Our unprecedented emergency?

This article below primarily represents conversation between Fox News host Tucker Carlson and self-identifying as a liberal feminist, Naomi Wolf, a Yale graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. (On most points of interest, Carlson and Wolf would have debate, but they are of one accord on this theme!) It reveals how the United States of America is rapidly progressing towards becoming a totalitarian state. Taking advantage of the pandemic, the Deep State, the media, and corporate America are trampling on our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><

Our unprecedented emergency? American Renewal Project  Self-identifying as a liberal feminist, Naomi Wolf is a Yale graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. She has ten books to her name and recently sounded the alarm at the growing power of “autocratic tyrants” who are placing sustainable freedom in jeopardy in America. LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING EXCELLANT VIDEO:  video.foxnews.com/v/6234512327001#sp=show-clips “The terrible crisis that we’re in under the guise of a real medical pandemic,” Ms. Wolf told Tucker Carlson, “[is] really moving us into a coup situation, a police state. The state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship, as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies, … which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, is restricting movement. … The violations go on and on and on. “Tens of thousands of small businesses have been crushed; why were they crushed? Not because the pandemic forced them to, there is no real science underlying a lot of these closures, it’s about autocratic tyrants at the state and national levels creating a kind of merger of corporate power and government power, which is really characteristic of Italian fascism from the ’20s. “They’re using that to engage in a kind of emergency orders that simply strip us of our rights: rights to property, rights to assembly, rights to worship, and all of the rights that our Constitution guarantees. “I know from history that [tyrannical decrees] always drag on and on and on. Every month I get an email that Governor Cuomo is extending emergency powers [and] emergency measures. “Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that all of this [freedom] can be suspended if there is a bad disease. We have lived through typhus, cholera, smallpox, HIV, tuberculosis, polio, the Spanish Flu, we’ve lived through an attack on our soil, never have there been months and months and months of emergency powers when we weren’t actually fighting a war. “This is completely unprecedented – lockdowns have never been done before in free societies – and we’re turning into a version of a totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes.” Here are some of the demoralizing examples of the hypocritical self-righteousness and sanctimonious underhandedness of political leaders who are supposed to lead by example: Nancy Pelosi’s “good-for-thee-but-not-for-me” duplicity of getting her hair done during the lockdown. Governor Newsom running up a $12K wine tab at The French Laundry, a three-star Michelin restaurant private room with lobbyists [all without the masks implemented by Newsom’s government edict]. California Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell’s intimacy with a Chinese spy while [still] serving on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. Virginia Governor Northam’s black face and rumored claim to have violated his state’s stay-at-home order to travel to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Bill Clinton’s rendezvous with Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix. The shakedown of foreign enemies by the Clinton couple to fund the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. President Obama’s own possible collusion in concealing and destroying evidence and exculpatory information to a FISA court. President Obama’s potential complicity in the infiltration of candidate Trump’s presidential campaign. And most recently media’s cover-up of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home COVID scandal. Whereas in the past any of the above would have brought riot, revolution or repentance, this is no longer the case, with the American electorate having turned into meek sheep. The Main Street Media’s subterfuge and false self-presentation as “fair and balanced” is wearing thin. With their thumbs on the scales of liberal bias in media, liberal partiality in elections, and collusion with the sway and lordliness of Big Tech and Silicon Valley – who feel no need to disguise their iron curtain censorship and enmity towards those with a different opinion or ideology – the MSM has become indistinguishable from the Soviet propaganda organs of Izvestia and Pravda. It happens right under everyone’s nose. Speaker Pelosi, Governor Newsom, Governor Northam, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former President Bill Clinton, and snooping on presidential candidate Trump’s campaign, all get a free pass, while both spurious impeachment attempts of former President Trump are supported.  Allum Bokhari, the senior technology correspondent for Breitbart News, lays it all out: “Today, Big Tech doesn’t just mean control over online information. It means control over news. It means control over commerce. It means control over politics. And how are the corporate tech giants using their control? Judging by the three biggest moves they have made – the censoring of the New York Post in October when it published its blockbuster stories on Biden family corruption, the censorship and eventual banning from the Web of President Trump, and the coordinated takedown of the upstart social media site Parler – it is obvious that Big Tech’s priority today is to support the political Left and the Washington establishment. “Without any oversight or checks and balances, we will never have another free and fair election. [Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Amazon] don’t just want to control information or even voting behavior – they want to manipulate people’s worldview.1 Harold J. Berman [1918-2007], the American legal scholar once described as “one of the great polymaths of American legal education,” made it equally clear: “Law has to be believed in, or it will not work. It involves not only man’s reason and will, but his emotions, his intuitions and commitments, and his faith. “The very concept of the ongoingness of law, of its organic growth over generations and centuries, is itself a religious concept rooted in Judaism and Christianity. Moreover, in Western history since the 11th century the ongoing legal tradition has been interrupted periodically by great revolutions, each of which has attacked the preexisting system of law in the name of a religious or quasi-religious vision [read secularism] and each of which has eventually created new legal institutions based on that vision.”2“Great revolution” is the term used by Pat Buchanan in his prophetic 2007 bestseller, Day of Reckoning. “The real revolution of the last half-century began in the 1960s and drove wedges through society that endure today. This revolution involved the repudiation of America’s past as racist, sexist, imperialist, and genocidal in its treatment of women, Indians, Africans, and all peoples of color. “This revolution involved the rejection and overthrow of traditional Christian morality and Christianity itself as bigoted and repressive, and the conversion of the young to a sensuality, self-indulgence, and promiscuity condemned by all Christian faiths. “This revolution involved the overturning of all laws rooted in Christian doctrine regarding divorce, homosexuality, abortion, and the purge of all Christian symbols, books, and practices from public schools. This revolution was about de-Christianizing and secularizing America.”3All this have been achieved through the removal of prayer to Jehovah God from public education in 1962 [Engel v. Vitale]; the removal of the Bible – after 300 years of America’s meteoric rise – from public schools in 1963 [Abington School District v. Schempp]; the removal of the Ten Commandments from public schools, courthouses, and government buildings in 1980 [Stone v. Graham]; the extermination of unborn babies in 1973 [Roe v. Wade]; the exaltation and normalization of homosexual intercourse and legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 [Obergefell v. Hodges]; the expansion of homosexual and transgender rights in 2020 [Bostock v. Clayton County]; and the passing of the Equality Act by the House Democratic leadership on February 25, 2021.It all shows a nation morally adrift. When spiritual understanding in the culture is lacking, when America’s political class and leadership fails to acknowledge the inherent merits of a Biblically based culture, when Democrat and Republican leadership is littered with cultural Marxists and serial adulterers, when judicial decisions are based on “hunches” instead of truth, we will have no trouble understanding why God has paused His blessings on a once Christian nation. Sin and suffering are inevitable companions. What should be done?1. Reestablishing prayer in America’s churches.2. Returning of American Christendom to Jesus’ Kingdom assignment in Matthew 16:18: His ekklesia located in the public square3. Pastors, ministry leaders or congregants of every church in America going for or holding a local elected office. Yet thanks be to God, there is a little cloud about “the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea” [1 Kings 18:44]. Gideons and Rehabs are beginning to stand. David Lane American Renewal Project1. imprimis.hillsdale.edu/control-need-rein-big-tech/2. Harold J. Berman, The Interaction of Law and Religion3. Pat Buchanan, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2007.

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Shepherd/Guardian Exposes A Plethora Of Rick Warren’s Heresies

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Heresy Alert!!! Rick Warren May Be A False Teacher!

