More About ‘Discernment’
10 Ways to Commit Spiritual Suicide
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Evangelism, Media, Persecution, Purpose Driven, Sin, Sinner Sensitive, Word Faith, Worldliness
A Gospel The World Wouldn’t Hate
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Media, Word Faith
We have all probably heard about the three Christian missionaries that were tortured and killed in Turkey, only a few months ago. Tilman Geske, Ugur Yuksel and Necati Aydin, underwent hours of horrific torture for their faith. One reporter wrote: The young [muslims] got guns, bread knives, ropes and towels ready for their final act [...]
A Warning To Catholics
Category: Discernment, Roman Catholicism
By Mike Gendron Many Roman Catholic traditions find their origin in paganism, but none as obvious as the use of statues, icons, relics, and images in worship. Historians report that statues of the Egyptian goddess Isis, with her child Horus, were renamed Mary and Jesus by pagan Rome. Today, shrines of the Black Madonna and [...]
A.W. Tozer: We Need Men of God Again
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Quotes
The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, bold men. The talk is that we need revival, that we need a new [movement] of the Spirit–and God knows we must have both; but God will not revive mice. He will not fill rabbits with the Holy Ghost. We languish for men [...]
Advocates of Compromise
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven, Quotes, Sinner Sensitive, Word Faith
Any evangelism which by appeal to common interests and chatter about current events seeks to establish a common ground where the sinner can feel at home is as false as the altars of Baal ever were… One of the most popular current errors, and… being carried on in evangelical circles these days, is the notion [...]
An Ecumenical Fairytale
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Humor, Purpose Driven
The original post, by Pastor Ken Silva, can be found on the Apprising Ministries web site. “Now let us all gather ‘round little children and I’ll tell you the story about the seeker sensitive Jesus of the man-pleasing purpose driven emergent word faith church…” Once upon a time in an ecumenical emergent nation far, far [...]
And All Liars
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Teaching
Another great article from Christian Witness Ministries, this time from missionary Sandy Simpson. Lying is a problem for all people (Psalm 116:11). We are all sinners (Romans 3:23). Those of us who are Christians are “sinners saved by grace” (Ephesians 2:8) indwelt by the Holy Spirit in our “new self” (Colossians 3:10). But we still [...]
Baptizing the Masses with a Watered-down Gospel
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Quotes, Sinner Sensitive
“When a sinner wanders into the church and sits through skits, mimes, interpretive dances, and the like, and yet never hears a clear, convicting message about his dangerous and tenuous spiritual situation– that he is a depraved sinner headed for an eternal fire because he is a daily offense to a holy God– how can [...]
Benny Hinn Exposed
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Discernment, Media
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Pastor Benny Hinn and the World Healing Church d/b/a Benny Hinn Ministries. On May 24, ’07 Christian Research Net posted the following: Benny’s lawyers haven’t been able to have this video removed from the internet! It is also one of the best and [...]
Beware of Those Who Lead You From the Truth, by John Piper
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
“For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.” (Romans 16:18 ESV)
Brian McLaren, even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light…
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Media
“Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory [...]
Charles Spurgeon on “Non-Essential” Doctrines
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Scripture, Teaching
If you say that any one part of the truth is unimportant, you do as good as say – to that extent the Holy Spirit has come upon an unimportant or valueless mission. You perceive it is declared that he is to teach us “all things”; but if some of these “all things” are really [...]
Christian? Christ-follower!
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Media, Sinner Sensitive
“It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.” – A.W. Tozer It’s true that many churches have been filled due to the sinner friendly movement. If you appeal to the fleshly desires [...]
Church Growth Hormone – A Biblically Banned Substance
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
This article, written by Ray Baumann, was taken from the Christian Witness Ministries website For the first eight years of my ministry I was a church growth hormone addict, thriving on a daily diet of books and videos centred around the latest fads and trends that focused on church growth. I was on the cutting [...]
Do Not Be Deceived
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
The Lord has clearly told us that it is not our job nor our place to judge the hearts of men. Romans 14:10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. We are, [...]
