Grace Upon Grace Upon Grace
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Modern hymnody from Keith and Kristyn Getty
In Christ Alone
The Power of the Cross
A Conversation with Paul Washer
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Here is a conversation with Paul Washer that will be part of a documentary made at the 2008 Revival Conference sponsored by Sermonindex.net.
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Added: November 5, 2008
Cultural Sensitivity- To The Wind With It
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“All this emergent church stuff, much of the church growth stuff, all the cultural sensitivity throwing out the window biblical sensitivity, it’s just a bunch of little boys wanting to play church without the power of God on their life, and I’ll stand on that statement. It’s a lesser than David trying to fit himself in Saul’s armor. To the wind with it. The more you trust in the arm of the flesh, the less you’re going to see of the power of God.”
-Paul Washer
Do Not Worry! [Matthew 6:24-34] (Mark Kielar)
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“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
(Mat 6:24-34)
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Added: November 4, 2008
Persecution in Orissa “Religious Genocide”
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Here’s an update on the horrible situation in Orissa, India where believers are being hunted down and killed and their property destroyed. Please keep these brothers and sisters in prayer.
What Now?
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I have been in a state of mourning since the Democratic Primaries came down to only two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. I had little confidence in any of the Republican contenders after Ron Paul dropped out. I was not sure for a while what really triggered this mourning. It was as I realized that this coincided very dramatically with the drastic decline in the Christian worldview in our time that God has taken His hand of protection away from this country. Judgment is coming.
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The Day After the Elections of 2008(James White)
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“The cultural shift toward Darwinian humanism was displayed in its fullest form yet in the elections of 2008 in the US. Here are my thoughts.”
- James White
AM MAILBAG: SOME THOUGHTS
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An Apprising Ministries reader wrote in to share some thoughts we now publish with permission:
I’ve got to tell you I’ve gone to your website many times today to feel refreshed so to speak. I can’t help it, but I need to stop, reading all these Christian blogs about Obama’s win. I can’t tell you how sick to my stomach I feel when these Christian bloggers talk about how excited they are he is elected. How can you be excited to elect someone that wholeheartedly supports partial birth abortion and wants to take money from the rich to give to the poor, that hangs out with known friends of terrorists? I just don’t get it. Just like I don’t get how people can follow Doug Pagitt and Rob Bell —- then I think these are probably the same people that just voted to elect Obama!
So I am here to read and learn and to be reminded that God is in control. As my pastor has reminded us through the whole election process – God builds up kings and he also tears them down. He obviously has a plan for us and maybe this will turn us more toward Him. I don’t know. It is easy to get scared of what the next 4 years holds, so I do my best to calm myself and turn to God. So I’m going to stop reading those Christian blogs that tout the great win of Obama and start reading the Bible more.
I’m just so sick of these emergent pastors spewing their brand of Christianity and leading people down the wrong path, I’m sick of Hollywood telling me to hug some trees, who to vote for and drive an electric car or I’m a bad person & I’m sick of it being ok to kill babies with a late term abortion yet our president is condemned for wanting to free a country from a communist dictator through war. How can I relate a win by Obama to the emergent leaders of Doug Pagitt and Rob Bell? Well, fact is I don’t believe any of them and I think they are leading people down a deceitful path. That’s my soapbox whether you agree or disagree. I do really enjoy your website and think it is a brilliant source of Emergent information. It inspires me to stop being so lazy and to learn more.
AM Reader
*Updated*Richard Abanes Celebrates Obama’s “Historic” Victory
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**Updated** The terror group Hamas is also celebrating Obama’s win, calling it an “historic victory for the world.” Click here for the news story.
**Venezuelan goon, Hugo Chavez, is also pleased as punch over Obama’s election.**
Richard Abanes is nearly falling over himself today as he gushes about “history being made” in the election of an African-American to the White House. He has even dug up some images on google of KKK rallies where “Protestants” supposedly participated. (We’ll never know because they’re wearing hoods in the photo.) Somewhere in his zeal to seem an enlightened true friend of diversity, he forgot the very words of civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King, when King said he looked forward to the day when the content of a man’s character was what was important, not the color of his skin.
