March 31, 2009
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“Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.” (Proverbs 3:25-26)
When God is abroad in judgments, He would not have His people alarmed. He has not come forth to harm but to defend the righteous. He would have them manifest courage.
We who enjoy the presence of God ought to display presence of mind. Since the Lord Himself may suddenly come, we ought not to be surprised at anything sudden. Serenity under the rush and roar of unexpected evils is a precious gift of divine love.
The Lord would have His chosen display discrimination so that they may see that the desolation of the wicked is not a real calamity to the universe. Sin alone is evil; the punishment which follows thereupon is as a preserving salt to keep society from putrefying. We should be far more shocked at the sin which deserves hell than at the hell which comes out of sin.
So, too, should the Lord’s people exhibit great quietness of spirit. Satan and his serpent seed are full of all subtlety; but those who walk with God shall not be taken in their deceitful snares. Go on, believer in Jesus, and let the Lord be thy confidence.
Charles Spurgeon
March 31, 2009
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“Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.” (Proverbs 3:25-26)
When God is abroad in judgments, He would not have His people alarmed. He has not come forth to harm but to defend the righteous. He would have them manifest courage.
We who enjoy the presence of God ought to display presence of mind. Since the Lord Himself may suddenly come, we ought not to be surprised at anything sudden. Serenity under the rush and roar of unexpected evils is a precious gift of divine love.
The Lord would have His chosen display discrimination so that they may see that the desolation of the wicked is not a real calamity to the universe. Sin alone is evil; the punishment which follows thereupon is as a preserving salt to keep society from putrefying. We should be far more shocked at the sin which deserves hell than at the hell which comes out of sin.
So, too, should the Lord’s people exhibit great quietness of spirit. Satan and his serpent seed are full of all subtlety; but those who walk with God shall not be taken in their deceitful snares. Go on, believer in Jesus, and let the Lord be thy confidence.
Charles Spurgeon
March 31, 2009
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Andrew DeLoach, Esq. host of the Take the Stand radio program that airs on Pirate Christian Radio has been holding a mock trial on his program. He has brought suit against many Seeker-Driven pastors claiming that they are guilty of Pastoral Malpractice. The pastors named in the suit include Perry Noble, Chris Sonksen and Paul Wirth.
Here is the second part of the mock trial. It is worth the listen.
March 31, 2009
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If Jesus were to ask, ‘Who do you say I am,’ the question He famously asked his disciple Peter, He would be disappointed by some of the answers He’d receive from contemporary Americans. A new nationwide survey conducted by The Barna Group among a representative sample of adults explored how many have what might be considered a ‘biblical worldview.’
Defining Terms
For the purposes of the survey, a ‘biblical worldview’ was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic; a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works; Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; and God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today. In the research, anyone who held all of those beliefs was said to have a biblical worldview.
National Results
Labeled ‘born again Christians,’ the study discovered that they were twice as likely as the average adult to possess a biblical worldview. However, that meant that even among born again Christians, less than one out of every five (19%) had such an outlook on life.
(Via Barna Group.)
March 31, 2009
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“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.“ (Matthew 7:1-2 ESV)
It is impossible to walk through one’s day without having to make judgments. In fact our Lord Jesus who made the oft misquoted and misunderstood command found in Matthew 7:1 and Luke 6:37 to “Judge Not!” also made the following command.
About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it. Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” (John 7:14-24 ESV)<!-
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March 31, 2009
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We love Him ὅτι (BECAUSE) he first loved us.
(1Jn 4:19)
ὅτι: that, because, since, causatively because
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March 31, 2009
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Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and 20th century “modern liberalism” have influenced Rob Bell. A more appropriate title for Rob Bell’s painting, his “Velvet Elvis”, is “Postmodern Liberalism”. Rob Bell accomplishes what he sets out to do. His painting includes “every person everywhere who has asked big questions of a big God” even when their answers deny the truths of the Bible.
