“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 Age/New Spirituality and also the […]
“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 as a new way to […]
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 one part church and one […]
“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, it was recorded that He […]
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 the early Emerging Church culture […]
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 of God before his eyes.” […]
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 attempt to conceal, pervert, and/or […]
Would the Devil Do This?
If I were the devil, I’d be real upset at churches. I’d spend a lot of time and effort trying to destroy them. My major efforts haven’t yet worked, so I’d go to work on pesky things that can be cultivated to destroy a church from within itself. Maybe I’d start with poor people, people […]
Celebrating “Open” Inclusiveness
Part 9: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 If God is not limited to any special kind of time, space, or galaxy, the possibilities of God are greater. In a way, the Muslim concept of God hints at this “open” inclusiveness: “God will continue creating, and maybe recycling. Even after the death of the earth, […]
Reinventing Clergy
Part 8: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 “In the emerging Church, a new kind of preacher is coming into his own for whom there is presently no adequate training….” (p. 59) “a clergyman becomes not a disseminator but an interpreter of news.” (p. 108) “‘Then it hit me: the only way to break out […]