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Foster’s “Celebration of Discipline” – Does Your Pastor Have a Copy?
An excellent research article from Lighthouse Trails on the problems with mystic Richard Foster’s book, Celebration of Discipline, which birthed today’s man-made Spiritual Formation/Transformation Movement being embraced by many progressive/seeker churches: First published in 1978, Celebration of Discipline has had a massive influence on today’s Christianity. Unfortunately, the influence has helped to saturate the church [...]
Boy Scouts at the Brink — The Moment of Decision Arrives
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America will meet tomorrow in Grapevine, Texas, to decide whether it will retain or revise its historic membership policy on the issue of homosexuality. The new proposed policy would allow for openly-gay boys to join, but not openly-gay adults. Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist [...]
Spiritual Formation vs. Biblical Sanctifiction
Today we’re covering several interesting stories about Spiritual Formation and Contemplative Prayer. A little later on, a story from Chicago about the Moody Pastor’s Conference in which the ancient contemplative prayer practice of Lectio Divina is being taught. What is it, and why is it a dangerous spiritual practice? We’re also going to discuss the [...]
Moody’s Pastors’ Conference Features Lectio Divina
Some of my favorite pastors/speakers are part of this year’s ReFocus Pastors’ Conference 2013, and it saddens me that one of the featured teaching sessions this year is on the contemplative spirituality practice of Lectio Divina, an ancient Catholic mystical practice that involves centering prayer meditation and altered states of “silence.” (Please note that we should be careful [...]
Fearful Leadership
On today’s program: Fearful Leadership. In this era of Christian faith, how can you tell if leaders lead from fear or conviction? Check out these articles: Eight Signs of Fearful Leadership The Fearful Pastor We’re going to take the first segment of our program to talk about something that we haven’t discussed since the last [...]
“Diversity, NOT Jesus, saves” says Episcopal Bishop
This might seem like an outlandish headline, but we’ve heard this kind of rhetoric before about the Apostle Paul being a sexist or chauvinist. Feminism is alive and well in the Episcopal Church. George Conger over at Anglican Ink reports: The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has denounced the Apostle Paul as mean-spirited and [...]
Leaving spiritual Babylon
Today we’re talking about the challenging times we are in starting with our young people. If you’re a parent, you are probably preparing yourself for the changes that are about to happen once again at your house: Summer vacation. This is the time of year when administrative leaders at the National Eduction Association (NEA) are [...]
Rapture Palooza?
Hollywood loves to poke fun at Christians. This movie trailer, “Rapture Palooza,” was created to mock not only those who love Christ, but Christ Himself. If you can stomach watching to the end, you’ll see the character of “Satan” shooting Jesus out of the sky when He returns: You may be asking, how is this [...]
Tony Jones bakes rainbow communion bread for Jay Bakker
Tony Jones is sharing images of the rainbow communion bread he and his wife made to celebrate Sunday’s launch of Jay Bakker’s new Minneapolis site of Revolution Church. Bakker, who recently denied the substitutionary atonement for Jesus’ shed blood for our sins, delivered his inaugural sermon, “Vulgar Grace Throws the First Stone.” Says Jones on [...]
Calvary Chapel says NO
Kudos to Calvary Chapel for standing up against Palestinian activism: “Christian Palestinianists” Unable to Establish Beachhead Within Calvary Chapel Movement In a dramatic showdown last week within the Calvary Chapel movement, the leadership of the California-based association of churches rebuked an event held at North Coast Calvary Chapel that featured a presentation by Palestinian activists. [...]
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