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Next weekend I will be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida attempting to speak with clarity and charity about the significant difference between “Charismatic Revivalism and Character based Renewal.” Many today are advancing the fallacious argument that the only way to have supernatural encounter is to embrace the outlandish and the absurd. How ludicrous! Especially when you consider the […]

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Since I am often cautioned about being too negative, I thought I would see if I could do a brief  turnaround. Thanks to my good friend, Jeff in Florida, I think  I found a way to make all the faith boys happy in Ohio, my Calvinist buds in Minnesota feel better about me, and help the the […]

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“PEOPLE DO NOT drift toward holiness. 

Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, 
prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. 
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; 
we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; 
we drift toward superstition and call it faith. 
We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; 
we […]

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It’s July 4th and we could all use an encouraging word. O’pine  no more. The New Man Report, delivers  with this excellent  article that puts  Christianity and the Church in it’s “Global” context. Predictions abound that true followers of Christ are a dying breed. This is true, but that is an assessment of  the “good ‘ole US of […]

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I know the title will provoke some to angst but it makes me want to Shout! Goes right along with “vipers, hypocrites, whitewashed tombs, sons of satan.” You know, all those “UnChristlike” sayings of Jesus. But I digress. Last year we posted an open letter to the Elijah List Ministry, calling for the leaders to repent for the […]

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QUOTE: “In today’s pluralistic society, where anything goes … [a] growing number of those who fill our pews are reflecting what they’ve been hearing. They have been hearing preachers who do not preach from the authority of God’s Word, who interject their own personalities and who compromise themselves”—Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America Action responding […]

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