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Issues Etc. Cancellation Update!!

HT: Save the LCMS

Lutheran Resistance Movement to the Purpose-Driven Take Over of the LCMS

The cancellation of the Issues Etc. radio program last week has literally been the talk of the LCMS for the past week and there are no signs that the controversy is going to subside any time soon. It appears that the move to cancel Issues Etc. was part of a larger plan that LCMS President Jerry Kieschnick has for transitioning the LCMS into a seeker-sensitive / purpose-driven denomination. One site in particular seems well connected within the synod and is now passing their insider information on to the public. The name of the site is Save the LCMS and any Lutherans concerned and alarmed by the creeping seeker-sensitive evangelicalism in the LCMS needs to read this site.

Click Here to visit "Save the LCMS"

If Christ Has Not Been Raised...

A Little Leaven posted this video of heretic liberal "scholar" John Dominic Crossan claiming that if they found the bones of Jesus that it wouldn't destroy his faith. This is absolute proof that the faith that Crossan has is not Biblical Christianity because the scriptures are undeniably clear that "if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain (1 Cor 15:14) and "and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. (1 Cor 15:17).

On a related note, A Little Leaven also shows how Emergent Kingpin Brian McLaren uses Crossan's "scholarship" to completely redefine The Gospel. Click Here to Read.

Pierced for Our Transgressions

The Emergent and Neo-Liberal attacks against the Biblical teaching of the Penal Substitutionary Atonement is a battle for the VERY Gospel itself. The latest edition of the White Horse Inn radio program deals with these attacks and definitively lays out the irrefutable Biblical texts that bring us the good news that Jesus was pierced for our transgressions and that his death on the cross propitiated God's wrath against us due to our sins. Click Here to Listen.

New Breed of False Prophets With False Signs and False Wonders

Here is a video produced by Extreme Prophetic, a so-called signs and wonders ministry. In this video Patricia King (false prophetess) is claiming that Joshua Mills (false prophet) gets an angel (never shown) that comes to him and releases the 'glory from heaven' in the form of sapphire and diamond glitter as well as anointing oil flowing from his hands.

Anyone with half a brain and even a little Biblical discernment can tell these are nothing more than cheap magic tricks designed to separate you from your money, all in the name of God of course.

HT: A Little Leaven

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori On Homosexuality

Notice that "Bishop" Schori uses the EXACT same arguments to defend homosexuality that liberals and Emergents use to support women's ordination. The two, many times, go hand in hand.

HT: A Little Leaven

Gospel-Driven Sanctification

Are you on the treadmill of a 'performance based' version of Christianity? If so then you may be a victim of bad doctrine and bad preaching. Did you know that the Gospel still applies to you as a Christian and that Christians need to hear the Gospel just as badly as non-Christians? We strongly recommend that you read this excellent article from Modern Reformation Magazine by Jerry Bridges on Gospel-Driven Sanctification. Here's just a taste of what you will read:

My story is not unusual. Evangelicals commonly think today that the gospel is only for unbelievers. Once we're inside the kingdom's door, we need the gospel only in order to share it with those who are still outside. Now, as believers, we need to hear the message of discipleship. We need to learn how to live the Christian life and be challenged to go do it. That's what I believed and practiced in my life and ministry for some time. It is what most Christians seem to believe.

As I see it, the Christian community is largely a performance-based culture today. And the more deeply committed we are to following Jesus, the more deeply ingrained the performance mindset is. We think we earn God's blessing or forfeit it by how well we live the Christian life.

Most Christians have a baseline of acceptable performance by which they gauge their acceptance by God. For many, this baseline is no more than regular church attendance and the avoidance of major sins. Such Christians are often characterized by some degree of self-righteousness. After all, they don't indulge in the major sins we see happening around us. Such Christians would not think they need the gospel anymore. They would say the gospel is only for sinners.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Paul Washer: The Idolatry of Decisionism

HT: Reformed Gadfly