With a wet pinky stuck to the wind to determine shifting political opinion, ever-to-please evangelical leaders are calling lock-stock-and-barrel (pun intended) for gun control. On account of the Parkland School shooting in Florida, a number of evangelical talking heads are demanding that all Christians embrace gun control as a part of the pro-life ethic. We … Read more
Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets. –Luke 6:26 The famous Evangelist, Billy Graham, died today at the age of 99. His dynasty as the world’s foremost preacher lasted the vast majority of the 20th century and into the first decade of the … Read more
Earlier in the week, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) prophetess, Gloria Copeland, “bound the spirit” the of the flu and instructed her listeners to not get the flu shot because they had already been inoculated by the Holy Spirit. Copeland claimed, citing Isaiah 53 and its various paraphrases in the New Testament, that Jesus took the … Read more
Illegal immigration has become the most popular issue to talk about among evangelicals seeking to build a bridge between evangelicalism and America’s left. Conceding on the culture wars of abortion and gay marriage, these evangelical leaders can’t be found in the thick of it on those important religious issues, but are at the front of … Read more
In Desiring God the first chapter in the book is entitled, “The Happiness of God: Foundation for Christian Hedonism.” As we saw in my previous article, Piper’s god is a deity who is self-absorbed in the happiness his glory brings him. And this unbiblical self-absorbed god is the basis of Piper’s Christian Hedonism. Piper asserts, “Therefore the … Read more
Samuel Rodriguez is a prominent Hispanic evangelical who is often a guest speaker in non-charismatic circles. Rodriguez, the president of The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), has – for example – partnered repeatedly on various projects with Russell Moore and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention. According to … Read more
Part One of this article was published on December 18, 2017. Over a month later, interest in the issues raised in the article remains high, and the questions over associations of evangelical leaders like Al Mohler, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and Marvin Olasky continue to linger. Efforts to dismiss the well-documented findings as the “ramblings of … Read more
Behold, the power of God. That’s what someone probably said when they watched Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead, or when they saw Paul heal people by having them touch his handkerchief, or saw the Apostles heal the paralyzed from birth, the blind from birth, or heal life-long deaf-mutes. That’s something that would be said … Read more
A caller phoned in to ask Dr. Michael Brown if Oneness Pentecostals were saved. This is his response. “It’s actually a debate within the body.” “They sounded completely orthodox to me.” Brown then appealed to his “good friend” James White, who has completely affirmed Brown as orthodox, who in turn affirms Oneness Pentecostals who deny the … Read more
John Piper’s theology of God, which has been widely read for years as it was circulated in his book Desiring God (1986), is his imaginative idea alone, and not biblical. In Piper’s words, his theology proper is “The bedrock foundation of Christian Hedonism,” (DG p31). The bedrock aspect to which he refers is the self-enjoyment … Read more
