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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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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Does any of this sound familiar?
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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 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, Government, Israel, Uncategorized, apostacy, deception, false teachers, hearing, heresy, humanism, offense, understanding on Mar 20th, 2010
Being a Christian in today’s world is not a popular thing to be, at least if you are a Christian who loves Israel. There are those other “Christians” who test God with their hate speech, and align themselves with those worldlings who hate Israel. They can call themselves Christian if they want, it is still [...]
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Posted in Emergent, Marketing, Uncategorized, apostacy, deception, discernment, false prophets, hearing, humanism, seeing, understanding on Mar 9th, 2010
Tony Jones doesn’t like labels. He says he would rather think of his Christianity as “emergence” and not “Emergent.” There is only one Christianity and it ain’t emergence or Emergent, neither is it Pentecostal, Baptist, Lutheran, or any other sect. Following Christ is to be a Christian, and for the most part they all have [...]
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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 adversity, discernment, encouragement, following christ, hearing, seeing, suffering, trials, troubles, understanding on Jan 29th, 2010
This is something I put together awhile back, but has never found its way into the mailbox. As I was sitting at my desk I pulled it up and read it. It spoke to me very loudly; I’m not sure why? I’m not going through any particularly trying times at the moment. So, maybe it [...]
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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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