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The Shack

“The Shack,” with film pending, called “greatest deception” to church “in the last 200 years”

(Christian Examiner, By Michael Foust) — An evangelical seminary professor is calling The Shack the “greatest deception foisted on the church in the last 200 years” and urging Christian leaders to speak out against it ahead of its release as a movie. James B. DeYoung, professor of New Testament language and literature at Western Seminary in […]

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Who are the apostates?

In this piece Mike Ratliff of Possessing the Treasure points out something that many Christians are unaware of: “An apostate can remain in an organized so-called “Christian Church” and be very religious and remain quite active in the “ministry” of deceiving as many people as he or she can. I mentioned it earlier in this […]

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Beth Moore

Evaluating Beth Moore’s Upcoming Live Simulcast

Sharon Lareau of Chapter 3 Ministries challenges her readers to put on their thinking caps as they evaluate material LifeWay released to promote Beth Moore’s upcoming simulcast. Are there any red flags?  You’ll have to read Lareau’s piece to find out. , I have decided to take another break from my series about submitting in everything to […]

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Squirrel

Three Kinds of Christians

Townhall columnist Mike S. Adams is a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina Wilmington, author, speaker and conservative.  In the sardonic and blunt style he is known for, Mike offers three distinct categories of Christians. Recently, an angry LGBT activist (please pardon the redundancy) told me “not all Christians are alike.” He was […]

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Blogger

Reprise: Christian “watchbloggers” under fire

This subject is even more pertinent today than it was 6 years ago when I wrote about it. A few years ago “the world’s most famous Christian blogger,” Tim Challies, took Christian “watchbloggers” to task in his piece Evil as Entertainment.  Thereafter, says Tim, “Much discussion, much gratitude, much criticism ensued.”  Boy I’ll say! Only recently did […]

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Discussions with Carl Lentz

By keeping you updated on the continuing exposure of the opposing statements that continue to contradict what one of the largest megachurches in the world has said about two gay men serving in its church, some will tell us we are “beating a dead horse.” We could easily listen to those voices and stop reporting […]

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Report: Pope invites Oprah to the Vatican

Now this is an interesting development. Stay tuned: Pope Francis may be expecting a visit from a group of Hollywood power players, including Oprah and businessman David Geffen this fall, a source told The Hollywood Reporter this week. While the pontiff confessed back in May he hasn’t watched TV since 1990, he reportedly wants to […]

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Third Planned Parenthood Expose Most Shocking Yet

This is something everyone needs to see. It’s ugly. It’s horrific. And we do not apologize for helping to expose this slaughter and procurement of human beings. A newly-released video exposing the human trafficking of baby body parts features actual footage of technicians sifting through a pie plate of legs, livers, spines and other parts, […]

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