Was Paul A Mystic?
Part 3 By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Transiency—“Once Upon a Time” By nature, all religious experiences are transient. Circumstances and people vary from day to day. Because they’re rooted in life, and because from day to day situations do not remain the same, our feelings change. Feelings are fleeting, and do not last. Life is filled […]
Was Paul A Mystic?
Part 2 By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Ineffable adj. 1. too overwhelming to be expressed or described in words; inexpressible 2. too awesome or sacred to be spoken* Ineffability—“I Can’t Explain It” Paul experienced unexplainable ecstasy in Paradise. In their seeking after similar divine encounters, Christian mystics identify with Paul and find precedent for their experience—or […]
Was Paul A Mystic?
Part 1 By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception,according to the tradition of men,according to the elementary principles of the world,rather than according to Christ.” – The Apostle Paul, Colossians 2:8 “Then there were the outright mystics who fell into trances. The droplets of […]
Mike Bickle’s Gigolo Jesus
By K. Jentoft IHOP’s Bridal Paradigm Recently I was given a CD of Mike Bickle speaking to a group of youth at IHOP’s Passion for Jesus Conference. Mike is full of zeal and passion as he speaks of the “Bridegroom Jesus” that he has found in the Song of Solomon using “spiritual interpretation.” This message […]
Tinker with Theology, Tinker with Man
“…should we suppose God to have created the nearly universal, vicious, animal-versus-animal world of nature? Indeed, were carnivorous animals originally herbivorous (as is implied in Genesis 1:28,29)? Does the Evil One and his assistants have sufficient knowledge to tinker with the DNA of God’s created order and distort nature to become ‘red in tooth and […]
Emergent MIND Change
“A new world, as the mystics have always said, is a new mind.” -Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy:Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s(J.P. Tarcher, 1980), p. 36 [emphasis added] “The mystery of the creative/intuitive mind is underscored in the ‘perennial wisdom‘, which finds the deep intuition connected to the one Universal Mind. Thus there […]
True Revival
Every true revival is always, and without exception, based on the Word of God; the Bible is the only revealed Truth in the world and, in fact, ever has been; there is not a spiritual problem that is not addressed in the Word; there is not a difficulty for which it does not have a […]
The False Imagining of the False Christ
Colossians and the coming of the cosmic-christ By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “We believe the vision of the new Jerusalem, like all prophetic visions, seeks to inspire our imaginations with hope about what our world can actually become through the good news of the kingdom of God.In this emerging view, the ‘new heaven and new earth’… […]
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Tony Blair has just embarked upon a project to further the cause of global governance, and he is intending to use religion as the vehicle. Called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, its purpose is to create momentum for achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. His role is not unlike that of John Foster Dulles nearly […]
Warfield and Contemplative Spirituality
By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” -Solomon, Proverbs 14:12 (KJV) “We may be mystics, or we may be Christians. We cannot be both. And the pretension of being both usually merely veils defection from Christianity. Mysticism baptized with […]