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Top 10 reasons to reject the cult of Word of Faith.
I found the following article at Beyond Grace: Word-Faith (WOF) teaching, identified with Ken Copeland and Ken Hagin, is the foundation for today’s prophetic/apostolic movement. Several years ago Tricia Tillin wrote an article on the Top Ten Reasons for rejecting … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Charismania
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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You might be a Calvinist . . .
The following is from the Disciple Man blog: You Might Just Be A Calvinist If…. If you have a Martin Luther Jell-O mold… you just might be a Calvinist. If your DVR has over 25 episodes of Wretched With Todd … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, Christianity Today, church, Emergent, Emerging, Faith, Galatians, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, Religion, Theology
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If Paul’s epistle to the Galatians was published in Christianity Today.
If the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Church in Galatia had been published in the magazine Christianity Today how would it be received? Well, what follows is a dramatization of letters received from readers in response to Paul’s inspired Epistle. … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, Christianity Today, church, Emergent, Emerging, Faith, Galatians, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, Religion, Theology
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Welcome to Shallow Small Group.
Sometimes a parody can say so much more than a million serious blog posts.
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, blasphemy, christian, Christianity, church, Dr. Duncan, Faith, God, heresy, Humor, Post Modern, PostModernism, Religion, Small Groups, Theology, video
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What receiving the Bible in your native tongue for the first time looks like.
Rejoice with me and be greatly encouraged (and deeply convicted) by watching this video of the Kimyal tribe receiving the New Testament in their language for the first time on March 16, 2010. Quote from the video: “We [in the … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Missions & Martyrs, News
Tagged Africa, Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, indigenous missions, Indonesia, Jesus, Kimyal, Kimyal Tribe, Liberia, Missions, Missions in West Africa, Mozambique, News, Religion, Theology
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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
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Apostasy/Lukewarm, Arian, arianism, Arians, Awake!, Bible, Charles T. Russell, Charles Taze Russel, Charlie Campbell, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, cult, Cults, death, Faith, False Teachers, Galatians, God, Gospel, Grace, Grace Life Pulpit, heresies, heresy, Holy Spirit, Humor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judiazers, JW, JWs, Luke, Memorial, New World Translation, Phil Johnson, Quiz, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, watchtower
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A biker, an Atheist, a Mormon, and a Muslim walk into a church . . .
Imagine if you will, that you’ve been witnessing to your next door neighbor for years. Let’s call him Bob. Bob is a big burly biker who swears that he’ll never step foot in a church as long as he’s alive. … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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Get good books into the hands of African pastors.
Want to help get doctrinally sound theology books into the hands of pastors in Africa? Here are two ways: 1). There’s the Portuguese Adopt a Pastor program for Mozambique, Africa (along with video introduction) here. 2). You can also support … Continue reading
Posted in Missions & Martyrs
Tagged Africa, Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, indigenous missions, Jesus, Liberia, Missions, Missions in West Africa, Mozambique, News, Religion, Theology
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Seizing the crumbs hurled from the celebrity table.
Ingrid Schlueter hits the nail on the head with her article (reprinted in its entirety below) about pop sensation Justin Bieber and the Christian conservatives who now have a “legitimate” reason to fawn over him because of his announcement that … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, News
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Justin Biebler, News, Religion, Theology
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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.
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Bible, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, cult, Cults, death, Faith, False Teachers, Galatians, God, Gospel, Grace, Grace Life Pulpit, heresies, heresy, Holy Spirit, Humor, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judiazers, JW, JWs, Luke, Phil Johnson, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Old Mormon vs New Mormon: Celestial Marriage.
DefCon presents another installment of Old Mormon vs New Mormon. See our previous installment Old Mormon vs New Mormon: The Missouri Prophecies here.
Posted in Mormonism
Tagged Animation, Apologetics, Apostasy, Archeology, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Carthage Jail, Cartoon, Christian debate, Christianity, church, cult, Cultoon, Cultoons, Cults, Debate, debate with a mormon, Debates, Documentary, Evangelism, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, Film, Film Review, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joel Kramer, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon, Mormon debate, Mormon Doctrine, Mormonism, Movie, Movie Review, Quick Questions, Religion, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah
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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.
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Bible, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, cult, Cults, death, Faith, False Teachers, Galatians, God, Gospel, Grace, Grace Life Pulpit, heresies, heresy, Holy Spirit, Humor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judiazers, JW, JWs, Luke, Memorial, New World Translation, Phil Johnson, Quiz, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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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
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Apostasy/Lukewarm, Arian, arianism, Arians, Awake!, Bible, Charles T. Russell, Charles Taze Russel, christian, Christianity, Christmas, church, cult, Cults, death, Faith, False Teachers, Galatians, God, Gospel, Grace, Grace Life Pulpit, heresies, heresy, Holy Spirit, Humor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judiazers, JW, JWs, Luke, Memorial, New World Translation, Phil Johnson, Quiz, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, watchtower
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The infamous Book of Abraham.
To learn more about this subject, watch the one hour documentary The Lost Book of Abraham here for free.