Posted on October 30, 2013by shepherdguardian

http://surphside.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-rick-warren-is-false-teacher.html

Here are reasons why Rick Warren is a false teacher:

Warren Is Loved By The World
Secular stores and companies promote Warren’s PDL books. He is on multitudes of secular tv shows, conferences, etc. In other words, there’s a reason his books are selling like hotcakes. At Warren’s Purpose Driven Lifesite they quote the following:“The Times ( London) – “ Business and political leaders across America are turning to Rick Warren for guidance.”TIME – “Movie stars and political leaders aren’t the only ones turning to Rick Warren for spiritual guidance. Millions of people – from NFL and LPGA players to corporate executives to high school students to prison inmates – meet regularly to discuss The Purpose Driven Life.”Notice they aren’t discussing Scripture. They aren’t turning to the Lord Jesus Christ. No, they are getting their ears tickled by a man who’s selling them the Loreal cosmetics line, “because you’re worth it”. And you know what? He learned it from marketing guru Peter Drucker as well as Warren’s mentor, New Age heretic, Robert Schuller. When God-haters swarm to you, buy up your books, love you, applaud you, etc., you know something is wrong, right?Scripture says in contrast to the world loving Jesus Christ’s disciples, that :Luk 6:26 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.”

Joh 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Rick Warren Is Pro-Homosexual

Warren isn’t sure if homosexuals go to Heaven or not and leaves room for homosexuality to not be a sin. 

http://christiannews.net/2012/11/29/rick-warren-uncertain-if-homosexual-behavior-is-sinful-says-gays-go-to-heaven/

“Gay Dads celebrate Father’s Day with Rick Warren, author of ‘The Purpose Driven Life‘”  :

This Father’s Day, a group of LGBT and straight-ally families will spend their holiday in a way that is both extraordinary and profoundly commonplace: they will attend services at Saddleback Church, the mega-church founded by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life.

The following day, the families will join leaders from Saddleback Church for a private meal and conversation.

The visit is the conclusion of a six-week journey, a gay-friendly family road trip, to initiate dialogue with mega-church congregations across the nation. In December 2007, organizers of the project – which is called The American Family Outing – invited the leaders of six major mega-churches to match families from their congregations with LGBT families for a meal and conversation. Then, on Mother’s Day 2008, the outing began with a visit to Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas…

“The meetings have been an occasion to clear up misperceptions on both sides and to begin to focus on what we have in common,” says Jeff Lutes, Executive Director of Soulforce and one of the organizers of the American Family Outing.

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That is code for: to convince “Christians” that homosexuality is normal and that God doesn’t deem it a sin nor damnable. The problem is that God does:

1Co 6:9  Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

1Ti 1:10  the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers,

and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

 

Jud 1:7  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in

sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a

punishment of eternal fire.

 

There’s also Romans 1:23-27, 1Cor. 5:11, and Matt. 11:24.

Warren praised Obama appointing homosexual activist and Episcopalian priest:

“But then Robinson was selected this week to give the invocation at the inaugural opening ceremony at the Sunday afternoon concert on the Mall.”

“Warren issued a statement praising Obama for selecting Robinson, saying the president-elect “has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground. I applaud his desire to be the president of every citizen.”- The Washington Post

“I was trying to point out I’m not opposed to gays having their partnership. I’m opposed to gays using theterm marriage for their relationship.” – Rick Warren as reported by OneNewsNow . He also says something similar in his interview with beliefnet.

****Another Update****April 8, 2009

Rick Warren lies about his support for Prop 8 and blames the media (however “indirectly”) for people thinking he’s against homosexuality. He makes his support FOR it clear. However it seems not many are buying it; even the liberal homosexuals are still upset with him.

Whenever a “Christian” compromises on a clear biblical doctrine, I’ve often found there’s a relationship at stake. He does just that. But then, he’s not a Christian.

Rick Warren is a Universalist
“I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.” —Rick Warren, Aspen Ideas Festival, The Aspen Institute, July 6, 2005, “Discussion: Religion and Leadership,” with David Gergen and Rick Warren

“…You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I’m not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.” —Rick Warren, United Nations, Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, September 2005

Warren says those of other faiths together with “Christians” “serve the same Lord“. Source: Christianity Today as quoted by Lighthouse Trails Research

He holds hands with all religions for the sake of poverty instead of being seperate from them and proclaim the Gospel as 2Cor. 6 commands. ~ A Little Leaven

Rick Warren’s False Gospel

In regard to his PDL book John MacArthur noted “some significant points where the thrust of the book is [at] odds with the message of Scripture. He pointed out, for example, that the truegospel is a call to self-denial, not self-fulfillment. The gospel is a message about redemption,not about life’s purpose. The gospel according to Scripture deals with God’s law, His grace,human depravity, redemption from sin, justification, sanctification, holiness, the nature ofsaving faith, and the lordship of Christ. And the true gospel’s most essential features are thecross of Christ and the truth of the resurrection. None of those subjects is dealt with
adequately or biblically in The Purpose-Driven Life.”–Grace To You Statement

Rick Warren said on Hannity’s show in 2008, on how to get to heaven: “Give as much of yourself as you understand to as much as you understand about me and then keep growing in it.”

That isn’t biblical. Jesus said we MUST believe in Him as the resurrected Master,God and Savior and to repent of our sins and trust in only HIS work, not our’s (see John 8:24,58; John 14:6;Mat. 3:2; Luke 13:3; Acts 2:38; Acts 8:22 for instance). He says we are to count the cost and die to Self (Luke 14:26-27). We are saved in and by Truth:

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Col 1:4 since we HEARD of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of thehope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the THE WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL ,6 whichhas come to you, as indeed in the whole IT IS BEARING FRUIT AND GROWING –as it also does among you,since the day YOU HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD THE GRACE OF GOD IN TRUTH,

2 Thes. 2: 13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit AND THROUGH BELIEF in the TRUTH. 14 He called you to THIS THROUGH OUR GOSPEL , that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someonepreaching 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are thefeet of those who preach the good news!” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing throughthe word of Christ.

In an interview with inter-faith website “beliefnet” :

To the question (the question itself reveals a wrong view of unbelief as if its merely a mistake, but I digress): “So why wouldn’t he [God] if we get to the gates of heaven and say “I didn’t believe in you. Boy do I have egg on my face,” as it were. “It was a horrible mistake.” Why wouldn’t he forgive that too?”

Warren answers: “I think that it’s not just a matter of knowledge. I think God’s gonna take care of a matter of… I don’t know about people who don’t know. I really don’t know. I know that the Bible says that Jesus is the way to heaven. I do, I do know that.”

However, to not believe in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ means no entry to heaven. To not know means one is not believing. Its that simple. God has indeed revealed Himself to all people and no one is without excuse to worship Him (see Romans 1:17-20; Heb 11:6).

But again, he is like Graham and Schuller: “I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.” —Rick Warren

Warren’s Low View of Scripture: Its not his onlyauthority:

Again, in Warren’s beliefnet interview he says, “And we believe that when God speaks to us that’s called inspiration. When Satan speaks to us that’s called temptation. And when I’m talking to myself and I think it’s God, that’s delusion.”

Inspiration is not God talking to us. Inspiration is God speaking out words. Its not about us. But notice the underlining authority issue. If Scripture is inspired and a man who claims God is talking to him, and that’s “inspired”, now you’ve got competing “inspirational authorities“.

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Mat 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.‘”

Warren goes on in his beliefnet interview:

“I do accept the Bible as a standard of authority and I judge my experience by it not vice versa.”

So Scripture is merely “a” standard of authority for Warren. Its certainly not THE standard for him. That’s why he can say there are people in other religions that are saved.

