July 5, 2009
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“Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path.” Psalm 27:11
“Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.” Job 6:24
O Lord, teach me to know the vanity and emptiness of the world; its insufficiency to gratify the desires, or satisfy the longings of the new born soul; yes, its utter inability to make its most devoted votaries happy.
Teach me to value the bliss of heaven above all earthly joys; and to dread the torments of hell above all earthly sorrow.
Alas! How often do the pleasures of sense blunt my sensibilities to those things which are above; while the troubles of time obliterate from my mind, the miseries which await the impenitent and unbelieving.
Teach me, O blessed Savior, cheerfully to refuse the pleasures of sin, which end in everlasting torment; and cheerfully to endure those trials, for Your sake and the gospel’s, which terminate in endless glory!
“Show me Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths; guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long.” Psalm 25:4-5
- Thomas Reade, “Christian Meditations”
July 5, 2009
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Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15, NASB)
My friend Steve McConkey told me today that he’s releasing the following Press Release at 1 AM through Christian Newswire to some 1400 news outlets concerning Rick Warren and his unbiblical alliance with the false religion of Islam. May the Lord bring about proper balance and focus on the genuine Gospel of Jesus Christ:
Steve McConkey
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RICK WARREN IS WRONG
(Madison, Wisconsin, UndergroundNews.us, July 6, 2009) Rick Warren spoke to 8000 Muslim listeners at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) at the Washington Convention Center on July 4th. He said, “Muslims and Christians can work together for the common good without compromising my convictions or your convictions. I am not interested in interfaith dialogue but interfaith projects.”
Earlier, a Canada Free Press article said ISNA is an organization with ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups. According to the article, the organization’s website has quotations like the following, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”
Rick Warren is putting works first and faith second. According to the Bible in James 2:14-26, works should follow a person’s faith. Warren has reversed this and has put works first and faith second.
According to the book of James, true faith is believing the exclusive claims of Christ and not putting faith behind works. Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven according to the Bible. As we share this truth with the world, we should then do good works.
Speaking at interfaith meetings should not be done if a person does not tell the listeners that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven – period. By not doing this, a person is saying that all ways lead to God by works. Sincere Christian faith is never afraid to tell others that Jesus Christ in the only way to heaven.
By Warren’s silence on the exclusive claims of Christ, he led his Muslim audience into believing that works will save a person. As Christians, we know that works follow our faith, not the other way around. As Paul preached in Athens, he concluded his message by telling them about the resurrection of Christ with a few coming to the Lord.
UndergroundNews.us is an apologetics and news site for Christians, including athletes. Steve McConkey is the president of 4 WINDS. He grew up in the North Country of Wisconsin. He has extensively studied apologetics and graduated with honors from Minnesota State University-Mankato (BS-Public Health) and Western Kentucky University (Masters of Public Health). Also, Steve and his wife have been in track and field ministries since 1981.
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July 5, 2009
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The Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), de-formation of the Christian faith continues spreading like a cancer throughout the visible church. Below you’ll see that the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles (EDLA) is setting itself up for even more division by bringing in EC Guru Brian McLaren:
L.A. Night General Convention 2009
July 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Anaheim Arena
Presented by the Emerging Church/Fresh Expressions community within the Diocese of Los Angeles, this evening of music, spoken word, light-painting and other visual effects will create an environment focusing on God’s creation and creativity.
Titled “Genesis: From Breath to Wonder,” the experience will feature seven cycles, or segments. Featured participants will include Brian McLaren, author and leader in the Emerging Church movement. (Online source)
Apprising Ministries does find it interesting to note that above McLaren is billed as a “leader in the Emerging Church movement,” although when the same thing is said by an online discernment and apologetics ministry it’s always denied. You should also know that all the talk about this EC movement being dead is also a smokescreen as evidenced, for example, by the following from Episcopal Life Online.
Notice below how they appeal to Phyllis Tickle as an authority, and for their understanding of the EC:
[Episcopal] New ways of “being church” that developed in the past couple of decades are gathered under the term “emergent church.”
It’s also called a conversation, a movement, a phenomenon – and defining it is “like chasing mercury around a chemistry lab table,” said Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. (Online source)
In fact the website Anglican Curmudgeon cites Bishop Jon J. Bruno of the same EDLA bringing in McLaren while he informs us that Tickle has recently addressed them:
Great Emergence author Phyllis Tickle helped engage this topic when she spoke to our Diocesan Convention about the cycle of unprecedented global change that is reaching across the Church, financial markets, and digital communication, among other areas.
