Some Good Stuff — No Bad or Ugly

We’ve been doing a lot of traveling this past week or so, with band practice, visiting friends, and a 600-mile round trip to an aviation museum.  And we have a parade tomorrow.

I’ve been getting rid of more books, as some of you know by being the first claimants.  When you see a post for a book giveaway, be sure to look at the comments section where I respond to comments not posted — that’s how I communicate with the recipient if they don’t email me.  With this past one I wasn’t able to take it down for over 24 hrs due to the trip, but I had already posted a comment to the “winner” and another comment to the second in line letting them know they missed it, yet many hours later someone requested the book.  So be sure to look at the comments first.  Of course there may be a few requests in my inbox which I haven’t gotten to because I’m away from home, so then the post will be still up without comments.  Just have patience.  And be watching — I have five more already selected but since I won’t be able to respond and/or mail for a couple days, I’ll wait for posting.

Okay, let’s look at the good stuff I’ve been reading:

What’s Natural for You

Fake news about early Christianity.

The compromised church and spiritual blindness.

About that “slain in the spirit” nonsense.

Protecting your assembly from false teaching.

An evaluation of Muslim dreams and visions of Isa (Jesus):  Part 1 and Part 2

How did the canon of Scripture come to be?

Chris Tomlin — we don’t need your new choruses for old hymns.  I’ve pointed this out many times.

Thus Saith Rome — an excellent article about Roman Catholicism.  From a 2007 Midwest Christian Outreach Journal now available on the ‘net.

Sex should be spiritual

And finally, a great quote!

A worship leader serves his congregation best when he chooses songs they can sing and sing well. He is highly attuned to their ability. He prioritizes the singability of songs over their newness or oldness or author or theological density. He gauges his success not by his own worship, but by theirs. His question is not “how did the band feel?” but “how did the congregation sing?” When he steps back and hears his church singing—really singing—, his joy is complete.  Tim Challies

Random Aberrations, Apostasies, and Heresies

Tony Evans is usually a pretty good teacher, but I have a lot of problems with the false teachers he spends time with — and the fact that he endorses his daughter’s false teaching.  Well, I guess I’ll have to alert people to some teaching he has which is aberrant — his spiritual warfare ideas.  Don’t buy his book.

Steven Furtick’s idea of teaching.

Evangelical Misogyny and the Spiritual Oppression of Christian Women.  Excellent, concise analysis of the problem.

Joyce Meyer at the “heresy Olympics” doing what she does naturally — teaching falsely.

The “new Israel” is about to have their “Gathering.”

Dennis McBride examines Muslim dreams and visions if Isa (Jesus): part 1 and part 2.

Biola University has joined the apostasy of enabling homosexuality.

Another conference claiming to do God’s work:  World Race and Adventures in Missions is having a gathering for all sorts of false teachings and false signs and wonders.  They seem to think they control the Spirit!  Stay away from these people!

Lyndon has part 4 of his series on Generational Curses.

Oh horrors — Tony Campolo refuses to call himself an evangelical anymore.  HAH - he never was one!!

The Jesus Calling Devotional Bible has just as much false teaching — and is just as dangerous — as the Jesus Calling books.  Sarah Young thinks her writings are the Word of God.

That's all for today!