Things To Think About

Christianity Today Astray extremely wrongly tells Christians to NOT vote while in reality promoting the anti-Christian Harris. See my previous post about the importance of the Christian vote.

Bethel, Hillsong, Elevation Worship Music—should we be using it? Absolutely not!

The Disturbing Trend of Continuationism Embraced by the Modern Church

Russell Moore swings farther and farther away from true Christianity.

How about examining something in popular culture: Stevie Nicks & Taylor Swift Witchcraft Influencers

Aimee Byrd goes further astray with apostasy. Further information.

Jonathan Cahn is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Why is the book of Enoch not accepted in the Christian (or Jewish) canon?

Todd White is a lying false teacher/false believer. Michael Brown and Sid Roth are also a false teachers who support White!

With all the false teaching of Andy Stanley, I’m wondering if he is a true believer.

False teacher Jenny Weaver tells people to order everything to resist the hurricane in the name of Jesus! And a whole lot of other lies about your power to protect yourself from the hurricanes, binding demons, etc  This sort of nonsense is dangerous to people who follow her and her ilk who claim “apostolic authority.” No, she isn’t getting any word from God nor is she speaking in tongues

A dangerous new cult is called Shincheonji Church of Jesus, founded in 1984 by Lee Man-hee.

Take these things to heart and spread the word to save people from false teachers/teachings.

Good, Bad, and Ugly

The Good:

A good review of Francis Chan’s book, CrazyLove.  A virtually worthless book.

What if you have the wrong Jesus?

Does the O.T. law require a woman to marry her rapist?

Yoga is NOT for the Christian.

What Christians should know about intersectionality.

The apostle Paul was probably a widower.

Ten invalid arguments in defense of false teachers.

The Bad and/or Ugly

The Pope idolizes Mary — for real.  Mike Gendron’s comment: Once again the pope is attributing divine attributes to "another Mary" implying that she is omnipresent in her protection of Catholics from the devil. He robs Christ of His honor and power as the Good Shepherd who promises to protect the sheep that He gave His life to save (John 10:1-30). Tragically, many Catholics listen to the voice of the most influential false prophet in the world, "a hired hand and a thief who comes to steal and kill and destroy" (John 1010:10). Not until they hear and believe the voice of the Good Shepherd will they find eternal life and divine protection.

He idolizers her so much that he has created a new feast day to honor her.

DANGER!!  A new movie-based “Bible Study” is heading for your church.

Another movie—and book—to avoid:  A Wrinkle in Time.

Cindy Jacobs and Chuck Pierce — why does anyone listen to these crackpot heretics?!?!?

How bad does Hillsong have to be before our churches quit using their songs?!?

An example of all that is wrong with Hillsong.

Billy Graham’s funeral was by invitation only, and I think it says a lot about his organization when you learn how many false teachers and heretics were invited.

Among other problems with Billy Graham, I just learned that he was for abortion for rape!  As if the child was responsible for the crime and should be punished!  Go to the 11:35 on the video.

Two heretical, lying peas in a pod: Bill Hamon and Sid Roth.  Roth supports such fakery as a direct revelation to Kevin Zadai which says praying in tongues will enrich you!  This last one Jesus plays a soprano saxophone, and other nonsense—such as Jesus played himself out of hell on the saxophone.

Michael Brown promotes heretic Sid Roth, as well as joining him in his false teachings and Word of Faith heresy as he lies about direct revelation from God.

“Black Hebrew Israelites” —  a very ugly cult.

The humorous 

Middle-Aged Man On Worship Team Clearly Fulfilling Childhood Dream Of Being In Rock Band.  I’m guessing this isn’t far from the truth!

Warnings of Bad and Ugly Stuff!

A piece of history demonstrating that Michael Brown has always been a part of the false teaching charismaniac world.

It’s a long listen (1 hr 22 min), but it really demonstrates the HUGE problem with the teachings and claims of Michael Brown.

The danger from within the church.

Gloria Copeland and Patricia King—examples of all that is wrong with charismania.  More on Gloria and her flu shot claims.

Brian Houston of Hillsong — bad news all around.

Football is the idol in this church.  Really, for too many Christians football is an idol.

This is not a church, and she is not a “he.”  This is a goat-pen full of people in severe, abject rebellion against God.  ELCA—go figure.

