This blog is comprised of a team of Believers from around the world. Although we all agree on the essentials of the Christian faith, we may each hold to opinions on peripheral matters that the others of the team do not hold to. For this reason some views expressed by one DefCon contributor may not necessarily be a view held by the other contributors.
DEFCON ADMINISTRATOR: THE PILGRIM
Contact:
DefConBlog@sbcglobal.net
Blog:
Background:
Left the apostate teachings of the word of faith movement (after leaving Roman Catholicism) and am now a Christian. If you still want an idea of my leanings, I must say I can be compared closest to that of the Reformed faith, although I don’t necessarily agree with everything it holds.
Preferred translation:
New American Standard Bible (NASB).
Currently studying:
Ezekiel and Galatians.
Daily devotions:
Morning & Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Puritan Daily Devotional Chronicles by I.D.E. Thomas
Currently reading:
John Ploughman’s Talk by C.H. Spurgeon
Grand Canyon: A Different View by Tom Vail.
Terror at Beslan by John Giduck.
The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus by John R. Cross.
Waiting to read:
Family Man, Family Leader by Philip Lancaster.
By Faith . . . As I Recall by Karl W. Luyben.
Around the Wicket Gate by Charles Spurgeon.
The Family by J.R. Miller.
Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank.
DEFCON EDITOR: THE DESERT PASTOR
Contact: TheDesertPastor@yahoo.com
Blog: The Desert Pastor
Ministry:
Seeking to minister the precious life-giving Word of God to those dead in trespasses and sins! I hold unquestionably to the doctrines of grace and humbled that He would choose the likes of me as one of His children! Have served both overseas as a missionary and here in the USA. I look forward to one day being able to return to Africa to work alongside fellow brothers and sisters in Christ seeking to share the good news with that dark continent.
Translation Preference:
New King James Version (NKJV)
Studying Currently:
Ephesians and the Minor Prophets
Books I am Reading:
“Famine in the Land – A Passionate Call for Expository Preaching” by Steven J. Lawson. This excellent book can be purchased at Amazon.com.
“The Christian in Complete Armour” by William Gurnall
Blog: Absolute Dominion
Greetings and welcome to DefCon! By way of introduction I am a born-again Christian who seeks to live in the presence of, under the authority of, and to the honor and glory of the Triune Yahweh Elohim Shaddai–the One True and Living LORD God Almighty Who is the totally self contained, completely self sufficient, and absolutely unique and infinite Creator of all things.
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I believe the historic, orthodox, Biblical Christian faith as expounded solely in the 66 books of the Holy Bible is the only true and right religion that God Himself has revealed to mankind and all other faiths and extra-Biblical sources of revelation are absolutely false and without any eternal merit or redemptive power whatsoever. Through this medium I hope to share my worldview with any who are interested, and in this manner I hope to expand my witness to the lost, and extend whatever ability I’ve been given to edify the believer to the praise of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, the risen Savior.
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Sola Scriptura! (Scripture alone); Sola Fide! (faith alone); Sola Gratia! (grace alone); Soli Christo! (Christ alone); Soli Deo Gloria! (to God alone be glory).
Blog: FourPointer
Location: Knoxville, TN
Married 4 years this July
Denomination: Southern Baptist
Home church: First Baptist of Powell, TN
Ministry: Teaching Sunday School at our church plant at Western Heights housing project in Knoxville
Current topic: Verse-by-verse through Philippians
Children: 1 stepson from previous marriage
Occupation: getting ready to begin 2nd year of 2-yr RN degree
Pets: Xena (a mix of every dog breed: Aussie shep., German shep., collie, hound….you name it, she’s it)
Favorite authors: Tozer, Richard Baxter, CS Lewis, Sproul, Bunyan
Favorite preachers: Spurgeon, MacArthur, Washer, Ravenhill, Piper, Edwards
Favorite theologians: Calvin, Luther, Matthew Henry, J. Vernon McGee
Part of the Bible currently studying: Joel
Book I’m currently reading: The History of the Church by Eusebius
Favorite quote: “Is the world crucified to you tonight? Or does it fascinate you?”–Leonard Ravenhill
Favorite sermon: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”–Jonathan Edwards
DEFCON CONTRIBUTOR: BILL PHILLIPS
Blog: Fisher of Men
I enjoy telling people the greatest news in the history of the world—the gospel. Two of the toughest places to do that are: 1. Here on the Internet, and 2. Downtown in my hometown on Friday or Saturday night.
The people on blogs are more passionate about what they believe than the average individual, and better able to defend it. The people hanging around downtown are in the midst of their sin, and don’t always appreciate being reminded of their need to turn from it.
Even though I’ve found myself proclaiming the gospel in two tough places, I have been richly blessed by my adventures in obedience to the Great Commission. And it makes me all the more excited when I get the opportunity to witness in a less hostile setting. If you’re a Christian, I hope to encourage you to get started witnessing or to continue witnessing. If you’re not a Christian, I hope to help you realize that you were not born all right the first time, and you must be born again.
