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Sermon of the week: “The Shack Uncovered” by Michael Youssef. - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Your sermon of the week is The Shack Uncovered by Michael Youssef. In this message Youssef lays out thirteen heresies in the book The Shack that, for some reason, many professing Christians think is a good book and sound in its doctrine. The following video is a snippet from this message. You can watch [...]

Quotes (712) - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Christendom has not fallen into its present condition all of a sudden; rather its present state is the outcome of a long and steady deterioration. The deadly poison of error was introduced here a little, there a little, with the quantity increased as less opposition came against it. As the acquiring of “converts” absorbed [...]

Landcruiser for Liberia? - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
If you know of anyone who may have a Toyota Landcruiser they would like to donate to the work of Village Church Planters – Liberia, please have them contact VCP via the information from Village Church Planters or E-mail e-mail here. Also, you may write to us at love4liberia@gmail.com. This does not have to [...]

“The Devil is at work inside the Vatican.” - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
An insider finally admits what we’ve known all along. Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist. Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican’s chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has [...]

Quotes (711) - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Under the law, if a man who was unclean by a dead body, carried a piece of holy flesh in his lower garment, the holy flesh could not cleanse him, but he polluted it (Hag, 2:12-13). Till the kingdom of grace is in our hearts, ordinances will not purify us, but we will pollute them. [...]

10 Things. - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
The following top ten list (plus one, which really makes it eleven) comes from a piece entitled 10 Things That Make a Lay Person Want To Spit which can be found on this post from the Bororean. Enjoy. After seeing the Hoodlum Pastors short list of things that make a pastor want to cuss, I thought I [...]

Quotes (710) - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Christianity is not pragmatic. It is authoritarian, with God as the authority. God never has commanded us to cooperate with apostasy and then evaluate the results. Rather, God says, “Come out from among them and be ye separate.” - John Ashbrook

The State of America! And the church?? - Mon, 08 Mar 2010
There is nothing new under the sun as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes. Hear the ancient words of the patriarch Job found in the book of Job 21:7-16, 7 Why do the wicked live and become old, Yes, become mighty in power? 8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their [...]

Quotes (709) - Sat, 06 Mar 2010
“Question: How shall we know that we love the reproofs of the Word? (1) When we desire to sit under a heart-searching ministry. Who cares for medicines that will not work? A godly man does not choose to sit under a ministry that will not work upon his conscience. (2) When we pray that the [...]

The Deceiver - Sat, 06 Mar 2010
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15 Now listen to me, in the case of the sheep’s clothing, what you have here is not some guy crawling on all fours into the flock with a sheep’s head hanging over his head. Shepherds for the [...]

Quotes (708) - Fri, 05 Mar 2010
Any of the teaching that is good is in the Word of God, and any that is not in the Word of God is not good. I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new [...]

Shouldn’t the Resurrection of Our Lord be Solely about Him? - Thu, 04 Mar 2010
I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. -Isaiah 42:8 This post confirms the continual downward spiral of the visible church; it is meant to warn the sheep and, prayerfully, awaken the lost to the deception that has flooded ‘Christianity’. [...]

Sermon of the week: “Grace Triumphant – Perseverance of the Saints” by Brian Borgman. - Thu, 04 Mar 2010
Your sermon of the week is Grace Triumphant – Perseverance of the Saints by Brian Borgman. This is part eleven of a thirteen-part series on the Doctrines of Grace entitled Introduction to the Reformed Faith by Pastor Brian Borgman. Look for the next installment every other week.

A Wideness in God’s Mercy? - Wed, 03 Mar 2010

Quotes (707) - Wed, 03 Mar 2010
I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of being saved except by that blood. Let nothing tempt you to believe that it is enough to look only at the example of Christ, or [...]

God’s Method of Our Spiritual Growth: Oratio Meditatio Tentatio - Tue, 02 Mar 2010
by Mike Ratliff But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6:6 ESV) The incredible lack of spiritual maturity in the current visible church has resulted in a corresponding lack of spiritual depth, [...]

Deliverance: From the Temporal World to the Eternal Kingdom - Tue, 02 Mar 2010
by John MacArthur We have taken a break from our study of the gospel of Luke for the last five weeks, and now this is the sixth week in which I have spoken to you on the subject of deliverance, the neglected doctrine. I have done this because I feel obligated before the Lord to give [...]

A Woman to be Remembered - Mon, 01 Mar 2010
“Remember Lot’s wife.” (Luke 17:32). By J.C. Ryle There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than that which heads this page. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us, “Remember Lot’s wife.” It is a solemn warning, when we consider the subject Jesus is upon. He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world; He [...]

David Crowder’s crowded theology. - Mon, 01 Mar 2010
Drugs, adultery, homosexuality, pornography, divorce, and occult imagery. These are just a few of the things that describe the golden calf of Contemporary Christian Music. When one actually delves beyond the happy, clappy, sappy, sentimentalism, and shallow “Jesus-is-my-boyfriend” lyrics that define CCM, we see just what these artists are really about. The laundry list of problems with [...]

Quotes (706) - Mon, 01 Mar 2010
Give Christians the need-oriented pop-psychology that they had grown to love, . . . just alter it a bit with some verses and some references to Jesus–they would never catch on that what they were swallowing was not biblical Christianity at all, but an almost unrecognizable perversion. Whether this approach was calculated or naively [...]