There’s a lot of evangelical hand-wringing of late, over which Christian candidate can bring our nation back into the greatness that it once was. “If we can only elect a true Christian,” is a sentiment often heard among those who see the nation sinking into darkness. The Washington Post reports Continue Reading
Discernment
Need help exchanging “whispers with God”?
Christendom’s premiere Emergent organization, Catalyst, is urging women to “exchange whispers with God” on its new Catalyst smartphone app, via featured teacher Lysa Terkeurst: Who is Lysa? She is someone we’ve warned about, and you should mark and avoid. (see, “Leaving Lysa: Why You Shouldn’t Be Following Lysa TerKeurst or Continue Reading
Beth Moore’s strangely disappearing tweet: a discernment lesson
Elizabeth Prada, who blogs over at The End Time, reports on the case of the disappearing tweet. It seems that one of Mrs. Moore’s tweets suddenly flew the coop (got deleted) which surprised many of her fans. So Elizabeth fills us in on what took place in Twitterland a couple Continue Reading
Letter: Our Church, Our Children and the “Sinner’s Prayer”
Is the sinner’s prayer Biblical? Many of us have been instructed at some point in our lives to, “repeat after me, eyes closed and no one looking at others.” The truth of the matter is that it is biblical to pray to Jesus to ask Him to forgive us our sins. Continue Reading
Massachusetts OKs woman’s anti-Christian license
Yes, free speech. I get it. But when a state government institution changes its policy to legally allow one person to hatefully mock a people group, it is the picture of a world turned completely upside down: BOSTON (November 15, 2015) — A member of the “Church of the Flying Continue Reading
Hebrew Roots: About that Cepher “Bible”
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of advertisements for The Cepher Bible, a new translation of sorts brought to you by WND, where editor Joseph Farah sells Cepher alongside The Harbinger, The Rabbi Who Found Jesus, the Mystery of the Shemitah and other questionable books. WND is a source Continue Reading
Do you like guessing games?
I love games. Raised on Clue, Monopoly and anything trivia-related, I can get pretty competitive. Yes, this newest game over at Church Watch Central is right up my ally, given the chance to use my knowledge of stuff I’ve researched the past several years. But guess what? I’m stumped at Continue Reading
What Links Breath Prayer, “Practicing the Presence” and Yoga?
In Yoga, “practicing the presence” is accomplished through the mystical method of repeating yogic breathing and yogic mantras for the purpose of ushering the devotee into “oneness” with cosmic consciousnesses, the eastern understanding of god or divinity, often referred to as the “divine spark”, believed to be synonymous with all Continue Reading
Are churches too big?
This is a question many of us struggle with as we look at what has happened in the church growth movement over the years: Ginormous, supersized conglomerates with tens of thousands packed into stadium seating to watch a show on a jumbo tron. Multi-site campuses where the only “live” element Continue Reading
Ligonier suspends R.C. Sproul Jr over Ashley Madison account
Uh oh. We knew there would be heartbreaking news of pastors involved in this: Ligonier Ministries has suspended R. C. Sproul Jr. until July 2016 due to his admission that he visited the adultery matchmaking website Ashley Madison. Ligonier was founded by his father, R. C. Sproul Sr., who still Continue Reading