Girded with Truth

It Is Not Death To Die

Karen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:25:50 +0000

“If God has called you to be really like Jesus in your spirit, He will draw you into a life of cruxifixion and humility, and put on you such demands of obedience that He will not allow you to follow other Christians; and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things that He will not let you do. Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires and work schemes, [Continue reading ...]

Goodbye Emergent Church

Karen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:15:17 +0000

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 theology really does mirror his 5th century theology.

Maybe it was after the former head of Emergent [Continue reading ...]

Ted Haggard, Todd Bentley, and Roberts Liardon

Karen — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:00:23 +0000

What do Ted Haggard, Todd Bentley, and Roberts Liardon all have in common?

All either compromised with false doctrine or preached it even before their public falls from grace.

As we have warned repeatedly, like morally discredited false teachers from Jim Bakker to Paul Cain and Bob Jones, when someone goes off doctrinally it is a symptom that they have gone off morally. And when someone goes off morally, it is almost inevitable they will also go off doctrinally.

All have an [Continue reading ...]

The Cross of Popular Evangelicalism – A.W. Tozer

Karen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:24:20 +0000

If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of self-assured and carnal Christianity whose hands are indeed the hands of Abel, but whose voice is the voice of Cain. The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross [Continue reading ...]

China Christians Sent to Labour Camps

Karen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:31:09 +0000

Police in northern China have sentenced five Christian church leaders to two years of “education through labour” after they protested against a police raid on their church, a rights group said Wednesday.

The punishments came after a Shanxi province court last week sentenced five other leaders of the same church to up to seven years in prison for trying to protect the unregistered church from demolition, said ChinaAid, a US-based Christian rights group.

“To arbitrarily send five innocent citizens to labour [Continue reading ...]

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland blasted for ‘Unfulfilled’ Promises

Karen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:39:31 +0000

Kenneth Copeland Ministries has come under fire for failing to fly disaster relief supplies to Haiti’s earthquake victims after allegedly promising aviation assistance in the event of natural disasters.

The international organisation, which is also under scrutiny by the Senate Finance Committee for possible abuse of its nonprofit status, has been accused of “unfulfilled” pledges and unaccounted donations.

“While there is a huge crisis going on in the nation of Haiti right now Kenneth Copeland’s promised Angel Flight 44 ministry is [Continue reading ...]

The Narrow Gate – John Bunyan

Karen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:09:35 +0000

The Narrow Gate

by John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you,

will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” — Luke 13:24.

These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are, therefore, especially to be heeded; The subject matter of the words is the most weighty, namely, how we should attain salvation, and therefore also to be heeded.

The occasion of the [Continue reading ...]

Focusing on God’s Glory

Karen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:19:45 +0000

Following previous Why God Saves focusing on God’s glory:

Everything exists for the purpose of glorifying God. The Westminster Shorter Catechism of the seventeenth century begins by stating that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God.” The vastness of space and all therein glorifies God.

In Isaiah 43:20, God says, “The beast of the field will honor me.”

The angels who appeared at the birth of [Continue reading ...]

Making Light Of Jesus Christ – C.H. Spurgeon

Karen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:31:50 +0000

Matthew 22:5

“And they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise.”

Do not those men make light of Christ and salvation that shun the mention of His name, unless it be in a vain or sinful use? Those that love not the company where Christ and salvation is much talked of, but think it troublesome, precise discourse; that had rather hear some merry jests, or idle tales, or talk of their riches [Continue reading ...]

Spurgeon on Religious Pluralism

Karen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:08:30 +0000

A thousand lying religions may sleep peaceably in one bed, but wherever the Christian religion goes as the truth, it is like fire brand, and it abideth nothing that is not more substantial than the wood, the hay, and the stubble of carnal error. C.H. Spurgeon

Read the book of God for yourself. “But some men do read it and arrive at one opinion, and some maintain the opposite, and thus they contradict themselves, and yet are [Continue reading ...]