Stand Up for the Truth

In case you missed it, NBC is creating a lot of buzz since the much awaited (and promoted) interview of Saddleback’s Pastor Rick Warren by correspondent Chelsea Clinton. Both the network and the pastor have been getting the word out to their wide audiences, and the interview finally aired last night on NBC’s Rock Center. [...]

Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback is making news again, this time the secular media and the progressive Christian blogs are jumping on comments he is making about homosexuality. I’ll let Erin Benziger over at Do Not Be Surprised start us off: Warren Discusses Homosexuality, Says It’s Not a Sin to Love Somebody, “It Might Be [...]

“Saddleback Church event drew families from throughout Orange County for an evening of fun,” proclaims the Orange County Register: Here is Erika Ritchie’s story:  LAKE FOREST – Four days after returning from deployment to Afghanistan, Ben Fisher was at Saddleback Church’s mega block party. Fisher, a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton as part of the [...]

These days controversy seems to follow Saddleback’s pastor Rick Warren wherever he appears. Earlier this week he appeared with Oprah Winfrey (along with Joel Osteen) on Oprah’s Lifeclass series. Yesterday he spoke alongside Mark Driscoll at a leadership conference. Of particular interest to me is a quote you’ll want to see by Christian Research Network [...]

Today we’re covering news out of Orange County and Saddleback Church, where megachurch pastor Rick Warren has announced he is cancelling the presidential forum he was planning with President Obama and Mitt Romney.  We’ve posted a story on our website from the Orange County Register, the only news source able to interview Warren about his [...]

Rick Warren had announced earlier this summer that he would be interviewing our presidential candidates next week, but that is not going to happen. Pastor Warren has cancelled the event. Why? Because he says both campaigns are “too negative.” Erika Ritchie over at the Orange County Register has the big news: LAKE FOREST – Rick [...]

Two New Age health books — including one that that promotes “Sa Ta Na Ma” meditation (a form of Kirtin Kriya yoga) — are getting huge endorsements from Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church.  The question is, why? Why would a Christian pastor, who says he only believes in biblical meditation, continually point his many [...]

Rick Warren explains how Twitter’s social media guidelines are found right in the Bible from the lips of our Savior. From Matthew Paul Turner’s blog. Click on the image to enlarge. Related articles Saddleback’s Daniel Plan guru promotes sourcery – again (standupforthetruth.com) The CAMEL method, “Isa” and Saddleback’s P.E.A.C.E. Plan: New dots to connect (standupforthetruth.com) [...]

Let’s face it. The Book of Habakkuk in the Bible is not one most people study or even quote. This minor prophet wrote his account of some very important conversations with God more than 600 years before Christ came into the world as a man. Habakkuk lived in a time much like we do today, [...]

Isn’t the Word of God all about Jesus? And the Gospel? After all, Jesus is the Word who became flesh. God has been speaking to us about the cross and about Himself ever since Genesis 1:1.  But Rick Warren is making news headlines with what appears to be the opposite: I am curious to know [...]