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When [Jesus] bids us to take up our cross, He means come and die. The cross was a place of horrible execution. It would have been unthinkable in Jesus’ day to wear a cross as a piece of jewelry. It would have been like wearing a miniature electric chair or lynching rope. His words must have had a terrifying effect: “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me” (Matthew 10:38). So today the words are sobering. They mean at least that when I follow Jesus as my Savior and Lord, the old self-determining, self-absorbed me must be crucified. I must every day reckon myself dead to sin and alive to God.

– John Piper

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awpink.jpg The grace of God is proclaimed in the Gospel (Acts 20:24), which is to the self-righteous Jew a “stumblingblock,” and to the conceited and philosophizing Greek “foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:23). Why so? Because there is nothing whatever in it that is adapted to gratify the pride of man. It announces that unless we are saved by grace, we cannot be saved at all. It declares that apart from Christ, the unspeakable Gift of God’s grace, the state of every man is desperate, irremediable, hopeless. The Gospel addresses men as guilty, condemned, perishing criminals. It declares that the most chaste moralist is in the same terrible plight as the most voluptuous profligate; that the zealous professor, with all his religious performances, is no better off than the most profane infidel.

– A.W. Pink

1886 – 1952

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Sermon of the week: “Sermon at Barbra Washer’s Funeral Service” by Paul Washer.

This week’s sermon is a message that Paul Washer delivered at his own mother’s funeral service. It is only 19 minutes in duration and is entitled Sermon at Barbra Washer’s Funeral Service.

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The White Horse Inn: “The Glory Story.”

This episode of the White Horse Inn is entitled The Glory Story.

On this edition of the White Horse Inn the hosts discuss the influence of both Pelagianism and Gnosticism in the American religious landscape. And the net result is what they refer to as “the Glory Story.” In contrast to the theology of glory, however, the hosts make a case for recovering a clear understanding of the “theology of the cross.”

Here’s a sample exchange between the hosts from this episode:

Kim Riddlebarger: There’s nothing more embarrassing than a reformation preacher attempting to be relevant.

Mike Horton: We’re going to bring Him down . . . wait a second, wait a second hot shot, He came down and He comes down if you would just explain and expound the passages.

Kim Riddlebarger: Preach the text and get out of the way and let the text do its work.

Michael Horton: That is so relieving.

Ken Jones: It is, you know you don’t have to try to measure yourself against what’s going on down the street or what people are used to on religious television. Make the announcement and trust that the same God who made this Word clear to you will, by His Spirit, illumine the hearts of your hearers to recognize and receive the Savior.

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The victims of the new breed of blasphemous preachers.

You’ve seen the new breed of blasphemous preachers and the disciple of the new breed of blasphemous preachers, now I want to introduce you to the human wreckage that’s left in the wake of these wolves.

My heart goes out to the children of the man (Stacy Denboer) in the following videos. I do not even need to provide commentary as to why, I think for most of us it will be self-explanatory.

What this man is doing to his own children will break your heart. And hopefully you will get a better understanding of why we do what we do here on DefCon.

I’ve included Mr. Denboer’s own introduction preceding each of the videos below that he’s posted on YouTube.

“Here is me and my daughter getting loaded up on the drunken Glory… We are taking hits off Jesus!!”

“My daughter and I are getting loaded up on the presence of God as we toke our baby Jesus in faith… My daughter speaks under the influence of the Sprit..(I didn’t tell her what to say) she is a prophetess…”

“Here is my son and I all wacked in the Sprit… I have been drinking from this new CD by Benjamin Dunn called Toking The Ghost… yes.. i know my sons drueling was self induced… he is still feeling pretty good…”

“I love taking Glory Hits off Baby Jesus Music from John Crowders latest CD Toking the Ghost”

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yahannan.jpg The so-called humanist gospel—which isn’t really the “good news” at all—is called by many names. Some argue for it in familiar biblical and theological terms; some call it the “social gospel” or the “holistic gospel,” but the label is not important. You can tell the humanist gospel because it refuses to admit that the basic problem of humanity is not physical, but spiritual. The humanist won’t tell you sin is the root cause of all human suffering.

– K.P. Yohannan

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A disciple of the new breed of blasphemous preachers.

Meet Captain Whacked the Pirate Preacher. He is an obvious by-product of the wolves featured in the videos in this previous post.

Sadly, for many, this may be the only exposure they have to “Christianity,” but I want to make it abundantly clear here and now, that this has as much to do with real, genuine, Biblical Christianity as pork chops and lobster have to do with a Passover Seder.