God says HIS Word is THE Standard:

Is. 8: 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Rick Warren Denies the Doctrine of Justification and Total Depravity:

He continues in his interview:

“But going back to this thing about heaven and getting into a perfect place. Let’s say we got a scale of 1 to 100. Let’s put Hitler at zero and Mother Teresa at 100 OK. And Steve you’re at 85 and Larry’s at 65 and I’m at 45.The truth is, some people are better than others, there’s no doubt about it. Some people are more moral than others, they’re nicer, they’re less selfish, less self-centered, things like that. But the truth is, nobody makes [it] to perfection… And so somebody’s got to make up that difference. And that’s the gift I believe Jesus came to – to make up the difference between my zero and my 100 or my 45 and 100 — somebody’s got to make up that difference. “

This is entirely contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ! No one makes up the difference. This assumes there’s some good in people, and what, Jesus makes up for our lack? He’s actually using man as the standard….if someone is 10% good, Jesus adds 90%? No! Jesus did NOT come to add to our goodness. This is a denial of the doctrine of Justification which assumes our total sinfulness. Scripture says:

Rom 3:10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.12 All have turned aside; together theyhave become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience–Eph 2:3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and wereby nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Rom 4:4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

Warren says God’s Gift Is Also A Curse:

“The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is thefree will. We are made in God’s image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.”-Rick Warren, beliefnet interview

God’s “greatest gift” is a curse? Where is that in Scripture? The Bible states that ALL God does is good. HIS gifts are all good:

Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Mat 7:11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Rick’s view of God’s “greatest gift” which is also accursed apparently, is very man-centered. Scripture says we do not have the ability to love God or not reject Him. Instead it says we are born hating Him, in bondage to sin:

Rom 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins Eph 2:2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience–Eph 2:3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

1Co 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Rom 8:7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 

Folks, there is no such thing as being neutral toward God and sin, ever, for any person at any time.

In addition, Rick says we are made in the image of God therefore we can choose to not love Him—how is the choice to sin “being made in the image of God”? God has no choice to sin.

Heb 6:18 “so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie….”

1Jn 1:5 “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” 

Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ….5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1Jn 4:10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

We are born hating God. It is ONLY AFTER being justified and saved that God pours HIS LOVE INTO OUR HEARTS that we can THEN love HIM and others.

Warren doesn’t make sense. But his statements sure reveals his strange view of God.

Warren Denies the Absolute Sovereignty of God
Warren continues in his interview with beliefnet:

“No body works correctly – we all have problems with our bodies. The weather doesn’t work correctly – tornados and hurricanes and stuff like that. It’s the result of living on a broken planet. That’s why we’re to pray “Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven” ‘cause in heaven it’s done perfectly.

God’s will is not done most of the time on earth. When people go, “oh, that hurricane must have been God’s will” – baloney! That wasn’t God’s will. God’s will is not done most of the time. If I go out and get drunk and run over a pregnant mother and kill her and her baby, that’s not God’s will, that’s my will.” ~Rick Warren

As for our bodies and infirmities, etc., its good to remember God is still in control of that too, even though they are the affects of The Fall:

Exo 4:11 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf,or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Ps. 119: 71 It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.

2 Cor. 12: 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Gal. 4: 13 As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Contrary to Rick’s god, the true God of Scripture takes credit for the weather, as it is His tool to do His bidding:

Exo 9:18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Job 38:22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

Psa 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.

Psa 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, and fiery lightning bolts through their land.

Psa 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, 8 fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!

Because God is Sovereign and Creator, He does as He wishes with the weather. The Flood is a good example of this, as is the drought of three years during Isaiah’s time. God’s is actively bringing about His plan—His plan revealed is called prophecy. It seems that Rick has issues with this.God is truly in control of His whole creation and this is cause for great comfort and peace:

Ps. 33: 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. 9 For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm. 10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. 11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

Dan 2:20 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. 21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Rick Warren Says Doctrine Doesn’t Matter
Warren also said:
“And I think that one day, everyone of us is gonna stand before God and he’s not gonna say, “What religion were you? Were you Jewish? Were you Christian? Were you Buddhist? Baptist?” I don’t think he’s gonna say, “What church did you go to?” I think he’s gonna say first thing, first, “What did you do with my son who I sent to earth? Did you ever really get to know him? Did you even check him out? Did you trial test faith in him?” You know, “What did you do?” It’s about a relationship not a religion.” – Warren in his beliefnet interview
Remember, Rick has already stated:
“I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.” —Rick Warren Aspen Ideas Festival, The Aspen Institute, July 6, 2005, “Discussion: Religion and Leadership,” with David Gergen and Rick Warren

“…You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I’m not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.” —Rick Warren United Nations, Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, September 2005

Also, Rick signed the unity letter to the Muslims, declaring that Christians and Muslims worship the true God. We know that is not true because Islam denies Jesus Christ who is God and they deny the Trinity.

Scripture states, “2Jn 1:9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” We know that “Allah” is not Jehovah because Allah has no Son, is mutable (he had to perfect his light and also add mercy to himself), and “is the greatest of deceivers” according to Islam itself!

On page 34 of his PDL book, Warren says, “God won’t ask about your religious background or doctrinal views. The only thing that will matter is, did you accept what Jesus did for you and did you learn to love and trust him?”

Which Jesus? Which God? Accept what, exactly, about Jesus? If God asks people if they “checked out Jesus” and they rejected Him (this assumes people are neutral, and not born haters of God, HIS enemy), will God then be obligated to welcome them into heaven? After all, they could answer yes (Rick has challenged people to give “Jesus a 60 day try”). Acts 17:30 says that God commands all men to repent. This isn’t a “try out Jesus” or “check Him out” like a mere object of interest that he’s trying to sell. Where is the fear of God here? That’s something to really consider.

2Thes. 2: 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH and so be saved.

Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fatherexcept through me.

Gal 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to adifferent gospel– 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort thegospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the onewe preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching toyou a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. 10 For am I now seeking the approval of man,or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Warren continues in his beliefnet interview:

“And the second question is gonna be the question of, “What did you do with what I gave you? The talent, the ability, the resources, the network, the opportunities, the health, the freedom?” And we are going to be evaluated and judged NOT on our relationship to other people, in terms of, ‘well he did better and he did worse,’ but what did you do with what you were given.So, a retarded person, who does not have mental capabilities will be judged on a totally different scale. In fact the Bible says that people who don’t even have the ability to acknowledge God or to accept Christ, that they’re safe. They are safe. That’s why I believe babies automatically go to Heaven. Every baby does go to Heaven. “~ Rick Warren

He gave no Scripture for this either. There is none. He’s lying. He’s making something up that isn’t in Scripture anywhere. That’s quite a dogmatic statement considering its nowhere to be found in all of Scripture.

In fact, Scripture tells of only one way to be justified and to be saved: by faith in Christ Jesus alone. See Rom. 4 & 10:9-10.

Rom 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

What God does with babies or “retarded” people is not addressed in Scripture. There can be no dogmatic statement made on such an issue simply because God doesn’t give any. Opinions are not Scripture, remember.

It seems that Warren doesn’t believe that all men are born sinners, hating God, but God does and this is the bottom line issue:

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience–3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Rom 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

1Co 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Warren Built a “Church” For Unregenerate Enemies of God:

As I stated here, Warren also inquired unbelievers what they wanted in a church. You will start to notice same terms used by both men in describing unbelievers (“un-churched”):In “The Purpose Driven Church”, Warren said, “As I shared in chapter 1, I began Saddleback by going door-to-door for twelve weeks and surveying the unchurched in my area. Six years earlier I had read Robert Schuller’s book “your Church Has Real Possibilities”, which told how he had gone door-to-door in 1955 and asked hundreds of people, “Why don’t you go to church?” and “What do you want in a church?” I thought this was a great idea…” (p. 190).