Yes, indeed, Richard, history has been made, but if you look beyond skin color, as we are supposed to do, you will find that the history is rather unsavory. Never before has such an enemy of human life been elected to the Oval Office, (real men defend babies, they don’t turn their backs on them when they’re dying); never before has such a champion of socialist economics been elected to the White House–someone who actually openly talks of redistributing wealth; never before has someone so unqualified, so unprepared and so untested taken the reigns of the most powerful office in the world; never before has there been such complicity between the world’s media and wealthy elite to place someone in control of America’s destiny; never before have so many Americans been so ready to trade national security and freedom for temporary economic benefit, and I could go on and on. Yes, Mr. Abanes, it is certainly an historic day. But while you, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLAren, Oprah, Condoleeza Rice and reporters from the media sob into your hankies, overcome with emotional incontinence, the ship of our great Republic heads ever closer to the rocks.
Doug Pagitt Inspired by Election of Abortion/Gay Rights Champion
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Doug Pagitt extended his congratulations today to Barack Obama on winning the White House. The dying babies, gasping for breath on dirty laundry carts after surviving their mothers attempts to kill them, don’t apparently afflict Mr. Pagitt’s conscience a bit. That Barack Obama turned his back on these babies by twice voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in Illinois bothers Mr. Pagitt not at all. That our new First “Lady” sent out fund raising letters for her husband’s Senate campaign, warning that conservatives would try to stop partial birth abortion also is no problem for Pagitt. The thought of babies being partially delivered and having their brains sucked out and their skulls crushed before being tossed into incinerators apparently is also nothing to break a sweat over. The election of Mr. OBama has further inspired Mr. Pagitt so much that he is going to run for public office himself in the state of Minnesota.
Having interviewed the the poor man, I can tell you that he is tailor-made for public office. He is already a politician. Anyone who has ever heard the man asked a straight-forward question knows they will have a long wait for a clear, straight-forward answer. So, I congratulate Mr. Pagitt for eagerly throwing his hat into the crowded ring of morally vacuous and confused individuals who populate public life. He will fit in well.
Richard Abanes Celebrates Obama’s “Historic” Victory
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Richard Abanes is nearly falling over himself today as he gushes about “history being made” in the election of an African-American to the White House. He has even dug up some images on google of KKK rallies where “Protestants” participated. Somewhere in his zeal to seem an enlightened true friend of diversity, he forgot the very words of the civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King, when King said he looked forward to the day when the content of a man’s character was what was important, not the color of his skin.
Yes, indeed, Richard, history has been made, but if you look beyond skin color, as we are supposed to do, you will find that the history is rather unsavory. Never before has such an enemy of human life been elected to the Oval Office, (real men defend babies, they don’t turn their backs on them when they’re dying); never before has such a champion of socialist economics been elected to the White House–someone who actually openly talks of redistributing wealth; never before has someone so unqualified, so unprepared and so untested taken the reigns of the most powerful office in the world; never before has there been such complicity between the world’s media and wealthy elite to place someone in control of America’s destiny; never before have so many Americans been so ready to trade national security and freedom for temporary economic benefit, and I could go on and on. Yes, Mr. Abanes, it is certainly an historic day. But while you, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLAren, Oprah, Condoleeza Rice and reporters from the media sob into your hankies, overcome with emotional incontinence, the ship of our great Republic heads ever closer to the rocks.
“Heaven, We Have A Problem!”
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Recently Apprising Ministries brought to your attention that the Managing Editor for Biola Magazine confirms contemplative spirituality is going on at Biola. In that post, and particularly in the comments section, there’s the usual denial that their kind of spiritual formation isn’t Eastern spirituality.
In this post using the book Kingdom Triangle by Biola professor J.P. Moreland you’ll see that it certainly is.
“Heaven, We Have A Problem!”
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Recently Apprising Ministries brought to your attention that the Managing Editor for Biola Magazine Confirms Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism at Biola. In that post, and particularly in the comments section, there’s the usual denial that their kind of Spiritual Formation isn’t Eastern spirituality.
