Well I got my computer back for the second time this past Monday, and it’s all fixed. But it’s been a very chaotic week, so some of this stuff I’ve collected you may have already seen on other sites. On Monday I played for the graveside service after a funeral for a friend who died; 88-year-old Korean War veteran. Tuesday the air conditioner got fixed after being without it for five hot and humid days. Wednesday we traveled 93 miles north so I could play for a graveside service — one I got paid for! Thursday was morning haircut and vet appointments, with evening band practice (70 miles east). Yesterday was doing some service for an elderly couple, then up to the airport to photograph a rare, freshly restored B-29 bomber arrival, followed by a late lunch date with my wife. Returning home for 15 minutes, we then headed back to the airport for a 3:30 appointment with a friend who works at Rockwell-Collins and who got me a pass to tour the B-29 (which was on its way to Oshkosh but stopped in Cedar Rapids to allow R.C. employees to tour it because R.C. did a lot for them). We stood in line for 1.5 hrs and watched a nasty storm building (got some great photos of the storm) and, just when we were about 5 minutes from our turn to go inside the plane the downpour began and we were all ushered into the hangar. Well I decided that was the end and we headed on into town to pick up photos which had been processed the previous day. By the time we got home it was almost 7:30. Whew! Oh, and we got an inch of needed rain. So now let’s look at this week’s news.
The Good:
A good examination of the reason “The Message” is to be avoided at all costs!
The Watchman Fellowship has published a profile exposing John Dominic Crossan.
Fred has posted episode six of his review of the book, “Navigating Genesis.”
Neil examines the Problems With Pro-Gay Theology.
I wish this was really true.
Good article about real spiritual warfare.
The Bad:
David Jeremiah is now promoting false teacher Sarah Young.
A Catholic university has bought into the “Islamaphobia” lie. Wasting donors’ money.
A Trojan horse in women’s ministry.
The Ugly:
More about Debi Pearl’s horrid book.
Eugene Peterson came out in favor of same-sex unions. Oh, wait a minute, he has done some flip-flopping about them; Lifeway said they’d pull his books and suddenly he decided such unions weren’t right after all. Another bad thing about this is that SBC leader Russell Moore says Christians should still read and learn from Peterson!
This is some old Benny Hinn stuff, including Suzanne Hinn’s teaching about a Holy Ghost enema, but it demonstrates just what charlatans they are (a commenter said that this isn’t Benny Hinn’s wife, but this article contradicts that claim). These people are not Christians.
The love of money leads many “evangelicals” to embrace pro-gay theology. This article demonstrates the same problem.
Mary Dalke has a very thorough study about the Roman Catholic Virgin Mary (which isn’t the Biblical mother of Jesus) and the so-called apparitions of her. The RCC idolatry of Mary is a very ugly and demonic doctrine.
Love this week's Babylon Bee. I wish it were true also!
ReplyDeleteThe Pearls' "teaching" - evil. My husband and I have encountered undercurrents (i.e., unspoken yet present) of that kind of spiritually misogynist attitude in some churches. If one even catches a whiff of that kind of teaching, RUN.
-Carolyn
When it comes to Eugene Peterson, the passage of Scripture that comes to mind is James 1:8: A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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