An article on Rick Warren in Reader’s Digest (no longer supporting PDL magazine):

Warren changed a great deal as he progressed from a preacher who wanted to “build a church for people who hate church” to worldwide religious leader. He spoke with Reader’s Digest—whose parent company recently launched his new magazine, Purpose Driven Connection—twice in recent months.

I pulled off the highway, and we walked into this real estate office and met an agent named Don Dale….We were driving to the condo with him and I said, “Hey, Don, do you go to church anywhere?” He said, “No, no. I hate church.” I said, “Great. You’re my first member.” We started with my family and his family. Our first service was on Easter Sunday in 1980, with 200 people. For Easter in 2008, we had 14 services back-to-back, with 45,000 people. Don is still a member here.

Warren and Social JusticeHis infamous PEACE plan: The dangers with this is dealt here and here.
At Urbana 06, Warren taught about his five stages of renewal: “Personal Renewal, Relational Renewal, Purpose Renewal, Structural Renewal, and CULTURAL RENEWL – “A changed church will change their culture,” said Warren, and will ultimately impact their surrounding communities and culture.”

Holds hands with unbelievers to promote social justice, just like Keller:
Speaker at TED conferences: “In recent years, Warren has become a prominent steward of social justice, speaking out on poverty relief and encouraging spiritual leaders to play a role in guiding the planet toward sustainability. (He even attended the premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, after meeting Al Gore and producer Lawrence Bender at TED2006.)” TED is full of unbeliers like J.J. Abrams, Peter Gabriel, Tony Robbins, Amy Tan, and Al Gore.

Warren Promotes Inter-Faith, Eastern Mysticism, and Emergent Church Movement Leader Dan Kimball:

He is on Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation Advisory Council. What this foundation is about:

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation aims to promote respect and understanding about the world’s major religions and show how faith is a powerful force for good in the modern world.

Faith is vitally important to hundreds of millions of people. It underpins systems of thought and of behaviour. It underpins many of the world’s great movements for change or reform, including many charities. And the values of respect, justice and compassion that our great religions share have never been more relevant or important to bring people together to build a better world.

But religious faith can also be used to divide. We have seen throughout history and today we still see how it can be distorted to fan the flames of hatred and extremism.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is a response to these opportunities and challenges. We will use the full power of modern communications to support and step up efforts at every level to educate, inform and develop understanding about the different faiths and between them.

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In reporting on “The Shack” Warren Smith reveals more error with Rick Warren, and The Shack

Quote:

But God is not in every single human being. God is not in everything. One of the many reasons I wrote Deceived on Purpose was because Rick Warren presented his readers with this same “God ineverything” teaching. Quoting an obviously flawed New Century Bibletranslation of Ephesians 4:6, Rick Warren — whether he meant to or not — was teaching his millions of readers the foundational doctrine of the New World Religion. Describing God in his book, The Purpose-Driven Life, he wrote:“He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.”(p. 88)

Describing God in his book, The Purpose-Driven Life, he wrote:“He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.” (p. 88) Compounding the matter further, “immanence” has been taught as part of the Foundations class at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. An ill-defined reference to immanence on page 46 of the Saddleback Foundations Participants Guide plays right into the hands of the New Spirituality/New World Religion by stating:“The fact that God stands above and beyond his creation does not mean he stands outside his creation. He is both transcendent (above and beyond his creation) and immanent (within and throughout his creation).”

Warren endorses Lectio Divina prayers:
How to think like a world class Christian by Rick Warren:“Begin asking the Holy Spirit to help you to think of the spiritual need of unbelievers whenever you talk to them. With practice, you can develop the habit of praying silent “breath prayers” for those you encounter.Say “Father, help me to understand what is keeping this person from knowing you.””

 

More on Warren promoting Breath Prayers here.

 

Saddleback Community Church offers : Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina by Michael Casey, and Eat This Book: Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene Peterson

Warren’s Pastors.com site, author James Emery White promotes Eastern mystic Desert Fathers and Thomas Merton, along with Roman monk Benedict who promoted Lectio Divina:

 

Quote:“In his catalog of wisdom from the desert fathers of the fourth century, Thomas Merton tells of a certain brother who went to Abbot Moses in Scete and asked him for a good word. The elder said to him, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.”

The power of silence and solitude has been recognized throughout the history ofspiritual formation. 

“Silence is the absence of sound and quiet the stilling of sound,” writes Frederick Buechner.

“Quiet chooses to be silent. It holds its breath to listen.” The rule of St. Benedictspeaks of cultivating silence in our lives.

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Warren promotes Emergent Dan Kimball and Lectio Divina at his Pastors.com website.

 

Warren Deals With DissentersJoseph Farah of World Net Daily comments on what Rick Warren says about disunity:

While mega-pastor Rick Warren has joined a group of 100 church leaders calling for interfaith dialogue and the building of “common ground” with Muslims, he has a slightly different outlook toward Christians with whom he disagrees.In his latest missive to fellow pastors, he writes: “You’ve got to protect the unity of your church. If that means getting rid of troublemakers, do it.”

“As pastors, as shepherds of God’s people, it’s our job to protect our congregations from Satan’s greatest weapon – disunity,” he writes. “It’s not always easy, but it’s what we’ve been called to do.”

…Has it ever occurred to Rick Warren that pastors have been wrong? Has it ever occurred to Rick Warren that pastors might teach unbiblical principles? Has it ever occurred to Rick Warren no earthly pastor is the recipient of all Divine revelation? Has it ever occurred to Rick Warren that pastors have led entire flocks into grave error that may have eternal consequences?

Has it ever occurred to Rick Warren that he, too, might be capable of such mistakes? Rick Warren makes a spiritually fatal error when he proclaims, without any biblical authority, that Satan’s greatest weapon is disunity. That is simply not true. The Bible reveals over and over again that even one spirit-filled believer can stand up against Satan. God is not impressed with numbers. He doesn’t need numbers for victory. He doesn’t care about big churches. He doesn’t care about the cathedrals of men. He wants numbers only because He is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

No, Satan’s greatest weapon is hardly disunity. His greatest weapon since his fall and since the Garden of Eden has been deception. In fact, Satan loves unity – as long as those unified are knowingly or unknowingly serving him. He’d love for all of us to “go to hell in a handbasket.”Are more people led to death by debate within the body of Christ or by spiritual leaders who demand absolute obedience to themselves?

Paul warned us about this, too, in Acts 20:29-30: “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”

For heaven’s sake, nothing could be clearer from Scripture than that no man has a monopoly on truth. That is why Paul even had to correct Peter (Galatians 2:11-14). Besides worshipping God, this would seem to be one of the principal purposes of the church.

The church is warned over and over about false teachers throughout the Bible. Surely Rick Warren is familiar with those warnings. Why would he assume all pastors to be righteous and assume all lay dissenters to be unrighteous?

And, equally curious, why does Rick Warren eagerly seek to find common ground with Muslim leaders while, at the same time, so ruthlessly advocating the disfellowship of Christian believers?
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Now, I don’t know Farah’s theology well, and I don’t agree with his interpretation of 2Peter 3, but his points about dissent from error and false teachers and shepherds are good ones.

“The WSJ [Wall Street Journal, “Veneration Gap – A Popular Strategy For Church Growth Splits Congregants,” written by WSJ reporter Suzanne Sataline, 9-5-06] article accurately showed that “Congregations nationwide have split or expelled members who fought the [Purpose Driven] changes,” and that Purpose Driven training for pastors and leaders meant “help[ing] them leave if they don’t stop objecting” and “when those congregants join a new church … pastors should call their new minister and suggest that the congregants be barred from any leadership role.””

Here’s an excellent article from Crossroad on how Warren and the PDLers deal with dissenters.

