Lies Abound in Liberal Christianity Today’s Rehashed Smear Piece on John MacArthur

In the same post, Cho hinted at “other GCC matters that have come to [his] attention,” and issued a coy threat that he may or may not go public with them depending on “the nature and extent of the response (if any) from GCC and its allies.”

(David Morrill – Protestia) Another Shepherds Conference, another run at trying to destroy John MacArthur.

Personal baggage, threats, and long-disproven claims drive the tabloid salaciousness of Christianity Today’s rehash of the 20+ year-old Eileen and David Gray saga. The most damning evidence: Contrary to the narrative forwarded in Kate Shellnutt’s article, Grace Community Church elders did NOT commission disgruntled former elder Hohn Cho to investigate the church’s conduct in relation to the 20-year-old case of Eileen and David Gray. Continue reading

Revival or Reformation

1 Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east. Chronicles 29:1-7 (LSB)  Read verses 5-7 on the site.

We must admit that the spiritual condition of the 21st Century Church in this country and in most of the West is generally or mostly apostate. Thankfully, God always has His remnant of faithful believers even in the worst apostate periods. Over the last several posts we have been looking at righteousness, repentance, sanctification, Antinomianism, and the nature of salvation…. Continue reading

Southern Baptist Convention Boots Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church for Ordaining Women to the Pastorate

(The Dissenter) Last year, Saddleback Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch formerly pastored by Rick Warren, made headlines after Warren ordained three women to the pastorate at his church. Warren justified his actions by pointing to Acts 2:17-18 which has nothing at all to do with the office or the function of a pastor or elder in a local church.

Since then, Warren retired and has been replaced by Andy Wood, former pastor of Echo Church—another Southern Baptist megachurch of a similar mind as Saddleback…. Continue reading

Asbury ‘Revival’—Letter to the Editor Raises Concerns About Possible Pre-Planned Exploits

(Lighthouse Trails) Lighthouse Trails reader raises valid concerns about circumstances surrounding the Asbury “revival.” While Asbury University personnel and numerous secular and religious media outlets say that the “revival” is “pure, unplanned, organic,” and unexpected, it turns out an NAR/IHOP*-connected group had been planning a revival event at Asbury days before it even began. Lighthouse Trails does not question the sincerity of those at the Asbury gathering who may be truly committing or re-committing their lives to the Lord in humility, repentance, and reverence but is concerned about harmful exploits that can potentially hurt many while calling something a move of God that in reality may be a pre-planned event which could become part of a false revival. Continue reading

The DOD, A Threat to National Security?

This is the United States military? Unbelievable!

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) The Department of Defense (DOD) has sunk into madness and spends time on issues that have nothing to do with their mission or what we need them to do. They have lost their way and are a threat to national security.

We have a wonderful military, but they need good leaders, and they don’t have them at the top. It makes them dangerous. Their priorities are seriously off-base. Continue reading

Let’s have some real talk about this whole Asbury revival thing. We’ll start with a lesson from the Western Front.

THIS IS A MUST READ

“I saw many of my college friends began to slip away from the faith. The world was choking them out. They moved in with girlfriends and boyfriends, stopped going to church, went full woke, and began pursuing whatever thing gave them that emotional high they once chased in campus ministry. I even know of one who was arrested for an utterly heinous crime the likes of which you’d never think possible for a guy who sat down and read Scripture with you.”

(Joel Abbott – Not the Bee) From blogger Samuel Sey:

The Asbury “revival” started after a 10 am chapel service last week Wednesday when a group of about 20 students and the worship team said they felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to continue worship past the end of the chapel service. Continue reading

Persecution is the natural result of teaching or preaching God’s Word without compromise

14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.  John 15:14-19 (LSB) See verses 17-19 on the site.

A study of the book of Acts reveals that as Christianity spread as the Apostles obediently made disciples wherever they went, it was always accompanied by persecution. The hotter the persecution the more encouraged the brethren became. While that is not logical to the fallen mind, that is exactly how God grew His church…. Continue reading

More disturbing contemplative, Catholic comments from IHOP’s Mike Bickle

“Let me put it bluntly: Contemplative prayer results in spiritual blindness, and this is why “leaders” such as Rick Warren, Beth Moore, and Mike Bickle are simply unable to comprehend the vast difference between Catholic teaching and biblical Christianity.”

