by Warren Smith
from A “Wonderful” Deception
Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven movement has, in a relatively short period of time, become what TIME magazine has referred to as a “Purpose Driven empire.”1 The word empire is defined in the dictionary as “supreme rule; absolute power or authority; dominion.” It also means “an extensive social or economic organization under the control of a single person, family, or corporation.”2 For all intents and purposes, Rick Warren has become the titular head—the almost emperor-like CEO—of an increasingly apostate [Continue reading ...]
September 15, 2008, heralded the UK’s First Official Sharia Courts, despite the government having said it would not happen!
Thus, Islamic Sharia law was officially adopted in Britain with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government had quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had taken advantage of a clause in [Continue reading ...]
From the Reading Room
I have read Gary Gilley’s This Little Church Went to Market 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 would defend marketing as a tool they use to attract more unchurched Harrys to hear the gospel. ‘Methods change, the message stays the same’ being the cliche. What they do not [Continue reading ...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009 (1:47 pm)
By Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Chief International Correspondent
TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)– Two young women who converted from Islam to Christianity may face execution or at least life imprisonment after an Iranian court officially charged them with “apostasy” and “propagation of the Christian faith”, trial observers and Iranian Christians confirmed Thursday, October 8.
Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, were detained in March for practicing Christianity after authorities raided and confiscated materials from their home.
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Tony Blair Faith Foundation news update courtesy of Ruth Gledhill of Times Online …
‘Each was made to feel an outsider. Each stood out against the conventional teaching of the time. Each believed in the universal appeal of God to humanity. Each was a change-maker.’
Who is Tony Blair talking about here?
Answer below.
Read the full speech he has delivered October 7, 2009 at the Common Word conference at George [Continue reading ...]
Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views.
Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal, and suggested that in time this would make all religious groups accept gay people as equals.
Asked about the [Continue reading ...]
With thanks to BereanBeacon on YouTube for posting the following two videos as of The Prophecy Conference 2004 wherein James Sundquist expounds the truth of the Church Growth Movement better known as The Purpose Driven Church, is primarily the world outreach of Willow Creek Church in Chicago and Saddleback Church in California. The religious leader of this postmodern neo-gnosticism paradigm is Rick Warren of Saddleback Church.
According to South West Radio Ministry, currently, 30 million copies of Rick Warren’s now infamous book [Continue reading ...]
The Unresolved Problems with Joel Richardson’s Theory
by J. Jacob Prasch
Note: This review is based on the electronic version of Joel Richardson’s book published on his website “Joel’s Trumpet”.
The Internet has been abuzz with varying views and reviews of Joel Richardson’s book promoted by World Net Daily titled, The Islamic Antichrist. The book offers interesting comment and some insightful observations but seeks to challenge and reverse the popular teaching of Babylon the Great being related to either Roman Catholicism or a revived Roman Empire, [Continue reading ...]
Why Evangelicals are Returning To Rome - Bob DeWaay
Ingrid began by quoting from the website of an EWTN program called, “The Journey Home”. The website text describes how this program highlights conversion stories of former Protestants that have been brought back to Rome because of a specific teaching in the Catholic Church or experience that influenced their decision.
Pastor DeWaay believes that the seedbed of this disenchantment within Evangelicalism involves several factors. This includes the seeker movement that took the clear, authoritative, solid [Continue reading ...]