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Hefner Had a Purpose Driven Life, Says Pastor

Aptly named pastor of XXX Church, Craig Gross, says that the famous playboy had a copy of ‘A Purpose Driven Life’ on his book shelf. According to one source, “Gross recalls getting an email from someone who worked at the Playboy Mansion and who wanted to engage in some ‘undercover ministry’ and to be a … Read more

New Book Explains Problems with John Piper’s Theology

Before the Calvinista fan-boys jump on us for this one, keep in mind that the chief issues with Piper’s theology is not his Calvinism. He gets that part right. Neither does believing soteriology correctly mean that every aspect of someones’ teaching is necessarily good. Pulpit & Pen has criticized Piper numerous times before, including Piper’s mollycoddling … Read more

Setting the Record Straight: Brannon Howse Lies About Justin Peters

Unless your head has been under a blanket for the last couple of months, you’ve heard about the controversy between Brannon Howse and Dr. James White regarding the interfaith dialogue between White and Islamic radical, Yasir Qhadi. Well, Brannon Howse goes through friends like diapers. He wears them for a while, dirties them up, then … Read more

Is Brannon Howse a Dupe For Judaizers and Catholics?

Does the name Rabbi Yoel Keren mean anything to you? No? How about Robert Spencer? Now that might ring a bell. Rabbi Keren is a researcher at Machon Shilo. “Machon Shilo is a centre of Jewish learning in Jerusalem dedicated to the exposition and dissemination of Torath Eress Yisrael, the Judaism of the Land of … Read more

Andy Stanley’s Deep and Wide: A Review

Who is Andy Stanley? Andy Stanley is the founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries (NPM), which is an organization that started as a single church (North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia) in the fall of 1995.[1]  The organization now boasts six Atlanta-area churches as well as numerous independent “strategic partner” churches scattered … Read more

Five Things At SWBTS More Offensive Than This Photo

Facutly at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary posed for the above photo, and Twitter has had a collective heart attack. Audible gasps could be heard around the world, as these faculty members apparently didn’t see the outrage as a predictable inevitability, and it was unwisely posted without an, ahem, trigger warning. In all seriousness, I’m sure … Read more

Book Review: The New Calvinists; Changing the Gospel

Published in 2014, clearly I am late to the party, but I wanted to give a brief review of this book because I found it a valuable and helpful primer on the problems of the so-called New Calvinism. Written by Dr. E.S. Williams, a medical physician and layman in the church of Charles Spurgeon – … Read more

The Irrelevant Christine Caine … A Dingo Ate My Legacy?

“ … in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.  2 Peter 2:2 In Revelation 2:20, Christ chided the church of Thyatira in no uncertain terms.  “I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls … Read more

Matt Chandler and Village Church Endorses Lent

Evangelical hipster, and the go-to boy when it comes to building the bridge between pop-culture and mainstream evangelicalism, Matt Chandler, is at it once again.Recently, Village Church was exposed for building partnerships with radical Islamic groups for the promotion of the social gospel. While he is well known for dabbling in questionable theology, and promoting mysticism … Read more

Sorry Steve Austin, You Did Not “Find God in a Gay Bar”

The redefining of the word “church” continues. The Emergent movement earlier this century popularized the idea that has probably been an undercurrent in the church since the Higher Criticism became vogue around the turn of the twentieth century. The way these liberal thinking “Christians” want to redefine “church” is to make it centered around man … 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

The “Dumb Dogs” of Charismania

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

The Long History of Russell Moore’s Break with Southern Baptist Values

Recently, Dr. Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has caught flack for the debacle that was his opposition to the candidacy President-elect Donald J. Trump.  Many high-profile Southern Baptists are openly opposing his leadership of the ERLC and some are questioning the need for that organization to exist at all.  For good … Read more

Turning a Gospel Preacher into a Mystical Guru

**Editor’s Note: This Review was written by Bruce W. Davidson, and is being published here with permission. A Review of Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards by Kyle Strobel Bruce W. DAVIDSON Introduction One of the unfortunate results of the current boom of interest in Jonathan Edwards is … Read more