Dear Christian, if you’re in the midst of adversity, Apprising Ministries offers comfort and encouragement in this piece from Charles Spurgeon.
Truth?
καὶ ἐζήτουν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς τὸ πῶς ἀνέλωσιν αὐτόν, ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὸν λαόν. Luke 22:2, NA27
And the Chief Priests and the Scribes were seeking how they might destroy him for they were afraid of the people. Luke 22:2, a personal translation from the NA27
Even though it is not exactly new, we live in a day when the concept of truth is seen as something that is relative. I was listening to Dr. Al Mohler’s The Briefing podcast a couple of days ago in which he read part of an editorial from a major newspaper that was written to defend the intellectual concept of “Abortion on demand” as being right if the mother considered it in her best interest to exercise her “right to choose.” Her rights outweighed those of the unborn baby she was carrying in her womb. On the other hand, the writer of the editorial, a woman, celebrated with her friends who had babies and wept with others who had miscarriages. What was the difference? It was the value placed by the parents and those around them on the “fetus” that gave it “rights” that demanded sacrifice on the part of the woman. If the woman felt like the pregnancy was a burden in any way then an abortion should be the next step. That was her “truth.”
Jesus Culture Spiritual Mother Cindy Jacobs Makes A Startling Confession
You may recall that at the recently concluded Passion 2013 conference Louis Giglio brought in Jesus Culture, a ministry of Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church, to lead worship.
Apprising Ministries has shown you that NAR Apostlette Cindy Jaoobs is a spiritual mother to Jesus Culture. In this video clip she makes a candid admission.
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Behold the Lamb of God
Who is Jesus, and what was his ultimate mission? Some today say that he was a kind of philosopher or moral reformer who teaches us all to share our toys and behave on the playground of life. But these views presuppose that the human predicament is that we simply need a little advice or enlightenment, and not something drastic like eternal redemption from sin, death, and hell.
That is the opening statement from the 20 January 2013 episode of the White Horse Inn. It is well worth listening to the program in its entirety.
Soli Deo Gloria!
Rick Warren And His Brother, “His Eminence” Timothy Cardinal Dolan Archbishop Of New York
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The Case Against Women in Combat
Baptist Press (BP) informs us that:
Even before U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military was lifting its ban on women in combat, professor and theologian Owen Strachan was speaking out against such a possibility, saying it not only went against Scripture but also defied common sense.
During an interview, one of several questions BP posed was: What are the biblical and theological reasons you oppose placing women in combat?
Soaking—The Trendy Approach To A Holy God
As the more hyper-charismatic teachings of the signs and wonders and New Apostolic Reformation begin slithering in to your mainstream evangelical Young Adult and Youth ministries you will no doubt run into this antibiblical type of prayer.
So, Apprising Ministries brings this piece from someone once involved with all of this.
Our Redemption in Christ
21 Νυνὶ δὲ χωρὶς νόμου δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ πεφανέρωται μαρτυρουμένη ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τῶν προφητῶν, 22 δικαιοσύνη δὲ θεοῦ διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς πάντας τοὺς πιστεύοντας. οὐ γάρ ἐστιν διαστολή, 23 πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ 24 δικαιούμενοι δωρεὰν τῇ αὐτοῦ χάριτι διὰ τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ· 25 ὃν προέθετο ὁ θεὸς ἱλαστήριον διὰ [τῆς] πίστεως ἐν τῷ αὐτοῦ αἵματι εἰς ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ διὰ τὴν πάρεσιν τῶν προγεγονότων ἁμαρτημάτων 26 ἐν τῇ ἀνοχῇ τοῦ θεοῦ, πρὸς τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν δίκαιον καὶ δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ. Rom. 3:21–26, NA27
21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being attested to by the Law and the Prophets, 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe for there is no distinction. 23 For all sinned and come short of the glory of God. 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed as a propitiations through faith in his blood for a display of his righteousness because of the passing by of the previous sins 26 because of the forbearance of God for the display of his righteousness in the present time for him to be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Rom. 3:21–26, a personal translation from the NA27
I listened to part of President Obama’s 2nd Inaugural speech and I want to reiterate to all of you reading this with discernment that we should not be surprised when leaders who are not Christians do and say unchristian things. I wrote about this over a year ago in a post I called Evil Personified. We live in an evil world in a dark time in which the visible church has become dominated by those attempting to redefine the Gospel to make it more palatable to the post-modernism while at the same time blatantly ignoring what God’s Word clearly teaches about what is evil and what he judges and what genuine Christians are really to be about. On the other hand, God has always kept a remnant within the visible church, which is the True Church, and it has remained faithful. This post and what we are teaching here is meant for those Christians. In fact, I suggest that what we are about to study will “offend” many of those who call themselves Christians, but who are really just attempting to be religious while sanctifying what they do in the flesh.
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Abortion and the Will to Power
From LifeSite News:
An item came to my attention today in my daily inspection of the internet, asking a very pertinent question. And though I’m sure it was meant rhetorically, I thought I’d have a go at answering it. A short piece, clearly published in answer to the hundreds of thousands gathered this week on the Washington Mall demanding an end to the slaughter of children, asks, “So what if abortion ends life?”