The Pirate Preacher and John Crowder.

How to get high without drugs.

Interpreting Todd Bentley’s Sheeka Boom Ba.

Captain Whacked has a “prophecy” for you all. (Hint: it involves yet another season and yet another raising of a standard.) Imagine that!


Apostolic Christian Pirates?

The Pirate Preacher’s daily devotional.

Purely immature, juvenile, wicked, foolishness.

And finally, Captain Whacked the Pirate Preacher (obvious disciple of Crowder and Dunn) makes a guest appearance at 1:47 into the video of this “church service.”

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bible-page.jpg For this is a rebellious people, false sons, sons who refuse to listen to the instruction of the LORD; who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”; and to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right, speak to us pleasant words, prophesy illusions. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

– Isaiah 30:9-11

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The new breed of blasphemous preachers.

At first I thought this was a joke by some worldly guys who were mocking Christianity . . . then I realized it was no joke.

The two itinerant ministers in these videos, Benjamin Dunn and John Crowder (a “prophetic healing revivalist”), show you by their behavior just how far Western Christianity has fallen. Their actions also prove to you that nothing is sacred anymore.

Their completely irreverent, disrespectful, and even blasphemous behavior makes the juvenile antics in the video in this previous post pale in comparison. The behavior of Mr. Dunn and Mr. Crowder in the following videos is extremely disturbing when you realize they are claiming to be Christians.

See also: A Disciple of the new breed of blasphemous preachers.


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Bible Reference Notes: “Children of God and Children of the Devil.”

The Bible Reference Notes for today will hopefully clear up a common misconception.

In relation to the human race, we often hear people say, “We’re all God’s children.” This, however, is not supported by Scripture. In fact, Scripture clearly lays out just who are and who are not the children of God.

Children of God and Children of the Devil

Children of God

John 1:12 Those who receive Jesus

Romans 8:14, 16 Those led by the Spirit of God

Romans 9:8 Children of the promise, not children of the flesh

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Believers, not unbelievers

1 John 2:29-3:2 Believers

1 John 3:9-10 Those who practice righteousness

Children of the Devil

Matthew 13:37-39 The tares are the sons of the evil one

John 8:38, 41-45 Those who reject Christ and His words

1 John 3:8, 10 Those who practice sin/do not practice righteousness

To find out the purpose and exactly how to use these Bible Reference Notes, check out the explanation in my first installment The Holy Scriptures. See also the other following installments of Bible Reference Notes:

Whose Name Good for dealing with Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Hell and the Eternal Soul Good for dealing with those who deny the existence of Hell (like Jehovah’s Witnesses)

Who’s Responsible for Salvation: God or Man? Good references for those who think God needs a little help in our salvation.


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Sola Scriptura (55)

bible-page.jpg For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

Romans 8:3-9

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Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit: these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.

– A. W. Tozer

1897 – 1963

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So what you’re saying is that God wants me to party and mess me up?

Ever notice how so many of these “prophets” who claim to have “visions” go on to describe things about God that are so foreign to the God of the Bible that these alleged god-visions bear no resemblance to the nature of the holy One revealed in Scripture?

Oh, and as a bonus, Rick Pino is back to lead more youth astray with his doctrinally-void, trance-inducing, repetitious, square-dancing “worship” music. I can say I’ve never seen such a well-blended mix of the world’s music and that which is supposed to be honoring of God.

HT: A Little Leaven

And here’s an even more irreverent “holy ghost kegger-fest” complete with beach balls, guitar solos played with teeth, and complete disorder . . . all in church:

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One of the most fearful things about sin is its power to harden the one who practices it. The deeper a man goes in sin, the less sin bothers him. . . . Every sinner finds himself now committing sins that he once despised, and the sins that he now despises, he will someday find himself committing. It should shock us to remember that Adolph Hitler was once a little boy playing with toys just like other little boys. Man knows the beginning of sin, but no man has ever known the end of sin.

– Charles Leiter

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Every true revival is always, and without exception, based on the Word of God; the Bible is the only revealed Truth in the world and, in fact, ever has been; there is not a spiritual problem that is not addressed in the Word; there is not a difficulty for which it does not have a solution; there is not a question that it cannot answer; there is not a life that the God of its pages cannot change; there is not a broken heart that its Words cannot mend; there is not a darkness that its Light cannot dispel; not a sin that the Blood of its pages cannot wash away.

— The Expositor’s Study Bible, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 34

HT: Herescope.