Does It Really Matter What I Believe? by Ken Silva
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Teaching
As I have talked with people concerning their views about God, a question like this will often arise during our conversation. It sure isn’t hard to see that Americans are a bit of an independent lot aren’t we? But the truth is, as much as we might not want to hear it, your opinion and [...]
Embracing Error in the War on Truth
Category: Discernment, Emergent Church, Media
“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.” (1 Timothy 6:3-4 KJV)
Emergent Church Fruit Check
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
This short article was put together by Ken Silva at Apprising Ministries and is well worth reading.
False Prophets
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Media, Prophecy
What does the Bible say about Prophets? How are we to judge the true prophet from the false prophet? Should we listen to men such as Nostradamus, or what about men who claim to be Christians, like Rick Joyner? Watch this short video to find out!
From Success To Significance To Seduction
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
Once again, grinning wolves are among us friends, using their warm and fuzzy truths to decoratively frame a cold and deadly lie; that the purpose of the Church is to love the world and make it a better place. Read Article
God or Mammon?: Carter Conlon vs. Joyce Meyer
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Media
Also see: John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel
How To Identify Terrorists In The Church, by John MacArthur
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Sermons, Sinner Sensitive, Teaching
Apprising Ministries is very pleased to point you to this MUST hear message from Dr. John MacArthur, one of the few real preachers of the Word of God that our generation has been given: Within the church . . . who are Satan’s Al-Qaeda? What are their motives? Are spiritual terrorists out to destroy church [...]
How To Know A False Prophet
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Discernment, Quotes
“A Christian can generally be known by his very appearance. The man who really believes in the holiness of God, and who knows his own sinfulness and the blackness of his own heart, the man who believes in the judgment of God and the possibility of hell and torment, the man who really believes that [...]
How to Start a Mega-Church, by Todd Friel
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Discernment, Teaching
This might seem a little strange, but hang in there ‘til the end because I think this has a powerful punch line. Proof-texting is one of the main reasons false teachers can find a home inside of evangelicalism. The false teacher can take a verse out of context and apply it to a teaching that [...]
In Every Age the Church is Threatened
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
“In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine . It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.” – R.C. Sproul
In the Name of Jesus, Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Outta My Hat!
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Discernment, Media, Word Faith
“That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;” (Ephesians 4:14) Somebody buy this guy a new sheep skin, because we can see right through this one. In the following [...]
It’s Official: America’s Pastor Rick Warren of the Purpose Driven Life May Not Even be a Christian
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven
This short piece at Apprising Ministries was inspired by an excellent post at the fine website A Little Leaven: A Museum of Idolatry called Rick Warren’s Top 5 List on the Things Jesus Did on While He Was on The Earth and the question is asked: “How on earth could Rick Warren, a CHRISTIAN PASTOR [...]
John MacArthur & the Emergent Attack on Scripture
Category: Discernment, Emergent Church, Media
Download Audio Clip I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:13) “…the Scripture is always under attack. I’m so sadden by the current attack on the perspicuity of Scripture, the clarity of Scripture, which is [...]
John MacArthur on the Emergent Church
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven
This 10 minute audio clip taken from The Way of the Master Radio was originally posted on Be Bereans.
John MacArthur: Thinking Biblically
Category: Bible, Discernment, Quotes
In its simplest definition, discernment is nothing more than the ability to decide between truth and error, right and wrong. Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth. In other words, the ability to think with discernment is synonymous with an ability to think biblically. First Thessalonians 5:21-22 teaches that [...]
Joy in the Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Media
John Piper speaks on the following damnable heretical quote: “The fact is that the cross isn’t a form of cosmic child abuse—a vengeful Father, punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed. Understandably, both people inside and outside of the Church have found this twisted version of events morally dubious and a [...]
Joyce Meyer’s “Purpose & Passion” Conference
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
Prosperity preacher and self-help guru Joyce Meyers teams up with anti-Trinitarian “Bishop” T.D. Jakes and Chris Caine from Hillsong “Church“ for a women-only conference. Click on the above picture to see more, including a short video where the “concert stage” has the huge words “confidence” hanging at its sides. This video clip also includes T.D. [...]
