real Truth Media) Kamala Harris is the most radical candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States, but with less than two weeks to go until election day, she has been racing to downplay or reverse nearly every progressive policy position she has held in a cynical play for moderates, independents, and even religiously-minded voters. However, in a recently televised interview with NBC News, the mask slipped, and a Molech-worshipping totalitarian peered out from behind. Continue reading
The hit piece in The Atlantic is part of a psy-op designed to provoke a third assassination attempt and justify mass post-election violence.
“This is not just the normal heated rhetoric that comes out in the final weeks of a close presidential election. This is something else. It is at least a tacit call for violent resistance, for insurrection, and even for a third assassination attempt against Trump.”
(John Daniel Davidson – The Federalist) The outlandish hit piece on Donald Trump published this week by Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic, which was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump, isn’t just a shoddy smear that would never have passed muster in a newsroom 20 years ago. Continue reading
David Platt and the Respectable Sin of Pastoral Corruption
He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. (John 10:12-13).
(Seth Brickley – TruthScript) A number of years ago, Jerry Bridges wrote a book titled Respectable Sins. In it, he explains that Christians view certain sins as taboo while overlooking others. For example, everyone knows that theft is bad, but sins such as bitterness, gossip, slander, and lack of self-control are often overlooked…. Continue reading
It is Time for Christian Parents to Completely Abandon Disney for Good
“What’s most frustrating about it is that so many Christian parents still just don’t get it, or don’t care. They’ve let nostalgia for the Disney of their youth cloud their judgment. After all, how could the same company that gave us The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast possibly be leading their children into spiritual danger?”
(The Dissenter) The war on children is real, and Disney is on the frontlines waging that war against them. And let’s be honest, everyone knows that Disney’s own sexual revolution isn’t just a weird little rebranding to stay “relevant” in modern cultural zeitgeist. No, Disney has become a full-fledged weapon of the left, carefully constructed to shove queer theory and homosexual propaganda right into the minds of children. Continue reading
Modern-day witches and the Harris campaign
“The Quest Book Shop is where U.N. officials gather to meditate and read material from the Theosophical Society. Founded by a Russian mystic named Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), who wrote The Secret Doctrine, Theosophy teaches that man can become God through mystical experiences, and can even perform miracles.”
(Cliff Kincaid – RenewAmerica) When Christian evangelist [NAR wolf] Lance Wallnau said that the Kamala Harris campaign was being driven by an occult spirit and witchcraft, he was denounced by the Big Media as a lunatic. What the media don’t want you to know is that a “Witches for Harris 2024” group has actually been formed and that another movement is casting spells against President Trump. Continue reading
The Compromised Compassion of ‘Side B’ Ministries
(Mike Solecki – TruthScript) As Christians, we have a sincere desire for the lost to be saved. We also understand, “the gospel is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16 NKJV), including homosexuals. Yet today, the church is being sold a bill of goods that claims our disciple-making efforts have been unloving, harsh, and even oppressive. We are told this is especially true when it comes to homosexuality.
In light of these claims, ministries such as, “The Center for Faith, Sexuality, & Gender,” “Revoice”, and “Posture Shift” have all emerged to help the church shift its unloving posture and revoice its “harsh voice” to embrace a more compassionate way of ministering to the LBGTQ+ community…. Continue reading
‘Heaven is for Real’ Author Todd Burpo Shares Update On Son 14 Years After ‘Visiting’ Heaven
(Protestia) Fourteen years ago, Todd Burpo, an evangelical pastor, wrote the New York Times best-selling book “Heaven is for Real,” which detailed what his three-year-old son Colton saw in heaven after he lost consciousness on a hospital operating table, the result of getting his appendix removed.
The book became an international sensation, sold 11 million copies, and spent nearly a year atop the book charts, ultimately getting made into a movie that did over $100M at the box office.
“Heaven is for Real” also served to demonstrate that discernment is floating dead atop the surface of the wide stream of American evangelicalism, like a bloated corpse drifting with the current, because nothing about this fantastical, extra-biblical tale is remotely believable or biblical. Continue reading
Why Vote?
