Modern preachers like to tell us that God has our comfort in mind. They like to twist scripture to the point of preaching false doctrine so that we believe that God is in existence as our ethereal “Bell-Boy”, seeking to make sure our Newspaper is on our doorstep and there is a mint on our pillows…proverbially speaking.
The problem with that is, well, quite frankly, EVERYTHING. Yes, God loves and cares about us, but his mind is on our soul and not our comfort level. It doesn’t matter to him if you drive a Lexus or a Camry. It doesn’t concern God if your house is 4,000 Sq.ft or if you live in 2 rooms of your mother-in-laws trailer.
Don’t get me wrong, God will bless as he wills, and if He wants to give you a 4,000 Sq.Ft. house or a Lexus, He will. Cause He can. Cause He is God. But that isn’t what God is about. …read full article…
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This comes from Rick Joyner’s Website about Todd Bentley and the Lakeland Florida Revival debacle:
The History and Future of the Present Revival
Over the last couple of weeks, there has been an increasing swirl of controversy regarding Todd Bentley. I have had almost daily contact with him, and he asked me to post the following:
Todd Bentley asked me to convey his appreciation for all the prayers, expressions of love, and concern while he tries to navigate through this present situation. …read full article…
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“Her Priests have violated My Law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference
between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean
and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them” (Ezek. 22:26).
Another term for the pagan mysticism that is entering the modern church (or “postmodern” church) is “contemplative spirituality.” While you may not have heard this specific term, it is nevertheless
the type of worship now found in many churches. The teachings of contemplative mystics
such as Richard Foster, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Tilden Edwards, Basil Pennington, Brennan
Manning, Alan Jones, and many others, are being introduced on a massive scale through some of their most avid disciples who pose as traditional Christian men in the church world today. …read full article…
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Mike Murdock reads the miracles that he claim come from people sowing their seed of $58 a month to his ministry. It seems Gods blessings are released only when we give a seed donation of $58 a month to Mike Murdock. Mr. Murdock says for us not to let this hour pass with our hands closed.
People like Mike Murdock make me sick. They put price tags on the blessings of God. Everything that we as believers have or will ever receive from God is free. It is simply a gift provided by Christs Finished Work on the Cross. If we just solely put our faith in Christ as the source of all good things and realize that the cross was the means by which we receive God’s favor, we will know the true key. We can’t earn it and we don’t deserve it. These prosperity pimps always say that they have a new revelation from God or that God outright told them these things, but that just isn’t the case. It is plainly false doctrine.
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My new friends over at Sola Dei Gloria had this update for their readers, and I wanted to take the time to post it here. Once you read it, go check out that site. It is a service to the Kingdom of God.
An Update on Lakeland from Peter
August 25, 2008
I was in the San Francisco airport on my way to Singapore and Indonesia when the news of Todd Bentley’s separation from his wife became public on August 12. When I arrived back home last week, I found that Doris had received and replied to around 1,700 emails and the stack of correspondence on my desk was unbelievable. It took me the rest of the week to catch up!
During the week I was gone, a major watershed occurred regarding the Lakeland situation as most of you would know. We are now on a new playing field. Lakeland Outpouring I, in which Todd Bentley was the main figure, is now history. Lakeland Outpouring II, in which Stephen Strader of Ignited Church is the main figure, has begun. …read full article…
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This got me to look more into some of the Catholic Beliefs. In particular the saints that the Catholics pray to and the images that they seem to worship:
(DEUT. 4:23) “TAKE HEED UNTO YOURSELVES,
LEST YOU FORGET THE COVENANT OF THE LORD
YOUR GOD, WHICH HE MADE WITH YOU, AND
MAKE YOU A GRAVEN IMAGE, OR THE LIKENESS
OF ANY THING, WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD
HAS FORBIDDEN YOU.”
THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS AND IMAGES
We will deal first of all with the Catholic Church as it
regards the worship of Saints and images, and then deal
with the Protestants. …read full article…
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