This is what false teachers/prophets look and sound like — total unbiblical inanity.

This Catholic archbishop says he’d rather go to prison than report child abuse heard in confession.  This is more proof of the ungodly nature of the Papist church.  NOWHERE in the Bible will you find the need to confess our sins to a priest (James says confess to each other), nor will you find that anything criminal which is confessed is to be withheld from law enforcement. This man would rather leave a child in an abusive situation leading even to death than to violate unbiblical Papist dogma.

Word of Faith heretics — these people do not meet the definition of true Christians, for they worship another Christ and another god (themselves).

Shawn Bolz — the man is a WOLF!

I guess going back to O.T. law is the best Christianity?  More heresy from Bethel Redding.

This woman is NOT a Christian, no matter what she claims, let alone a “minister.”

Sid Roth is a super-false teacher, and Charisma magazine/News is about as aberrant and heretical as it gets. These people are a blight on the Christian faith.

Good, Bad, and Ugly

The Good:

A very good analysis of the Jehovah’s Witness’ erroneous reading of John 17:3. 

Things to know about the formation of our Bible.

Pull the Plug on CCM

How patriarchy saved her from feminism.

The Bad:

This short video is really sort of funny, because it demonstrates the intellectual schizophrenia of the Catholic Church — be sure to read the statement at the end because it really sums up the problem.  This is just more proof that the Pope does NOT represent Christ in any way, shape, or form.

I am one of the “wolf hunters” who alert the sheep to wolves like Michael Brown.

The Seventh-day Adventist book Steps to Christ, by E.G. White, is a false gospel.

Another solid alert about false teacher Lisa Bevere.

And then don’t forget false teacher Shawn Bolz.

A whole caboodle of false prophets will tell you what the Lord has said is in store for 2017.  The sad thing is that too many Christians listen to these lies.

Watch out for the “Orange Strategy” Sunday School curriculum.  Bad news!  This article also has lots of links to Andy Stanley stuff.

The lies told by the likes of Sid Roth and Jeff Jansen.

Yoga and Christianity are NOT compatible.

The Ugly:

Visions Beyond Fatima — evidence that such visions are demonic in nature.

The Word of Faith heresy cult continues to prove just how awful it is.

The Church as AMWAY

More on the horrid teachings of Mike and Debi Pearl.  Marital abuse gets a pass.

Willam Paul Young’s Christless “Shack.”

That’s it for today. I hope to have my last episode on “Bible ‘Contradictions’” posted tomorrow.

Random Aberrations, Apostasies, and Heresies

It’s been a very busy week for me, being away from home a whole lot (today as an example, we were gone from 9:20 AM to 6:40 PM) and when home doing my best to catch up inside and outside.  So I haven’t had much time to work on blog projects!  But I’ve been collecting links to news articles I have come across, and article which are exposing more and more of Satan’s invasion in the Church.  With that introduction, here we goooooooo…….

If you liked my article about Bill Johnson and Bethel Redding, you’ll like this “cornucopia” about him.

A Bethel Redding song won the GMA awards (and now I know where the above meme came from), which demonstrates how poor the CCM industry has gotten (and it goes on for over 8 minutes!!!).   Now tell me, do you really think what you saw here is a service worshiping God or self?

I followed  link in the above article to this article about Chris Tomlin songs — yes, I get tired of seeing his songs, and fully agree they are performance songs vs corporate worship songs!

Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry has posted some excellent articles examining the Amish religion.  The overall assessment I have about the Amish is that they are very legalistic, and with their legalism they can be quite arbitrary.

Introduction to the Amish

Amish groups and divisions

The Amish and Salvation

The Amish and separation from the world

I have some books about the Amish on my shelf, and highly recommend them for anyone interested in more information about the Amish:

20 Most Asked Questions About the Amish and Mennonites, by Merle and Phyllis Good

A History of the Amish, by Steven M. Nolt

Crossing Over, by Ruth Irene Garrett with Rick Farrant

Growing Up Amish, by Ira Wagler 

True Stories of the Amish, edited by Ottie A. Garrett

Why Do They Dress That Way? by Stephen Scott

Why Jim Cymbala can’t be trusted.

