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Being bold and radical, or being contemptuous and blasphemous?

jesus-costume Some professing Christians in Kansas City have discovered what the greatest problem facing the world is today, and what the most menacing threat to Christianity is.

Apparently the folks at Praise Chapel have identified the problem as retailers and shoppers not acknowledging Christ in Christmas enough. Wouldn’t this simply be a case of worldly unregenerate people acting like worldly unregenerate people?

They consider what they’re doing as being “bold” and “radical.” But how does getting people to say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays” do anything for their eternal soul? Will people be cast into a Christless eternity in Hell because they said “Season’s Greetings” or because they were not born again of God and made new creatures?

Although I completely disagree with their mockery-style tactic lacking all reverence for the Holy Son of God, I’d be more impressed by their efforts if they tried being “bold” and “radical” by taking their stunt to the places where Christ is truly being left out . . . the churches across America!

See the fox news article here.

HT: Sola Dei Gloria

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philpotRight views concerning Christ are indispensable to a right faith, and a right faith is indispensable to salvation. To stumble at the foundation, is, concerning faith, to make shipwreck altogether; for as Immanuel, God with us, is the grand Object of faith, to err in views of His eternal Deity, or to err in views of His sacred humanity, is alike destructive. There are points of truth which are not fundamental, though erroneous views on any one point must lead to God-dishonoring consequences in strict proportion to its importance and magnitude; but there are certain foundation truths to err concerning which is to insure for the erroneous and the unbelieving, the blackness of darkness forever.

– J.C. Philpot

1802 – 1869

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Sermon of the week: “An Introduction to the Trinity” by Don Green.

We’ve been going through Don Green’s five-part series on Christ’s deity and the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. This week is part four and it’s entitled An Introduction to the Trinity.

If you haven’t already listened to parts one through three, check them out below:

John 1:1 and the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jesus Declares His Deity

My Lord and My God

Don Green has done an outstanding job through this series of defending the faith against those who would deny the deity of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity.

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How to make a false convert.

You will see in this video numerous false converts made right before your very eyes. False converts that will grow up with an aversion to the true Gospel at best, and a hostility to the true Gospel at worst. This is what American Christianity has become.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 23:15

HT: Perilous Times

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“Hip Hopera” the church Christmas play.

guts Guts Church (yes, that’s their real name) put on a Christmas play called Hip Hopera that can only be described as a confusing, convoluted, discombobulated adventure in narcissism, worldly values, and the culture of self-adoration. I kept watching this train wreck expecting it to make sense at some point but it never did.

This self-absorbed Christmas play of worldliness was supposed to convey a message that there’s more to Christmas than getting stuff. However, after watching this display I went away feeling that the Lord Jesus was not only not honored, but He was strangely absent; upstaged by the “relevant” performance.

See you if agree: You can check out their Hip Hopera video on their website by clicking here.

And I’m still scratching my head as to why they portrayed a prepubescent boy oogling the prepubescent girl who walked across the stage (heed Jesus’ warning in Matthew 5:27-28). Perhaps someone can explain that one to me.

If you want to see more of what this “church” is all about, check out this short promotional video in which they boast that at one of their October events called The Nightmare they “scare the hell out of people” (for the sake of the Gospel of course) and that after going through The Nightmare 12,000 people prayed the “prayer of salvation.”

Welcome to Christmas in Laodicea.

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voddie-baucham I’m not trying to say that it is necessarily wrong for children to play organized sports . . . . [but] being a member of an organized traveling baseball squad at age ten doesn’t add a single day to one’s life. In fact, many of these activities get in the way of much loftier pursuits. People turned boys into men and girls into women for most of recorded history without dragging them around town with their tongues hanging out in an effort to keep up with their overachieving, undereducated, theologically illiterate peers as they try to win trophies that will eventually gather dust in a basement somewhere. If I teach my son to keep his eye on the ball but fail to teach him to keep his eyes on Christ, I have failed as a father.

– Voddie Baucham

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awpink.jpg To complain against the partiality of grace is suicidal. If the sinner insists upon bare justice, then the lake of fire must be his eternal portion. His only hope lies in . . . casting himself on the mercy of God, and stretching forth empty hands to avail himself of the grace of God made known to him in the Gospel.

– A.W. Pink

1886 – 1952

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The epitome of a Mormon testimony.

This post is not intended to be insulting or demeaning, but is a glimpse into why it is so difficult to convince a Mormon to review the facts about Mormonism from a reasonable standpoint and apply logic to come to a conclusion.

As you will see from these two brief videos, a Mormon testimony usually requires no logic, evidence, or even cognitive reasoning; just feelings. This is why oftentimes the debate with a Mormon dissolves into, “I bear you my testimony . . . ” and “I know, because I know, because I know.”

Their regurgitating of this indoctrinated mantra “I bear you my testimony” is frequently employed when presented with the evidence that Mormonism is a false religion. This type of “testimony” reveals that their whole basis for belief is grounded on emotion and feelings at the exclusion of fact, reason, and logic.

