An Open Letter
Concerned to Discern By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.”(Jeremiah 8:5, NASB) As could be agreed upon by most believers, Christians have the right, even the duty, to evaluate and hold accountable to…
Mingling Becomes Entangled
“Eastern and Western occultism have mingled for at least two millennia. But what used to be a trickle has now become a flood. Even churches are welcoming the mysteries that secret societies and Taoist alchemists once hid so well. “Westerners raised in a ‘safe’ Christian culture tend to discount the…
“UNSHACKLED”
UNSHACKLED: Breaking Away From Seductive Spirituality Pastor Larry DeBruyn’s new book reviews The Shack, Wm. Paul Young’s bestselling spiritual allegory. But is much more than that! UNSHACKLED is a solid biblical refutation of the emerging heresies of the “quantum spirituality” movement. This movement is showing up both within the New…
“Pub Theology”
Emergent Inebriates – There They Go Again! “A growing number of Christian groups from a variety of denominations are taking God to the bars, launching religious-themed pub nights dubbed ‘martini masses’ or ‘theology on tap’ in an effort to broaden their reach.[1] Mixing theology with inebriation is rapidly becoming established…
Emergent Inebriates
Some thoughts on “Pub Theology.” By Pastor Larry DeBruyn As he begins to rip into “a screaming guitar solo,” a band member sarcastically yells out at the audience, “Let’s go to church boys!”[1] Welcome to Pub Theology. As the reporter describes it, Pub Theology is “a Sunday night show that’s…
“X-MEN”
Marked for life: discernment ministry in light of Ezekiel 9:1-11 By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Someone once said that sin is as much a breaking of God’s heart as it is the breaking of His Law. When God looked down on the perversity of the people on earth before the Deluge,…
Carl Rogers –
Father of the Emergent Culture By Sarah H. Leslie* [NOTE: This article was originally published in 1993. It was rediscovered recently while sorting old papers. It is timely and applicable to the current series Herescope has been running on the early history of the Emergent/Emerging church movement. The context of…
Do You Fear God?
For several decades our society has brazenly displayed the slogan on T shirts to auto windows, “NO FEAR.” David, in Psalm 36:1, makes it clear that this generation of sinners is not unique in their folly. “The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear…
Transforming Words
DECEITIFICATE DECEITIFICATED DECEITIFICATIST DECEITIFICATION DECEITIFICATISM DECEITIFICATIONISM DECEITIFICATIONISTIC DECEITIFICATIONISTICISM de-ceit-i-fi-cate (DĒ SĔT’ Ĭ FĬ KĀT) v. [ME deceiven ; OFr. deceveir ; L. decipere, to ensnare, deceive, de from & capere, to take] 1. The practice of intentionally changing or altering the meaning of a word, or phrase, in a deceitful…