Warren Promotes Eastern Mysticism

As Bob DeWaay notes in his article:

“Warren also promotes “breath prayers” which are endless repetitions of short phrases (Warren: 89). Jesus forbids this type of prayer: “And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words” (Matthew 6:7). It is a pagan practice that has the effect of shutting down the mind. Warren suggests that God will share His secrets with us if we follow Warren’s techniques (Warren: 91). He promises that the meditative techniques he promotes will “let God speak to you” (Warren: 91). He says, “In the next chapter we will see four more secrets of cultivating a friendship with God” (Warren: 91).”

More on his promotion of Eastern Mysticism here.

Rick Warren is a theological mess. Moreover he’s a snake (to use an N.T. term), because saying a lot of things that sound ok, he’s pulled the wool over many eyes. He is false teacher and does not know the Gospel. He finds agreement with the enemies of the Cross (contrary to 2Cor. 6:14-17 that states be not unequally yoked with unbelievers/ there’s no common ground between unbelievers and believers.)

I suggest reading a few articles:

Richard Bennett on the “gospel” of the Purpose Driven Life.

John MacArthur on PDL’s lack of the biblical Gospel and assurance of salvation based on error.

Side by side comparison of what Warren says versus what Scripture says, throughout the PDL book here.

Various articles on PDL here.

Remember, error isn’t always in what is said, but can often be in what is NOT said.

As Bob DeWaay rightly put it:

“Warren’s explanation of God leaves out many important truths and emphasizes those qualities that make God feel close and safe. This does not result in a full, Biblical understanding of God. You will never hear about God’s wrath against sin from Warren. You will never hear the warnings in the Bible about God’s coming judgment. You will not learn about God’s holiness from Warren. You will not hear passages like this: “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven” (Hebrews 12:25).”

Eph 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.7 Therefore do not become partners with them;8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

1Jn 2:21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Mat 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Mat 7:17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

2Tim. 4: 14 Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. 15 You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.

Gal 1:9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. 10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

I’d like to leave you with this:

Dr. Harry Ironside, pastor of Chicago’s Moody Memorial Church from 1930-1948 said:

“Error is like leaven, of which we read, ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.’ Truth mixed with error is equivalent to all error, except that it is more innocent looking and, therefore, more dangerous. God hates such a mixture! Any error, or any truth-and-error mixture, calls for definite exposure and repudiation. To condone such is to be unfaithful to God and His Word and treacherous to imperiled souls for whom Christ died.”

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Which view of coronavirus is right?

 

‌ ‌It is hard to know to which of the various views on the coronavirus we should listen.

To paraphrase A.W. Tozer, what God is saying to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition, and upon the spiritual need of the hour. What we need are those in America with the ability to appraise the religious landscape as viewed from God’s position and to tell us what is actually going on.1

Up to now President Trump’s most compelling reason for reelection to a large segment of Americans was a bustling economy, but not so to Evangelicals, because the president has honored his campaign promises from 2016:

Defend religious liberty.
Stand for the unborn.
Defund Planned Parenthood. [Blocked by House.]
Build a Wall on Southern Border.
Appoint conservative jurists to the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts.
Reinstate the Mexico City Policy [i.e. block U.S. federal funding of abortion].
Rescind the Johnson Amendment [alias the pastor muzzle act].
Recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy to the Holy City.

Like the queen being captured in a chess match, the advantage of a bustling economy has been removed from the table by the devastating effects of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy. As a result, Trump’s reelection this fall is no longer a given.

Some independent voices currently are questioning the authority of “city, state and federal politicians shutting down the economy, presumably for our own good. Or at least what they presume to be our own good.”

“Government spending is just another word for private sector spending orchestrated by politicians. All wealth is created in the private sector only for government to politicize spending of this private sector wealth creation to the tune of $4 to $5 trillion per year. The growth once again already happened, hence the ability of Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell et al to spend.”2

A.W. Pink identifies the cunning Gibeonite deception in Joshua 9 as a perfect example of “the dual character in which Satan opposes the people of God and the methods he employs therein – as the roaring lion seeking to devour, as the subtle serpent using deceit. Both Scriptural and ecclesiastical history demonstrate that the latter is far more dangerous and successful than the former. When open persecution fails either to exterminate or intimidate the faithful, Satan resorts to his secret wiles, which only too often corrupt their testimony. Nor is the reason for this hard to discover. Not only is the former method much more easily detected, but fierce opposition casts believers upon the Lord for enabling strength and fortitude, and thus proves a blessing in disguise to them, whereas they are very apt to be less on their guard against Satan’s sly artifices, and if pride persuades them that they are too well established in the Truth to be misled by error or taken in by hypocrites, they more easily fall victims of his snares.”3

The Obama years seemingly represented the roaring lion seeking to devour: inciting racial hatred, allowing Ferguson to burn, letting IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner target conservative Christian groups, with her then pleading the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee. Though never indicted, she was just the warmup act.

Add in Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s shakedown of Corporate America for the shady Clinton Foundation, AG Eric Holder’s lawlessness, and what comes into view is a two-tiered justice system. Unevenly applied law has a name; it is called corruption.

Christians have entered the devious perplexity of the serpent cycle, beginning toward the end of the Obama Administration, or there about. Russian collusion, impeachment and Ukraine, and now a worldwide pandemic of panic. All need to be observed and differentiated through the lens of Biblical discernment.

For what’s happening in America is spiritual. To spell it out once again: two distinct religions are vying for control of the public square, eternal and immutable Christianity versus transient and mutable Secularism. These two distinct religions cannot coexist as one will ultimately end in the destruction of the other.

Praise His name that we have an Ally, our war is His war, and we can rely on Him.

Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand in America, lending evidence that there is to be a spiritual resurrection of America.

David Lane
American Renewal Project

1. A.W. Tozer, The Size of the Soul.
2. John Tamny, Dear Conservatives, If You Bail Out Everyone You Bail Out No One; article in RealClearMarkets, March 18, 2020.
3. A.W. Pink, Gleanings from Joshua.

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A.F. Branco Cartoon – Yuge Shoes to Fill

A.F. BRANCO

on May 22, 2020 at 7:00 am

Obama, the worst president ever, is now calling Trump incompetent for his job well done on the corona-crisis. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.

A.F. Branco has taken his two greatest passions, (art and politics) and translated them into the cartoons that have been popular all over the country, in various news outlets including “Fox News”, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and “The Washington Post.” He has been recognized by such personalities as Dinesh D’Souza, James Woods, Sarah Palin, Larry Elder, Lars Larson, Rush Limbaugh, and has had his toons tweeted by President Trump.

ERLC Pastor Bart Barber Hosts Racist, Democrat, Egalitarian Liberal at Church

People who have followed the leftist downward spiral of the Southern Baptist Convention, realize that Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), represents the liberal wing behind this political power play.  Moore has shown his disdain for President Donald Trump, even though 75% of evangelicals support him.  Furthermore, he has revealed his support for abortion proponent Hillary Clinton.  The organization works in tandem with George Soros on open borders and amnesty-centered immigration, and they lobbied for a Mosque to be built in New Jersey.  Read to your hearts’ content, the following article from the Pulpit and Pen.  One can gain much more information from the articles on the SBC takeover by going to the Pulpit and Pens’ website (see link below).  Do not be guilty of ignorance:

Hosea 4:6 King James Version (KJV)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Blessings, Pastor Steve  <><

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ERLC Pastor Bart Barber Hosts Racist, Democrat, Egalitarian Liberal at Church

Bart Barber is the pastor at FBC Farmersville and serves as a research fellow on the Democratic Wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). Run by a former Democratic staffer, Russell Moore, the organization works in tandem with George Soros on open borders and amnesty-centered immigration, lobbied for a Mosque to be built in New Jersey, has largely abandoned the fight against abortion, and exists to attack conservative Republican candidates for office while bilking Southern Baptists in the charade that they’re fighting for a conservative worldview. Instead, the ERLC is hosting Obama campaign staffers who created the blueprints for the Democrat Party’s takeover of the SBC.