Blog: Saved By Grace
Saved by God’s grace in 2003. I was living a sexually perverted lifestyle for 13 years. Then, Almighty God broke my proud, arrogant, dead heart and crushed me under the weight of my sins. He drew me to the Lord Jesus Christ and saved my lost soul. My complete testimony is available here.
I desire to reach others who are lost with the only true and lasting hope there is, the Lord Jesus Christ. I also desire to edify my brothers and sisters in the Lord.
I am currently reading ‘Twelve Ordinary Men’ by John MacArthur and plan to follow that up with ‘Twelve Extraordinary Women’.
I prefer the ESV translation and also use the KJV
Blog: WordnVerse
I was “saved” when I was just 13 back in 1983, but was I’d term a false convert without knowing it for a really long time. After leaving the youth group that I was in (The Navigators) while at college, the world beckoned and I succumbed, having no more protective bubble to restrain me. The world got a tighter hold on me when I enlisted for mandatory service in the Armed Forces.
It was only in recent years that God pulled me back to the straight and narrow and I truly knew that I was indeed saved. All praise goes to God for His grace and love for pulling a sinner such as me back from false belief! Soli deo Gloria!
By way of introduction, I am a 37-year-old man residing in Singapore, married to a lovely wife for more than a decade now, but childless. English is my first language, but I also read, write and speak Chinese well.
Having learned the hard way what a false belief can lead to, I am very concerned about many who I believe might be false converts, believing that they are saved but not leading a true Christian life. I cringe when people are told at altar calls to repeat a simple prayer and become a Christian.
Besides evangelism, I am also very passionate about warning people of the falsehoods that abound today in our churches today, especially the Word of Faith movement and prosperity gospel that are leading many to the broad road of destruction.
Shalom Aleichem.
DEFCON CONTRIBUTOR: BRIAN CULVER
Have any of you folks read “The Truth War” by John MacArthur? I have just began reading it myself.
I was surprised to see one of your contributors was from Knoxville, TN (my city), and then even more surprised to see he was a member of First Baptist Church – Powell (my church). Small world… even if I don’t know who he is… :)
Yep. Read it last year and loved it.
Even listed it here on the Recommended Books link.
I am confident that you too will be glad you read it.
- The Pilgrim
I’ve read it as well, Adam. In my opinion MacArthur is among the finest Biblical expositors and teachers alive in the world today.
There’s a recommended books link?! How great! I knew I shouldn’t read blogs at 1:00 AM, I was bound to miss something.
Coram – I would wholeheartedly agree with that opinion!
The REAL history of Mormonism
What I am about to share with you is incredible, but true. When I was in college, and after I joined the Mormon religion, I accidentally discovered that Joseph Smith was actually arrested for Treason against the United States for trying to overthrow the Government of the United States. I also learned that the Mormon religion had fought three wars with the American Government since 1830, they there are many Mormon prophecies about how “Mormon Elders of Zion” will rush-in and save the Constitution” and that America’s destiny is to become a “Mormon Kingdom of Zion”. On September 15, 1857, Brigahm Young even declared independence from the United States altogether. In fact, when the Mormons settled in the Utah Territory in July of 1847, the lands they claimed belonged to Mexico and Young had purposely led his Mormon outside the boundaries of teh United States in order to found their own soveriegn Mormon nation, which they called Deseret.
More recently, Jay Bybee, Tim Flanigan, D. Kyle Sampson. Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Yohn Yoo and David Addington are all Mormons or people who reported to Mormon politicians in the U.S. Government. And, they are all responsible for writing the “Bush Torture Policy” and re-writing the President’s emegency war powers legislation, which would allow the President to sieze control of the Government in a time of national emergency. These same powers would also allow the President to become the “paramount unitary commander” and circumvent the checks and balances of the constitution. Strangely, VP Cheney (whose wife is Mormon) actually practiced to become the “Paramount Unitary Commander, Jay Bybee is a BYU law graduate and drafted the “Bush Torture Policy” and D. Kyle Sampson (another BYU grad) fired all of the US Attorneys and started the “US Attorney scandal”; he worked for Senator Orrin Hatch.
Coincidentally, a large number of Mormons were also involved in the recent terrorist events, which necessitated updating the President’s emergency war powers legislation. Further, two of the four 9/11 terrorist pilots were trained at Huffman Aviation in Florida and the secret owner of Huffman Aviation was a Mormon bishop by the name of Wallce Hilliard, Terry Nichols was Mormon and met with Ramzi Yousef 6-month before the 1995 OKC bombing (in the Philippines), Ryder trucks were used both the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings and the President of Ryder trucks was a Mormon stake president living in Florida by the name of Anthony Burns and a Salt Lake City based company by the name of Dyno-Nobel actually sold the ammonium nitrate that Ramzi Yousef used when he bombed WTC in 1993!
See more @ – http://www.MormonZeitgeist.com
Thanks for posting MormonZeitgeist…..I want to get the work out about what they are doing