With syncretism spreading we really do need new words in order to communicate in today’s church visible.
Apprising Ministries continues to broaden your vocabulary in this piece.
Casino Culture and the Collapse of Character, By Albert Mohler
The casino stands as the great and most visible monument to the massive scale of the Gambling Industrial Complex in America. Just look across much of the American landscape, and you will see the glaring and garish lights of the casinos that serve to attract gamblers. It was not always so.
Indeed, for all but the last decade of the twentieth century, casinos were basically non-existent, except for those found in the state of Nevada. All that changed when states began to license and draw revenue from casino gambling. As Earl L. Grinols of the University of Illinois has commented: “Most areas of America had no legal casino gambling before 1990.”
Battle Is Your Calling
Apprising Ministries with a short but compelling exhortation in this piece to get into the fight for Truth.Rev. Franklin Graham: Romney Not a Christian
News Max reports:SBC Pastor Ed Young, Jr With Fashion Advice For Pastors
No doubt the Southern Baptist Convention has much bigger problems than its name. For example, this kind of self-parody. Henry Blackaby And “Experiencing God”
Apprising Ministries takes a look at one of the most dangerous teachings within the apostatizing Southern Baptist Convention. Campus Crusade group in university asked to cease activity because they have "offended other faiths"
In the island of Singapore that promotes the idea of religious harmony, religious intolerance and hostility towards the Christian faith has increased. Recently, a by-stander was offended by posters put up by the National Univeristy of Singapore (NUS) Campus Crusade for Christ which is aimed at promoting short term missions to various countries of the world including Thailand and Turkey. The offence came about because the posters insist that people of other religions need Christ. As a result of this complaint and the subsequent publicity, the university (NUS) has ordered Campus Crusade to cease all its activities.
In light of this act of religious intolerance against Christianity, you are invited to contact the Singapore embassy and the university and voice your opposition to this deplorable action.
You can contact the Singapore embassy at singemb_was@sgmfa.gov.sg, and you can contact NUS at askiro@nus.edu.sg.
Are we all Catholics now, as Glenn Beck wishes us to believe?
In his piece “Why we are all Catholics now” Glenn Beck is making yet another attempt to mainstream the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aka Mormonism. Mormonism is not Christian, as Beck would have us believe. Rather the LDS Church is a theological cult. Right off the bat Beck affirms,
I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but today, I call myself a Catholic. Why? Because the state is telling the Catholic Church to violate its principles and teachings. So if you are a person of faith, you must call yourself a Catholic.
Steven Furtick Freestyles the Philistine at Code Orange De-vival
Apprising Ministries brings you a piece containing video clips which thoroughly demolish Furtick’s narcigesis. Wisdom From the Spirit
Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν ἐν τοῖς τελείοις, σοφίαν δὲ οὐ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου οὐδὲ τῶν ἀρχόντων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου τῶν καταργουμένων·
1 Corinthians 2:6, NA27
But wisdom we speak among the mature, yet it is a wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, the ones being brought to nothing;
1 Corinthians 2:6, Possessing the Treasure New Testament V1)
I was listening to Dr. James White’s The Dividing Line a few weeks ago and I heard him say something he has said several times, that is, every generation of genuine Christians must fight the battles for the truth and correct doctrine. Some of these “Truth Wars” as John MacArthur calls them, have been worse and longer than others, but the one we are in now has been especially ugly with outright defections from within what most would consider the bulwark of Christian leaders who have shown their true liberal colors. However, what has been most enlightening to this Christian has been the absolute faithfulness of our Lord in the building of his church in the midst of rampant apostasy, pop-culture so-called chrisitianity, the decimation of local churches on a huge scale with the proliferation of mega-churches that are seeker-sensitive and politically correct non-gospel man-centered fake churches. There are also the huge churches based on the personality of the pastor as if he is some sort of rock-star. I have contacts from all over the world who testify how hard it is for them to find a solid, Biblically based church in their area. Even through all of this carnage, our Lord is faithful and continues to build his church.
Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise
The Associated Press reports this deeply disturbing story:
A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.
It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
Mystica Scriptura
Apprising Ministries has been warning you of spiritual gurus and other evangelical superstitions which are growing in Christendom as contemplative mysticism becomes the rule.SBC President Responds To Ken Silva’s Criticism Of Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries says just wait until you see the reaction. Got Meat? By Marsha West
Sue’s a self-professed Christian who attends church and a Bible study regularly and sings with the praise and worship team. Sue also practices yoga, consults a psychic medium, plays the Ouija Board game with friends and believes in reincarnation.
Sue and her boyfriend sleep together in the apartment she shares with two friends from church. No one questions what goes on behind closed doors. Sue and Tim, who’s an atheist, plan to marry someday so she believes God will overlook this “sin.” Her roommates are on the same page.
Because Sue is skilled at assessing a person’s character and motives—and she’s usually right—she boasts that she has the “gift of discernment.” Her roommates agree.
