False Teachers
May 10, 2010 at 6:30 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abundance, adultery, angel, anger, animals, appearance, arrogant, ateasetees, atheism, bad, benefit, Benny Hinn, Berean, Bible, blemish, blessing, boast, bondage, breakthrough, Brian McLaren, broad, Buddhism, Carolyn, Cathy, Charles Spurgeon, charm, Christian, church, compromise, context, Copeland, Corinthians, Creflo, crusade, culture, customs, death, deception, demons, denomination, depart, destruction, destructive, devil, devotion, disguise, doctrine, Dollar, Doug Pagitt, Duplantis, Ed Young Jr., eisegesis, elect, emergent church, evangelism, Eve, faith, false, fame, Father, favor, feelings, friend, fruit, Galatians, gate, George Whitefield, Gloria, Gnosticism, God, gods, good, gospel, grace, greed, Greg Boyd, Hagin, health, hell, heresy, hermeneutics, Hinduism, holiness, holy, hope, idol, idolatry, image, instinct, Jerry, Jesse, Jesus, job, Joel Osteen, John, John Bunyan, John Knox, John Wesley, Joyce Meyer, judgment, Kenneth, kingdom, law, lawlessness, life, light, Lord, love, lust, majesties, marriage, master, mercy, ministry, miracles, mock, money, N.T. Wright, narrow, New Testament, Old Testament, passage, pastor, Paul, Paula White, peace, Peter, piety, plane, platitudes, poor, popularity, power, pragmatism, prayer, prophesy, prophets, pulpit, relevancy, religious, repent, revile, Rick Joyner, Rick Warren, righteous, Rob Bell, salvation, Satan, Savelle, scripture, seed, sensuality, Sermon on the Mount, serpent, sheep, sickness, sin, Spirit, stain, starbucks, station, T.D. Jakes, tactics, Taffi, teacher, ten commandments, test, Todd Bentley, tongues, Tony Campolo, tree, truth, TV, twisting, universalism, V. Gene Robinson, wealth, weather, wolves, work, world
With all of the different events taking place in the church and all of the men and women who claim to be preaching the gospel, a question arises. How do you know? How can you be sure that the man (or woman) that you are hearing speak is actually speaking the truth? Some talk about how they’ve heard from God and how God “told them” things. Others proclaim that the growth and size of their ministries is proof that God is “blessing” them. There are many “preachers” today, especially in America, and all of them profess to be Bible-believing, truth-preaching, Christians. But are they?
In the New Testament, there are a number of passages of scripture that should give us pause before we go proclaiming that “Pastor so and so” is the next “up and coming” pastor. Unfortunately, a number of people in the church seem to go by appearance or charm. Others go by whether or not the one preaching agrees with what they already believe. We go by sound or size of the church or by popularity or by relevancy.
So, how should Christians be testing their pastors/preachers and other people claiming to do the work of God? Continue Reading False Teachers…
Arm Yourself – Persecution
August 31, 2009 at 6:30 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: arm yourself, ateasetees, atheist, Benny Hinn, Bill Hybels, boiled in oil, Born Again, Brian McLaren, burned at the stake, Cathy Duplantis, Christian, Creflo Dollar, crucify, Donald Miller, Emergent, evangelism, evil deeds, faith, false prophet, false teacher, feelings, gladiator, Gloria Copeland, glory, God, Greg Boyd, hate, hell, Hindu, holy, homosexuality, Jesse Duplantis, Jesus, Jim Wallis, Joel Osteen, John, Juanita Bynum, judgment, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, love, martyr, megachurch, mocking, Muslim, obvious, P.E.A.C.E. plan, Patmos, Paula White, persecution, radical, Rick Warren, righteous, Rob Bell, sawn in two, scourging, sin, stone, T.D. Jakes, Tony Campolo, torture, Voice of the Martyrs, wax, Willow Creek, world
In America today, there seems to be a horrible disconnect with the rest of the world concerning persecution. Many children and adults who grow up in the American church have no idea or understanding of what persecution really is. Sadly, many don’t even realize what is happening to Christians outside the U.S.
In America, we consider persecution to be when people attack us verbally for our beliefs. We see anti-Christian groups like the ACLU and various atheistic groups as persecutors when they try to get Christmas images removed or when they try to get “Under God” removed from our money. To many, persecution is covering up images of Moses in the government buildings in Washington, D.C. or it’s seeing our ability to speak out against issues like homosexuality or abortion slowly eroding away. For Americans, persecution is uncomfortable and disconcerting because it removes some of the things we take for granted or bursts our little bubble of warm fuzziness. Continue Reading Arm Yourself – Persecution…
