The Shack continues as a best seller, and evangelicals and otherwise conservative churches are eating it up.There are 13 separate heresies about God in the novel. We know they are heresies because they contradict what the Bible plainly teaches about God. Without the Bible as our standard for truth, we...
On Thursday the 25th of February, Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Franklin Road Baptist Church joined us on the Crosstalk Show to discuss his new book, Unshackled: Breaking Away From Seductive Spirituailty. The bestselling allegorical novel, The Shack, has taken the nation by storm. Evangelicals across the spectrum...
Jackie Alnor, author of The Fleecing of Christianity, will be the guest on Crosstalk today, discussing John Crowder’s book, The New Mystics. Mysticism is the big thing now, promoted by the emergent church teachers and by charismatic preachers who claim that God is ushering in a new era of mystics...
USA Today has an interesting piece on the front page of the paper today. The mixing of religious beliefs or making it up as you go has never been more popular. The idea of having a spiritual authority for faith is virtually non-existent anymore, even for Catholics. Like the idea of reincarnation? Who...
Elliot Miller of the Christian Research Journal has written a three-part series on the use of yoga by Christians. It is now commonplace to find evangelical Christians justifying the use of yoga by claiming that they can meditate on Christ while doing the Hindu worship moves. Groups like Yahweh Yoga,...
What were Buddhists doing at Bethel University? Why did a professor from Bethel, the only Christian on the symposium panel, say that he uses Zen-style meditation that he learned in Japan? The questions will be explored with Pastor Bob DeWaay, someone who attended the event, on Thursday’s edition...
Lighthouse Trails Publishing asks why Joel Rosenberg and Frank Peretti would appear at an upcoming conference with known New Age sympathizers? Maybe it’s because they have no problem with the New Spirituality. An explanation is in order.
Jan Markell, Christian broadcaster and President of Olive Tree Ministries, writes about her November 3 evening at Bethel University. It was an ‘Interreligious Symposium’ with the aim of finding some kind of “common ground” between Buddhism and Christianity. She writes of her experience...
You’d expect someone like Deepak Chopra to have a handle on love and peace. After all, he’s spent decades telling everyone else how to live a tranquil, blissed-out life of endless tolerance and Nirvana. But what’s this snarl I hear coming from America’s favorite pop guru? Like...
Here is detailed information from Open Doors USA on a UN resolution that is a threat to religious freedom everywhere.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – In the name of religious tolerance, the United Nations is gearing up to introduce a “Defamation of Religions” resolution that will actually undermine the religious...