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Anne Graham Lotz Promotes Jewish Mystic

On January 2nd, an email was distributed by the ministry of popular Christian speaker Anne Graham Lotz about Honi ha-M’agel, a Jewish mystic who lived during the 1st century BC.  (This email  is available to the public at Lotz’s website.) The following excerpt is taken from this email and recounts a story that has become controversial in evangelical circles … Read more

Lotz-a-palooza: God Circle-Prayed The Creation?

(I’m a little late to the Lotz-a-palooza party!  But here are some thoughts I’d like to share. For more insight, please check out JD Hall’s Polemics Report broadcast and the great article over at Berean Research.) A woman who embraces the heresy of circle praying, itself borne out of Wiccan witchcraft, will be taking the … Read more

LOTZ … Of Nonsense

While discernment is a mandated chore for every Christian, one that can only be finely honed by the Spirit-illuminated study of Scripture, sometimes it doesn’t take a whole bunch of that skill to recognize the smell of hermeneutical road kill that’s trying to be passed off as spiritual barbecue. Such is the case with Anne … Read more

Lotz, Jeffress, Barton, Beck – WVW Covers It

Recently, Pulpit & Pen broke two stories covering Anne Graham Lotz, and her promotion of a Jewish mystic as an example of how Christians should pray, and the new TBN television series with David Barton and Glenn Beck starting this month. Our popular guest poster, Brandon Hines’ article gets plenty of airtime. See the articles … Read more

Empirical Evidence for a Modern Day Downgrade

In case anybody needed evidence of the current downgrade going on in the evangelical church, well, I found some.  My wife and I own a small cottage located in a Christian campground.  One of the claims to fame of this place is that Billy Graham was a camp counselor before he became the ecumenical evangelist … 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

Jan Markell, Embracing the Spirit of Error

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. – 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Jan Markell, radio host of Understanding the Times Radio has exhibited … 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

Nancy Leigh (DeMoss) Wolgemuth Mixes Pagan Witchcraft Circle-Making With Christianity

One of the most basic devices used in ancient pagan spirituality is the “circle of protection.” You find it everywhere from the Eastern mystery religions to modern witchcraft. The circle of protection was commonly used in old Gypsy magic, as it was thought to create an impenetrable barrier of protection around those in which it was … Read more

The Gathering … Cuz America is the New Israel

In just a couple of days, the preeminent, and self-proclaimed, spiritual “leaders” of “American Christianity” will be convening, on behalf of America, a “solemn assembly,” a la Old Testament precepts for God’s actual and only chosen nation – Israel. (But really, pesky little interpretative details about God’s revelation in Scripture don’t really matter when it’s … Read more

A Moment For Discernment In Books

I haven’t looked at the “Christian Bestsellers” list, as compiled by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, in quite some time. I made the mistake of doing so this morning. You can find the list HERE. Just be warned, if you practice discernment (as you should, 1 Thessalonians 5:21) and have concern for the right handling … Read more