Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. Philippians 3:2-3 “And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.” Acts 11:26, circa … Read more
Imagine, if you will, a homeowner in his bedroom who hears someone breaking into his house. He cracks open his bedroom door and unleashes his ferocious bulldog upon the intruder. He cowers, shuts his door, and listens to the ensuing carnage. The intruder gets mauled and the bulldog bears the brunt of his defensive kicks; … Read more
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
Simple Pursuit: A Heart After Jesus A Daily Passion Devotional Copyright 2016 Published by Thomas Nelson, a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 9780718087623 Simple Pursuit is a daily devotional book that comes out of Louis Giglio’s Passion Movement. Merely containing an introduction by Giglio, with brief commentaries by “Christian celebrities” Chris … Read more
Pulpit & Pen Resources Is Michael Brown Hiding His New Apostolic Identity? Michael Brown Displays More Gullibility and Lack of Discernment Defending Carl Lentz Michael Brown Continues to Deny the NAR, Defends Montanism Charismatic Gullibility, Dr. Michael Brown, and Discernment An Open Letter to Dr. Michael Brown Michael Brown: Sometimes Daily Downgrade Segments Just Write … Read more
Propel Women, a nationally-recognized women’s conference put on by Hillsong’s favorite female fraud, Christine Caine, is being held in Orlando on Saturday, Dec 3, 2016. Caine, who regularly navigates the globe in search of fresh gawkers to feed her miasma to, will be the keynote speaker of this event. In a recent promotion on her Facebook … Read more
No doubt that by now you’ve heard of the Clayton Jennings sex scandal. Jennings, a self-described evangelist, and spoken word artist has been accused of, and admitted to, multiple affairs with different women during his ministry preceding his marriage in March of 2016. At the time of this writing, at least 6 women have come … Read more
When the apostle Paul was writing his final letter to Timothy, he failed to include a number of things that are so frequently hurled about the Christian church today as utterly important, especially when it comes to hearing from God. For example, the apostle did not instruct his young protégé on the importance of … Read more
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
While it was provocatively illustrative of the spiritual and Scriptural abuses of the Roman Catholic church, the melodious jingle attributed to indulgence hawker Johann Tetzel has found its place in church history as, perhaps, the first Reformation-era musical heresy. (Today, of course, this genre is headlined not by Dominican papists, but by the heresy-hurling likes … Read more
Author’s note: This was posted first at Polemics Report, and shared here with the permission of the author, JD Hall. Before I stopped blogging at Pulpit & Pen, last Fall I wrote a post about an up and coming celebrity evangelist by the name of Clayton Jennings. What was concerning is how we saw Jennings and … Read more
Charlatans, charismatics, false teachers, NAR apostles–these people have an ally. His name is Michael Brown. As we’ve reported before, he’s the go-to apologist for modern-day Montanists. He’s defended Word of Faith huckster, Benny Hinn, false teacher Bill Johnson, and many others. We’ve also reported on the gullibility of Michael Brown and the charismatic movement in … Read more
Please note the update at the bottom of this post Before I stopped blogging at Pulpit & Pen, last Fall I wrote a post about an up and coming celebrity evangelist by the name of Clayton Jennings. What was concerning is how we saw Jennings and certain other youth-oriented evangelists sell themselves in displays of thinly … Read more
One of the biggest heretics of Church History was a scholar in the 200s named Arius. Arius’s heresy was a denial of the divinity of Jesus. He taught that only the Father was God and that Jesus was merely a creation of God. This heresy was clear and is one of the most blatant examples … Read more
Over the weekend, I challenged Dr. Michael Brown to a debate. This isn’t the first time, as twice before I had reached tentative agreements to debate Brown on the tenets of Charismania. I have had numerous interactions with Brown, mostly emailing him to offer correction when he has repeatedly gone to the defense of … Read more
