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British Columbia considers removing gender from birth certificates

Oh Canada. Transgender Canadians who have already successfully lobbied provincial and federal governments to make it easier to amend sex designations on key identity documents are now pushing for another change: to abolish gender references altogether from birth certificates. This report via National Post: The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has Continue Reading

NAR’s Faytene Grassechi uses Empowered21 to teach Luke 4 is about…Dominionism!

Our aim at Berean Research is to alert our visitors to the apostate movements that have infiltrated the Church.  The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is one such movement and it’s growing in leaps and bounds.   In his latest piece, John Lanagan alerts us to  Faytene Grassechi and includes a quote of Continue Reading

Better gear up for the 5 major changes coming to the Church

John Burton has written a piece titled “Ancient and Emerging: 5 Major Changes Coming to the Church.”  Before you get all excited, or maybe even concerned over those changes, you should know a bit more about Burton.  As it turns out he’s a “prophet” in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Continue Reading

“God” tells NAR “prophet” about Dominionist Seven Mountains plans

John Lanagan alerts us to yet another NAR false prophetess, this time Lana Vawser, who has supposedly uttered a prophetic word form God…..that He never spoke.  God speaks to us through His Word, not through pretend prophets. The New Apostolic Reformation is not an organization. These are networks of “apostles” and Continue Reading

Tim Keller, Catholic Mystics, and Genesis I as a poem?

A lot of well-known pastors are promoting Lectio Divina, and many churches are taking that to mean that surely, this ancient prayer practice of emptying the mind is A-OK. In his recent research article, Tim Keller promotes Catholic mystic, rejects Genesis 1 as literal truth, John Lanagan notes that Keller has advocated Continue Reading

“Psst … Lectio Divina … your mysticism is showing.”

One of the most pervasive of all the Contemplative, er, Contemptible Prayers, is a little practice called Lectio Divina. It comes to us via the ancients of the Catholic monks, and no longer sneaks in the back door of our churches – it marches down the center aisle and sits Continue Reading

Emergent Catalyst conference says it’s time to “awaken your wonder”

Catalyst, the premiere mega-conference for Emergent Church Leaders, is sending a curious message to potential attendees of its next Atlanta conference Oct. 7-9: We are hardwired for wonder. Just as the wonder of the world points to God, a sight unseen, so too should our acts of creation bridge the Continue Reading