We wrote about Barber recently in the post, Bart Barber and the Professional Idiots of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The ERLC relies upon its lesser-known research fellows to serve as attack-dogs against conservative Republicans, which is well-documented. These men, like Barber, are lackeys and useful idiots who help to push the ERLC’s radical leftist agenda inside their churches.

Over the weekend, Barber hosted a radical Democrat leftist, feminist, and charismatic at his church, using the church’s stage as a podcast studio for Barber’s upcoming podcast debut that will be called the Plowshare Podcast.

Dwight McKissic is a Jessie Jackson-level race-baiter who uses his position as a token spokesman for progressives in the SBC to drive the convention to the left. McKissic proudly voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, a rabidly pro-choice politician who believes in elective abortion up to the point of birth. McKissic, a tongue-speaking charismatic, resigned from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007 over the matter of speaking ecstatic gobbledegook nonsense. Recently, McKissic lashed out at former president of SWBTS, Paige Patterson, accusing him of “racism” when, in fact, he was celebrating the hire of the SBC’s first black president (but that’s what race-baiters do). Then McKissic accused FBC Naples of “racism” because they didn’t hire a woefully unqualified (and liberal) black man. He attacked Founders Ministries for “sowing discord” for speaking up against the Social Gospel.

McKissic claims that it’s possible to vote for Democrats and still be pro-life. Like the ERLC, McKissic redefines what it means to be “pro-life” to support his baby-murdering political party.

   ~   For further information regarding the liberal and apostate attacks on the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and many other vineyards within Christendom, go to the following website:  https://pulpitandpen.org/   ~

Change Of Heart

A.F. Branco Cartoon – Change of Heart
A.F. Branco on December 19, 2019 at 7:40 am

After years of disdain for the U.S. constitution, the Democrats are now pledging their undying love for it and the founders to Justify impeaching Trump. Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019.

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Remember how former President Obama called the Constitution a fluid document?  (Subject to change)

When Spiritual Apostasy Rules

Going by the plausible but deceptive name “Christians Against Christian Nationalism,” secular Christians, spearheaded by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty [BJC], recently announced that “As Christians, we are bound to Christ, not by citizenship, but by faith. … Whether we worship at a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple, America has no second-class faiths.”1

Along with six George Soros-funded religious groups and a variety of other non-Christian organizations, the BJC is co-endorser of “An Interfaith Statement of Principles,” which stigmatizes candidates who appeal to voters based on faith as “inappropriate” and “divisive,” and calls for religious appeals to be removed from political campaigns entirely.2

To all appearances, the message conveyed here implies that “We shouldn’t say that Jesus is the only way to Heaven.”
“We mustn’t insist on an exclusive Christian Gospel, in consideration that Buddhists, Hindus, and followers of Allah, in pursuance of their faiths, can find salvation within the context of their own religious perspective.”3

This is a far cry from the stalwart Christianity that braved the ancient Greeks and Romans with the Good News of the Kingdom of God: He is Risen!

How would the “Christians Against Christian Nationalism” [CACN] answer the question whether Christ is the only way to God or whether there are different paths?

The commingling of different, often contradictory beliefs, syncretism brings God’s judgment upon a nation. Admixing the practices of various ideologies and religions appears to be the CACN’s political platform for 2020, which adds an element of duplicity to their endorsement of the overall removal of religion from political campaigns.

What has happened to America over the last century is unfortunately nothing new. Twenty-seven hundred years ago Israel “began driving God out of their public squares, out of their government, out of the instruction of their children, out of their culture, and out of their lives. They expunged His word from their public discourse and His law from their collective consciousness. And by driving God out, they created a vacuum. Into that vacuum they brought in still more gods. Their lives were now permeated with idols and increasingly carnal, materialistic and fragmented. And their civilization was now at war against the foundation on which it stood.”4

This ended with Israel’s relocation in captivity in Assyria.

Former president Barack Hussein Obama cemented his legacy as the High Priest of syncretic worship with his performance at the 2016 Christian National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. He told the story of a Muslim man in Chicago who was afraid to lay down his prayer rug and pray at a public park following the murder of 14 innocent people by Muslim terrorists in San Bernardino, California.

Although he couldn’t bring himself to call out Muslim terrorists for what they are, Obama moralized: “I can’t imagine a clearer expression of Jesus’ teachings. I can’t imagine a better expression of the peaceful spirit of Islam than when a Muslim father filled with fear drew from the example of a Baptist preacher and a Jewish rabbi to teach his children what God demands.”

Can the ex-president tell us what God demands?

It is for such attempts to unite beliefs or conflicting principles, among plenty of other reasons, that America finds itself in a state of spiritual apostasy; a land destitute of the Word of God. The liberal Warren Court had it removed from education in 1963.

As a result of the removal of the Word, the culture has spun out of control. Since the 1970s and 80s an anemic Church became preoccupied with the anticipation of the Rapture. This has become the escape valve, having left the American culture over to decline.

Barring a spiritual resurrection, our kids or grandkids are likely to see and experience persecution.

Having lost the culture, 21st-century Christians can practice their faith in private if they wish, as long as they don’t bring the Bible to school, let alone Jesus. There should be no public demonstration of one’s Christian faith, and, heaven forbid, never ever release the “J-Bomb” in public, on media outlets, or – unless negatively – in Hollywood movies.

“A Full Gender and Diversity Curriculum” is the new cure-all, applied by radical state-sponsored “education” jockeys. WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOP5gSUGAOk&t=27s

Over the last decade secular educationalists laid the groundwork for “gender and diversity curricula,” in addition to Obama’s campaign to secularize the culture, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s protracted support of organizations like the CACN.

Ms. Clinton “once coined the term ‘Freedom of Worship’. Freedom of worship is what you do in a building on a Sunday morning, but freedom of religion is different. Freedom of religion is what you do when you come out of that building, and Obama and Hillary Clinton would have us bow to the secular authority of the state. That is the antithesis of what the Founders enshrined in religious liberty. And every American should be scared. It’s not about Christians, it’s about American Freedom.”5

Secularism’s onslaught has produced a spiritual famine in the land, derived solely from the loss of hearing the Word of the Lord, for “Satan [will see] to it that there is no shortage of spurious food.”

Thus, utopians and illusionists “come preaching Jesus and His gospel, but as the Holy Spirit warns us, it is ‘another Jesus’ and ‘another gospel’ than the genuine one (2 Cor. 11:4).”6

The former glory of the nation – the righteousness of the early culture that produced American Exceptionalism – emanated from those who “founded [America] for the glory and the advancement of the Christian faith.”7 Having bowed to Secularism, Christianity is now the “second-class faith,” as the edict above has it.

America’s culture would be unrecognizable to the early Founders: different nationalities, different peoples, assorted cults, miscellaneous gods, divers temples, and a culture saturated by feral values, devoid of Biblical harmony and unity.8

Given America’s current public education system, even a passing suggestion that America is, or ever was, a Christian nation brings ridicule from those controlling the upper tributaries of the culture.

As Eric Metaxas cautioned: “Every American should be scared. It’s not about Christians, it’s about American Freedom.”

There will be dark times ahead, unless Gideons and Rahabs move into the public arena from behind the four walls of the church building, inserting the “leaven of Heaven” across the whole interior of America in every hamlet, every town, every city.

Despite that this may not be a popular message, God be praised that Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand.

