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Pilgrim
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- Liberia Update from The Jungle Missionary
- Sermon of the Week: “The Bible’s View on Missions – Part 9 (Conclusion)” by Akash Sant Singh
- Sermon of the Week: “The Bible’s View on Missions – Part 8″ by Akash Sant Singh
- A Liberia Update!
- Sermon of the Week: “The Bible’s View on Missions – Part 7″ by Akash Sant Singh
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Bill
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Manfred
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Chris Hohnholz
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina, the new rage of the Emergent Church as they run pell mell back to Rome. The subject itself is very serious but sometimes laughter is much needed medicine to the soul. In this light, I’ve included a link here for your listening enjoyment. … Continue reading
The Reformation View of Roman Catholicism
From the works of Martin Luther (1483-1546) What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Evangelism, False Christs, Random Selections, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Catholicism, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mary, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology
10 Comments
Scott Hodge and his hodge-podge of Roman Catholic meditative monastic heresy.
Chris Rosebrough is tackling an unbelievable issue that has crept into the church: The continued march backward into Romanism by supposed Evangelicals (some of which are the golden calves of Americanized Christianity) through the use of monastic meditation practices. He … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Bill Hybels, Catholicism, Chaplain, Chaplains, Chris Rosebrough, Christianity, Christmas, Eucharist, Eucharist Minister, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Hospital, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lectio Divina, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, murder, News, Orchard, orchard church, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Religion, Rick Warren, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Saddleback, Scott Hodge, tagged Apostasy, The orchard, Theology, Willow Creek
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Quotes (691)
This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take about them, in every plan and scheme and arrangement that concerns them, do not leave out that … Continue reading
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There is one great common denominator between all religions outside of Christianity—they all believe that a right standing with God is based upon obedience, personal merit, or some ability to please God. Christianity stands alone in declaring that man is … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Christianity, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quotes, Religion, Theology
4 Comments
Haiti – A Nation in Darkness Needing Light
As we all know Haiti has suffered a catastrophic earthquake that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, where countless additional lives hang in the balance due to lack of water, food and medical care. What many may not know though is that … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Evangelism, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, church, cult, Earthquake, Faith, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
2 Comments
Jay Bakker and the art of manipulation.
So what do you do when you’re preaching to a church full of people and you want to persuade them to believe that a sin (that’s clearly defined in Scripture) isn’t really a sin? Well, if you’re Jay Bakker, you … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blog, Blogging, christian, Christianity, church, deception, Emergent, Emerging, God, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joel Osteen, News, Theology
47 Comments
Quotes (689)
The Kingdom of Christ is a kingdom of mercy, grace, and goodness. The kingdom of the Pope is a kingdom of lies and damnation! – Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, Jesus, Luther, Martin Luther, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
1 Comment
Sermon of the week: “Sheep Among Wolves” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is a two part message by John MacArthur entitled Sheep Among Wolves. MacArthur identifies how to spot the wolves, what methods they will use to kill the sheep, and how the sheep should respond to … Continue reading
Quotes (688)
Instead of the Bible’s masculine doctrine of salvation in which an initiating God acts with efficacious love to subdue His chosen people to Himself, much of the church now proclaims a passive God who offers His love but would not … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, Famil Man Family Leader, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesus, Philip Lancaster, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
2 Comments
Islamic Paradise and Jesus
Video about the work of God in Islamic nations and a searcher for truth who places his faith in Jesus. Please pray for this very dangerous work and that Islam might fall not by the bloody sword of the Crusaders, … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Islam, Random Selections
Tagged allah, Faith, God, heaven for all eternity, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Religion, Theology
6 Comments
Quotes (687)
Strictly speaking, “Roman Catholic” is a contradiction of terms. Catholic means universal, Roman denotes a particular place. It is the Protestant and not the Romanist who believes in the catholic church. Protestants believe the church is universal, or catholic; Rome … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged church, Quote, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome
4 Comments
The peddler of false assurance.
Recently my grandfather was in the hospital for a week (it was looking pretty serious). On one of my visits to the hospital with my grandmother present, a nice white-haired man in a dress shirt and a tie entered the … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Chaplain, Chaplains, Christianity, Christmas, Eucharist, Eucharist Minister, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Hospital, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, tagged Apostasy, Theology
96 Comments
DefCon introduces our latest resource for fellow pilgrims.
Over the past couple years DefCon has compiled a large cache of sermons available for free to download, and every Thursday we feature a new message for our Sermon of the week. So our repository of over 160 sermons continues … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrim's Corner
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Grace Life Pulpit, Jesus, Lie, Lies, Phil Johnson, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
3 Comments
Quotes (686)
“The next week,” says the sinner, “I will begin to be sober and temperate, serious and devout.” But the true sense of what he says is this, “I am fully bent to spend this present week in riot and excess, … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, Edmund Calamy, God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Theology
3 Comments
“Let us flee, for the enemy of the truth is inside!!”