The false teaching that the Christian faith needs to be repainted for every culture has a long history. Sadly, these historic attacks on Christian truth are alive and well. Hegel replaced the Christian faith with declarations about a thesis always having an antithesis that results in a synthesis that becomes the new thesis in a never-ending quest for truth. Truth is redefined as the never-ending quest itself. There is no absolute truth. Truth is a constant experience of paradox. Every time you think you have truth, its opposite enters into your experience of reality. Rob Bell repaints this error. (Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith [I] )
Casey Freswick
March 31, 2009
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Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and 20th century “modern liberalism” have influenced Rob Bell. A more appropriate title for Rob Bell’s painting, his “Velvet Elvis”, is “Postmodern Liberalism”. Rob Bell accomplishes what he sets out to do. His painting includes “every person everywhere who has asked big questions of a big God” even when their answers deny the truths of the Bible.
The false teaching that the Christian faith needs to be repainted for every culture has a long history. Sadly, these historic attacks on Christian truth are alive and well. Hegel replaced the Christian faith with declarations about a thesis always having an antithesis that results in a synthesis that becomes the new thesis in a never-ending quest for truth. Truth is redefined as the never-ending quest itself. There is no absolute truth. Truth is a constant experience of paradox. Every time you think you have truth, its opposite enters into your experience of reality. Rob Bell repaints this error. (Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith [I] )
Casey Freswick
March 31, 2009
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Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and 20th century “modern liberalism” have influenced Rob Bell. A more appropriate title for Rob Bell’s painting, his “Velvet Elvis”, is “Postmodern Liberalism”. Rob Bell accomplishes what he sets out to do. His painting includes “every person everywhere who has asked big questions of a big God” even when their answers deny the truths of the Bible.
The false teaching that the Christian faith needs to be repainted for every culture has a long history. Sadly, these historic attacks on Christian truth are alive and well. Hegel replaced the Christian faith with declarations about a thesis always having an antithesis that results in a synthesis that becomes the new thesis in a never-ending quest for truth. Truth is redefined as the never-ending quest itself. There is no absolute truth. Truth is a constant experience of paradox. Every time you think you have truth, its opposite enters into your experience of reality. Rob Bell repaints this error. (Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith [I] )
Casey Freswick
March 31, 2009
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Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and 20th century “modern liberalism” have influenced Rob Bell. A more appropriate title for Rob Bell’s painting, his “Velvet Elvis”, is “Postmodern Liberalism”. Rob Bell accomplishes what he sets out to do. His painting includes “every person everywhere who has asked big questions of a big God” even when their answers deny the truths of the Bible.
The false teaching that the Christian faith needs to be repainted for every culture has a long history. Sadly, these historic attacks on Christian truth are alive and well. Hegel replaced the Christian faith with declarations about a thesis always having an antithesis that results in a synthesis that becomes the new thesis in a never-ending quest for truth. Truth is redefined as the never-ending quest itself. There is no absolute truth. Truth is a constant experience of paradox. Every time you think you have truth, its opposite enters into your experience of reality. Rob Bell repaints this error. (Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith [I] )
Casey Freswick
March 31, 2009
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Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and 20th century “modern liberalism” have influenced Rob Bell. A more appropriate title for Rob Bell’s painting, his “Velvet Elvis”, is “Postmodern Liberalism”. Rob Bell accomplishes what he sets out to do. His painting includes “every person everywhere who has asked big questions of a big God” even when their answers deny the truths of the Bible.
The false teaching that the Christian faith needs to be repainted for every culture has a long history. Sadly, these historic attacks on Christian truth are alive and well. Hegel replaced the Christian faith with declarations about a thesis always having an antithesis that results in a synthesis that becomes the new thesis in a never-ending quest for truth. Truth is redefined as the never-ending quest itself. There is no absolute truth. Truth is a constant experience of paradox. Every time you think you have truth, its opposite enters into your experience of reality. Rob Bell repaints this error. (Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith [I] )
Casey Freswick
March 31, 2009
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I’m not against Christians being involved in politics, far from it. But this latest project driven no doubt by well-meaning people is simply unbiblical, it is absurd, and it is futile.
The Red Envelope Project is a waste of time if the intent is to “change the Presidents heart” as said by the projects founder, [...]
March 31, 2009
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March 31, 2009
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by A. W. Pink
Part 1 and Part 2.
THE SPIRIT WARS AGAINST FLESH
Now just as the presence of faith may be known amid all the workings of unbelief, so our salvation from the love of sin may be ascertained notwithstanding all the lustings of the flesh after that which is evil. But in what way? How is [...]
