New Age Date Setting
24 Years Ago—The Harmonic Convergence & 2012 With the recent fuss over Harold Camping‘s date-setting, we recalled an old 1987 issue of The Trumpet. This newsletter was published by the National Research Institute which frequently reported on the activities of the New Age leaders. It is no longer published. However,…
The Gospel of Self
Part 4: The Kingdom of Self “Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.”(Hosea 4:11) Another area where the gospel of self has risen to prominence is in the modern church’s drive for social acceptance and social action. This replaces the Gospel message of sanctification in the life…
The Gospel of Self
Part 3: Self-Sacrifice By Pastor Anton Bosch “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for…
The Gospel of Self
Part 2: Self-Centered Worship By Pastor Anton Bosch Modern “Christianity” has taken us back to the dark ages and beyond. In those days everyone believed that the universe revolved around the earth. It was only around 1610 that Galileo discovered that the Earth is not the center of the Universe,…
The Gospel of Self
Part 1: Self-Centeredness By Pastor Anton Bosch “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.For men shall be lovers of their own selves,…”(1 Timothy 3:1-2a) [emphasis added] We seldom take notice, when things change very slowly. I am sure you know the story (probably an urban…
Battle of the Mind
Part 4: Renewing the Mind By Pastor Anton Bosch “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”(Psalm 51:10) Part 1: StrongholdsPart 2: SeparationPart 3: Knowing the Truth Wrong thoughts, ideas and arguments shape us, and the way we act. These are strongholds that…
Battle of the Mind
Part 3: Knowing the Truth By Pastor Anton Bosch “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.For the weapons of our warfare are not carnalbut mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,casting down arguments and every high thingthat exalts itself against the knowledge…
Love Loses
The Quantum Spirituality of Rob BellA critical review of Love Wins By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (New York, NY: Harper One, 2011) xi + 198 pages, Acknowledgments and Further Reading. The back cover…
Altered States: A Different Gate
The sober Christian in a spiritually inebriated age By Sarah Leslie and Pastor Larry DeBruyn “For who hath known the mind of the Lord,that he may instruct him?But we have the mind of Christ.” Emphasis added, 1 Corinthians 2:16, KJV On the heels of the hippie era of the late…