A New Kind of Christianity

Review of Brian’s McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity by Tim Challies It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about Brian McLaren and got in trouble. Reflecting on seeing him speak at a nearby church, I suggested that he appears to love Jesus but hate God. Based on immediate and furious reaction, …

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Goodbye Emergent Church

Goodbye Emergent: Why I’m Taking The Theology of the Emerging Church To Task writes Jeremy Bouma … I’m not exactly sure when my saucy love affair with emergent and liberal Christianity ended. My “I don’t” isn’t as crystalized as my “I do.” Maybe it was when I read Pelagius‘ writings and realized much of Emergent …

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The Shack author Awarded Honorary Degree

PORTLAND, Ore. – Warner Pacific recognized alumnus and best-selling author William Paul Young ’78 with an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree during Winter Commencement ceremonies, Dec. 19, at New Hope Community Church, in Portland. Young is the author of the international best-selling book “The Shack,” which has over ten million copies in print and has …

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There Is A Famine In The Land – Spiritual Discernment

There is a famine in the land: spiritual discernment is lacking in the Christian community. Though there are faithful pastors and Christians who take the word of God seriously, there is an increasing number of Christians who are abandoning the clarity and commands of Scripture and substituting political correctness, feelings, and tolerance for biblical truth …

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Praise and Worship of Tweeting Technology

Tweeting during church services gets blessing of pastors It’s Sunday night at Woodlands Church, and Pastor Kerry Shook tells parishioners to pull out their cell phones. He has pocketed his own iPhone for now, but tells everyone else to turn theirs on. “OK guys, you can start the twitters,” he tells the crowd of about …

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The Superficial Gospel Must Remain Superficial

I have read Gary Gilley’s book: This Little Church Went to Market. The contents of which affirmed discernment of the seeker-sensitive methodology prevelant in the Emerging Emergent Church that has now, of course, fully Emerged on the Wrong Foundation. The seeker-sensitive experts defend marketing as a tool they need to use to attract more unchurched …

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