Tag Archives: Discernment

Pharisees, leprous Samaritans, and other bloggers.

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

This post may not win me friends, and it may only make the sport of loathing me (and this blog) all the more attractive, but I am compelled to address a problem within the Christian internet community; a problem that doesn’t … Continue reading →

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What Discernment Actually Looks Like

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

A few days ago I posted a link from Phil Johnson on the Pyromanics blog regarding Mark Driscoll’s self-proclaimed “gift of discernment”, which sounded more like a man with a dirty mind talking offensively to the sheep under his care. … Continue reading →

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Quotes (818)

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Exposing error is most unpopular work. But from every true standpoint it is worthwhile work. To our Savior, it means that He receives from us, His blood-bought ones, the loyalty that is His due. To ourselves, if we consider “the … Continue reading →

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Quotes (797)

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

“Be ye separate” – 2 Cor. 6:17 The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world.  He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life.  To him, “to live”, should be “Christ”.  … Continue reading →

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Quotes (792)

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

“When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.”  - 2 Timothy 4:13 We do not know what the books were about, and we can only form some guess … Continue reading →

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Quotes (769)

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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Quotes (550)

Posted on June 27, 2009 by

Some of God’s dear people may suppose that it would be presumptuous to set themselves up as judges of what they hear or read—but that is a serious mistake, being both a false humility, and a shirking of duty. The … Continue reading →

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Why we do what we do

Posted on June 18, 2009 by

Many people who visit DefCon come here seeking truth. They have heard lies and stories told by those who claim to be shepherds and pastors, only to find they have been lied to and misled. Others are new Christians who … Continue reading →

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Africa desperately needs help with combating cults.

Posted on June 14, 2009 by

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock . . . – Acts 20:29 Source: Africa Center for Apologetics Research ____________________________________________________________ See related posts: Charismania unrestrained: Africa’s witch children The Hell-bound … Continue reading →

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Letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing.

Posted on March 13, 2009 by

The following is an excerpt from a thought-provoking article from Daily Discernment entitled Right Hand Publicity Inc.: Since leaving a “church” where corruption was fully in bloom, I have become fascinated with the anatomy of how a church becomes corrupted. … Continue reading →

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Sola Scriptura (63)

Posted on February 28, 2009 by

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood … Continue reading →

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Straight Reporting From Someone Who Once Trusted Todd Bentley

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

Pray for Dawn that God continues to help her discern the falsehoods that Todd Bentley is peddling, and may this testimony from her reach many others who might still be blinded by the circus. I have attended this revival for … Continue reading →

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