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Rick Warren to give invocation at Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration.

rw It’s official, Rick Warren is scheduled to deliver the invocation at pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-homosexual Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration (see here). So far the one’s making the biggest stink about this is the homosexual advancement crowd (see here). Maybe that’s because the Christians aren’t shocked anymore by those who claim to represent Christianity (read: we’ve come to expect this from the likes of Rick Warren).

I’m not sure why the pro-homosexual crowd is so stunned, though. After all, Barack Hussein Obama has invited the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to march in the inauguration. Isn’t that enough of a compromise? Or is it the total absence of all opposition that these “tolerant” special interest groups are seeking?

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The Brody File

Slice of Laodicea

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John MacArthur Jude’s command “to contend earnestly for the faith” is not merely being neglected in the contemporary church; it is often greeted with outright scorn. These days anyone who calls for biblical discernment or speaks out plainly against a popular perversion of sound doctrine is as likely as the false teachers themselves to incur the disapproval of other Christians. That may even be an understatement. Saboteurs and truth vandals often seem to have an easier time doing their work than the conscientious believer who sincerely tries to exercise biblical discernment.

– John MacArthur

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Sermon of the week “My Lord and My God” by Don Green.

We continue our month long series on the deity of Christ (and the doctrine of the Trinity) with this week’s sermon entitled, My Lord and My God.

Pastor Green does an excellent job throughout this five part series of unpacking the truth of Christ’s deity as revealed in the Scriptures. Next week his message will be, An Introduction to the Trinity and the following week his message will be, The Trinity and the Old Testament. I trust this entire series will be a blessing to you all.

If you haven’t already, I highly encourage you to check out the first two installments on this topic below:

John 1:1 and the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jesus Declares His Deity

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A Prophet’s Bizarre Beliefs

The sayings of Muhammad have been compiled in the Hadith. Muslims consider the Hadith to be sacred in Islam, albeit not quite as important as the Qur’an. They use it as a guide to living a good Muslim life, and to the interpretation of the Qur’an.

The following teachings of Muhammad are in the Hadith:

  • Adam (Eve’s husband) was 90 feet tall. “The Prophet said, ‘Allah created Adam, making him 60 cubits tall'” (Volume 4, Book 55, Number 543).”
  • If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease” (Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537).
  • The spirits (Jinn) eat bones and animal dung. “What about the bone and the animal dung?” He said, “They are of the food of Jinns” ( Volume 5, Book 58, Number 200).
  • Satan may be in your nose. Be sure to practice proper nasal hygiene to dislodge him. “If anyone of you rouses from sleep and performs the ablution, he should wash his nose by putting water in it and then blowing it out thrice, because Satan has stayed in the upper part of his nose all the night” (Volume 4, Book 54, Number 516).
  • Fevers are caused by the fire of hell. The proper treatment is cold water. “The Prophet said, ‘Fever is from the heat of the (Hell) Fire, so cool it with water'” (Volume 4, Book 54, Number 485).
  • Satan may urinate in your ear if you sleep through prayer. “A person was mentioned before the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) and he was told that he had kept on sleeping till morning and had not got up for the prayer. The Prophet said, ‘Satan urinated in his ears'” (Volume 2, Book 21, Number 245).
  • When passing through a cemetery, Muhammad knew that one of the dead was in hell because the deceased had gotten urine on himself. “Indeed, one of them never saved himself from being soiled with his urine” (Volume 1, Book 4, Number 215).
  • While getting your own urine on yourself is terribly sinful, drinking a mixture of camel milk and urine is a good treatment for getting used to a new climate. “Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine)” (Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234).

There is no shortage of these silly writings; this is not anywhere near an exhaustive list. These teachings speak for themselves. How can any Muslim believe that Muhammad is a prophet of God after learning of these teachings? Is there any possible defense?

Maybe the saddest saying I ran across was this one: “By Allah, though I am the Apostle of Allah, yet I do not know what Allah will do to me” (Volume 5, Book 58, Number 266). If Muhammad doesn’t know where he’ll spend eternity, no Muslim can. This is a stark contrast with Christianity. The Bible says that we can know for certain that we are born again as children of God (Romans 8:16), and have assurance of eternity in heaven (1 John 5:13).

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The creature above the Creator.

Consider this Exhibit A in man’s Evolution of Sin described in Romans 1.

Worldly “wisdom” places the value of a tree over that of the life of an unborn child and when this mindset is followed to its logical conclusion what you see in this video is the result:

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 1:22-25

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ryle.jpg While some are satisfied with a miserably low degree of attainment, and others are not ashamed to live on without any holiness at all—content with a mere round of churchgoing and chapel-going, but never getting on, like a horse in a mill—let us stand fast in the old paths, follow after eminent holiness ourselves, and recommend it boldly to others.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

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“Self-righteous judgmental ____________.”

The title of this post is an actual quote I found that was referring to Christians. Obviously I’ve removed the inflammatory noun that was clearly an expletive.

So let’s take a little quiz, shall we? Where do you think I found this quote?

A). An Atheist message board.

B). A Wiccan website.

C). Scrawled on a bathroom wall.

D). A Satanist’s memoir.

D). A professing Christian Church’s website.

For the Answers click here.

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