So if you don’t like Hillsong, you hate God? I’d think it would be the other way around — if you LIKE Hillsong you hate God.  Hillsong teaches heresy and aberrations of all sorts!

I don’t normally get into politics on this blog because the topic is apologetics.  However, I think sometimes we also need to think apologetically with political decisions so as to be as biblically-minded as possible.  I think Wayne Grudem has an excellent article explaining what I consider the proper voting position this time. (Also, to be Christian would mean NEVER voting for Democrats because of their party platform of anti-God/anti-Christian stance, pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-same-sex fake marriage, pro sexual immorality of every sort, pro “transgender,” pro-theft from workers to give to non-workers, and essentially for everything that God is against!)

Another false “church” embarrassing real Christianity.  And they think God accepts their “worship.”  It seems to me that they worship themselves.

Another installment by Mennoknight examining the “generational curses” teachings.

Michael Brown is an excellent conservative commentator, but when it comes to theology, he is out in left field — demonstrated by his support for Bill Johnson!

It’s time for me to shut this machine down for the night!

Random Aberrations, Apostasies, and Heresies

Well, I’m way behind on so many things around the house, not to mention my blog and other apologetics ministry duties.  I had the audacity to spend much of Thursday with doctors and tests.  Then we left home at “zero dark thirty” Friday morning to drive 70 miles to a 1-room school conference, which lasted all the way to 9PM.  From there we drove anther 25 minutes to the motel where conference attendees stayed because Saturday morning we boarded a school bus about 1.5 miles away to spend the morning touring a couple restored schools and some other historic sites before heading to a restaurant for a late lunch.  Finally arrived home about 1530 yesterday afternoon and spent the afternoon/evening unpacking, collecting notes and handouts in one place for addressing later and then just sitting down and relaxing.  

Why a 1-room school conference?  Because we have a hobby photographing them, and six years ago started a blog to post our photos (later split to two for separating Iowa from other states).  The blog led to the hobby taking on a life of its own, with a lot of people contacting us with information about the schools, newspaper interview, requests for presentations at various venues, and invitations to the annual convention in Iowa, during the last two of which I was requested to speak about out school house blog!

So this afternoon I’m going to be trying to catch up on all my emails (culling what can be quickly dispensed with and leaving important stuff until tomorrow) and reviewing all my news sites for important updates and information; the latter of which includes apologetics issues — and this post includes all I’ve collected this week and this afternoon.  And then I hope to download my camera!

So with that introduction to what’s been happening in my life, it’s time to be alerted to some more false teachings and more false teachers.

This is very unsettling — Seth Barnes of Adventures in Missions is being called “daddy” and he denigrates real fathers.  This is indeed cultic!  Then there’s AIM’s Project Searchlight, which indoctrinates its attenders with all sorts of false charismania teachings. 

Contrary to Andy Stanley’s ideology, there are very, very good reasons to preach from the Bible.

Jonathan Cahn is just a false teacher, he is also a false prophet.

Muslim dreams and visions.  Discernment is certainly needed.

The Church continues battle apostasy as more and more teachings invade assemblies where the shepherds are not doing their job protecting their flocks.  I have reported various false teachings weekly, but one can never keep up with the way false teachings multiply.  Here is an interesting term for what is happening with more and more Christian leaders: Cathangelicalism.

Some false teachers to avoid, and why.

My July 6th edition of “RAAH” had a link to Apologia Church, which is a very “seeker-sensitive” group; now we have another report which shows problems with this sort of “church.”

Seems like the devil gets false teachers all sorts of ways to spread their garbage; Sid Roth has a new television network in the Middle East.

Don’t let liberal Christians tell you that capital punishment is not Christ-like.

Shawn Bolz continues to prove he is a false prophet.

An assembly of the apostate Episcopal Church denomination has a a crucified Christ as a woman.   Blasphemy!

A problem with the evangelical darling, Kirk Cameron — a total lack of discernment.

Beth Moore doesn’t like to be criticized.  Perhaps if she would quit teaching falsely, she wouldn’t be criticized!

Sad, sad is the list of high-profile “Christians” who endorse all the “Jesus Calling” nonsense.  They prove they cannot be trusted with the Word of God.

A “Holy Ghost Wiener Roast”!?!  Will market-driven ideology ever take a break?