In the First Century AD, Cerinthus was a well-known heretic, being one of the early leaders of the Gnostic movement. John opposed him as fiercely as a man possible could (thus giving us a better example of how to deal … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Charismania, Mormonism, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Lie, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostle John, compromise, Emergent heresy, Joel Osteen, Laodicea, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Drivel, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, seeker-sensitive, self-esteem
11 Comments
Roman Catholic Mysticism and the Emerging Church Reexamined
A very important presentation by Richard Bennett from Bearean Beacon given to an audience in London about Roman Catholic mysticism and its promotion by the Emerging/Emergent Church. From the YouTube posting we read: Mysticism attempts to gain ultimate knowledge of God … Continue reading
As if we needed more proof that Joel Osteen is one of those false teachers the Bible warns us about.
Recently Joel Osteen “blessed” Annise Parker, the new mayor of Houston, Texas who is openly homosexual. (See articles here, here, and here.) “… We ask that everything we do would bring honor to you … and we just lift up … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, News
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blog, Blogging, Charismania, christian, Christianity, church, deception, God, health wealth and prosperity gospel, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joel Osteen, News, Prosperity Gospel, Prosperity Pimps, TBN, Theology
17 Comments
Sacred or secular?
Can you identify which of the following three lyric excerpts come from Christian musical artists and which are from secular musical artists? I admit it won’t be easy, but differentiating between Christian lyrics and worldly lyrics shouldn’t be that difficult, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Quizzes
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, christian, Christian Music, Christian Worship, Christian Worship Music, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Music, Religion, Theology
64 Comments
Quotes (685)
The Law speaks of what man must do for God; grace tells of what Christ has done for men. The Law demanded righteousness from men; grace brings righteousness to men. The Law brought out God to men; grace brings in … Continue reading
Sermon of the week: “Solus Christus – The Supremecy of Christ in Salvation” by Brian Borgman.
Your sermon of the week is Solus Christus – The Supremecy of Christ in Salvation. This is part eight of a thirteen-part series on the Doctrines of Grace entitled Introduction to the Reformed Faith by Pastor Brian Borgman. Look for … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Brian Borgman, Calvinism, Christianity, church, Doctrine of Election, election, God, Jesus, Reformation, reformed, Religion, Russ Sukhia, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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What exactly DOES John 1:1 say, anyway?
Disclaimer 1: I do not claim to be a Greek scholar. But I do know how to pay attention to men who are. For this post, I have been very careful to only speak on matters that I have properly … Continue reading
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Theology
Tagged arianism, Deity of Christ, Eternal Word, God the Father, God the Son, In the beginning was the Word, Jehovah's Witnesses, John 1:1, Modalism, Oneness, Sabellianism, Should You Believe in the Trinity, The Word was God, Trinity, watchtower, Watchtower Society, Witness4Jesus, WTBTS
12 Comments
Quotes (684)
For too long we have been committed to forms of evangelism that ignore the crucial discipleship element explicit in the Great Commission. We have been called to make disciples, not converts. – Voddie Baucham
Posted in Evangelism, Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Daycare, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Nursery, Parenting, Parents, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Voddie Baucham
20 Comments
Postmodern chemistry lab.
For those who enjoyed playing Postmodern Twister, now there’s the Postmodern Chemistry Set:
Posted in Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, blasphemy, christian, Christianity, church, Dr. Duncan, Dr. James Duncan, Faith, God, heresy, James Duncan, Post Modern, PostModernism, Religion, Theology
7 Comments
Quotes (683)
It is not enough to hear God’s voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honor we owe to God. . . . Obedience carries in it the lifeblood of religion. . . . Obedience without knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Theology, Thomas Watson
3 Comments
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Mormon church wishes to remind you that they’ve been racism-free for 31 years.
Isn’t “new revelation” about doctrine just grand? It’s like silly putty: so pliable in the hands of the “prophets” that they can overturn years of racist LDS traditions and teachings (including the prohibition against blacks in the priesthood) with one … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Carthage Jail, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, deception, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr, Mormon, Mormonism, racism, Religion, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah
17 Comments
EE-Taow – It is Truth!
Words cannot express how one will be touched by this video that depicts the power of the gospel in ways that few of us have ever witnessed. Prepare to shed copious tears in rejoicing in the power of the Great God … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Evangelism, Missions & Martyrs
Tagged Bible, christian, Christianity, Ee-taow, Faith, God, Gospel, Grace, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Missions
10 Comments
A Catholic Funeral – The Dead Burying the Dead
Yesterday, I attended the funeral of an Aunt who died this past week. And, as is true for any funeral, it was a sad time as yet another life has come to an abrupt end. Never again will her voice be heard … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, baptism, Bible, Catholicism, christian, Christianity, church, death, Eucharist, Faith, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Roman Catholic, Rome, Romish, Theology
23 Comments
Roman Catholics copying Evangelicals?
A sad trend as of late is that many supposed professing Christians are unifying with and even returning to Rome (like a dog to its vomit) and taking many of the undiscerning with them. But what I find ironic is … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, tagged Apostasy, Theology
19 Comments
Quotes (682)
The church is in a sad state today. Never mind the mainline denominations that have long-since abandoned biblical faith; we’re talking about the bible-believing church. Here, too often, we see much ado about nothing. There is talk of revival without … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesus, Philip Lancaster, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
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