Author: Pilgrim

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When culture influences the church you get the Hip Hop Prayer Book and Jesus the rapper.

hip-hop-prayer-book.jpg Apparently nothing is sacred anymore, including God’s holy and inspired Word. The Hip Hop Mass website is offering the new Hip Hop Prayer Book. You might be asking yourself “why do we need the Hip Hop Prayer Book?”

Well, as the retired reverend Catherine Roskam explains, “If Jesus walked the earth today, he would be a rapper.”

Here’s an excerpt from this “Prayer Book” from Psalm 23:
The Lord is all that, I need for nothing. He allows me to chill. He keeps me from being heated and allows me to breathe easy. He guides my life so that I can represent and give shouts out in his Name. And even though I walk through the Hood of death, I don’t back down for you have my back. The fact that you have me covered allows me to chill. He provides me with back-up in front of my player-haters and I know that I am a baller and life will be phat. I fall back in the Lord’s crib for the rest of my life.

I imagine that this would be the best book to bring with you when you “chill” at the New Generation Hip Hop Church located in Moreno Valley California.

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Cross Talk: Code Blue in the Body of Christ.

Ingrid Schlueter and Brannon House address the crisis in the Church. Listen to the following three podcasts.

Code Blue Crisis in the Church

Code Blue in the Evangelical Church

Code Blue State of the Church

Click on the link to listen streaming, or right click on the link and click “Save As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Mozilla) to save to your computer. From there you can burn this to a CD or upload it to your MP3 player.


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Sylvia Browne: Oops she did it again.

I always feel kind of embarrassed for those who turn out to be frauds after claiming to be something they’re not (like Joseph Smith). In the following five short videos you’ll see world-renowned fraud psychic Sylvia Browne make terrible assumptions. The only thing sadder than the fact that the people in these videos sought out New Age psychic Sylvia Browne (i.e. the demonic realm) instead of God for answers, is the fact that people continue to believe and follow this fortune teller in spite of her horrible track record.

Video 1: Water?

Video 2: She was shot? (Montel Williams does his best to bail his guest out on this one).

Video 3: I hope you have good insurance.

Video 4: Sylvia strikes out again, again and again.

Video 5: Anderson Cooper exposes Sylvia Browne.

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U2 Exposed

I was in a local Christian (paraphernalia) bookstore last week when I came across a new book by Bono of U2 prominently displayed on a table. My first thought was why?

Then there’s the blasphemous “U2-charist” from this church where U2 songs are performed as worship songs.

So with all the recent hoopla surrounding U2, I thought you’d like to know the real story behind the music. Check out the following video produced by Pastor Joe Schimmel.

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Quotes (32)

 

ryle.jpg Sound Protestant and evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless: it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewed men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

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ryle.jpg I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not sufficiently attended to by modern Christians in this country. . . . The immense importance of “adorning the doctrine of God our Savior” (Titus 2:10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked. Worldly people sometimes complain with reason that “religious” persons, so-called, are not so amiable, and unselfish, and good-natured, as others who make no profession of religion. . . . Sound Protestant and evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless: it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewed men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

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Sola Scriptura (11)

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy for I am holy.” If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from the futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

– The Apostle Peter

1 Peter 1:14-19

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Tim Conway: Hell is Necessary

This sermon Hell is Necessary by Pastor Tim Conway is the best sermon I’ve ever heard on the doctrine of Hell and is a must-hear!

Click on the link to listen streaming, or right click on the link and click “Save As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Mozilla) to save to your computer. From there you can burn this to a CD or upload it to your MP3 player.

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piper-pic.jpg God intends for the afflictions of Christ to be presented to the world through the afflictions of His people. God really means for the body of Christ, the Church, to experience some of the suffering He experienced so that when we proclaim the cross as the way to life, people will see the marks of the cross in us and feel the love of the cross from us.

– John Piper

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Sola Scriptura (10)

bible-page.jpg I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler–not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

– The Apostle Paul

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

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Bumper sticker fun from the Pilgrim’s Project blog.

Mrs. Pilgrim over at the Pilgrim’s Project blog came up with a few good sayings for bumper stickers. She listed them on her post Bumper Sticker Fun.

  • 1.  “So…Life began with static cling and a chicken-soup smoothie?”
  • 2.  “How dare you judge me for judging others?”
  • 3.  “I’ll stop preaching at you when you get saved.”
  • 4.  “‘Good enough’ does not appear in the Bible.”
  • 5.  “You don’t need Jesus? Oh, you think you’re better than I?”
  • 6.  “Pubblik skool: 4 a gud edyucashun.”
  • 7.  “‘Tolerance’ is not a synonym for ‘love’.”
  • 8.  “Would you rather your mom loved you, or tolerated you?”

My favorites are numbers two, three and seven.

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ryle.jpg I cannot withhold a growing suspicion that the great “mass-meetings” of the present day, for the ostensible object of promoting spiritual life, do not tend to promote private home religion, private Bible-reading, private prayer, private usefulness, and private walking with God. If they are of any real value, they ought to make people better husbands and wives, and fathers and mothers, and sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters, and masters and mistresses and servants. . . . It is far easier to be a Christian in a public room than to be a consistent Christian in a quiet, retired, out-of-the-way, uncongenial home.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900