March 31, 2009
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Asthma and allergy sufferers can forget about these services. USA today profiles several apostate temples of doom that are so desperate for parishioners that they are now opening their services to animals. On top of the wails of the damned from groups like AC/DC and Leonard Skynard during “worship”, people can now listen to barking and snarling from canines showing up for church. It’s all to keep ‘em coming in the doors.
No word on whether attendees take care of their own clean-up projects that are no doubt a factor. Nothing puts you in the mood for worship like a Doberman lifting his leg on the pew in front of you.
March 31, 2009
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Perry Noble, Chief Executive Senior Pastor of New Spring, tells us that he’s now repented concerning John Piper:
I used to not like John Piper. In fact, I would get angry anytime someone quoted him around men and usually say some stupid, immature remark about the guy… As I look back on my former disliking of Piper I have realized (and repented of) the way I acted.
So far, so good; but unfortunately Perry wasn’t done yet:
(BTW…why is it that many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes? Did God REALLY call them to pick apart verb tenses and voice intonations of speakers who don’t say things exactly right or don’t use a particular word order?) (Online source)
You know, when I entered Junior High many years ago my late mom gave me some advice concerning kids who were using words of profanity, which I never forgot:
Ken, the ignorant only resort to using words like that because they’re just not educated enough to express their anger in any other way.
Below goat herder pastor Noble scolds his sheep because they want to know him, “the guy on his face over in front of the Son of God,” who’s apparently thanking Him that he’s not like those others (see—Luke 18:9-11):
March 31, 2009
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One of the things I deal with a on a daily basis is comments from unbelievers and immature professors of Christ. I’ll usually block the abrasive unbelievers and try to at least converse with those who profess to believe but aren’t clear about things and even the unbelievers who are cordial. One thing that I notice in each is a fundamental misunderstanding of their beliefs about what exactly I believe. Unfortunately, this tendency is fully functioning not only in the groups previously mentioned, but also in the professing pastors that come and comment occasionally… which brings us to the case in point.
Earlier today, I was reading Slice when I came across a quote from a person who I’ve critiqued here before about certain issues mainly because I used to attend his entertainment center (so according to those people, I have full reign to speak about it since attendance is a priority in critiquing these places) so I know first hand what’s going on and have very good friends who still go there. The quote I came across was this:
“BTW…why is it that many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes? Did God REALLY call them to pick apart verb tenses and voice intonations of speakers who don’t say things exactly right or don’t use a particular word order?”
- Perry Noble (source)
Even though he used an explicative here, that’s not really the point in me writing this post. I would be foolish to think that an 89 Sedan could fly me to Cuba. It’s not in it’s nature to do so. In the same gist, I would also be foolish to think that someone who has no qualms with embracing the mindset of a 10th grader would think and speak with maturity. No, the thing that drew my attention were the following two things:
1) Perry said,
“Did God REALLY call them to pick apart verb tenses and voice intonations of speakers who don’t say things exactly right or don’t use a particular word order?”
If you think that spending time learning something that you want to be faithful to isn’t what God wants us to do, you’ve got a lot more repenting to do than the repenting you shared that you’ve done previously in your post. Let’s just consider this scenario: Let’s say that what we “reformed guys” hold to is actually what Scripture teaches (just for kicks, of course), and, because we want to be faithful to Scripture, we take the time to parse through the verbs, nouns, etc, to make sure that we’re being honest with it because of the respect we have for it. Wouldn’t this make Perry someone who was going against the Scriptures? The last thing Satan wants is for us to understand what exactly the Scriptures say. It’s no wonder that there are “entertainers of light” who do the same.
In case that point didn’t come across, allow me to bring this closer to home in an example that might help you more, Perry. There’s a game called Guitar Hero. Those who are faithful to it want to learn every tab, beat, button combo, etc. They want to represent the songs in the way that would best represent the video game they hold dear. I’m sure many of your friends hold to this. I’m wondering why I won’t see a blog post on your website, Perry, critiquing them for doing so. Could it be that you hold a double standard in regard to what is being parsed through, and your critiques aren’t really based on anything other than your subjective feelings, what you can get out of it for yourself, etc.? Could it be that if you did go after them for doing the same exact thing in essence that you’re going after people who take time with the Greek to do, your popularity rating with them would go down? After all, Guitar Hero is so much more popular than Reformed theology, and if you keep the Guitar Hero folks happy, hey, more numbers means God’s doing a work in that entertainment center, huh?