Posted in Mormonism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Carthage Jail, Christian debate, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, Debate, debate with a mormon, Debates, Documentary, Evangelism, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, Film, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon, Mormon debate, Mormon Doctrine, Mormonism, Religion, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah
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Old Mormon vs New Mormon: The Missouri Prophecies
Another DefCon exclusive: What happens when a 19th century Mormon meets a 21st century Mormon? Find out in the first installment of the new series: “Old Mormon vs New Mormon.” And when we get into Jackson county to walk in … Continue reading
Posted in Cultoons, Mormonism
Tagged Animation, Apologetics, Apostasy, Archeology, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Carthage Jail, Cartoon, Christian debate, Christianity, church, cult, Cultoon, Cultoons, Cults, Debate, debate with a mormon, Debates, Documentary, Evangelism, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, Film, Film Review, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joel Kramer, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon, Mormon debate, Mormon Doctrine, Mormonism, Movie, Movie Review, Quick Questions, Religion, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah
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Cultoons: A dying man on a Mormon’s doorstep.
DefCon is pleased to introduce its first ever Cultoon. If the dialogue in this Cultoon sounds familiar, it was loosely derived from an actual debate featured on this previous post. Enjoy.
Posted in Cultoons, Debates, Evangelism, Mormonism
Tagged Animation, Apologetics, Apostasy, Archeology, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Carthage Jail, Cartoon, Christian debate, Christianity, church, cult, Cultoon, Cultoons, Cults, Debate, debate with a mormon, Debates, Documentary, Evangelism, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, Film, Film Review, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joel Kramer, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon, Mormon debate, Mormon Doctrine, Mormonism, Movie, Movie Review, Quick Questions, Religion, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah 8 It was two years ago (July 2008) that a Mormon named
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Progressive Creamy Theology Soup.
Sometimes the most scathing indictment of the current condition of the church in America comes to us on the wings of clever sarcasm. HT: The Desert Pastor
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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How to fill the church with false converts (satirical video).
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Evangelism, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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“Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel, and their Ignorance Fest on Calvinism.”
As a follow-up to Brother Michael’s previous post on Chuck Smith (found here), I’m presenting an audio clip of a critique that James White did in response to an audio clip of Chuck Smith and other Calvary Chapel speakers in … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Arminianism, Bible, Calvary Chapel, Calvinism, Christianity, Chuck Smith, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, James White, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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Contemporvant.
If your church is everything the world wants, and nothing what the Lord intended, welcome to Contemporvant.
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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The Fall of the United States of Rome.
Martin Llyoyd-Jones (1899-1981) offers a sobering warning from the grave: If the West goes down and is defeated, it will be for one reason only: internal rot . . . If we continue to spend our lives in jollification, doing … Continue reading
Posted in News, Pilgrim's Corner
Tagged America, Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Celebrity, Celebrity Worship, Christianity, church, Culture, Decadance, Decadence, Faith, God, Gospel, heresy, Hollywood, Humor, Indulgence, Jesus, News, Politics, Religion, Theology
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Welcome to the gospel in America in the 21st century.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. – Neil Postman
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged America, Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Brock Gill, Celebrity, Celebrity Worship, Christianity, church, Culture, Decadance, Decadence, Faith, God, Gospel, heresy, Hollywood, Humor, Indulgence, Jesus, News, Politics, Religion, Theology
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Coexist.
The following great piece comes from Jake Hunt at WiserTime: You’ve seen these, right? They make me mad. Why? Because they don’t really mean what they say. Let’s break it down. We’ll call each worldview by the letter it’s supposed … Continue reading
Sarcasm at its finest: Happy spots and Hollywood.
Sometimes you can just use a good laugh. The following video is a great follow-up of the post Woe Unto You. And this video is a great follow-up to The Idolatry of Celebrity Worship.
Short dramatization: A conversation with a Jehovah’s Witness.
Posted in Humor, Jehovah's Witnesses
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Awake!, Bible, Charles T. Russell, Charles Taze Russel, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, God, heresy, Humor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus, JW, JWs, New World Translation, Religion, Theology, watchtower
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Wal-Mart now sells cult literature.
A few days ago I entered the book section of a local Wal-Mart and was shocked to see a large section of books on Mormonism. And no, this Wal-Mart was not in Utah. I then checked the internet and discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism, News
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Astronomy, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Carthage Jail, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Lunar, Moon, Mormon, Mormonism, Nasa, News, Religion, Salt Lake City, Science, Solar System, Theology, Utah, Wal-Mart
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Will the Mormon church be able to stop NASA’s attack on the moon people?
With NASA’s planned bombing of the moon this Friday (see the news article here), I have to ask again (as I did last year when the announcement was first made), Will the Mormon church be able to stop NASA’s planned … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Mormonism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Astronomy, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Carthage Jail, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Humor, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Latter-day Saints, LDS, Lunar, Moon, Mormon, Mormonism, Nasa, News, Religion, Salt Lake City, Science, Solar System, Theology, Utah
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Gerber’s new “Christian Baby Food.”
Gerber’s new “Christian Baby Food” from Sacred Sandwich: HT: Atlantic Baptist
Posted in Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Humor, Jesus, Religion, seeker-sensitive, Theology
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When the emergent movement begins to crumble.
HT: Word n Verse
Ronnie: A glimpse inside the mind of the average church member in America.
Do you have a “Ronnie” in your church? HT: CRN
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Humor
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Christianity, church, God, heresy, Humor, Jesus, Religion, Theology
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