Another installment from the Cripplegate about Tim Keller’s Center Church.
Pat Robertson has so often been proven to be a false prophet it is amazing that he still garners a huge following. According to him, Jesus said an asteroid will destroy us.
Thoughts from the Christian perspective: discernment issues as they relate to the current state of the church and society.
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service. 1 Timothy 1:12
For questions about false teachings, e-mail me at: jude3.gctwm@yahoo.com
Articles about Mormons are on A SEPARATE BLOG.
The Piper's Wife gives encouragements for women.
Read "The Thought Provoker" - quotes about social conditions
3 comments:
Hi Glenn,
Re: Keller, my husband and I have had concerns about him for years.
The Berean Call did a great job with their article about Heaven is For Real. Would that more believers read that piece on discernment!
Speaking of "religious" movies (I refuse to call them Christian, because they are not!) - the Shack, major ugggggh! Sadly I know a few ladies who got entangled in that book. I think you're right, Satan is having a field day with deception, both in and out of the church.
Bill Goatherd - what lies and evil teachings have emanated from that man. Frankly, his recent "confession" doesn't impress me one whit. John the Baptist called the crooked religious men of his day "a brood of vipers" and told them to "bear fruit in keeping with repentance". I think John's words apply here.
The NC lawsuit, not shocking. The foundations are being destroyed (Ps 11:3). And the nations that forget God shall descend into hell (Ps 9:17).
Sometimes the amount of filth being done in Christ's name - and just the wickedness of the world around us - is dizzying. Even so, come Lord Jesus!
-Carolyn
I'm glad I found your blog! I'm going through a mini-crisis right now because my closest Christian friends are so easily deceived by false teachings; they are excited about every new fad if it claims to be about Jesus. Quotes from the Jesus Calling app, silly TV preachers on Daystar, TD Jakes, the Prayer of Jabez, and any other bending or twisting of the Scripture seems to interest them. What I've discovered is they do not like reading the Bible. One has said it's boring, and from conversations with the others, it's obvious they don't know the fundamentals of the Bible. This has been nagging at me for some time, but the other night when some of us met, they cited Wilkinson's claim that Jesus' teaching about the vine really should have been translated as "lifted up" instead of "cut off." That didn't ring true in light of any other Scripture, and it kept bothering me until I had to find out whether he was right. I researched the use of the same Greek root word (airo) and its translations on Biblehub, and it quickly became obvious that either Wilkinson is blatantly lying or is a terrible Bible scholar. But we should know better anyway! At one time, all my Christian friends were enamored with the teachings of Rob Bell. One minute into his videos, I immediately detected a snake; he made my skin crawl. I couldn't understand why everyone was raving about him when he was so obviously a creep! Then I read part of Velvet Elvis after hearing them rave about that book & after a few sentences I felt like I'd ingested poison. But I doubted myself & thought I was being too judgmental. Guess I was picking up on something, huh? The point is, I'm not even in the Bible more than twice a week, much to my embarrassment, but if even I can see this stuff, shouldn't Christians be able to see through these lies better than this? I mean, good, loving, genuine believers are acting like fangirls every time the newest twisted fad comes along. I'm deeply troubled over this and it makes me feel alone!
Robyn,
You aren't alone. And yes, you are so right in that EVERY Christian should have enough common sense discernment to see these thing for what they are. But they choose to follow the fads because it makes them feel good.
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