Judge Not, by Jacob Prasch
Category: Discernment, Teaching
Some of you may have read this article from Jacob Prasch before, but I thought it was worth posting again as many people today have an unbiblical view of “judging” right from wrong. You can read the article at: www.moriel.org/sermons/judge_not.htm DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, brethren. He who speaks against a brother, or judges [...]
Love, by John MacArthur
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Discernment, General Topics, Sermons, Teaching
This article was written by John MacArthur from Grace to You. “All you need is love.” So said the Beatles. If they’d been singing about God’s love, the statement would have a grain of truth in it. But what usually goes by the name love in popular culture is not authentic love at all; it’s [...]
Man is an Enigma
Category: Discernment, Quotes
…The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father’s heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor [...]
Mission Accomplished with Rob Bell, XXXChurch & Porn Sunday
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
The following article was written by Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries. This may be old news to some, but I post this here because of Bells growing popularity with the Biblically ignorant and uneducated masses. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit (Proverbs 16:2). [...]
On Catholicism: Mary’s Immaculate Conception
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Cults, Discernment, General Topics, Roman Catholicism
Raised a Roman Catholic my decision to leave the teaching to which I was accustomed was a struggle. Nevertheless the decision I had to make became increasingly clear as I began to study the Word of God for myself. In 2 Timothy we read: 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, [...]
On Catholicism: Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Cults, Discernment, General Topics, Roman Catholicism
Raised a Roman Catholic my decision to leave the teaching to which I was accustomed was a struggle. Nevertheless the decision I had to make became increasingly clear as I began to study the Word of God for myself. In 2 Timothy we read: 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, [...]
On Catholicism: The Eucharist/Transubstantiation
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Cults, Discernment, Roman Catholicism
Raised a Roman Catholic my decision to leave the teaching to which I was accustomed was a struggle. Nevertheless the decision I had to make became increasingly clear as I began to study the Word of God for myself. In 2 Timothy we read: 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, [...]
Preaching The Truth Outside Osteen’s Church
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Evangelism, Media, Sinner Sensitive
This post comes from Christian Research Network. This man preached the message that Joel Osteen refuses to preach and he had the guts to do it right outside of Lakewood Church.
Proponents Of A New Paradigm
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
This article was written by Jackie Alnor from Apostasy Alert. Aquarian Conspiracy Revisited Early in the decade of the 1980s, a book rose to the best-sellers list that frightened many Christian leaders and marked the birth of the world’s awareness of the new age movement. That book was The Aquarian Conspiracy, written by sociologist, Marilyn [...]
Redefining the Gospel
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Compromise, Discernment, Emergent Church, General Topics, Purpose Driven, Sermons, Sinner Sensitive, Worldliness
How do we appropriately present the gospel to a world with so many varying world views? Is the church recontextualizing or redefining the unchanging gospel? In this video Jacob Prasch from Moriel Ministries explains how the church of Laodicea, the final church mentioned in Revelation 3, really is (as it’s name means) the church of [...]
Rob Bell Fails the Test
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
This article by Ken Silva comes from Apprising Ministries. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world (1 John 4:1). It Is Written Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. It will [...]
Spurgeon on the War Against Heresy & Lies
Category: Discernment, Quotes
“The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the spirit of the gospel. Yet, nevertheless, [...]
T.D. Jakes Is A Spiritual Coward
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Word Faith
This article was written by Ken Silva from Apprising Ministries and I think it’s pretty appropriate seeing as the 2007 Hillsong Conference is coming up and they’ve invited this heretic to preach to thousands of people.
The Best Way to Promote Unity
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven, Quotes, Sinner Sensitive
“The best way to promote unity is to promote truth. It will not do for us to be all united together by yielding to one another‘s mistakes. We are to ‘love each other in Christ’ but we are not to be so united that we are not able to see each other’s faults, and especially [...]
The Biblical Basis of Division, by Jacob Prasch
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, General Topics, Teaching
The following article is by Jacob Prasch of Moriel Ministries. The Biblical Basis of Division When is Church Division Ordained of God, and When is It Not? As we have often noted, in His high-priestly prayer in the 17th chapter of John’s Gospel, Jesus prefaces His prayer for unity amongst believers, in verses 17 to [...]
