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Much to Ponder

October 3, 2008 in Christian Living by Isaiah | 5 comments

My good brother Samuel at A Lion Has Roared wrote this thought of his down which also gave me much to think about.

I have often said: “He who thinks little of God in his time thinks very little of God in his heart”; I still hold to that tenaciously. However, I would today, reiterate it with greater potency. Indeed, he who thinks little of God in his life, that is, he who does not pray but now and then; who does not read the Word of his acclaimed Father but under compulsion; who does not ponder the Truth on a daily basis and humbly surrender himself to It; he is a man who will not merely think of God less often than he could, but one who will not consider God correctly when he most desperately needs the God he knows so inconsiderably.

How can I honestly claim a Friend, Father and Savior to Whom I seldom speak, and worse, to Whom I never listen?

That man is me on so many occasions…

HT: A Lion Has Roared.
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Growing Hostility Toward Biblical Christianity… From Evangelicals

August 14, 2008 in Apostasy, Christianity by Isaiah | 1 comment

This edition of Crosstalk looked at the ramped up persecution in the West when it comes to biblical Christianity from within evangelicalism. Rick Warren’s chief apologist online, Richard Abanes, has publicly likened Ingrid and several colleagues to David Koresh and other cult leaders and claims that they are all marked by:

  1. A deep seated ‘us vs. them’ mentality
  2. Feelings of persecution
  3. Paranoia
  4. A kind of xenophobic response to any and all attempts to have a more tolerant/civil approach to various issues.

Ingrid Schlueter and Sarah Leslie (a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and a member of the Discernment Research Group) discuss how and why this attitude has entered the church, others that are promoting it, and how a rejection of biblical eschatology within evangelicalism is helping New Age teachings and Christianity to merge.

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Truth Under Fire

July 27, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | 32 comments

In case you have not been made aware — just recently Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries was instructed to either remove an “offending” article on Richard Abanes within 48 hours or shut down his blog. This was after Richard Abanes, Harvest House author and chief apologist for Rick Warren and his Purpose-Driven global campaigns, filed a complaint with the web host IPOWER alleging that content on Apprising Ministries was “untrue, offensive, slanderous, harrasing or controversial in nature”.

Apprising Ministries Down -- Truth Under Fire

Apprising Ministries Down -- Truth Under Fire

What gall!

As of 5pm Central Standard Time, the Apprising Ministries website that featured hundreds of important articles on current Christian issues was deleted.

By God’s grace, the site together with all content has been saved and will soon be up, this time hosted by company run by a good Christian brother.

Many have already written their commentaries on this issue so I see no point adding my two cents since I very much agree with them and would just be a parrot at best. Instead, I’ll leave you these links to follow the story and the developments on this episode:

I hope I am exaggerating when I say that this might have opened the door to more such cases against discernment blogs and ministries…

Truth is under fire, and we who love God and His truth not only need to sit up and take notice, but come together in prayer that God’s truth and righteousness prevail against such darkness.

Are You a Watchman or a Gossip?

July 21, 2008 in Christian Living by Isaiah | 10 comments

"Chit Chat" by DanoIn this timely reminder, Anton Bosch gives us cause to pause and ask ourselves if our hearts are in the right place when we expose false teachers and their false teachings.

While I don’t consider my blog a full-fledged discernment ministry, I have called out several false teachers and their teachings so I am painfully aware that I need to be doing so in the right spirit.

Here’s an excerpt from the piece Watchman Or Gossip?:

Watchmen who warn about impending danger have an important role throughout the Bible (Ezekiel 3:17, Acts 20:28-31). BUT, there is a huge difference between a watchman and a gossip. A watchman takes no delight in reporting the threat, while the gossip enjoys telling and re-telling the juicy stories of sin and failure. These gossips are just like the godless Athenians who “spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing” (Acts 17:21). Some who style themselves as “defenders of the faith,” take extreme delight in rehearsing the latest error. I have seen the glint in their eye as they play the latest DVD or as they sit around the table seeking to tell of some greater error than the previous speaker. Some rush to the keyboard to publish the latest juicy morsel as quickly and as widely as possible.

Read the full post at Herescope.

HT: Herescope via DefCon.

Are You Willing to Tell the Truth?

July 3, 2008 in Christian Worldview by Isaiah | No comments

It is not unloving to tell the truth. You can get in a lot of trouble for doing it, but it is not unloving.

Dr. Walter Martin

I have said this on a number of occasions lately, but it remains just as true, the Christian had better know what time he currently lives in. We are witnessing a blending of the pragmatic Purpose Driven Church, the postmodern Emerging Church and the worldly Word Faith Church now forming the major pillars of the Devil’s Ecumenical Church of Deceit (ECoD)—duplicitous daughter of apostate Roman Catholicism. Even just a couple years ago one would never imagine common bonds developing between them.

And at their corrupt core what each of them share is the warped psycho-babble version of “love” largely foisted upon the Body of Christ through Robert Schuller a la his man-pleasing mantra, “God loves you and so do I.” But you need to come to see that this postevangelical “Love Train” has some seriously misguided misunderstandings about God’s view of sin and how He wants His Body of Christ to react to it. Yes the Lord tells us to love our enemies; however, the Scripture also teaches we must surely also abhor what these people are doing in His Name.

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The Lies Called “Post-Modernism”/Relativism and Tolerance

July 2, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | 4 comments

From Lane Chaplin:

Have you ever had someone tell you, “Hey, you have your truth and I have mine. There is no such thing as absolute truth.”?

At that point you should then ask them, “Is what you’ve just said, ‘there is no absolute truth’ absolutely true?”

They may say, “Well, I’m just saying that we can’t be completely sure about anything.”

You should then ask, “Are you completely sure that we can’t be completely sure about anything?”

Then they may say, “Ok, ok… You’re not right because we can’t know that anything is right or wrong. That’s all I’m saying. It’s all relative.”

You should then say, “Is what you’re saying, ‘You’re not right because we can’t know if anything is right or wrong’ …right?”

Behold, the essence of “post-modernism” or relativism as it’s also so called. Here’s basically what the philosophy stands for: Self-refutuation. It’s a walking contradiction, and it’s a lie. When someone says that we can’t know if anything is absolutely true, tell them that they are lying and remind them what one is called who tells lies. Of course they will get mad, but anyone who doesn’t love truth and says we can’t really know what truth is, is opposed to the One who is the Truth, the Way, and the Life and those who believe in Him.

A Song for Shabbat: Days of Elijah

June 27, 2008 in Worship by Isaiah | 1 comment

Boldly proclaim the Truth and let not those who seek to compromise or mangle the Word of God discourage you by their words of man’s condemnation. God’s Word and Truth is the Light that shall overcome darkness. Men hate the Light for their deeds are done in darkness, but we who walk with the Lord must do our utmost to shine His Light in the world, aye, even to the detriment of our lives.

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

1 Kings 18:17-18

There is no God like JEHOVAH!

Shabbat Shalom.

Everything Else Pales In Comparison

September 18, 2007 in Christianity by Isaiah | 2 comments

Everything pales in comparisonFor the past few weeks, I have been picking up the Bible and reading it again, starting with the New Testament at Matthew.

And I can honestly tell you that it’s a brand new experience when you read the Bible again with a closer relationship with Yahweh.

You see, I never considered myself to have read the entire Bible.

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