“Because we live in a constitutional republic, citizens have power and therefore certain duties. Just as a husband should love his wife (even when respect isn’t reciprocated from her), so too should a citizen fulfill his duty even if his ideal candidate isn’t on the ballot or if his vote is radically different from his neighbor’s and might be “wasted.” Many evangelicals who live in blue areas and sense that their vote won’t matter are disinclined to vote because they don’t think they can win. While we should aim to win, voting is about fulfilling your neighborly duty first.”
(Chase Davis – Clear Truth Media) Many Christians are politically demoralized. They sense that politicians do not care about them and that the available candidates fall short of the virtues they hold dear. Decades of propaganda have had their intended effect in suppressing the evangelical vote in America, so much so that Barna recently reported that 41 million born-again Christians are not planning to vote this year. Continue reading
Harris, Cheney Receive ‘Pre-Determined’ Questions at Scripted Town Hall
“Cheney is a neocon, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and a longtime establishment figure in Congress. She helped Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the partisan January 6 Committee, reportedly leaked on former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, asked for Democrats’ vote in her 2022 reelection campaign, and grew her net worth from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020.”
(Wendell Husebo – Breitbart) The host of a Harris campaign “town hall” in Pennsylvania on Monday warned the audience the event would feature “pre-determined” questions for Liz Cheney and Vice President Kamala Harris. Continue reading
Night Fever…or a vision?
(Bill O’Reilly) Had a vision the other night which was actually a feverish dream. The Vice President of the United States agreed to be interviewed by me. Crazy, I know, but here’s how it went down.
O’R: Madam Vice President, thank you for doing this.
KH: I hate you.
O’R: Wow, any wiggle room there?
KH: None. You are a pecksniffian and a troglodyte. I can’t believe I’m here, even in a dream.
O’R: Got it. Let’s proceed. Are you standing by your statement that you can’t think of anything the Biden administration should have done differently? Continue reading
John MacArthur Speaks Out on Steve Lawson: “The Lord Said ‘That’s Enough.'”
(Protestia) During a Grace Community Church Sunday night service, Pastor John MacArthur answered a question about his friend, former Trinity Bible Church pastor and former Master’s Seminary professor Steve Lawson, stating one of the ways God loves and purifies the church is “to expose someone in a position they have no right to be in.”
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MacArthur provided an update on his heart surgery, recovery, and an estimated 5-6 weeks before his strength returns enough to preach, even while noting humorously that he was “strong enough to have a conversation.” Continue reading
Andy Stanley Says You Can Deny the Vast Majority of Scripture and Still be a Christian
“The sheer arrogance of it all is mind-boggling. Who does Stanley think he is to redefine Christianity? He’s not the first to try this, of course—liberal theologians have been doing it for centuries. But Stanley is particularly dangerous because he comes from a respected evangelical background, yet he is leading people down the exact same path that others have followed into heresy. It’s the same old liberal poison, dressed up in new packaging.”
(The Dissenter) Andy Stanley, the son of famed late pastor Charles Stanley, has once again taken the liberty of redefining Christianity on his own terms. In his latest sermon, he laid out a scandalous proposition … Christians, he suggests, need only believe in two miracles—the creation of the universe and the resurrection of Jesus. Just two. That’s it. Forget the rest. Continue reading
Wealthy Washington D.C. suburb’s no-exception LGBTQ curriculum faces headwinds at Supreme Court
(Greg Piper – Just the News) Public school districts across the country face a daunting challenge from the world’s Abrahamic religions, their lobbying organizations, eminent legal scholars and half the states.
Friend-of-the-court briefs deluged the Supreme Court last week asking it to resolve a circuit split on parental rights in public education worsened by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools does not burden parents’ free exercise of religion by not notifying them of LGBTQ curricula or allow opt-outs. Continue reading
Go Soaking? Just Joking.
