Practicing The Power: Welcoming the Gifts Of The Holy Spirit In Your Life By Sam Storms Foreword by Matt Chandler Page Count: 272 Format: Softcover ISBN: 9780310533849 Published by HarperCollins Publishers/Zondervan Academic Copyright: 2017 by Sam Storms The law of the Lord is perfect,reviving the soul;the testimony of the Lord is sure,making wise the simple;the … Read more
Where do you draw the charismatic line? 30 years ago nobody would’ve given this question much thought because it was easy to answer. People either liked Benny Hinn or thought he was crazy. People thought Kathryn Kuhlman was a great woman of God or a dramatic fraud. People were largely conservative, or charismatic. They either … Read more
It is not often that a polemical article of this quality and caliber finds its way into the press, but Bruce Davidson has done exactly that in the American Thinker. We encourage you to read this excellent article on the influence of Romanticism in our modern Christian culture, and share it. On January 2, about … Read more
I have a prickly feeling in my neck right now. It came from the double facepalm I gave myself when I found out what FBC Woodstock is up to. Just when you think Johnny Hunt is trying to do things right, you find out he’s up to some other shenanigans. Hunt, who recently apparently denounced … Read more
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
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
Earlier this year Pulpit & Pen brought you the story of Hillsong, NYC’s youth pastor, Diego Simila, who posed as the infamous “Naked Cowboy” at a Hillsong women’s conference. There were also other more than questionable appearances of debauched characters at various other Hillsong conferences during that time, including the sex pervert, Austin Powers, who … Read more
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 1 Corinthians 4:6 The apostle Paul’s emphasized words above are perhaps the greatest Biblical … Read more
“so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.” 2 Timothy 3:8 When the imprisoned, soon-to-be-martyred Paul wrote his final letter to Timothy, effectively passing the mantle of ministry to his young protégé, he warned the young disciple about the imminent persecution that would come “in the last days.” The … 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
Foreword by RC: When I read John Piper’s response to Andy Stanley’s flagrant disregard for the authority of Scripture and the power of the Holy Spirit to use it to convict and convert, my first thought was, “wow, people are going to eat this up.” Piper has been given glowing accolades for far too long … Read more
“The first person speaking of Jesus in Jesus Calling is a tremendous blessing in my life devotionally as His promises come alive in my heart.” Johnny Hunt There was a time when Johnny Hunt was one of the most respectable names in all of Southern Baptist life. As a defender of biblical inerrancy, Hunt was one of … Read more
Evangelicals for Life (EFL) is the Southern Baptist counterpart to the largely Roman Catholic March for Life. The March for Life began as a small protest in 1973 in Washington D.C. as a response to the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which ruled in favor of those who support widespread abortion on demand. … Read more
FIRST, A SMALL CAVEAT I’ve written, re-written, thrown away and written again this post multiple times. I recorded a podcast with a segment on this topic, that I chose not to play (which is why Tuesday’s episode is delayed). In short, the risks are incredibly high. Virtually anything I write or say about this already-public … Read more
The Invisible Bestseller: Searching For the Bible In America by Kenneth A. Briggs, copyright 2016, 255 pages Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. The Berean-inclined believer can very generally lump their Biblically-filtered assessments about what is or isn’t sound doctrine into a few easily classified categories. Most blatantly are those ideological encounters that are … Read more
