Making the rounds online today: This is a section from a book titled “How To Raise The Dead” sold by Bethel “Church” in their bookstore. This is not what Acts 5 says at all. Peter did not kill this couple; God did. In Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira died because they Continue Reading
False Doctrine
Of bones and bathwater
You’ve no doubt heard the sayings, “eat the meat and spit out the bones,” and, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” These are interesting metaphors for how we as Christians should somehow accept truth with just a tiny little lie baked in. As if there is such Continue Reading
8 WRONG reasons for staying in a church that teaches false doctrine
Should you stay or should you go now? When God removes the scales of deception from your eyes, you may very well find yourself in a dilemma. The church that you love, attend, and where you were possibly even saved, teaches false doctrine. False doctrines such as word of faith, Continue Reading
Downplaying the Devil in NAR
Should you pray for God’s protection from being deceived and then stop worrying about being deceived by the devil? Likewise, once you pray for protection should you then let your guard down, not worry about your need for protection, and embrace all–and I mean all–manifestations of the miraculous? Holly Pivec Continue Reading
The Gigantic Problem Beneath the Really Big Problem
Something is true because it’s actually true-whether you like it or not. Something is false because it’s actually false-whether you like it or not. Has the American Evangelical Church abandoned God’s Word? According to Steven Kozar of Messed Up Church, God’s Word has been abandoned. In a letter he wrote, Kozar Continue Reading
Getting ‘Unhitched’ from the Old Testament? Andy Stanley Aims at Heresy
Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley describes the effort to retain much of the Old Testament as “intellectually ruinous and morally debilitating.” Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary & Boyce College, disagrees. He argues that because the Lord Jesus and the Apostles did not “unhitch the Christian faith from their Jewish Scriptures” as Continue Reading
Bethel’s delusions of grandeur – impervious to the realities of the Carr fire
Before we get to Rick Becker’s piece, here’s a quote by Theresa Dedmon, a woman who’s on the pastoral staff at Bethel Church in Redding CA. Bethel’s not far from the raging Carr fire that took the lives of 7 people and destroyed well over 160,000 acres and 1,077 homes Continue Reading
Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry – soaking, declaring and spinning into delusion
Rick Becker exposes the occult practices that are going on inside Bethel Church in Redding CA through its School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM), or as students like to call it “Christian Hogwarts.” Becker shows the ways in which undiscerning “Christians,” especially the younger generation, are being deceived by wolves in sheep’s clothing Continue Reading
Wm. Paul Young Teaches New Age Lie About Separation on TBN
For those who haven’t yet heard, “The Shack” author, William Paul Young, is from a New Age/New Spirituality persuasion (like Oprah); likewise, Young rejects the Penal Substitutionary Atonement (that Jesus took the penalty for our sins on the cross). So with this in mind, it’s rather odd that he uses the term Continue Reading