The long-time preacher apologized to his congregation for not a specific deed but for the “sins of my own soul,” “ongoing character flaws” and stresses that they have caused to others.

“I see several species of pride,” Piper told Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. [Continue reading ...]

Tony Blair has received cash from a South Korean oil firm in a deal kept secret until the business appointments watchdog intervened, the Guardian has learned.

After 20 months of secrecy, the former prime minister has now been overruled by the chairman of the advisory committee on business [Continue reading ...]

The salary details are included in the annual report and accounts lodged with Companies House last week.  The accounts show two members of staff earned between £110,000 and £120,000, another earned between £100,000 and £110,000 and a fourth received between £70,000 and £80,000.

In all, the Tony [Continue reading ...]

May 23, 2004

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How many of you have heard that a church is built on relationships?

According to a Pastors.com article by Rick Warren; after polling a group of church members, a friend of his told him he discovered that 93% of the people joined because of the pastor but that 93% would stay, even if that pastor left because “I have friends here.”

So, instead of [Continue reading ...]

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 [Continue reading ...]

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 [Continue reading ...]

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 [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 [Continue reading ...]

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 [Continue reading ...]

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 [Continue reading ...]