A two-part documentary outlining the actions of popular pastor, author and speaker David Platt is available to view, and it is a real eye-opener. It’s called The Real David Platt: The Hijacking of McLean Bible Church For anyone who remembers Platt’s book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Continue Reading
Discernment
Bethel Worship School
If you are a Facebook user, one of the pages you might check out for news in the discernment world is the Exhort and Contend page. There isn’t information on who the site administrator is, so I can’t vouch 100 percent for this person’s background. But for news headlines about Continue Reading
Leaving the NAR Church: Mike’s story
I began publishing my “Leaving the NAR Church” series in 2017, and even to this day I receive new entries to publish. There are more than 60 stories so far. These stories are precious to me, and serve as a painful reminder that there is hope for the dear Continue Reading
Why Music Matters: A (Former) Worship Leader’s Testimony
The following is a guest post by Josh Porter, who left his position as a church worship leader when a new senior pastor began pressuring him to make the services more seeker friendly and experiential by incorporating popular contemporary songs that had unbiblical lyrics or came from questionable sources. At Continue Reading
Culture wars and YWAM/CRU’s spheres of influence
When you think of culture wars, what comes to mind? Years ago I remember hearing about petitions going around demanding that retailers say “Merry Christmas” from November to December 25th, rather than “happy holidays.” The war on Christmas seems silly now in light of the huge issues facing us, but Continue Reading
On examining beloved leaders
Romans 16:17-18 says, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive Continue Reading
Christian Dwell app promotes New Age, Lectio Divina, Mysticism
Christian meditation apps, such as Dwell, contain unbiblical and potentially spiritually dangerous methods such as Lectio Divina, breathwork, ecumenism, and monastic mysticism. Doreen Virtue compares audio clips of her pre-salvation New Age meditations to the meditations on Dwell, so you can hear the similar hypnotic induction techniques: If you’re not Continue Reading
Necromancy in the Church: Promise Keepers and Steve Berger
Necromancy is the practice of communing and interacting with the dead, an abomination God strictly prohibits: “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one Continue Reading
The Fault in Their (Social) Gospel
How did Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism, Feminism, and all sorts of other Leftist ideas enter the pulpits of churches and denominations around the world? You are going to want to familiarize yourself with the following concepts outlined by Darrell B. Harrisson, who penned this at the Statement on Continue Reading
Shepherd’s Conference removes Alistair Begg from speaker lineup
Pastor Alistair Begg, who had been scheduled to speak in March at the Shepherd’s Conference led by pastor John MacArthur, has now been removed from the conference website’s featured speakers page* after controversial remarks Begg made in which he gave unbiblical advice to a Christian about attending a family member’s Continue Reading