David Lane
American Renewal Project

1.www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/statement; http://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/endorsers
2. http://www.mrc.org/articles/soros-funded-lefty-groups-want-religion-out-politics
3. Dr. Joseph Boot, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrzuXgtDhc
4. Jonathan Cahn, The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint that Holds the Mystery of Our Times.
5. Eric Metaxas on FOX with Shannon Bream, Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=A1y5cvPddd8
6. A.W. Pink, Gleanings from Elisha, His Life and Miracles.
7. Mayflower Compact.
8. Dr. Joseph Boot.
* Neither the SBC nor the SBTC maintain affiliation with the BJC.

Divided America: Democrat Resolution Celebrates God-Less Agenda

By Michael Brown/AskDrBrown.org September 03, 2019

Democrats have pushed away religious voters not simply by ignoring them but by actively repelling them with accusations of bigotry and backwardness. Now the DNC has issued a resolution stating that “religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values, with 70% voting for Democrats in 2018”.

There is no question about it. There is not even a desire to hide it. The Democrat Party continues to grow spiritually darker to the point of actually proclaiming itself the party of the religiously non-affiliated. Is it any surprise?

Back in 2012, the Washington Post reported the Democrats were under fire for removing “God” from their national platform.

This was not missed by Paul Ryan, then a Republican vice-presidential candidate, who stated on Fox News, “I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of God.”

And was it a coincidence that, the same year, the Democrats also failed to affirm Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?

To put this in perspective, the Post observed that, “God is mentioned 12 times in the 2012 GOP platform. The 2008 Democratic platform made one reference to God: the ‘God-given potential’ of working people. The 2004 platform had numerous references to God.”

How times have changed.

Democrats Have a God Problem … and a Problem with God

Two years ago, in 2017, Selena Zito claimed in the New York Post that, “The Democratic Party has a God problem.”

Remembering what happened in 2012, when it was widely reported that the Democrats booed God” (during the platform hearings), Zito argued that the Democrats have since “pushed away religious voters not simply by ignoring them but by actively repelling them with accusations of bigotry and backwardness.”

And, she added, “Unless they change that, Democrats haven’t got a prayer of solving their God problem.”

As of today, I wouldn’t be holding my breath.

The DNC has now issued a resolution stating that “religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values, with 70% voting for Democrats in 2018, 80% supporting same-sex marriage, and 61% saying immigrants make American society stronger.”

Yes, the Democratic Party is the party of the religiously unaffiliated, and this is now seen as something to celebrate. “If you have no religious affiliation, we’re the party for you!”

Cheering Abortion

Not surprisingly, this fairly substantial group, growing by the year, holds to strongly liberal social views, especially when it comes to abortion and same-sex “marriage.” And this, in particular, is something praised by the Democrats. “If you support LGBT activism and stand for abortion, we’re the party for you!”

As noted by a Pew Forum poll, “About three-quarters of white evangelical Protestants (77%) think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

“By contrast, 83% of religiously unaffiliated Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do nearly two-thirds of black Protestants (64%), six-in-ten white mainline Protestants (60%) and a slim majority of Catholics (56%).”

This is a strikingly high number: 83 percent. It looks like lack of religious affiliation deeply affects one’s views of the sanctity of life, beginning in the womb.

Booing Those With Traditional Values

The DNC resolution states that “the nonreligious have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policy-making where assumptions of religiosity have long predominated.”

This, of course, is ironic, since there has been an increasing attack on religious beliefs in America in recent decades, from the courts to the universities and beyond. Are the non-religious really being “subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policymaking?”

The resolution also states that “those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of ‘religious liberty,’ to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities.”

So, in contrast with conservative evangelicals, who are branded as religious hypocrites and who are abusing their religious power, it is the religiously non-affiliated who hold to ethical values and truly care about all Americans.

Of course, it is good strategy for the Democrats to make such an explicit appeal to this substantial voting bloc. And it appears that the values of the religiously non-affiliated are much closer to the those of the DNC than the RNC. And, without question, there is some hypocrisy among those of us on the conservative evangelical side, which the DNC wants to highlight. (No group has a monopoly on hypocrisy. It affects all groups on all sides.)

But it is still quite enlightening to see how lack of religious affiliation (which does not theoretically mean lack of faith but simply lack of affiliation) does impact one’s worldview, as it appears that lack of religious affiliation means lack of connection to biblical mores.

Obama Faith Adviser Calls the DNC Resolution “Stupid”

Still, not everyone on the Democrat side thinks that the DNC’s resolution was wise. According to Michael Wear, who previously served as a faith adviser to President Obama, the DNC’s resolution is “stupid on a fundamental level that transcends electoral politics.”

Given that the resolution will be used as further evidence that the Democrat Party is the God-less party, Wear could well be right.

What is undeniable, though, is this. The militantly pro-abortion, pro-LGBT activism party is the party of those without religious affiliation.

This makes perfect sense.

Originally published at AskDrBrown.org – reposted with permission.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3444#XTkJiRh3EfYX83yR.99

LGBT Movement Goes Beyond Acceptance To Seeking Totalitarian Power

Not a day goes by without one media outlet or another pushing a story that treats the transgender ideology as fact. The LGBT movement is not simply seeking acceptance – they are demanding a particularly totalitarian form of power.

By Jonathon Van Maren/Bridgehead.ca August 08, 2019

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As the culture wars heat up between the American Left and Right, progressive journalists are increasingly falling back on a powerful and succinct statement to push the public into a nostalgia for the Obama years: This isn’t normal.

None of this, they write and tweet and blog endlessly, is “normal”: Not the erratic presidential tweets, not the belligerent presidential tone, and not what they claim is Trump’s “treasonous” behavior. I’m not unsympathetic to many of the arguments being made about civility, decorum, and the rest of the things that keep George Will up at night. But I do think that the media are engaging in a sophisticated game of gaslighting in the meantime.

What the media is doing while shrieking about our vanishing standards of normalcy is waging an all-out war on the idea of the male-female gender binary itself. While they are highlighting the abnormal nature of a president who tweets out spur-of-the-moment policy, they are pushing child drag queens and transgender children and pregnant “men” and “women” with penises as if these things were not an absolutely revolutionary attack on the social fabric of the West.

We are supposed to believe that a president lashing out at the media is a catastrophic assault on The Way Things Were, and a child drag queen is a symbol of our liberation.

When I write about the latest manifestations of transgender ideology, some people ask a very reasonable question: Why can’t we just ignore all this stuff?

To many, following the media’s strange “human interest” stories about Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner feeling “broody” and wanting children with a partner a half-century younger seems like Jerry Springer-style voyeurism. And in many ways, that’s what it is.

But it is important to realize that the media are utilizing America’s obsession with the vapid lives of celebrities to normalize transgenderism. Pretty soon, things that once made people gasp will make them shrug. That’s already starting to happen. People who were once outraged by Drag Queen Storytime and gender ideology in schools are becoming desensitized.

The media are flooding the airwaves with non-stop stories that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The Pasadena Star News ruminated about whether the city might be open to nominating a transgender Rose Queen, a story virtually created by the media (a journalist asks an official whether it might be considered, the official responds with ambiguous language, and there’s your transgender story).

Another story outlined the fact that “sperm production for transgender women” might yet be possible, while Victoria’s Secret announced that they’d hired a transgender lingerie model – a biological male presenting as a women.

A couple in Berkeley, California came out to announce that both of their children, at ages four and eight, were transgender, and that they were going public to “normalize” hormone blockers and the rest of the devastating “treatments” that view puberty as a threat.

Not a day goes by without one media outlet or another pushing a story that treats the transgender ideology as fact. I’m not sure precisely when the media moguls met behind closed doors and collectively decided to begin using phrases like “her penis” and “his breasts,” but a quick look at any article dealing with the transgender issue lately proves that such meetings and such directives did, in fact, happen.

