THE SHACK, “Elousia,” & the Black Madonna
IMAGINATION, IMAGE, AND IDOLATRY By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious […]
Todd Bentley & the Beautiful Side of Evil
Berit Kjos has a new article posted on her website www.crossroad.to which analyzes Todd Bentley’s Florida “revival” in a fascinating new light. Below is an excerpt: What’s driving Todd Bentley? Why do thousands of people flock to his revival meetings?… Back in the eighties I read The Beautiful Side of Evil by Johanna Michaelsen. For […]
On Meditating
Adjusted Living in a Maladjusted World By Pastor Larry DeBruyn One writer describes the “silence” of mystical prayer: “When one enters the deeper layers of contemplative prayer one sooner or later experiences the void, the emptiness, the nothingness . . . the profound mystical silence . . . an absence of thought.”[1] In his new […]
THE SHACK & Its New Age Leaven
God IN Everything? By Warren Smith “A little leaven leaventh the whole lump.”– Galatians 5:9 The Shack is being described as a “Christian” novel and is currently ranked number one on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback fiction. Many believers are buying multiple copies and giving them to friends and family. The Shack […]
Lakeland’s Recycled Revival
BELLY UP TO THE BAR A Pastor Reports on Todd Bentley’s “Revival” in Lakeland, Florida By Pastor Gary Osborne The conclusion of a 5-part series BELLY UP TO THE BAR AND HAVE A DRINK To be honest, it frustrates me to even have to be writing about this subject. The concept of being “drunk in […]
Lakeland’s Recycled Revival
Music, Mass Hypnotism and Angels A Pastor Reports on Todd Bentley’s “Revival” in Lakeland, Florida By Pastor Gary Osborne [Note: this is part 4 of a weeklong series of articles on this topic] MUSIC AND MASS HYPNOTISM Everything in these meetings is driven by the music. I shared this earlier but it bears repeating. When […]
Lakeland’s Recycled Revival
TODD BENTLEY’S CONNECTION TO THE LATTER RAIN MOVEMENT A Pastor Reports on Todd Bentley’s “Revival” in Lakeland, Florida By Pastor Gary Osborne My first real concern with these crusades revolves around the issue of who Todd Bentley looks up to and who he considers spiritual leaders. He frequently mentions, and even has up on stage […]
Lakeland’s Recycled Revival
The Practice of “Revival” A Pastor Reports on Todd Bentley’s “Revival” in Lakeland, Florida By Pastor Gary Osborne [Note: This is the 2nd article in a weeklong series. See the Introduction posted yesterday.]WHAT I OBSERVED IN THE SERVICES The first night I personally attended was Thursday, May 8th. Mr. Todd Bentley and his crew were […]
Lakeland’s Recycled Revival
Introduction: Testing the Spirits A Pastor Reports on Todd Bentley’s “Revival” in Lakeland, Florida By Pastor Gary Osborne [Note to reader: this article begins a week-long series of posts, an in-depth eyewitness report from a pastor who attended and observed this “revival” as it unfolded.] A couple of weeks ago I began to receive phone […]
How “Everything Must Change”
Part 5: Captain McLaren and the SS Emergent A Pastor Reports on Brian McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” Tour By Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker “WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT” Later that day, a young man rose and asked a question after Brian McLaren shared a “parable” involving people who occupied one boat, with one group drilling […]