Wretched: Todd Bentley Dopiness
Apprising Ministries brings you a video clip of NAR “Apostle” Rick Joyner and his charge Todd Bentley. Unfortunately, he’s back. Knowledge, Part 2
χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη πληθυνθείη ἐν ἐπιγνώσει τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν. 2 Peter 1:2, NA27
May grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. 2 Peter 1:2, Possessing the Treasure New Testament V1
Ambiguity and relativism, unfortunately rule our day within the “visible church.” In this post we will look 2 Peter 1:1-11, in which the Apostle speaks of precise doctrine, exact knowledge, not something vague and relative to each person’s experience. To Peter, Paul and the other Apostles the modern philosophies of “open-mindedness” and “tolerance” were foreign to their thinking and they should be expunged from the thinking of Christians today. Those who have ensnared into that deadly trap though have many fooled, but there is problem: μαρτυρῶ γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὅτι ζῆλον θεοῦ ἔχουσιν ἀλλ᾽ οὐ κατ᾽ ἐπίγνωσιν – for I bear witness to them that a zeal of God they have, but not according to knowledge. (Romans 10:2)
Pentagon announces removal of all barriers preventing women from combat
The National Review has posted a piece entitled ‘Grace Under Fire’:
The Defense Department has announced the opening of some 14,000 new “combat related” roles to women in the military, another incremental win for those seeking to erode the protections that have long kept women out of the most dangerous assignments.
Supporters believe the move, and the eventual removal of all barriers preventing women from combat, represents a great advance in “equal opportunity.” That belief is dubious, but more to the point, it is irrelevant. The purpose of the military is to fight and win wars. Personnel policies should be based, first and last, on combat effectiveness. If putting female soldiers on the front line had even a small adverse impact on combat effectiveness, it would outweigh whatever other, political or symbolic benefits might accrue.
Straightening Out Beth Moore On Discernment
Apprising Ministries highlights the lack of discernment evidenced by popular Southern Baptist Bible teacher Beth Moore in her teaching on…discernment. Apprising also highlights Moore’s heretical view that the Roman Catholic Church is part of the Body of Christ. Knowledge, Part 1
8 But even more so I consider all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom all things I suffered loss and I consider them dung, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having my own righteousness that is of the law, but the righteousness through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based upon faith, 10 to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being conformed to his death, 11 that if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:8–11, Possessing the Treasure New Testament V1
In our last post, A Real Jerk, we looked at the true nature of all those who operate in the flesh. They think they have true knowledge, but they do not. That faulty knowledge can even come from Seminary training or years of sitting under the teaching of other theologians, but if the one being trained is in the flesh then it does not matter if they hear and read the truth or not. Of course, a lot of that stuff that passes for Seminary teaching and Christian preaching and teaching in our time really isn’t. True knowledge that comes from God is entirely different. It is not for those who operate in the flesh. It is only for those in Christ, those who abide in him (John 15). This knowledge has a divine purpose.
‘Glee’ Serves up Bible Mockery and Gay Propaganda for Valentine’s Day
The Media Research Center reports on the Valentine’s Day episode of the TV series ‘Glee’, in which a lesbian student asked a group of Christians to sing for her girlfriend as part of a ‘singing telegram’ performance. This episode of Glee continued the series’ mockery of Christian belief and promotion of homosexuality.
‘God help anyone who would…get in the way of TBN’
The Orange County Register reports:
We told you last week that the granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.
The charges were leveled in a federal lawsuit filed by Crouch granddaughter Brittany Koper against her former lawyers, who also do legal work for Trinity. One of those lawyers said her charges were “outright fiction and wholly without merit.”
On Thursday, Feb. 9 – the same day that our story ran online – Paul Crouch and his son, Matt, were having a live chat on TBN’s Behind the Scenes. Paul was reminiscing about how TBN began back in 1973 — God spoke to him as he was driving on MacArthur Boulevard — and the conversation took a turn that Koper’s attorney finds somewhat menacing.
Military Chaplains Threatened For Preaching Against Sin
OneNewsNow reports on a former Navy chaplain who says that the Obama administration is clearly trying to censor military chaplains who dare to speak out against the pro-abortion and pro-homosexual agenda. The chaplain was previously forced out of the service for praying publicly in Jesus’ name while in uniform.
Richard Dawkins Claims Religion Now 'Irrelevant' in UK
The Christian Post reports:
A poll instigated by atheist Richard Dawkins’ foundation has claimed that almost three quarters of British Christians believe religion should have no role in crafting public policy, while almost two-thirds believe same-sex couples should receive every right that heterosexual couples are given.
The Ipsos MORI poll was conducted on behalf of The Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason and Science after the 2011 census was collected. The results were published Tuesday.
John MacArthur Rebukes Joel Osteen
Apprising Ministries warns that the next heretical Word Faith preacher who is going to get a pass into mainstream evangelicalism is Joel Osteen. John MacArthur tells it precisely as it is and demonstrates the proper Christian reaction to Osteen. Your “Spiritual-but-not-Religious” Neighbor, by Peter Jones
When I came to the States in 1964, the great enemy of the Christian Faith was Marxism, with “Commies behind every bush.” My wife recently told me that as a child she would lie awake at night worrying that she would give up her faith when persecuted by godless Soviet commissars. In 1966 at Seminary, I studied the “Death of God” theology, which, we were told, represented the final triumph of secular humanism.
For a century and a half secular humanist scholars predicted the demise of religion, which Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud dismissed respectively as the opiate of the people, and a mental illness. But the materialistic utopia never materialized. Instead, people have awakened to “spirituality.” Not God but materialistic secular humanism is dead.