What we’re seeing with this calculated media campaign – even with the crazy transgender celebrity stories – is an effort to overload a skeptical public until they go from recoiling to rolling their eyes.

But politics is downstream from culture, and the LGBT movement is not simply seeking acceptance – they are demanding a particularly totalitarian form of power.

I don’t enjoy writing about the transgender insanity that is gripping the West, especially not when it involves keeping up with these sorts of stories.

But it is essential that we recognize what is going on here. While they rage about Trump’s tweets and advocate for a return to “normalcy,” the Left is attempting to normalize an ideology that fundamentally upends our understanding of family, gender, society, and humanity itself.

This is nothing short of a revolution, and the consequences of this revolution will be the destruction of our society as we know it now.

Originally published at The Bridgehead – reposted with permission.

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Current events and the aforementioned article reveal that America is plumbing the depths of perversion not even imagined by the ancients.  It is neither exaggeration, hyperbole, or a joke to say the inmates are running the asylum.

Hosea 8:7a King James Version (KJV)
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…

If you believe the Bible, you already know that swift and total judgment is coming to America.  It is only a matter of God’s timing.

Pastor Steve  <><

 

Pray For Revival In America!

Beth Moore Throws Bible Truth Away And Goes Politically Correct

When Barack Obama campaigned for president of the United States, he declared that marriage was only between a man and a woman.  After he won the presidency, his true rainbow LGBT colors came out.  Now Beth Moore, well known among Evangelicals, is recanting from her former Biblical stance regarding the sin of homosexuality.  The following article pursues her latest spiritual compromise in detail.  Pastor Steve  <><

Beth Moore Deletes Anti-Homosexual Material From Past Writing

by News Division · Published July 5, 2019 · Updated July 8, 2019

Beth Moore recently deleted portions of one of her past books in which she wrote about the sin of homosexuality. The Kindle version no longer includes the passage condemning sodomy as a transgression of God’s laws. As Beth Moore largely sidestepped an open letter from women asking where she stood on the issue, critics are taking her to task for her lack of clarity.
Moore, a favorite of the Evangelical Intelligentsia, has recently become a proponent of women preaching to audiences of both men and women. She has also become one of the most outspoken proponents of the Social Justice movement, espousing views belonging to Cultural Marxism and Critical Race Theory, and she also has aligned herself with the most frighteningly radical leftists in evangelicalism. Deleting parts of her book dealing with homosexuality have done little to quell the assumption that Moore’s ‘wokeness’ is now changing her views on human sexuality.
Moore’s book, in which she deleted the anti-homosexuality passage, is Praying God’s Word, published in 2009. The passage in question was on page 279 of that book.

SBC’s ERCL President Russell Moore (left) and Beth Moore (right)

Beth Moore Deletes Anti-Homosexual Material From Past Writing
by News Division · Published July 5, 2019 · Updated July 8, 2019

Beth Moore (right) with SBC’s ERLC President, Russell Moore (left)
Beth Moore recently deleted portions of one of her past books in which she wrote about the sin of homosexuality. The Kindle version no longer includes the passage condemning sodomy as a transgression of God’s laws. As Beth Moore largely sidestepped an open letter from women asking where she stood on the issue, critics are taking her to task for her lack of clarity.
Moore, a favorite of the Evangelical Intelligentsia, has recently become a proponent of women preaching to audiences of both men and women. She has also become one of the most outspoken proponents of the Social Justice movement, espousing views belonging to Cultural Marxism and Critical Race Theory, and she also has aligned herself with the most frighteningly radical leftists in evangelicalism. Deleting parts of her book dealing with homosexuality have done little to quell the assumption that Moore’s ‘wokeness’ is now changing her views on human sexuality.

Moore’s book, in which she deleted the anti-homosexuality passage, is Praying God’s Word, published in 2009. The passage in question was on page 279 of that book.
Moore wrote a mere ten years ago…
Before we proceed to our Scripture-prayers for overcoming sexual strongholds, we are wise to address another deadly sexual assault of the evil one in our society: homosexuality. I have wonderful news for anyone who has struggled with homosexual sin. God indeed can deliver you and anxiously awaits your full cooperation. Do not let Satan shame you into not seeking forgiveness, fulness, and complete restoration in Jesus Christ. I know complete transformation is possible not only because God’s Word says so, but because I have witnessed it with my own eyes. I know plenty of believers who have been set free from homosexuality.
The passage is now ommitted from Kindle versions (the paper version is out of print).
This follows on the heels of a controversy in which, noticing Moore’s hard-left turn, a number of fellow female Bible teachers wrote an open letter asking for her to clarify her position. We wrote about that in When Pressed, Beth Moore Chooses Not to Condemn Homosexuality.
Ironically, Moore did not clarify her position, and her supporters appealed to her past writings and claimed that she had been clear in the past (as though that’s good enough). Moore is now trying to change her past words, and people have discovered the cover-up.

James White
Phoenix apologist, James White, criticized Moore on his Facebook page, writing…

“This section is no longer in the Kindle version of this book (yes, I bought my first Beth Moore book to confirm this). It has been removed. A few pages later 1 Cor. 6:9-11 is cited as being prayed by the reader, and the term “homosexual offenders” is still there. But the discussion of homosexuality as a “deadly sexual assault of the evil one,” “homosexual sin,” deliverance and restoration, is gone, along with Moore’s own testimony of knowing “plenty” of believers who have been set free from homosexuality! And this is purposeful.”

Moore responded on Twitter, saying, “After taking 3 years to pray and to test the fruit, it became clear to me that my words in this section, words that exceeded Scripture, were stopping many from God’s words which follow. It wasn’t a doctrinal shift. When our words keep people from God’s words, we’ve overspoken.”
While Moore argues that her doctrine hasn’t changed, it rings hollow when placed against the mirror of objective reality.
White explained the problem…
I will admit, I had never heard the term “overspoken” before. But let’s think about what Mrs. Moore is saying here. To speak of homosexuality as a deadly sin is to “exceed Scripture.” To speak of deliverance and restoration from homosexual sin is to “exceed Scripture.” To claim that there have been many who have been set free from homosexuality is to “exceed Scripture.” And the source of these conclusions? “Prayer and testing fruit,” whatever that is supposed to mean (these days you can cram a lot into a line like that).

While she may wish to claim this did not involve a “doctrinal shift,” if you teach X is sin, but then conclude that X is not sin, or that to say X is sin is to “exceed Scripture,” that is a doctrinal shift, at least for those of us who still think words have meanings anyway–at least meanings that can be relied upon for more than, say, a decade at a time?

Moore, responding to David Alves, laments that her (true) words about homosexuality caused “damage” and “made people feel demonized.”

White again responds on his Facebook page…
“This is what has been removed from the book. So are we to understand that ALL of this is now repudiated by Mrs. Moore?
1) homosexuality is a “deadly sexual assault of the evil one in our society.”
2) God can deliver from homosexuality.
3) Satan would shame you into not seeking forgiveness, fulness [sic], and complete restoration in Jesus Christ.
4) Complete transformation is possible.
5) God’s Word says complete transformation is possible.
6) Mrs. Moore has witnessed examples of complete transformation.
7) Plenty of believers have been set free from homosexuality.
One must ask seriously if Mrs. Moore is now saying she does NOT know “plenty of believers who have been set free from homosexuality”?”

Many of us have been watching as leader after leader, writer after writer, minister after minister, has walked the path of acceptance of the LGBTQ+ mantra. The pathway is well known, the words well worn.
Hundreds – if not thousands – in social media have been trying to get Beth Moore to where she stands on homosexuality. It seems, by her deletion of previous words, that they have their answer.

When Pressed, Beth Moore Chooses Not to Condemn Homosexuality
24 Jun, 2019

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