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Sermon of the week: “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery by Phil Johnson. This is the next installment of Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that is being featured on DefCon every other week as your Sermon of the … Continue reading

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The improbability of evolution.

From Samaritan Ministries: This is the human genome in book form. If you were to print all of your DNA in only one cell of your body, it would fill all of these books in this bookcase. It’s estimated that … Continue reading

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Lying: When being yourself just isn’t good enough.

It is not uncommon to hear about a pastor (i.e. hireling) lying about one thing or another: Lying about personally seeing the dead raised (usually in some foreign country where verification is not possible), lying about their “relationship” with their … Continue reading

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Really? Are these products necessary?

Here’s the product description of this Bible designed to dumb down and trivialize God’s Word for kids. Let this family of adorable bruins introduce your little cubs to God’s Word!Color pages featuring favorite Berenstain Bears characters * Complete NIrV written … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “Thou Shalt Not Kill” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is Thou Shalt Not Kill by Phil Johnson. This is the next installment of Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that is being featured on DefCon every other week as your Sermon of the Week … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Deity of Christ – An Examination of the Verses the Cults Use” by Charlie Campbell.

Your sermon of the week is one that defenders of the faith are going to love. The Deity of Christ – An Examination of the Verses the Cults Use by Charlie Campbell examines the eight most commonly used verses that … Continue reading

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Samaritan Ministries endorsement.

I wanted to share with the readers of DefCon how thoroughly thrilled my wife and I are about Samaritan Ministries. As an alternative to the high cost of secular insurance companies (many of which fund practices opposed to Christianity), Samaritan … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “Honoring Authority” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is Honoring Authority. This is part six of a fantastic series on The Ten Commandments by Phil Johnson. Look for the next installment in two weeks.

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Sermon of the week: “Remember the Sabbath” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is Remember the Sabbath. This is part five of a fantastic series on The Ten Commandments by Phil Johnson. Look for the next installment in two weeks.

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Video claims Islam’s Mahdi is “Near.”

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Sermon of the week: “What’s In A Name?” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is a wonderfully convicting message by Phil Johnson entitled What’s In A Name? I say “wonderfully convicting” because it really opened my eyes to what it means to “take the Lord’s name in vain” and … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “A Jealous God” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is A Jealous God by Phil Johnson. This is the next installment of Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that are being featured on DefCon every other week as your Sermon of the Week (on … Continue reading

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We must mourn more for the sin of a child than for the sickness of a child . . . more for fear they died in sin, than because they died. – William Jenkyn 1613 – 1685

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Sermon of the week: “No Graven Images” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is No Graven Images by Phil Johnson. This is the next installment of Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that will be featured on DefCon every other week as your Sermon of the Week (on … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “No Other Gods” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is No Other Gods by Phil Johnson. This is part one (minus two preludes found here and here) of Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that will be featured on DefCon every other week as … Continue reading

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Missions: From the comfort zone to the combat zone.

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Sermon of the week: “The Breadth of God’s Moral Law” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is The Breadth of God’s Moral Law by Phil Johnson. This is the second installment on Johnson’s series on the Ten Commandments that will be featured every other week as your Sermon of the Week … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Preeminence of God’s Moral Law” by Phil Johnson.

DefCon begins our 2011 weekly sermons with a new series by Phil Johnson on the subject of the Ten Commandments. We begin with one of two preludes to the Ten Commandments entitled The Preeminence of God’s Moral Law. We will … Continue reading

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Derek meets a false apostle and Shelly confronts her pastor.

These two videos hit the proverbial nail on the head on every over-used cliche and every platitude I’ve hear ad nauseum in my time in charismatic circles. (You’ll have to watch each video over at YouTube since embedding has been … Continue reading

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Book recommendation: “Radical” by David Platt.

When I picked up this book to read it I told myself that no matter how good any part of it was, I would not post any portion of it as a quote on DefCon (because time is so little … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Socinians” by Phil Johnson.

We conclude our five-part series by Phil Johnson entitled A Survey of Heresies with The Socinians. If you’ve missed any of our past installments from this series, you can download the entire series here.

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Sermon of the week: “The Pelagians” by Phil Johnson.

We continue our series A Survey of Heresies by Phil Johnson. In this series Johnson has examined the major heresies that have plagued Christianity throughout the years. This installment is The Pelagians. Our final installment comes in two weeks.

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A little bit of Heaven in a mall food court.

This video moved me to tears. It is an encouragement for those who belong to the Lord to see Him glorified so beautifully in song in the unlikeliest of places. I liken this video to things yet to come in … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Arians” by Phil Johnson.

We continue our series of the five major heresies that the Church has had to deal with–and still does–since the first century. This week Phil Johnson delivers a two-part message on The Arians from his series, A Survey of Heresies: … Continue reading

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Christians are “legitimate targets.”

Believe it or not, but the “religion of peace” is still not living up to the title ascribed to it. “Just days after a brutal attack in a Catholic Church in Baghdad that killed more than 50 people, an Al … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Gnostics” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is the second installment of Phil Johnson’s series, A Survey of Heresies. These are the five major heresies that have plagued the Church and that are still around today. Two weeks ago Phil Johnson taught … Continue reading

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Blatant double standards.

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God loves you the way you are . . . even steeped in sin?

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Is this you?

You look at a beautiful painting and you say to yourself, “There must have been a painter.” You look at a motor vehicle of great workmanship and you say to yourself, “There must have been a manufacturer.” You look at … Continue reading

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Sermon of the week: “The Judiazers” by Phil Johnson.

Your sermon of the week is the first in a five-part series entitled A Survey of Heresies. Every two weeks DefCon will be bringing you the next installment in this series from Phil Johnson on the top five major heresies … Continue reading

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