RETRO EMERGENT

Part 3: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 Part 1: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 Part 2: Early Experimental Emergents “A church should not change just to be different. It should change because the context of the culture about it requires its organizations to restructure themselves so church tasks…

EVANGELICALS: EMERGENT AND EROTIC

This fall (October, 2009), one major seminary is hosting a one-day seminar on, “Sacred Sexuality.” One purpose of the conference includes, “Casting a Vision for the Sexually Healthy Church,” and one workshop is titled, “Holy Eroticism: Marital Intimacy.” This quotation is excerpted from the newly updated article, originally entitled “The…

Dumbed-Down Doctrinal Dyslexia

Part 4: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn A Tall Tale of Two Brains There has arisen a two-brained theory/myth that persons dominated by their left brain are characterized by “logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy,” while those in touch with their right brain…

Ecstasy, Lusts & Lies

Part 3: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Ecstasy and Idolatry On Mars Hill, the Apostle Paul addressed the Athenian philosophers: “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or…

Excitements & Idolatry

Part 2: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Exodus and Excitements The problem being raised is not new (Read Exodus 32:1-35.). Upon their exodus from Egypt, the children of Israel were not content in worshipping a God they could not see or feel,…

RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTS

The Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious SpiritualityPart 1 By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “We reject all shameful and underhanded methods.We do not try to trick anyone,and we do not distort the word of God.We tell the truth before God,and all who are honest know that.” (The Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians…

OUR QUANTUM REALITY:

THE MATHEMATICS OF THE MECHANICS By Ben Laake[1] A Useful Tool Traditionally, mathematics has been called the language of science. Scientists and engineers use the language of mathematics to describe the world and to understand and predict the behavior of physical systems. For several centuries, mankind has been learning to…

“The Spiritualization of Science,

Technology, and Education in a One-World Society” This emerging trans-modern worldview,involves a shift in the locus of authorityfrom external to ‘inner knowing.’ It hasbasically turned away from the older scientificview that ultimate reality is “fundamentalparticles,“ and trusts perceptionsof the wholeness and spiritual aspectof organisms, ecosystems, Gaia andCosmos. This implies a…

Avoid Sleep!

“And take heed to yourselves,lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting,and drunkenness, and cares of this life,and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all themthat dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray…