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The Self-Deceived Conference “Christian”

“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”  Acts 2:42 There is little argument that the post-modern persona of the “church” has been grotesquely deformed from what the first-century bride of Christ looked like.  The church has been prostituted.  Her visible face is no … Read more

Tentacles of American Heresy: A View from South Africa

The tentacles of false doctrine are not constrained to North America.   South Africa has all too readily accepted doctrines that tickle ears. The word of faith movement, prosperity gospel, charismania, and the growing NAR have flourished in the past thirty years in this country. To give you an example of what sells here, a … Read more

Passion 2017: A Passion For Experience, A Disregard For the Word

The Passion Conference just wrapped up its 20th anniversary with a massive crowd of millennials in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The event, running from January 2 –4, saw over 50,000 eighteen to twenty-five-year-olds * packing the venue in order to, according to the Passion 2017 website, “see a generation leverage their lives for what … Read more

Christine Caine Drops Trousers With Hillsong’s Bobbie Houston

  Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.  Philippians 3:17 Paul said to “keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example.”  It’s one of the wonderful benefits of Christian fellowship that loving accountability exists among brethren.  We seek, … Read more

A Calvinist Trojan Horse In The SBC? What a Great Idea! Let’s Fill It With Expository Preachers

A couple decades ago, the dust began settling on Bibles in the SBC. The denomination had just conquered the battle against encroaching theological liberalism, in which the literalness and the authority of Scripture was being formidably challenged. In a laudable act of “contending for the faith,” the convention moved to affirm the preeminence of Scripture … Read more

The “Post-Truth” Church

Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.  Psalm 119:89 This happens every year.  (Eccl. 1:9)  We’ve arrived at that chronological point of the year in which unfettered amounts of superfluous summarizing digital data will be hurled across any and all media. The summations of authoritative data will be culled from polls, … Read more

Lifeway: Jesus Wouldn’t Be Calling If They Really Had Doctrinal Guidelines

  “In a recent interview, [Hatmaker] voiced significant changes in her theology of human sexuality and the meaning and definition of marriage — changes which contradict LifeWay’s doctrinal guidelines,” LifeWay spokesman Marty King told Baptist Press today (Oct. 27). “As a result, LifeWay has discontinued selling her resources.” (Source, Baptist Press) While many on social … Read more

Polemics Terms: Charismatic Window

DEFINITION The Charismatic Window is a metaphor for the way nefarious or sub-biblical teaching enters into a church or an individual’s mind because they are a “cautious continuationist,” being open to the possibility of the continuance of the Apostolic Sign Gifts or new revelation. One who doesn’t want to automatically discount such claims are said to have … Read more

Southern Evangelical Seminary Apologist Embraces Extra-Biblical Revelations

At Pulpit & Pen, we’re constantly reporting on the supposed restoration of the sign gifts from God that people are claiming. Recently, we covered the IMB’s embrace of these so-called “gifts” when David Platt re-told a story of a man being “prayed over” by IMB missionaries, and brought back from the dead. Of course, there’s … Read more

Sub-Christian Teachings: Evangelical Feminism

DEFINITION Evangelical Feminism is a movement that claims to have a high view of Scripture, but simultaneously believes in egalitarian gender roles (that men and women do not have role distinctions based upon gender). Evangelical Feminism, as it is commonly called, distinguishes itself from regular feminism, which has an abysmally low view of Scripture. Evangelical … Read more

Is John Piper Disqualifying Himself as a Teacher?

John Piper was once regarded as a great contender for the faith. He was the go-to guy for apologetics in Reformed theology and the one that was looked to when those with twisted soteriology espoused their false doctrine. He has written excellent books on living a holy life for God and had a way of explaining … Read more