Category Archives: Purpose Driven Lie

Come on, everybody say: God’s Big!

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

Description of the video by its editor: “Narcigesis” is a term I recently heard to describe the sermons being pumped out of many Christian churches these days. It’s short for narcissistic eisegesis which is when a pastor reads his own … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “Deceived on Purpose” by Warren Smith.

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

I recently finished the book Deceived on Purpose by Warren Smith. Smith, a former New Ager turned Christian, wrote this heavily footnoted book after reading Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life and seeing the many New Age parallels throughout Rick Warren’s … Continue reading →

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RICK WARREN – THE ECUMENICAL CHAMELEON

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

HT: http://www.danspulpit.com/

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Building bridges.

Posted on May 29, 2011 by

Go into all the world and build bridges?

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It Gets Worse for John Piper

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

Several posts at DefCon have detailed many of the concerns any Christian ought to have with the public behavior and pronouncements made by John Piper – here’s a search page showing them. It keeps getting worse, as John Piper pursues … Continue reading →

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

As DefCon’s readership knows I’ve been following John MacArthur’s recent series of posts on Rob Bell with much interest.  Dr. MacArthur and his ministry team have done an outstanding service for the body of Christ by meticulously and Biblically exposing and … Continue reading →

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Bell’s Hell – Satan’s [Not] Coming for You!

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

As of late I’ve been covering Dr. John MacArthur’s thorough and devastating doctrinal exposé of Rob Bell’s manifold heresies, while pointing to the undeniable, and well documented fact that Rick Warren has been traveling down the self-same road for more than thirty years. I’m … Continue reading →

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Rick Warren: “Doctrinal and Sound?” Hardly

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

A couple of days ago I blogged on the topic of Dr. John MacArthur’s withering blast straight into the empty, hollow hull of Rob Bell’s spiritually adulterous “Love Boat”. Evidently Bell’s latest assault on the Bible finally brought MacArthur’s big guns … Continue reading →

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Yes, Dr. MacArthur; But What About Warren?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

It’s no secret to DefCon’s readership that I deeply appreciate the faithful, Christ-honoring pulpit ministry of Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr.  I admire John’s devotion to and love of Scripture, his sound expository preaching, and the untold positive impact his life’s … Continue reading →

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“Can we warn about a ravening wolf spiritually while simultaneously throwing an arm around him?”

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

That’s a fantastic question from a fantastic article recently posted by Worldview Weekend entitled: Rick Warren’s Infiltration of the Reformed Faith This is a must-read for everyone who’s concerned with what’s been happening lately in Reformed circles. Here’s a quote … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 1, 2011 by

“Will you let Jesus take the heroic right out of you? Will you let Him make you see yourself as He sees you until for one moment you stand before the Cross and say, ‘Nothing in my hands I bring”? … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 4, 2011 by

I blush today to think about the religious fodder that is now being handed out to children. There was a day when they sat around as the fire crackled in the hearth and listened to a serious but kindly old … Continue reading →

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“Salvation MUST Be Evidenced by Works”–Who Said That??

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

You will be shocked–SHOCKED!!–at who was one of the earliest promoters of “Lordship Salvation”. That is, the fact that if one is a Christian, they will grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and their lives … Continue reading →

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A False Gospel Leads to Damnation

Posted on October 24, 2010 by
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Jonathan Edwards taught “Salvation by Works”!!!

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

All the “Easy-Believers®” who want to toss men like John MacArthur and Paul Washer under the bus for teaching that the life of a true Christian will be radically different from a Non-Christian because the believer’s life will be marked … Continue reading →

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Jesus IS Lord in the gospels

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

Part 1 of a new series, going through the Scriptures and showing that Jesus is not waiting for us to call Him Lord–”HE ALREADY IS!!” Over the last few years, a growing heresy has crept into the church. It is … Continue reading →

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Phil Johnson on MacArthur and “Lordship Salvation”

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

In the whole debate over “Lordship Salvation”, John MacArthur has had a big red target painted on him, and those who teach “easy-believism” have strung him up and flung him into the depths of Hell because of one paragraph of … Continue reading →

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Did you know that Poison was a Christian rock band?

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

I bet you didn’t know that, huh? That all those songs they sang about drinking and sex and partying and all other kinds of debauchery were actually declaring the gospel? Well, that’s because you weren’t blessed with the same kind … Continue reading →

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On Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

DefCon has made reference to Christian Smith’s work on Moralistic Therapeutic Deism in the past, and I recently came across an article written in 2005 by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he explored the implications of this theme in a well written … Continue reading →

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Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy

Posted on July 21, 2010 by

As John Piper’s media machine enters full-tilt spin mode in advance of the Desiring God 2010 National Conference things don’t appear to be going too well if the comments at the desiringGod blog are any indication.  But alas, the hired hands at DGM have … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 15, 2010 by

“The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letting other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it-admittedly more slowly … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 21, 2010 by

“We will deal treacherously with the Bible records if we are not soaked in the revelation that God alone is good. We will put the saints on the throne, not God. There is only one unshakeable goodness, and that is … Continue reading →

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Are we really “Pharisees”?

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

We here at DefCon (as well as our brothers and sisters at other sites, such as Ken Silva and Ingrid Schlueter) use the written Word of God as the rule and basis for everything we believe about God and how … Continue reading →

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Rick Warren, John Piper and Deception in the Church

Posted on April 26, 2010 by

WARREN QUOTES: “God won’t ask about your religious background or doctrinal views. The only thing that will matter is, did you accept what Jesus did for you and did you learn to love and trust him?” (Excerpt from The Purpose … Continue reading →

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The Church of No Offense

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

[This article by Paul Proctor really speaks to so much of what we see in the church today.  The church that uses pragmatic and carnal means and foolishly believes that these flesly tools are going to do a spiritual work.  Sadly, … Continue reading →

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Beware of False Prophets – Warren, Piper, and the Legitimization of Heresy

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

RICK WARREN – ARCH HERETIC “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” – Matthew 7:15 Heresy went mainstream with the publication of “The Purpose Driven Life“.  Arguably no other book has better appropriated the post-modern, moralistic zeitgeist … Continue reading →

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BUT…Christ IS risen from the dead… (1st Corinthians 15:1-58)

Posted on April 2, 2010 by

Over the last few decades, in America, the gospel has been twisted and distorted by all kinds of false teaching. Most of these false gospels have to do with our self-esteem or our comfort. There is the false gospel of … Continue reading →

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“Let us flee, for the enemy of the truth is inside!!”

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

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 →

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Playing the Pharisee Card

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

It happens. It always happens. Someone styles themselves a prophet, or a teacher. They teach some aberrant doctrine that flat-out contradicts the Bible. Or they bring in AC/DC Satan to minister to the people. They use all kinds of newfangled … Continue reading →

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The Biblical Qualifications for Teaching Offices in the Church

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

From Extreme Theology comes a post that ought to be read by every Perry Noble wannabe out there, who doesn’t want to actually teach the Bible, but rather uses it as a coaster for his beer as he watches the … Continue reading →

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