(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) According to IHOP founder Mike Bickle:

When I was in my 20s I was asked to pastor a church and I never officially went back to the Catholic Church, but I also don’t feel like I intentionally left it either. At the House of Prayer, I encourage people to learn the teachings of the Catholic saints, as the experts on contemplative prayer, such as Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. (Source) Continue reading

Christians In Idaho Sabotage Drag Queen Story Hour

Drag queen “Annie Christ”

“Despite the fact that Mormons were reportedly among the DQSH’s saboteurs, the LDS Church condemned the protest. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement Tuesday that took issue with Saturday’s sit-in protest and the involvement of some LDS church members.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Pocatello, Idaho is a small town in Bannock County located in southeastern Idaho whose public library, Marshal Public Library, recently held a Drag Queen Story Hour event in which transvestite pedophiles dress as caricatures of women while interacting with children and promoting their degeneracy. Continue reading

True Revival and False Revival

(Sean Michael Lucas) Throughout the centuries, pastors have tried to understand what God is doing in their congregations. Sometimes, there have been periods of dryness and deadness when there has seemed to be little interest in God’s Word, even among those who claim to be Christians. But at other times, there have been periods of “great awakening” when God has seemed to be on the move, when people have experienced intense spiritual interest, and when revival has seemed to be all around. Continue reading

The Asbury Revival is False. Here’s Why.

“The Asbury “revival” is a product of social media. It was not a revival until someone posted a video of the gathering on TikTok. It was labeled a revival, and the video went viral. The footage reveals young people swaying, as if in a trance, while the music played. There are interludes during the worship when students repented and testified. When compared with genuine revivals, the Asbury gathering comes up well short of being a genuine revival. I will explain, but I must provide some information.”

(C.H. Fisher – Truth Keepers) It amazed people that Christians practiced a fundamental component of Christianity in a Christian college. Imagine attending a church meeting where the majority brought bibles. Would that make the national news? If it did, why? Leonard Ravenhill said something to the effect, “We are so subnormal; if we became normal, people would think we were abnormal.” Continue reading

What is Knowledge?

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 translated from the NA28 Greek text)

Speaking from experience, which I am sure most of you can relate to very much, one the most frustrating things for me to bear is to have to be subjected to a teaching or information or even something shared about a situation or another person that I know to be false beyond any doubt and yet those expounding what is not true either will not listen to the truth or are beyond the reach of my revealing the truth to them…. Continue reading

The Time of the End

20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation passes by. 21 For behold, Yahweh is about to come out from His place To visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover those of hers who were killed. Isaiah 26:20-21 (LSB) 

God is Sovereign! He has always been and always will be Sovereign. I use Gmail as my main email. Unfortunately Google embeds ads in the interface just above the control buttons. Sometimes I will see something interesting there and click it. Usually I regret it. I once saw one that advertised a study that was supposed to show the real definition of Hyper-Calvinism…. Continue reading

Biden Completely Remade the Entire US Government This Week

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) On his first day in office, Biden mandated diversity and inclusion training (CRT or Critical Race Theory) in every agency. On February 16th, he quietly issued a new executive order transmogrifying every agency of government. Hiring, advancements, policies, funding, and programs will be according to immutable characteristics. Everyone is protected except white heterosexual men. This is Marxist equity now flooding into every pore of the government body. Biden remade America on Thursday. Continue reading

‘Why Would You Want Some Lady’s Dirty Clothes?’: Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

“Why indeed would Brinton have wanted to steal women’s luggage in the first place? That question gets to the heart of the problem: the very thing for which the Biden regime celebrated Brinton appears to be exactly the same thing that led him to commit acts that have gotten him charged with felony theft.” 

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Just a few months ago, Sam Brinton was a rising star in the universe of the woke. Back on June 29, he announced, with considerable fanfare, his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.”… Continue reading

Rick Warren, Francis Chan, and the Kansas City False Prophets to Join Asbury ‘Revival’

“And these are all the people who are headed to Asbury University next week to conduct a huge false prophet festival.” 

(The Dissenter) If the Asbury revival we’ve been covering wasn’t a false movement before, there is no doubt that it’s fixing to be as several notable false teachers are planning to go to the campus next week to ramp things up. According to Francis Chan, he’ll be joined by other false teachers including Rick Warren and Mike Bickle on February 23 to try to spread “revival” around college campuses all over the country. Continue reading

Warning Against Apostasy

11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.Hebrews 5:11-14 (LSB)

Apostasy: [Middle English apostasie, from Old French, from Late Latin apostasia, defection, from Late Greek apostasi, from Greek apostasis, revolt, from aphistanai, aposta-, to revolt : apo-, apo- + histanai, to stand, place; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

Noun pl -sies abandonment of one’s religious faith, political party, or cause [Greek apostasis desertion] from: Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006 Continue reading