The Emergent Church and their Ecumenical Change Agents
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
Men and women, we have now reached the point where either men like Charles Spurgeon and Dr. John MacArthur are Christians or people like Rob Bell and Erwin McManus, both leaders in the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church, are. Because the time has arrived to be brutally honest and publicly admit that we are [...]
The Forgotten Times We Live In
Category: Discernment, General Topics
Turn on the religious channel and you will only ever hear them preach about a time for birth, a time to plant, a time to heal, a time to build up, a time to laugh, a time to dance, a time to gather, a time to embrace, a time to search, a time to keep, [...]
The Gospel of Accommodation
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Media
2 Timothy 4:1-4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not [...]
The Mark of the Wounds
Category: Discernment, Grace, Quotes
“Don’t talk of things of religion and matters of experience with an air of lightness and laughter, which is too much the manner in many places. In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the [...]
The New Jesus & A Love Called Tolerance, by Paul Proctor
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Discernment, Teaching
Source: NewsWithViews.com Have you heard? There’s a new Jesus in town and he brings with him a NEW gospel message. It is a message that teaches a permissive kind of love…a love called “tolerance”…a love that hears no evil, sees no evil and frankly never brings evil up for discussion lest the offenders become the [...]
The Old Cross and the New
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
The new cross does not slay the sinner, it redirects him. It gears him into a cleaner and jollier way of living and saves his self-respect. To the self-assertive it says, “Come and assert yourself for Christ.” To the egotist it says, “Come and do your boasting in the Lord.” To the thrill seeker it [...]
The Potty Driven Life, by Todd Friel
Category: Church Issues, Discernment
Mainstream evangelicalism is literally in the toilet. Christ’s Family Church of Hastings, Minnesota is now using the bathroom as a way to reach out to lost souls. http://cfc.ccbchurch.com/app/ “Our men’s room (decorated in race car motif) gives members a reason to invite people to church. That is what Christ Family Church is all about; reaching [...]
The Scarlet Woman
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Sinner Sensitive
The following excerpts were written by Mike Ratliff from Possessing the Treasure. Right now as you read this God is calling His people again to turn away from empty religion in brokenness and repentance to walk before Him with penitent hearts in full obedience. The Church in our time is very sick. Its leaders have [...]
The Toronto Deception
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, General Topics
Originally published in the March 07 CETF. It has taken me nine years to actually come to the place where I would write this story. Part of the reason was because I was not fully convinced that it was appropriate to speak out against weaknesses in the body of Christ publicly. Another reason is because [...]
Unity in Error
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (KJV) Recently I have been receiving emails from friends caught up in the neo-liberal cult of the [...]
What does the Bible say about Benny Hinn?
Category: Charismania, Church Issues, Discernment, Media, Sinner Sensitive
What Happened to Expository Preaching? by Alistair Begg
Category: Christianity, Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven, Sermons, Sinner Sensitive, Teaching
“We’ve become very familiar with preaching that, pays scant attention to the Bible; is self-focused; and is consequently only capable of making the most superficial impact upon the lives of the listeners. This would be bad enough were it not for the fact, that large sections of the church who listen to this kind of [...]
When Books Become More Important Than the Bible
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Emergent Church
Christian Publishers and The Menace of Second-hand Spirituality, by Ingrid Schlueter “Christians down through the centuries had nothing but the Scripture and their unquenchable faith in the Lord. They didn’t have the kind of celebrity media culture of today where we are told over and over that we need to buy this latest book or [...]
Where are all the True Preachers of the Word of God?!
Category: Church Issues, Discernment, Media, Purpose Driven, Sinner Sensitive
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to [...]
World, Christians Have Same Behavior Patterns
Category: Church Issues, Compromise, Discernment, Quotes, Sinner Sensitive, Worldliness
The following quote comes from OldTruth “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world.” This sentence in Romans 12:2 has two key words: “world,” which is actually “age” (aion, meaning, “this present age” in contrast to “the age to come”); and “do not conform,” which is a compound having at its root [...]
