Time for Churches to Get “Political”

The jig is up. The news is out. Pastors across America have called the left’s bluff. The empty words “separation of church and state” – a phrase found nowhere in the U.S. Constitution – have lost their sting. Yes, “separation” still applies, but only insofar as it requires the state to remain separate from the […]

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Truth According to Godliness

Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness – Titus 1:1 How little is now heard, even in the centres of orthodoxy, of ‘walking worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing’! Will not […]

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Spiritual Abuse

  by David Henke   DEFINED Spiritual abuse is the misuse of a position of power, leadership, or influence to further the selfish interests of someone other than the individual who needs help. Sometimes abuse arises out of a doctrinal position. At other times it occurs because of legitimate personal needs of a leader that […]

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Dr. Sam Waldron on the Family-Integrated Church Movement

Has the movement of family-integration churches over-reacted? Is the movement guilty of a messianic view of the family? These concerns and others are addressed by Dr. Sam Waldron of Midwest Center for Theological Studies: Family-Integrated Church 7: Are We Guilty of a Messianic View of the Christian Family? Family-Integrated Church 8: Are We Guilty of […]

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Joy Unspeakable & The Reformed Charismatic Movement

I’ve begun reading a book many of you, I’m certain, have already read. It is a book by Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones entitled Joy Unspeakable: Power & Renewal in the Holy Spirit. Now the Church is certainly in need of a revival, yet I cannot honestly say I see one on the horizon; in fact, […]

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Maybe We Shouldn’t Baptize Folks So Quickly

After my little rant here, there’s an article in Christianity Today I’d like you to read. According to the following report, in the SBC there is an increase in baptisms yet a decrease in membership of local churches. Ok, time for a rant.….. It sounds as if people are leaving the assembly of the saints […]

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Smoking Out Calvinist Pastors

Here’s the deal: Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries received a memo. It’s a little hard to believe, but, it is real. It’s a ‘memo’ designed to reveal Calvinists pastors in your midst. Wouldn’t that be a tragedy? All joking aside, this really is sad. Those proclaiming to be promoting the Gospel are looking to ‘snuff’ […]

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