2) “And if you are reformed and angry at the paragraph above…I was predestined before the foundations of the world to type it…so get over it! 
”
Ah, the fundamental misunderstanding of double predestination. You would think that someone who’s rightly dividing the word of truth would understand certain doctrines, right? Well…
One thing that Perry is great about is pejorative rhetoric. However, pejorative rhetoric often shows a fundamental misunderstanding of certain ideas when the rhetoric is laid out for all to see. This theory holds true here. Perry actually believes that we actually believe that God was the one who made him say, “many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes”. I attribute this to two things. 1) I know when I was in the 10th grade, I didn’t want to be accountable for much of anything except that which would put me in the best light possible around others and impress them the most. It comes to me as no surprise that someone who, again, has no qualms with never going past the mindset of a 10th grader would like to not take responsibility of his own actions. and 2) (I’m going to get a little technical here, but just use the same brainpower you would trying to learn “Highway to Hell” on Guitar Hero.) Perry has a fundmental misunderstanding that he’ll only be able to overcome by what he doesn’t seem to fond of: study. You see, there’s this thing called original sin. Original sin states that we were all guilty when we were born in Adam after the fall because of the fall. So, when someone these days says something like, “many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes”, they are saying exactly what they want to say according to their nature. God doesn’t force them to say, “many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes”. They do it solely because they want to, and it is what their nature desires. Here, unfortunately, we learn not only that Perry doesn’t understand double predestination, but he also doesn’t want to take responsibility for his own actions. It’s sad, but what do you expect from someone who sees nothing wrong with playing “Highway to Hell” for their Easter concert/Sunday morning service? The Bible tells us to “study to show yourself approved”. Unfortunately, today in the Seeker-Sensitive Religion, many of them hold that it should have said, “be as popular as you possibly can with unbelievers to show yourself approved.”
To help you understand what exactly it is you are going against, Perry, I would like to introduce you to the doctrine of Double Predestination (Explained Rightly) with the hopes that you have a “de ja vu” and repent of this like you repented of forming uninformed opinions of others before you even knew what they held (your John Piper example).
In closing, I’d like to emphatically stress that life past the 10th grade is wonderful, Perry. I promise. One would think it’s about time to graduate from that way of thinking at 35+.
Peace out and keep it real, Perry. That would be, like, TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE!!!
(/me shakes his head.)
March 31, 2009
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One of the things I deal with a on a daily basis is comments from unbelievers and immature professors of Christ. I’ll usually block the abrasive unbelievers and try to at least converse with those who profess to believe but aren’t clear about things and even the unbelievers who are cordial. One thing that I notice in each is a fundamental misunderstanding of their beliefs about what exactly I believe. Unfortunately, this tendency is fully functioning not only in the groups previously mentioned, but also in the professing pastors that come and comment occasionally… which brings us to the case in point.
Earlier today, I was reading Slice when I came across a quote from a person who I’ve critiqued here before about certain issues mainly because I used to attend his entertainment center (so according to those people, I have full reign to speak about it since attendance is a priority in critiquing these places). I know first hand what’s going on and have very good friends who still go there. The quote I came across was this:
“BTW…why is it that many of the reformed guys are complete @$$holes? Did God REALLY call them to pick apart verb tenses and voice intonations of speakers who don’t say things exactly right or don’t use a particular word order?”
- Perry Noble (source)
Even though he used an explicative here, that’s not really the point in me writing this post. I would be foolish to think that an 89 Sedan could fly me to Cuba. It’s not in it’s nature to do so. In the same gist, I would also be foolish to think that someone who has no qualms with embracing the mindset of a 10th grader would think and speak with maturity. No, the thing that drew my attention were the following two things:
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March 31, 2009
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After reading this new article at Apprising Ministries you will have a much better idea why Emergence Christianity has such little regard for proper systematic theology and the penal substitutionary atonement. The fact is, these emerging deceivers are not nearly as clever as they wish to appear.
March 31, 2009
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After reading this new article at Apprising Ministries you will have a much better idea why Emergence Christianity has little regard for proper systematic theology and the penal substitutionary atonement. The fact is, these emerging deceivers are not nearly as clever as they wish to appear.
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