Midwinter Sunshine
A Book Review Watering the Greyhound Garden: Stories from the Streets of San Francisco by Warren B. Smith By Sarah Leslie This post isn’t really about heresy, per se. It is a review of a new paperback, Watering the Greyhound Garden: Stories from the Streets of San Francisco, written by one of my favorite authors […]
Incarnating Christ
An Excerpt from Tamara Hartzell’s new online book:“Reimagining” God: Turning the Light off to Look for “Truth” in the Corner of a Dark Round Room Below is a relevant discussion of increasingly popular emerging doctrine, “incarnating Christ,” taught by Leonard Sweet and other leaders. Today’s excerpt is from Chapter 4, p. 91. “Early Christians drew […]
“Babylon Rising” and Canon in Crisis
Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha,Fresh Revelations,and an “Open” Canon By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,having itching ears;And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,and shall be turned unto fables.” Paul, 2 Timothy 4:4, Emphasis Added. Lewis […]
The “Energymatter” Jesus
An Excerpt from Tamara Hartzell’s new online book: “Reimagining” God: Turning the Light off to Look for “Truth” in the Corner of a Dark Round Room Below is a relevant discussion of the “new gospel” taught by Leonard Sweet and other evangelical and New Age leaders. Today’s excerpt is from Chapter 5, p. 136. “Jesus […]
The Mission of Creating “the Third Testament”
as “part of the ‘I AM’ that we are” An excerpt from Tamara Hartzell’s new online book: “Reimagining” God: Turning the Light off to Look for “Truth” in the Corner of a Dark Round Room A few years ago we ran a series of excerpts from Tamara Hartzell’s excellent online book, In the Name of […]
The Trouble with Transformation
Can Evangelicals Have Their Cake and Eat it Too? Lou Giglio Satire[1] This “common good” must be negotiated in a “Public Square” – a global arena where people share their views. To keep their debates “civil,” they must learn to appreciate pluralism and seek a “common life” compatible with all beliefs and lifestyles. Peace and […]
The Significance of Youth-Filled Stadiums
Revisiting the Old Latter Rain Prophecy in Light of Current Events “August 3-5, 2011… I believe God is going to release an awakening on a new breed of healing revivalists who will be anointed, activated and sent back into their campuses and cities. And we will see an uncontainable fire once again come out of […]
RAPTURE ALREADY
Apocalyptic Visitations to the Afterlifeand Visions of the End By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “For now we see through a glass, darkly;but then face to face:now I know in part;but then shall I know even as also I am known.” The Apostle Paul1 Corinthians 13:12 Perhaps no question intrigues the human race more than the question, […]
When the WORD Comes With Power
[W]hen the WORD comes with power,it seizes hold of the heart and conscience.They give way before it and leave a place for it,where it sets up its throneand becomes their Lord and Master. J.C. Philpot* God is essentially invisible. “He dwells in the light which no man can approach unto, Whom no man has seen, […]
Postmodern Infiltration
The Neoevangelical Heretical Idea A number of years ago there was a joke circulating that went like this: Q: How can a man avoid falling hair? A: Jump out of the way! This is also a formula for avoiding heresy. One must “jump out of the way” whenever it comes near. The biblical doctrine of […]