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I am moving this blog to a new blog service. Blogger has been a decent service, but my new service has better capabilties. My new blog is located at:

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Please make a note of the change and visit us soon!

Joel Osteen and Larry King-Part 2

Maybe I am gullible, but there was a part of me that wanted to think that Joel Osteen would come out and be a man of courage and committment on his appearance tonight on Larry King Live. But alas, it was Osteen as usual, with his rambling responses, his unwillingness to stand for the Gospel and his wishy-washy "theology". He stammered on trying to quote John 3:16, still danced around the exclusiveness of the Gospel, and NEVER once mentioned repentance from sin and turning in faith to Christ as Lord. I am going to go back and listen to it again, but I can't recall very many times when he even mentioned the Name of Jesus, something he apparently learned from the Rick Warren school of tv interviews.

What was displayed on the King program was so far removed from the authentic Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ that it is unbelieveable. Yet, sadly, it is the false gospel of the Osteens, Hybels, and Warrens that are pushed off being the true gospel and thus gets all the attention. Oh Lord save us from ourselves.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" 2 Timothy 4:3

More Evidence of the Shallowness of Rick Warren and PDL

Here is a piece by Chris Rosebrough, posted on Slice of Laodicea.com, that is probably one of the best examples of the shallowness of Rick Warren and his Purpose Driven philosophy. This should speak volumes to every believer. I continue to say, unbelieveable!


The Top 5 List for Jesus' Life - Rick Warren Style

Think for a moment. If you were to draw up a list of the 5 things that Jesus did while He was on Earth, what would you put on that list? What would be at the top of that list? Would your list contain Jesus' death on the cross for the sins of the world? Would your list contain Jesus' resurrection from the dead? Chances are that your list probably would contain these two things, especially if you're a Christian, even more so if you're a pastor.
Rick Warren did an interview on Beliefnet.com not too long ago, and he listed the 5 things that Jesus did when he was here on the Earth. Neither Jesus' atoning sacrifice on the cross nor His resurrection made Warren's list.

from Beliefnet.com, Rick Warren states.......

It's the five things Jesus did when he was here on earth. The first thing he did was he planted a church. The second thing he did was equip leaders. He spent three years training these disciples. The third thing he did was he cared for the poor. In fact, in his very first sermon, he says, "I am here to preach the good news to the poor." He cared for the poor. Fourth, he healed the sick. One-third of his ministry was a health ministry. The fifth thing is he taught. Particularly he cared about the next generation.

So for the last two years, underground, stealth, we have been working on this PEACE Plan. We've been developing a prototype of it in 47 countries. We won't let anybody do the PEACE plan by themselves. You have to do it in a team, in community.

There are 2.1 billion people who claim to be followers of Christ. If you just mobilize half of them that would be a billion people. That would be quite a force.



Why would anyone want to follow, accept, condone someone that is either this biblically ignornant, or lacks the courage, or desire, to stand for the Gospel?

Are Your Thoughts of God Too Human?

I read this on the website OldTruth.com. It is a quote by the dear preacher Arthur Pink.

"In one of his letter to Erasmus, Luther said, "Your thoughts of God are too human". Probably that renowned scholar resented such a rebuke, the more so, since it proceeded from a miner's son. Nevertheless, it was thoroughly deserved. We, too, prefer the same charge against the vast majority of the preachers of our day, and against those who, instead of searching the Scriptures for themselves, lazily accept their teachings. The most dishonoring conceptions of the rule and reign of the Almighty are now held almost everywhere. To countless thousands, even professing Christians, the God of Scripture is quite unknown.

Of old, God complained to an apostate Israel, "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself" (Psalm 50:21). Such must now be His indictment against apostate Christendom. Men imagine the Most High is moved by sentiment, rather than by principle. They suppose His omnipotency is such an idle fiction that Satan can thwart His designs on every side. They think that if He has formed any plan or purpose at all, then it must be like theirs, constantly subject to change. They openly declare that whatever power He possesses must be restricted, lest He invade the citidel of man's free will and reduce him to a machine. They lower the all-efficacious atonement, which redeems everyone for whom it was made, to a mere remedy, which sin-sick souls may use if they feel so disposed. They lessen the strength of the invincible work of the Holy Spirit to an offer of the Gospel which sinners may accept or reject as they please.

The god of this century no more resembles the Sovereign of Holy Writ than does the dim flickering of a candle the glory of the midday sun. The god who is talked about in the average pulpit, spoken of in the ordinary Sunday school, mentioned in much of the religious literature of the day, and preached in most of the so-called Bible conferences, is a figment of human imagination, an invention of maudlin sentimentality. The heathen outside the pale of christendom form gods of wood and stone, while millions of heathen inside christendom manufacture a god out of their carnal minds. In reality, they are but atheists, for there is no other possible alternative between an absolutely supreme God, and no God at all. A god whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to deity, and far from being a fit object of worship, merits nothing but contempt. ...


The "god" which the vast majority of professing Christians "love", is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the "indescretions" of youth. But the Word says, "Thou hatest all workers of iniquity" (Psalm 5:5). And again, "God is angry at the wicked every day" (Psalm 7:11). But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth when His hatred of sin is faithfully pressed upon their attention. No, sinful man was no more likely to devise a holy God than to create the Lake of Fire in which he will be tormented for ever and ever. "

Stupid Church Trips: At a Youth Ministry Near You

This article by Gene Edward Veith was published in World Magazine in 2002 and is even more relevant today. A lot of youth ministries are succumbing to the pressure to be user-friendly and emerging. This article points out some revolting instances and lays out some sad and startling consequences of the willingness of many churches and youth leaders to do "whatever it takes".

Note: Some of the details of this story may be offensive.

Stupid church tricks
Many church youth groups are teaching young people exactly what they don't need to learn