Stand Up for the Truth

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. [...]

The time clock is ticking, and we are looking at end-times prophecy being fulfilled before our eyes. If you aren’t “into” prophecy matters in your faith, you are not alone. Many evangelical churches have abandoned prophecy altogether, and in fact are teaching a very different view of end times than what the Bible speaks of.  [...]

Christian Reconstructionism is also known as Theonomy (Rule by God’s law), or Dominion theology. However it is not the same as the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) dominionism. Confused yet? According to CARM, the leaders of this theology arose out of the conservative Reformed (Calvinist) churches.  The leading proponent is Rousas John Rushdoony (1916 – 2001) [...]

On this day after the Superbowl, a lot of armchair quarterbacks are weighing in on the game. An interesting survey last week reveals that a lot of the fans believe that God controlled the outcome of the Superbowl game. If that’s true, did He approve of the half-time show and the ads? Many Christians wonder [...]

Last week we covered a movement called Hebrew Roots, and it has inspired a lot of conversation around how we view our Christian heritage, the Old Testament Law and what “grafting” means to Christians.  Today there is another movement that has to do with anti-Semitism. Did you know that global hatred of the Jewish people [...]

Outrageous.  Israelnationalnews.com is reporting that Egypt’s unstable Muslim Brotherhood regime, voted into power on an anti-US and anti-Israel platform, is to receive 20 F-16 fighter jets. From…the United States! Read on… Egypt’s increasingly unstable Muslim Brotherhood regime, voted into power on an anti-US and anti-Israel platform, is about to receive 20 F-16 fighters jets despite calls [...]

Baby steps?  This report was filed by Reuters today: The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government. A Palestinian resolution that would change the Palestinian [...]

We’ve got a jam-packed program today, including some interesting articles to share with you about how the progressive side of Christianity is going to help “save Jesus” be showing you how to re-imagine Him. It’s a small group DVD series designed to get you questioning your faith, with Brian McLaren leading the voices in these [...]

Are we the Church praying for the situation in the Middle East?  As we woke up today, strikes flew across the Gaza border in rapid succession as Israel responded to an onslaught of militant rocket attacks by targeting “terror sites.” The sudden increase in violence has raised fears of a widening conflict that could lead [...]

America has spoken, and the next four years are taking us in a direction that — however you look at it — does not surprise our God. We have voted to idolize our flesh and throw God under the altar of the golden calf.  Many of our prophets, and Jesus Himself, talked about these things [...]