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Following the seeker-sensitive and emergent church movements, Evangelical churches have been left grappling with a tenacious and disconcerting trend—an approach marked by non-confrontational and uncontroversial stances on contentious social and moral matters, such as...
As we journey through this world together, hand in hand, we must acknowledge the relentless barrage of messages that promise happiness, fulfillment, and success which come at us from all directions, ensnaring us in their tantalizing web. We are tempted to believe that...
The Evangelical-Industrial Complex has long departed the historic and Biblical Christian faith and exchanged it for a system of emperors who have nothing better to do than to build and protect their own kingdoms. This can't be better displayed than in the modern...
In an ungodly movement in the Church today, the idea that one can be a Christian while still sexually attracted to people of the same sex is gaining momentum. It teaches that same-sex attraction, in and of itself, is not sinful unless acted upon. This notion is...
It has long been known that Francis Chan has been on the wrong path for quite some time. We previously reported on Chan's association with false teachers in the charismatic movement -- such as Benny Hinn, Todd White, and Shawn Bolz. Chan followed up with a rebuttal...
And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.Mark 16:15 In my last article, I wrote an open letter to open-air preachers to love the people of God. As I was writing it I realized that there are a lot of street evangelist...
Living Out is a website tied to the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and The Gospel Coalition that promotes a celibate but openly gay lifestyle among professing Christians. Sam Allberry, the most prominent leader of the ministry has been under...
Today is April 1, but sadly, this is not an April Fool's joke. Joel Osteen actually made this absurd assertion. Much like the Roman Catholics, Osteen is teaching a dangerous doctrine of Scripture -- that Mary holds the power of life over God. Let's be clear, Mary did...
A popular concept within evangelical churches, especially college-age and young adults, is the idea that one can "rededicate" their life to Christ. The assumption is that he or she was saved at a young age, but either didn't have a complete understanding of the grace...
In 1996, Democrat First Lady Hillary Clinton published a book titled It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, which essentially attempts to demolish the conservative idea of the nuclear family -- one father, one mother, and children -- in favor of a...
The NY Times recently published an article written by Professor of Philosophy, Peter Atterton, about God’s existence. Atterton begins his article with his conclusion: Perfect. All-powerful. All-knowing. The idea of the deity most Westerners accept is actually not...
The Bible clearly teaches sovereign election. God has a redeemed for himself a people unto salvation from his righteous wrath against sinners. The 1689 Second London Baptist Confession sums this up: By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men...
Yesterday, the term and theological category “Same-Sex Attracted Christian” didn’t even exist. Now it’s everywhere — seemingly in every pulpit, at every conference, in every book, in every periodical, in every blog, on every podcast. The tsunami alarm has been slow to...
Jonathan Martin is an Emergent pastor out of Oklahoma City, OK and has authored several books published by Zondervan, including How To Survive a Shipwreck and Help is On The Way. Martin recently approached a group of open-air preachers in downtown Albuquerque, NM...
Pope Francis is right -- Catholics and Muslims most certainly worship the same God. But that's where the truth of his latest tweet ends. Today, Pope Francis tweeted, once again, another message of affirmation between Christians and Muslims, asserting that God created...
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.Colossians 1:16 Christ is the focus of the apostle’s gaze in this text. He begins a...
Following a series of articles by Tom Buck at Alpha & Omega Ministries on a widely-accepted "gay Christian" ministry known as Living Out, Russell Moore and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission have quietly removed their endorsement of the ministry from...
In Partnership with Tim Keller and other gay-friendly Evangelicals, Living Out has produced a pamphlet called How Biblically Inclusive is Your Church? which outlines 10 steps or recommendations you can use to audit your church for gay inclusiveness. Reformation...
RZIM Says We Can Trust Jesus With Our Gender Because Jesus Experienced a Body Mis-Match The road to full transgender and homosexual affirmation and inclusion in the Church is coming near full-stop -- as in, we're arriving. Through ministries such as Sam Allberry's...
Reformation Charlotte wrote an excellent article entitled “Abortion is Pagan Sacrifice.” The article was well written and backed by scripture. However, I can’t help but hear the skeptic say Aren’t all of those references referring to already born babies? Somehow...
How Should Christians Deal With Same-Sex Attraction? Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.John 7:24 Let me ask a hypothetical question about a hypothetical person. Let’s say this person is a twenty-seven-year-old man. Let’s name him Ralph for...
He strikes again. Dr. Leighton Flowers continues his crusade of undoing the influence reformed theology has on our churches today. Normally Dr. Flowers simply takes aim at Calvinism. Yet with this latest post, he takes a dig at Soli Deo Gloria. You can read the...
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