February 16, 2011 at 9:51 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a comment
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I know that it’s been awhile since I wrote something other than the Bible study, newslinks, or Persecution Friday spots. I’ve been kinda busy, but I haven’t forgotten. Something I saw the other day made me have to write this though. It’s going to be a long read, so if you have to take a potty break or get a cup of coffee, do it now…:)
I heard about something the other day that just about made me sick, but I didn’t want to say anything about it until I had some proof from the horse’s mouth. Now I have it and this needs to be put out in the open.
For a long time, I’ve been talking about false teachers and men who call themselves pastors. I see many both locally in my home town, nationally in the U.S., and (unfortunately) they are now spreading to other countries. Not that there weren’t false teachers there already, but the American style of prosperity gospel preachers is sadly reaching into other parts of the world that are just now opening up to real Christianity. It is one of these types of people that I am writing about today. Continue Reading The sound of heresy……
May 5, 2010 at 6:17 pm | Posted in Designs of the Week | Leave a comment
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This week’s design is called Context. It is a blatant and obvious example of the dangers of taking scriptures out of context. Sadly, many people don’t even take the time to find out if the things that they are hearing at church are actually in context and biblically sound. They sit in their pews (or theater seating) and hear the words being said and pick out the things that they agree with while ignoring the rest. Of course, this doesn’t happen if the “pastor” knows his audience…I mean flock…and just preaches what he knows they want to hear.
If it is possible for someone to go through scripture and pull out different verses to make God say what they want, then who is the authority? If we can twist verses together to meet our lives where they already are, then where is the power of the gospel? This is not the way that things should be! Scripture is THE authority and it should be us that changes to conform to scripture and not the other way around!
Sadly, there are numerous men and women who claim the Lord as their Savior and do everything they can to lead people away from their only hope of being saved from the wrath of God. They claim to be men of God who are rightly using the Bible to live the lives they do, all the while twisting the scripture and teaching others to do so. This is dangerous and could cost people their eternity. It is important that we study the scriptures in context so that we can apply the truth to our lives and become more Christlike.
March 8, 2010 at 8:37 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a comment
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It seems that in the American church’s rush to appease the lost and the non believers (I was going to say pagans but that would probably offend someone), or their effort to bilk trusting, tested Christians of all the money they have by “sowing their seed”; the church has forgotten one of its greatest tools. Ok, I don’t think that they’ve forgotten it as much as they’ve tossed it aside for church growth plans and light-hearted, shallow events that bring people in based on their greed and have them leaving the same way (if they’re lucky). Now, any pastor can pick whatever they want to say and then go traipsing through the scriptures and cherry-pick whatever verses they want to support their “sermon”. To do this, of course, they have to twist the scriptures until they squeeze every last drop of life out of them; but the ends justifies the means even if the means completely destroys the foundation upon which the “sermon” should be built on.
This attitude bleeds to the flock of the “shepherd” over time until the entire group goes through the Bible picking out “life verses” and “claiming” specific verses as “theirs”. After awhile, the church is full of puffed up men and women who expect everything from God because they can string together a group of verses that have no real connection and then muster up their most faith filled voice to command Him to bring it to pass right now because they deserve it. Mix in the idea that we have to look blessed (whatever that looks like) and act blessed even if we don’t have two nickels to rub together and you’ve got a large portion of America’s churches.
So, what is this missing tool? What is the thing that would stop all of this nonsense? Hermeneutics. Continue Reading Do they apply?…
January 21, 2008 at 6:22 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a comment
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Exo 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
Exo 20:18 All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.
Exo 20:19 Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”
Exo 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.”
In this part of scripture, God is preparing His chosen people for what’s to come. They have just come out of Egypt and have traveled to Mount Sinai. They are being readied to enter the land that God promised Abraham 430 years ago. Moses tells all of Israel to consecrate themselves and then brings them to the mountain to present them before the Lord. No one is allowed on the mountain except Moses and Aaron. The people see all of what is going on and they tremble and stand at a distance. Then they say something that is very telling:
“Moses, you speak and we’ll do whatever you tell us, but if God speaks to us, we’ll die” (paraphrasing). Continue Reading You go and then come back and tell us……
Get the Word out! 
The sound of heresy…
February 16, 2011 at 9:51 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: 1 Kings 18, abortion, abundance, Ahab, altar, America, Asa, Asherah, ateasetees, Baal, bash, believe, Benny Hinn, Bible, bitter, blessing, breakthrough, bright, celebrate, chariot, Christian, church, cling, cloud, commandments, comments, Compaq Center, compromise, confidence, contest, context, criticize, dare, dark, dead, death, declare, defeat, depressed, divine, doctrine, doubt, dress, drink, drought, dustbowl, eat, Elijah, eternity, evangelism, evil, excuse, faith, false, false teacher, favor, feast, feed, finances, fire, forsake, gall, giddy, Gilead, glory, God, gospel, grace, Greek, hate, health, heaven, hell, holiness, holy, homosexual, homosexuality, hope, Houston Rockets, illiterate, Jericho, Jeroboam, Jesse Duplantis, Jesus, Jezebel, Joel Osteen, John MacArthur, joy, Joyce Meyer, Judah, judgment, Kenneth Copeland, kill, Kishon, Lakewood Church, law, law of attraction, life, life coach, love, marriage, meal, mercy, message, ministry, mock, money, Mount Carmel, murder, negative, New Testament, ninja, Northern Kingdom, Omri, pastor, peace, persecuted, Ponzi, positive, possum, pray, prayer, preach, promise, prophet, prosperity, protect, provoke, rain, reason, reference, relationship, repent, Romans 10:17, rottenness, sadness, salvation, Samaria, scheme, scripture, sense, sermon, shepherd, shiny, shower, sick, simple, sin, Slaughter, sound, sovereign, Spirit, squishy, stink, stone, surprise, talk, teacher, ten commandments, think, Tishbite, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubler, truth, twist, Victoria Osteen, walk, wealth, welfare, winner, Word of Faith, world, wrapper, wrath
I know that it’s been awhile since I wrote something other than the Bible study, newslinks, or Persecution Friday spots. I’ve been kinda busy, but I haven’t forgotten. Something I saw the other day made me have to write this though. It’s going to be a long read, so if you have to take a potty break or get a cup of coffee, do it now…:)
I heard about something the other day that just about made me sick, but I didn’t want to say anything about it until I had some proof from the horse’s mouth. Now I have it and this needs to be put out in the open.
For a long time, I’ve been talking about false teachers and men who call themselves pastors. I see many both locally in my home town, nationally in the U.S., and (unfortunately) they are now spreading to other countries. Not that there weren’t false teachers there already, but the American style of prosperity gospel preachers is sadly reaching into other parts of the world that are just now opening up to real Christianity. It is one of these types of people that I am writing about today. Continue Reading The sound of heresy……
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