Emergent Church leader Brian McLaren will continue the conversation here in Anaheim, and also when our Diocesan Convention meets again this December. He and the Diocese’s new Center for Creative Ministries will bring us L.A. Night on July 15 as an experience of “Genesis: From Breath to Wonder.”…
The Emergent Church brings us an authenticity that is refreshing in these times of pervasive change and transition. We hope you will see similar creativity and freshness in the ways in which this Diocese is welcoming all as Christ, renewing God’s creation, serving with generosity, and building new community. (Online source)
What’s important for you to understand is that within mainstream evangelicalism this EC postliberal de-formation of Christianity is currently pursuing the exact same pattern once followed by their forebears in the original Cult of Liberal Theology in capturing mainline denominations like the Episcopal Church currently imploding from liberalism’s divisive corrupti0n.
They didn’t listen to the warning once issued by Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989); may the Lord open the eyes of mainstream evangelical leaders, before it’s too late:
There is a progression that takes place in liberal theology: It begins with a corrupt bibliology, a corrupt view of the nature and the inspiration of Scripture. They have a corrupt theology because once you are picking and choosing from the Bible what you want, your theology has to suffer from it, because your human reason is corrupt… every major theological seminary that has turned from orthodox Christianity began with disbelief of Biblical doctrine. There wasn’t a single exception.
This corrupt Bibliology then lead them to the next step. Their theology began to be touched by it, their view of the Cross, the Virgin Birth were both immediately questioned; then came the miracles of Christ… And finally they had emptied the Gospel of all its content; they were simply using the outward shell so that they go on collecting money from the people and the churches; because they knew that if the people in the pew knew that they were apostate, they’d throw them out. So the strategy was hang on to the trust funds; hang on to the money we’ve got; hang on the properties we control, and we will gradually educate the laymen into this new approach to theology.
And then finally we will take control of everything. The gradual process of feeding you theological poison until you become immunized enough so that you don’t know what’s happening to you. And when you wake up to what’s happening to you, it’s too late they’ve got everything. That is not a baseless charge, I stand prepared to prove that the Cult of Liberal Theology in the United States has deliberately and consistently followed this methodology to entrap, control and dominate the denominations and the churches of the United States and our educational institutions. (The Cult of Liberalism, available from Walter Martin Religious InfoNet)
You ignore this growing EC cult and its inroads into mainstream evangelicalism to your own eternal peril.
See also:
WRETCHED: BRIAN MCLAREN GOSPEL PREACHING
EPISCOPAL LEADERS PREPARE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATES
PHYLLIS TICKLE AND THE GREAT EMERGENCE TO INFECT CANADA
BUT DO EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY AND BRIAN MCLAREN REALLY LOVE GAY PEOPLE?
POPULAR EMERGING CHURCH WEBSITE THE OOZE SLITHERS OUT OF THE GLBTQ-AFFIRMING CLOSET
MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM NOW ON THE RAPID SLIDE TO APOSTASY
THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS
July 5, 2009
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I‘d like to introduce the blog and ministry of Teri Campbell. As I encounter more and more Mormons, ministries like this are proving to be of great value.
Below is a snippet of her testimony. Be sure to follow the link at the end for the rest of her story.
I have been asked by a number of people to write my testimony down. I have not written it down prior to today because, first, I did not know where to start, and second, I did not feel like I had a story, finally, I am afraid of what my family (95% Mormon) will say. However, after a conference my husband and I attended a couple weekends ago, I have decided that it is a story that needs to be told. So here is my story:My name is Teri Campbell. I grew up in a 5th or 6th Generation Mormon home. I am not quite sure how far back it ran in our family, but that is not important. I was baptized into the Mormon religion when I was eight years old. I received my patriarchal blessing when I was twelve. I temporarily rebelled when I was eighteen but returned to Mormonism when I was nineteen. I served a Mormon mission in Novosibirsk, Russia when I was twenty-one. And I finally left Mormonism when I was twenty-seven. How? It started while I was on my mission. Surprised? It is all by the grace of God.
Click here to read the rest of Terri’s testimony
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July 5, 2009
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Here it is: “Saying the same thing over and over doesn’t make it right.” You see, not so much unlike apostate monks in Roman Catholicism some EC pastors like Jay Bakker apparently like to chant. As an example let’s take the issue of unrepentant practice of sexual immorality with a member of the same sex i.e. homosexuality.
Instead of acknowledging what God has actually said on the subject homopressive “gay affirming” ECers like Bakker will often chant over and over something along the lines of:
“Homosexuality is not a sin. The church misunderstands the Scriptures. We need to re-examine them. Homosexuality is not a sin. The church misunderstands the Scriptures. We need to re-examine them…”
But repeating that tired ol’ mantra over and over, which the cult of liberal theology has been blathering years before the Bakkers et al ever came on the scene, doesn’t make it right. With this in mind, I remind them that Dan Kimball, one of those involved early on with the EC de-formation of Christianity, is recognized as one of the nicest people around EC parts.