(Lynn Pratt) “Soaking prayer,” which became trendy some years back, is billed as resting/soaking in the presence of God/the Holy Spirit. Sometimes actual prayer (that is, talking to God) is involved, but the emphasis seems mostly on having the mind clear/empty/open. And it’s obvious that participants are expecting something to happen right then. Assorted promos suggest that, as you soak, you might feel a warm/cold sensation, a tingling, a breeze; you might see an aura. You can also entertain a hope to hear God speak, be visited by an angel, understand the Bible better, “get results faster” (faster than what?), experience a healing, come out of spiritual dryness, receive a direct revelation… The idea is that soaking “allows the Lord to show his love for you.” (I’m confused. Since the Lord shows his love to me 24/7, I’m pretty sure he knows he’s “allowed” to.) Continue reading
Leftists Decried Comey For Flagging Hillary’s Emails. Now They Love Tanya Chutkan’s Election Interference
Smith argues that Trump’s “refuse[al] to say whether he would accept the election results” of 2020 (which saw unelected leaders usurp the authority of state legislatures and unilaterally change election procedure) and Trump’s expressing concern about potential fraud are grounds for prosecution and jail time.
(Brianna Lyman – The Federalist) With less than three weeks until Election Day, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed “evidence” Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted to justify his lawfare attempts against former President Donald Trump. It’s certainly not the October Surprise the left was hoping for; the heavily redacted evidence fails to bolster Smith’s dubious claim that Trump should be denied his First Amendment right to question the outcome and administration of an election. Continue reading
Small groups and propaganda
(Elizabeth Prata – The End Time) Josh Daws, @JoshDaws, wrote on Twitter/X the following: Jacques Ellul on the role of the small group in spreading propaganda–The church has yet to fully reckon with how small groups, without strong pastoral oversight, can and have become vehicles for spreading woke ideology within congregations. The dynamics of small groups often favor conformity over true discipleship. The most assertive individual usually sets the tone, and the group’s consensus follows. This makes it easy for ideology, rather than genuine biblical teaching, to take root.
I thought this made sense. I’ve written before about the danger of para-church ministries that are loosely or not-at-all attached to a local church. I’ve also warned about Sunday School classes led by laymen, and Women’s ministries where false doctrine can be and often is introduced in any of these extensions of the main service of a solid church. Continue reading
Commonly Misused Bible Verses: 2 Chronicles 7:14 (Reprise)
Several Facebook friends have sent a message to me written by Sandy Barker-Mitchell. I have two problems with Sandy’s message. But before I address those, here’s what Barker-Mitchell wrote:
In 3 short months, just like He did with plagues of Egypt, God has taken away everything we worship. God said “You want to worship athletes, I will shut down the stadiums. You want to worship musicians, I will shut down the Civic Centers. You want to worship actors, I will shut down theaters. You want to worship money, I will shut down the economy and collapse the stock market. You don’t want to go to church and worship Me, I will make it where you can’t go to church. “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will heal their land.” Maybe we don’t need a vaccine. Maybe we need to take this time of isolation from the distractions of the world and have a personal revival where we focus on the ONLY thing in the world that really matters. Jesus. Continue reading
False Prophet Jonathan Cahn Smashes an ‘Altar of Ishtar’ At Lou Engle’s Washington Rally
(Protestia) Jonathan Cahn is a Messianic Jewish Rabbi who never misses an opportunity to falsely prophesy, promote speculative revelations of economic collapse that never come to pass, or treat the bible as a magical codebook from which he can uncover hidden mysteries and secrets that he can populate his next book with.
The author of the terrible books The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, and The Paradigm, he has been so thoroughly discredited [see below] on such a large scale that it’s only the naive, gullible, or wantonly ignorant that would ever give him an ounce of respect as a Christian leader. Continue reading
Russell Moore Attacks Allie Stuckey
“After failing to understand Matthew 25, and also the Good Samaritan, Russell Moore then uses the Big Eva “Imago DEI” argument to assert that invaders are the least of these and should be welcomed into the country. Russell Moore makes it clear it was Stuckey’s politics, not her exegesis that he took issue with. Russell Moore has been pushing open borders for over a decade.”
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Russell Moore has come down from his mountain to attack Allie Stuckey, in with meme references and Nazi allusions over the the “least of these” controversy that found her. Earlier this week, Evangelical Dark Web reported on the outrage Allie Stuckey inspired when she stated that “the least of these” in Matthew 25 referred to persecuted Christians and applied it to not voting for Kamala Harris whose party is actively persecuting Christians, naming Jack Phillips as an example…. 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