The Spirit of Truth
“In these days of error, it is most necessary that the children of God, who would not be entangled in the snares of the enemy, should be well grounded and established in the Truth*; and this by the teaching and testimony, work and witness of the blessed Spirit. For want of this heavenly instruction, how […]
Resurrecting Pagan Rites
An old article has just been re-published in its entirety on the Discernment Ministries website, complete with the original graphics and sidebars. This 3-part series from the mid-1990’s, during the heyday of Promise Keepers, is now more relevant than ever in view of the Emergent Church Movement and the New Apostolic Reformation. With the rapid […]
Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Pastor Anton Bosch Introduction In order to understand the meaning of any hymn, poem or piece of prose, one needs to look at the circumstances surrounding the writing of that work and the mindset of the author. One of the most famous hymns is Amazing Grace. The words of that hymn are very powerful, […]
Pragmatic Peter
This is Where Pure Pragmatism Will Take You By Dr. Orrel Steinkamp* “So the goal that God has now placed on the agenda of the Body of Christ in the last few years, much more than we can find in the past, is, the goal is transforming our society. Seeing the values of the kingdom […]
Doing the Templeton Twist
Part 2: Dancing With the Stars By Sarah Leslie and Pastor Larry DeBruyn Maybe one of the attributes of God is change. Did He decree the survival of the fittest? Maybe God intends us in some way to use the new power He has put into our hands in relation to selective breeding and recombinant […]
Dancing With the Stars
“The Vibrant Dance of Faith and Science,” A Cosmic Two-Step By Pastor Larry DeBruyn and Sarah Leslie “Many of us who have a foot both in the world of media art and technology and in the world of inner contemplation are awed by the potential of advanced immersive technologies to facilitate deeply transformative experiences. And […]
Emergent Metaphysics
Part 6: FROM COSMOS, TO CHAOS, TO CONSCIOUSNESS By Pastor Larry DeBruyn [Ed. Note: Part 6 concludes this important series by Pastor Larry DeBruyn. In the past 6 months Herescope has been documenting the rapid “confluence” of the mystical New Apostolic Reformation with the Emergent Church movement in doctrine, personnel, and agenda. Both groups are […]
Quantum Consciousness
Part 5: FROM COSMOS, TO CHAOS, TO CONSCIOUSNESS By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Neale Donald Walsch peddles New Age spirituality in books, recording, dialogs or “conversations” he had with “God.” The books are formatted so that his conversations and musings are typeset in normal characters while God’s statements appear in bold print. Walsch notes one physicist: […]
“The Force Be With You”
Part 4: FROM COSMOS, TO CHAOS, TO CONSCIOUSNESS By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “They have discovered a subatomic particle called a lepton. And the general consensus is that leptons do exist as individual subatomic particles. The only hitch is they’ve only been able to observe leptons in communities of two and three. And so they said, […]
Fractal Emergence
Part 3: FROM COSMOS, TO CHAOS, TO CONSCIOUSNESS By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Linear Versus Non-linear Time Quantum theory also influences one’s view of time. Previously understood as linear by the old view, time is now viewed as nonlinear. As Emerging Church leader Leonard Sweet states: “We do not live in linear time and space, but […]