And after his having actually put action to the above chant, in his typical quiet style quite sympathetic to “the emerging generation,” Kimball has already told them the truth. As I previously shared in Because I Love Jay Bakker And GLBTQ People Kimball informs us in his book They Like Jesus But Not The Church:
I have read just about every single book there is out there on this topic, written from both the conservative and pro-gay theological perspectives, and I have read the various studies and opinions on each of the Scriptures that mention homosexuality or that have been seen as addressing homosexuality.
I have wrestled with the Scriptures and difficult viewpoints. I studied this issue not being afraid to reexamine all I had ever been taught before and to approach it with an open mind and heart. However, after much prayer and study of the sexual ethics and themes presented overall in Scripture, I have found that I just can’t dismiss that in the Bible homosexual practice is considered a sin. (137, emphasis his)
July 5, 2009
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July 5, 2009
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Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of Me. (Psalm 40:7, KJV)
We Can Believe In, And Trust, What God Has Said In Holy Scripture
In these difficult times, what an amazing thing it is for the Christian to know, with certainty, that the Bible truly has been written as history—His-story. With so much talk these past years about so-called postmodernism, and an alleged shift in our capricious culture, it’s comforting for us to know that God’s Word is unchanging. The Bible tells us — Your Word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens (Psalm 119:89).
So you need not worry as you see more and more leaders within the egregiously Ecumenical Church of Deceit, the duplicitous daughter of the long apostate Roman Catholic Church currently swallowing up mainstream evangelicalism, abandoning Sola Scriptura. The fact is, in their fruitless efforts to “reach” people with their seeker-sensitive gospels, and for the spiritual “buzz” of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, they have rejected the all-sufficiency of the Bible.
Yes, there is a growing apostasy, but we have the absolute truth and security of our Lord’s Word in our text — “in the volume of the book it is written of Me.” Furthermore, we can see this truth in Luke’s account of our Risen Lord when Jesus is teaching two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus. We read — Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures (Luke 24:27, NASB).
And we must also keep in mind here that Luke is writing from firsthand information – since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you (Luke 1:3). So you see, this is an historical account; unfortunately today too often people aren’t approaching the text of the Bible in this way; but we really should where applicable, and especially in times like this of such impending darkness.
And if you’re feeling a bit troubled right now, let me offer you these words of comfort; not only does the Bible tell us of Christ’s glorious Resurrection from the dead, but we also have the assurance that Jesus is coming back for us as well. You see another eyewitness account by the Apostle John informs us that the Master said:
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am” (John 14:1-3).
So dear Christian, perhaps you feel that maybe you haven’t been giving as much of yourself to the Lord lately as you should be, or maybe you have never really trusted completely in the absolute fact that Jesus Christ died in place of His Church literally bearing the wrath of God that would have been ours. Well, today, if you hear His Voice within mine, then I exhort you: Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth (Hosea 6:3).
And remember Jesus Himself tells us — “Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this Book”… He which testifieth these things saith, “Surely I come quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22:7, 20)
July 5, 2009
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psalm 51:17)
If you and I have a broken spirit, all idea of our own importance is gone. What is the use of a broken heart? Why, much the same as the use of a broken pot, or a broken jug, or a broken bottle! Men throw it on a dunghill. Hence, David says, “A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise” (Psalm 51:17), as if he felt that everyone else would despise it.
Now, do you feel that you are of no importance? Though you know that you are a child of God, do you feel that you would not give a penny for yourself? You would not wish to claim the first place; the rear rank suits you best, and you wonder that you are in the Lord’s army in any rank at all.
O brothers, I believe that the more God uses us, the less we shall think of ourselves; and the more he fills us with his Spirit, the more will our own spirit sink within us in utter amazement that that he should ever make use of such broken vessels as we are!
Well, now, indulge that feeling of nothingness and unimportance; not only indulge it as a feeling, but go act upon it, and be you in the midst of your brethren less than the least; humble yourselves in wonder that God should permit your name to stand on the roll of his elect at all.
Admire the grace of God to you, and marvel at it in deep humiliation of spirit. That is part of the sacrifice that God will not despise. (Charles Spurgeon, At the Master’s Feet, July 5)
July 5, 2009
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By Nathan Pitchford & John Hendryx
The Old Testament was written particularly to the Jews, whom God called out from all the nations to be his special people (e.g. Deuteronomy 7:6); and so, Paul speaks of the privilege of the Jews as being very great, and consisting most especially in this, that they were given the [...]
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