In this post using the book Kingdom Triangle by Biola professor J.P. Moreland you’ll see that it certainly is.
EMERGING CHURCH PASTOR DOUG PAGITT TO RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE
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In a post at his blog called “I Hope I Can Count On Your Vote” Doug Pagitt, leading spokesman of the Emergent Church writes:
Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama. I have many thoughts about this important election and all that has gone with it. At this exciting time I have my own announcement to make.
After two years of thinking, planning and dreaming I have mad a decision to add a new component to my work and service life – I am going to join the political field and run for public office.
So, today I announce that I am running for the Minnesota State Legislature in 2010.
(Online source)
In a related post concerning Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt over at These Are The Voyages Tim Bertolet brings out Pagitt’s woeful misunderstanding of the purpose of “the Creeds of Christendom” as he discusses a recent in interview Pagitt did with Christ Rosebrough, which you can find more about in Fighting for the Faith Podcast: Doug Pagitt Transcript.
The folks of Minnesota had best be praying Pagitt knows more about the legislature than he does theology and Church history.
See also:
DOUG PAGITT: AFTER DEATH NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BELIEVER AND UNBELIEVER
DOUG PAGITT AND THE CULT OF THE EMERGENT CHURCH
“HEAVEN, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!”
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It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB)
Circle Up The Evangelical Wagons And Head Into The New Dark Ages
Recently Apprising Ministries brought to your attention that the Managing Editor for Biola Magazine Confirms Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism at Biola. In that post, and particularly in the comments section, there’s the usual denial that their kind of Spiritual Formation isn’t Eastern spirituality. The problem with that reasoning is that they eventually trace their teachings back to apostate monks and monkettes now referred to as “the Desert Fathers and Mothers” who lived in the deserts of Egypt.
For example we take Dr. J.P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy for Biola, and his 2007 book Kingdom Triangle. Moreland tells us that since the Church began among the “greatest contributions and achievements” she’s had would be “people at the core of Christian spiritual formation.” And among those making these great “contributions and achievements” were/are “the Desert Fathers to Henry Nouwen and Richard Foster.” All involved in the decidedly eastern practice of the so-called “wordless prayer” of ”Christian” meditation.
Yet Moreland tells us through highly ecumenical read: non-Protestant] people hostile to the Reformation:
we have available to a treasure of deep, rich knowledge of the soul and its proper functioning before God. Of central concern to this literature is the development of sensitivity to the inner affective movements of the soul, and now more than ever we need to acquaint ourselves with the literature and the sensitivity it engenders. (155)
Well, I agree the Body of Christ needs to “acquaint ourselves with the literature” produced by these people; otherwise the revisionist history simply continues unabated. The desert dwellers were in violation of Christ’s command in john 20:21 (look it up); Richard Foster is not an evangelical Christian at all, but a Quaker mystic whose message is so convoluted he’s a Living Spiritual Teacher along with the Dali Lama, and Henry Nouwen was a Roman Catholic monk who became so deluded by his Contemplative/Centering Prayer, which originated with those desert hermits, that he became a universalist:
Today I personally believe that 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 way to God. (Sabbatical Journey, 51)
This is the truth concerning what Moreland calls “deep, rich knowledge”; deceptive knowledge that would lead to the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism and eventually so disgust God that He raised up His Protestant Reformers to call the Body of Christ away from these highly subjective experiences and back to the all-sufficiency of His Word in Holy Scripture. But today we are so “wise” we’re following these piped pipers of perverted spirituality right back into the religious slavery of the Dark Ages.
