Many "churches" love to quote Tozer, to attach to themselves, his radical message and nature. Although Tozer preached hard against the Church wedded to the world he remained a part of the organized church to his dying days. This fact has did much to dilute his forcefulness and diminish his authority for the preservation of [...]
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top secret! "The secrets of the Lord are for those that fear Him" Psalm 25:14 SECRET: Sin Destroys our ability to "understand." It's an extremely exciting time to be a Christian* in the United States of America, here in the initial stages of the 21st century. Why? Because the seeds of "last days persecution" are being [...]
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The Body of Christ – Its Identity by Stella Paterson It is a well known fact that the church is often referred to as the "Body of Christ." But with the word "church" being seen as a building where people go to worship God, how do we define the "Body of Christ?" If He [...]
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Posted in Doctrine, Preachers, Truth, Uncategorized, church, cross, faith, hearing, heresy, sacrifice, sin on Jul 18th, 2010
There is a very prominent teacher within the ranks of the organized Christendom that teaches that the blood of Jesus had no intrinsic value in and of itself, that the term “the blood of Christ” is only a metaphor, or figure of speech, for the death of Christ on the Cross. He claims that Christ’s [...]
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Man-pleasing? Or GOD-pleasing? “For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.” Gal.1:10 The following quote was accurately written by a “pastor” of a local “church” in this city, [...]
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Posted in Marketing, Uncategorized, apostacy, church, deception, discernment, faith, false teachers, hearing, humanism, seeing, understanding on May 6th, 2010
We are surrounded by deception, misrepresentations, trickery, stagecraft, illusions, sleights of hand, delusions, perceptions, opinions, marketing, advertising, and much wishful thinking, but not truth. It matters not where you go in the world, truth is hard to find. Jer 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Eccl [...]
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Posted in Church Life, Communion, Uncategorized, church, deception, discernment, encouragement, faith, false teachers, following christ, hearing, humanism, seeing, understanding on Apr 4th, 2010
In the last post the question was posed as to why there are so many different denominations and sects in the Christian Church?, and we left the answer till now. The Bible also asks the same question but states it this way, “is Christ divided?” or is, “Christ the author of confusion?” The obvious answer [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, apostacy, church, deception, discernment, encouragement, faith, false teachers, following christ, hearing, humanism, seeing, sin, understanding on Mar 28th, 2010
Today I received a letter from a friend who highlighted a conundrum that has been at the center of much of what I call the “organized Church.” “…As a part of my truth quest I began doing a lot of reading on the different “holiness” strains of Christendom to get a better handle on why [...]
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Posted in Emergent, Uncategorized, apostacy, church, deception, discernment, false prophets, heresy, humanism, new age, seeing, understanding on Mar 7th, 2010
Tony Jones, in his March 6th addition to his blog, Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: Definitions, says he is not a liberal, which is interesting, considering the fact that he is not only liberal, but he is very liberal. Tony is so liberal that he thinks he may be conservative, or that he is neither [...]
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Posted in Emergent, Government, Judgment, Uncategorized, adversity, apostacy, deception, discernment, repentence, seeing, sin, troubles, understanding on Jan 16th, 2010
As to be expected, now that Pat Robertson has taken the lead many others are venturing to add their two cents worth and provide an innocuous account of what has happened. The Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas tries his hand at an answer, but fails to answer why God allows such extensive [...]
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