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Category Archives: Purpose Driven Lie
Come on, everybody say: God’s Big!
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Purpose Driven Lie, Random Selections, Theology
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, False Teacher, heresy, narcigesis
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Book recommendation: “Deceived on Purpose” by Warren Smith.
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
RICK WARREN – THE ECUMENICAL CHAMELEON
HT: http://www.danspulpit.com/
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor, Purpose Driven Lie
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Building bridges.
Go into all the world and build bridges?
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesus, John Piper, Laodicea, News, Peasce Plan, Politics, Purpose Driven, Purpose Driven Church, Purpose Driven Lie, Purpose Driven Life, Purpose-drivel, Religion, Rick Warren, Theology
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It Gets Worse for John Piper
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Purpose Driven Lie, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Catholicism, False Teacher, John Piper
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“Can we warn about a ravening wolf spiritually while simultaneously throwing an arm around him?”
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, News, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Brannon Howse, Calvinism, church, Desiring God, Faith, God, heresy, Jesus, John Piper, Michael Horton, News, Religion, Rick Warren, Saddleback, Saddleback Church, Theology, White Horse Inn, Worldview Weekend
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Quotes (859)
“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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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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Encouragement, Music, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, Quotes, Theology
Tagged AW Tozer, Children, Contemporary Christian Church, Contemporary Christian Music, dunghill of relevance, Hymns, Music, Purpose Driven Drivel, seeker-sensitive, The Attributes of God
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“Salvation MUST Be Evidenced by Works”–Who Said That??
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
Jonathan Edwards taught “Salvation by Works”!!!
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Jesus IS Lord, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, Theology
Tagged "salvation by works", Easy Believism, greasy grace, John MacArthur, Jonathan Edwards, Lordship of Jesus Christ, Lordship Salvation, Paul Washer, Phil Johnson, Puritans, Purpose Driven Drivel, Purpose-drivel, RC Sproul, salvation unto works, The Religous Affections, Tim Conway, Works
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Jesus IS Lord in the gospels
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
Phil Johnson on MacArthur and “Lordship Salvation”
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Encouragement, False Christs, Jesus IS Lord, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, Theology
Tagged "Hard to Believe", blasphemers, Easy Believism, Grace Community Church, greasy grace, heretics, John MacArthur, Lordship of Jesus Christ, Lordship Salvation, Phil Johnson, Salvation
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Did you know that Poison was a Christian rock band?
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Music, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged Bret Michaels, Newspring, Perry Noble, Poison, Purpose Driven Church, Purpose Driven Drivel
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“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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“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
Are we really “Pharisees”?
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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Charismania, False Christs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Lie, Roman Catholicism, Seventh-day Adventism
Tagged Deity of Christ, health wealth prosperity gospel, Jehovah's Witnesses, Judaizers, law-keeping, Mormonism, Pharisees, Prosperity Gospel, Purpose Driven Drivel, Roman Catholicism, seeker-sensitive, self-righteousness, Signs and Wonders
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The Church of No Offense
[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
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged Apostasy, Bible, christian, Christianity, church, Easter, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Religion, Theology
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BUT…Christ IS risen from the dead… (1st Corinthians 15:1-58)
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
Posted in Encouragement, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Lie, Theology
Tagged 1st Corinthians 15, crucifixion, empty cross, empty tomb, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Resurrection
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“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
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Playing the Pharisee Card
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
The Biblical Qualifications for Teaching Offices in the Church
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
More satire, this time from Sacred Sandwich
I had posted the following on my own blog about a year and a half ago. When you stop to think about it, it is more sad than it is humorous. And that because it is just as relevant now … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Charismania, Humor, Parenting, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged Church Youth Group, Laodicea, lukewarm church, McChurch, Newspring, pardoy, relevance, Relevant, Sacred Sandwich, satire, Youth Ministry
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Rick Warren’s Radicalis Conference
I want to give all of the DefCon contributors and readers enough time to get tickets for Saddleback’s latest conference, Radicalis (i.e “Radical Is” which you will find with a backward “R” on their website). Here, in case reading your Bible, sound … Continue reading
Posted in Purpose Driven Lie, Random Selections
Tagged Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, false prophets, False Teachers, heresy, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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NewSpring’s new motto: “We love to hear kids cuss!!”
If you want to know what really motivates and inspires Perry Noble–well, it’s not hearing a child say they love Christ. It isn’t hearing that a child stands up to kids who mock him for not giving in to peer … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged goat herder, NewSpring church, Perry Noble, Purpose Driven Drivel
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Perry Noble calls us “jack***es”
Well, well, well. It seems as though the High Guru of the hip/cool/relevant, Purpose-Driven, marketing-driven, gospel-less goat pen known as BitterSpring Church doesn’t think it’s all that important to teach the truth of God’s Word. Yeah, I know–go figure, right? … Continue reading
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“For centuries the Church stood solidly against every form of worldly entertainment, recognizing it for what it was—a device for wasting time, a refuge from the disturbing voice of conscience, a scheme to divert attention from moral accountability. For this … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Purpose Driven Lie, Quotes
Tagged entertainment church, Joel Osteen, Laodicea, Lukewarm, Newspring, Perry Noble, Purpose Driven, Tozer, Willow Creek
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What exactly DOES 1st Corinthians 9:19-22 mean, anyway?
Ohhhhh, the ways this passage is twisted, and perverted, and turned on its head by the oh-so-hip, oh-so-cool, oh-so-relevant “pastors” of the many seeker-sensitive, non-offensive, cross-less “churches” that pepper the American religious community today. They take the words of the … Continue reading
Rewriting Acts – A Relevant Perspective
In light of all the editions and revisions being made to the Word of God in recent years, we understand much of this has been done to suit the belief system of the editors. With that in mind as well … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor, Purpose Driven Lie
Tagged being judgmental, building your self-esteem, church at Jerusalem, contextualizing the Bible, Crystal Cathedral, feel-good sermons, making the Bible relevant, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, Mormon Tabernacle, Ravi Zacharias, rewriting church history, standing for the truth
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God’s courtroom
As I type this, the sentencing phase of the Letalvis Cobbins trial is taking place. If the system works as it should, he will receive the death penalty. Why? Because that is what he deserves for the crimes he has … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Mormonism, News, Purpose Driven Lie, Roman Catholicism, Theology
Tagged Channon Christian, Christopher Newsom, God's Judgment, God's Justice, God's Law, God's mercy, Hell, Knoxville double-murder, Letalvis Cobbins, man's depravity, Romans 3, salvation by grace through faith, sola Christus, sola fides, Sola Gratia, the cross, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
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Refuting the cry of “Make Jesus Lord Today!”
Have you ever heard one of these “preachers” as they stand there and try to sound all hip and cool and relevant by saying that you should “Make Jesus Lord today!!!” That is about one of the most unbiblical statements … Continue reading
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