The Chosen Season 2 Episode 1 Review

“The Chosen portrays the Good Samaritan as a true story, as opposed to a parable, and uses this premise to leverage an emotional payoff. But the premise of the Good Samaritan parable actually happening and meeting a villain of that story distracts from the emotional sensation that the show was going for. Instead of feeling powerful, it feels cheap.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) After the brutal and choresome first season of The Chosen, I have not been eager to pick back up with my episodic review of the series. To summarize, the first season of The Chosen is a both unfaithful as an adaption of the Bible and is also bad television from an entertainment and quality standpoint. Having heard that season two is superior to its predecessor, I finally embarked on its first episode, “Thunder.” Continue reading

Bethel Redding Baptizes Openly Gay Disney Celebrity

“Bethel Church has done something that even at its worst, it has never done before. They are now baptizing openly professing homosexuals to the applause of the entire congregation.”

(The Dissenter) Bethel Church, located in Redding, California, is a congregation that has become a hotbed of ungodly practices and delusional teachings, all at the hands of two men who prescribe themselves as modern-day prophets and apostles of God—Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton. These self-proclaimed messengers of Jesus have become known as the Dynamic Duo of nonsense, who have been leading their followers down a path of deception and away from the biblical teachings of Christianity…. Continue reading

Why It’s Good to be Skeptical of the Asbury Revival

I think that church history has proven that it is right to be skeptical and cautious about calling something a revival before you have years of faithful fruit to look back on to call it such. 

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the Gospel was not preached. Christ was mentioned in the conclusion. It was pretty much a “you can’t love so stop trying and just let Christ do it” message. There was no mention of sin (Acts 2:36), no mention of the cross (Acts 2:23). No mention of repentance (Acts 2:38). 

(Jordan Standridge – The Cripplegate) George Whitfield was one of the greatest preachers of all time. He famously rode his horse from city to city preaching the Gospel to whoever would listen. Each time he preached thousands came to hear him. And many seemed to show conviction and repentance of sin. At times those present would communicate to him the numbers of those who seemed to respond, and each time it is recorded that George Whitfield would say this word. 

Allegedly. Continue reading

FL Surgeon General Warns: Vaers Reports Are Up 1700% After Vax

“The reporting of life-threatening conditions increased over 4,400%.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo alerted the public to a significant increase in risks associated with the mRNA injection. Reports to Vaers in Florida alone were up 1700%, and life-threatening conditions were up 4400%. Dr. Ladapo called for transparency and honesty from federal agencies in a letter to the FDA and CDC. I hope he doesn’t wait too long for an answer. Continue reading

New memos unmask secret deal between US, Britain to hide COVID vaccine adverse events

“Why are we engaged in a secret deal to keep secret information about adverse events related to the vaccines? I just think it’s troubling. The documents speak for themselves.”

(Charlotte Hazard – Just the News) President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton said that recent documents obtained by the watchdog group reveal that the United States was involved in a secret deal with the United Kingdom to keep information about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine hidden from the public. Continue reading

Klaus Schwab Explains How They Will Be Masters of the World

“One of his concerns is how to shape the necessary policies to ensure new technologies serve humankind. [Who elected this guy?] His other concern is change goes so fast; how can we make sure each citizen can deal with the change he doesn’t understand? He thinks government also has a big role in this. They will on the controlling end. We saw how that worked during the pandemic.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Klaus Schwab, the President of the World Economic Forum, spoke at yet another World Governance Summit. The globalists have frequent forums, and it’s always about taking over the world. At this Summit, Schwab promoted his Fourth Industrial Revolution and outlined a plan for elites to become Masters of the World. The peasants will be turned into machines serving the masters. Continue reading

Doctrines of Demons: Guarding Against the Influx of False Teachers

“As Christians, we believe that there is a spiritual battle going on and that we are called to fight that battle through prayer. We should be praying for discernment, protection from deception, and the Holy Spirit’s guidance as we seek to know and follow Christ.”

(The Dissenter) The phrase “doctrines of demons” appears only once in the New Testament in 1 Timothy 4:1. The verse reads, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.” This warning is solemn and sobering, and it is something that Christians today should take very seriously. Continue reading

Medical Tyranny! The Feds Are Tracking the Unvaccinated, and You Won’t Believe ‘WHO’ Is Telling Them to Do It

“I’ve been sounding the communist alarm for almost two years now. Liberty will soon be a memory. The bolshies have infiltrated every institution in the nation and beyond our borders as well.”

(Kevin Downey JR – PJ Media) Some of you may recall that I previously referred to the COVID-19 lockdowns — and various other responses to the bat stew flu — as a “dress rehearsal for communism.”

I was wrong; it’s showtime! Continue reading