Written by Toni S. Brown In 2010 TGC council member David Platt, former TWG chair for the ecumenical Lausanne Movement and president of the North American Missions Board, set youth groups on fire all over the country with a passion for eradicating poverty and human suffering after the release of his New York Times best-selling book “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream.” I … Read more
[Esther O’Reilly | Patheos] I’m not sure what people were expecting from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s recent appearance at Liberty University, but nobody could have predicted what happened about halfway through. At roughly the 21-minute mark in the convocation (link here), as Peterson is answering a question, there’s a commotion offstage. A young man rushes up … Read more
Among other outlets, Yahoo News has reported that President Donald Trump gave his endorsement to recent state-level initiatives to teach “Bible Literacy” classes in public schools. Trump’s statement has generated a fair amount of controversy, not only among secularists, but Christians as well. While many secularists are openly hostile to the biblical message, some Christians … Read more
For two thousand years, the commission given by Christ to the church in Matthew 28 has gone by the moniker, Great. The Great Commission is Jesus’ instruction to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations by baptizing them in the Triune formula and teaching them everything Christ commanded of us. Go … Read more
ANOTHER SCANDAL IN THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION? Once again, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) network has allowed another criminal to remain within their ranks, despite reports alleging Thai Police having an arrest warrant issued for child kidnapping. Leading ‘Apostles and Prophets’ within the NAR, claim they receive direct vision, revelation and knowledge to bring divine order and government to … Read more
David Miller is a fiery old preacher, and God bless him. Listen to him discuss Decisional Regeneration and the dumbing down of the Gospel.
The Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans: “So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. The Righteous Shall Live by Faith For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew … Read more
David Platt’s tenure at the International Mission Board certainly hasn’t been without controversy. Soon after taking office it was revealed that the IMB mismanaged hundreds of millions of dollars and Platt was left with the unfortunate clean-up duty of relieving a thousand missionaries of their overseas positions. One of Platt’s first actions was to allow … Read more
David Platt is an academic prodigy. After graduating from the University of Georgia with two bachelor’s degrees, he earned an MDiv, a ThM, and a PhD from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; he completed his education in his early 20s, becoming one of the youngest students, if not the youngest student, to ever earn a terminal … Read more
David Platt is the President of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is widely regarded as being a highly intelligent, deeply passionate, seriously committed follower of Christ whose credentials as a pastor and leader are unquestionable. Indeed, David Platt seems to be one of the good guys. There are some problems … Read more
It’s no secret that Kirk Cameron has embraced the false gospel of American Patriotism. Clearly, he’s accepted post-millennial Reconstructionist ideals of Dominionism and has been championing the cause of taking back the culture in America for several years. It’s unclear exactly how he was led down this path of patriotic idolatry, as his past associations with … Read more
As reported by the Baptist and Reflector, the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s state newspaper, David Platt issued an apology related to the International Mission Board’s (IMB) 2016 support of an amicus brief supporting the construction of a New Jersey mosque. (For more on the mosque issue, see HERE.) According to the report, Platt, President of the … Read more
Not too long ago, an argument broke out on a thread in the BTWN facebook group where Sam Shamoun, Anti-Muslim apologist at Answering-Islam.org, was arguing against a few people on the issue of Particular Redemption (Limited Atonement). When pressed on why he believed it, one person claimed they believed it because they believe in Substitutionary Atonement. Shamoun challenged this person to … Read more
I’d like to commend Dr. David Platt for his long track-record of personal integrity, passion and zealousness for the truth. I certainly don’t hope this brief article hurts his reputation in any way. Platt certainly seems like one of the good guys, with the exception of letting ecstatic babblers serve as missionaries and occasionally repeating … Read more
“I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and men of every language might serve Him. His … Read more
