Unanticipated Benefits of Sufferings
Part 3: Preparations for Sufferings “We must tell people what we have learned. . . that no darkness can keep out God’s marvelous light. They will believe us, because we’ve been here.” – Betsie ten Boom[1] “It is one of the greatest wonders in the world, how the church subsists under such fierce and frequent […]
Are You Prepared?
Part 2: Preparations for Sufferings “Wrong ideas about God are not only the fountain from which the polluted waters of idolatry flow; they are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true. “Perverted notions about God soon rot the religion in which they appear.” – A.W. Tozer* […]
Preparations for Sufferings
“[W]here are they that sincerely resolve and prepare to be followers of them who through faith and patience ‘inherit the promises’ (Hebrews 6:12) or take them for an ‘example of suffering, affliction, and of patience’ (James 5:10)?” [1]* The Discernment Research Group has been publishing warnings about heresies and the activities of leaders promoting heresies […]
The Manhattan Declaration:
Another Dominionist Covenant Although I obviously agree with the document’s opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, and other key moral problems threatening our culture, the document falls far short of identifying the one true and ultimate remedy for all of humanity’s moral ills: the gospel. The gospel is barely mentioned in the Declaration. At one point […]
The Two Trees
He sent His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Psalm 107:20) Meditation that is not founded upon the Word of God, like a labyrinth, is a maze that ultimately ends up in futility, going nowhere but endless spirals. Those who have practiced Eastern-style meditation, with its emptying of the mind and/or […]
Understanding “Transformation”
For those who want to understand the history of the “transformation” of the evangelical church these past 3-4 decades, one book that is “must reading” is Charlotte Iserbyt’s massive historical documentary titled the deliberate dumbing down of america: A Chronological Paper Trail (Conscience Press, 1999). Ostensibly the book is about education reform. But the story […]
New Website!
Announcing Pastor Larry DeBruyn’s new website Guarding His Flock Ministries at http://guardinghisflock.com We are thrilled that Pastor Larry will have this new website to post all of his excellent writings! Be sure to bookmark it! The new website’s lead article this month is: “FEELINGS DRIVEN” CHRISTIANSOn the interface of faith, facts, and feelings in the […]
Alchemy and Nanotechnology
Dr. Martin Erdmann, who is part of our Discernment Research Group, is a guest on John Loeffler’s Steel on Steel radio program this weekend. Herescope readers can listen to the interview by using “guest12” as both the login and password. Go to www.steeelonsteel.com to listen. The interview is described as: 11/07/2009Alchemy and Nanotechnology…[O]ur featured guest […]
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 Holy Scripture professing evangelical Christians […]
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 source of these powers. America, […]