Think I’m kidding; here’s Moreland singing the praises of one of the leaders of the apostate (at best) Roman Catholic monk Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, who were essentially the spiritual Gestapo of the Counter Reformation:
Similarly, the writings of Lignatius Loyola (1491-1556), especially “Rules for the Discernment of Spirits” contained in his Spiritual Exercises, exhibit a care, a depth of insight, and a profundity of guidance about the inner life that is completely off the radar screen among contemporary Evangelicals. We neglect this literature at the cost of our own impoverishment. (156)
No, Dr. Moreland; we neglect the following from Martin Luther, who knew a whole lot more about what was going on with men like Ignatius of Loyola than you ever will, at the cost of our own spiritual imprisonment:
Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that we would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. In popedom it was held a work of the greatest sanctity for the monks to sit in their cells and meditate of God, [solitude] and of his wonderful works; to be kindled with zeal, kneeling on their knees, praying, and having their imaginary contemplations of celestial objects, with such supposed devotion, that they wept for joy. In these their conceits, they banished all desires and thoughts of women, and what else is temporal and evanescent. They seemed to meditate only of God, and of his wonderful works.
Yet all these seeming holy actions of devotion, which the wit and wisdom of man holds to be angelical sanctity, are nothing else but works of the flesh. All manner of religion, where people serve God without his Word and command, is simply idolatry, and the more holy and spiritual such a religion seems, the more hurtful and venomous it is; for it leads people away from the faith of Christ, and makes them rely and depend upon their own strength, works, and righteousness. In like manner, all kinds of orders of monks, fasts, prayers, hairy shirts, the austerities of the Capuchins, who in popedome are held to be the most holy of all, are mere works of the flesh; for the monks hold they are holy, and shall be saved, not through Christ, whom they view as a severe and angry judge, but through the rules of their order. (Tabletalk, 1626 AD)
See also:
“CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE” BY RICHARD FOSTER AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEOLOGICAL ERROR
SO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE CHRIST… DITCH THE DISCIPLINES OF DALLAS WILLARD
DALLAS WILLARD: “WHICH SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES?”
TONY CAMPOLO: COUNTER-REFORMATION SAINTS LIKE IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA IMPORTANT SOURCES OF HELP
SPIRITUAL FORMATION IS PIETISM REIMAGINED
The Day After the Elections of 2008(James White)
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James White weighs in the day after the election. This is some great commentary.
Doug Pagitt Inspired by Election of Abortion/Gay Rights Champion
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Doug Pagitt extended his congratulations today to Barack Obama on winning the White House. The dying babies, gasping for breath on dirty laundry carts after surviving their mothers attempts to kill them, don’t apparently afflict Mr. Pagitt’s conscience a bit. That Barack Obama turned his back on these babies by twice voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in Illinois bothers Mr. Pagitt not at all. That our new First “Lady” sent out fund raising letters for her husband’s Senate campaign, warning that conservatives would try to stop partial birth abortion also is no problem for Pagitt. The thought of babies being partially delivered and having their brains sucked out and their skulls crushed before being tossed into incinerators apparently is also nothing to break a sweat over. The election of Mr. OBama has further inspired Mr. Pagitt so much that he is going to run for public office himself in the state of Minnesota.
Having interviewed the the poor man, I can tell you that he is tailor-made for public office. He is already a politician. Anyone who has ever heard the man asked a straight-forward question knows they will have a long wait for a clear, straight-forward answer. So, I congratulate Mr. Pagitt for eagerly throwing his hat into the crowded ring of the morally vacuous and confused individuals who populate public life. He will fit in well.
Persecution on the horizon?
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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, believes Senator Obama was elected, in large part, because the church in America has failed to address sin in its own ranks and also in society.
Perkins says Christians should pray for and return to a biblical model of holiness and righteousness. And believers in America, he adds, should prepare for persecution.
“We are going to see, I think, unprecedented attacks against our faith through measures like the hate crimes [legislation] to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act,” he says. “We’re going to see attacks on innocent human life through the Freedom of Choice Act, trying to erase all the gains that have been made in the pro-life movement. And I think even our freedoms are going to come under attack.”
Obama stated during the presidential campaign that one of his top priorities upon taking office would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. Perkins says Christians will have to be resolute in defense of what they know to be right.
“[W]e’re going to have to stand together, and stand in defense of these truths, and be bold about that stance,” he counsels.
Perkins says many churches are afraid of offending people, and don’t challenge members to live out their faith in the public square.
Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt Running For Political Office
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