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Examples of How Ridiculously Easy God Made it to Receive the Gift Of Eternal Life (1)

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Examples of How Ridiculously Easy God Made it to Receive the Gift Of Eternal Life (1) Serpent on a Pole The Gospel of John records a conversation between a respected Jewish religious teacher and Jesus regarding the nature of the Kingdom of God. Today I’m considering one of the wonderful statements that Jesus made in […]

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Chapter 20 Section 3, The New Apostolic Reformation

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In the Charismatic Churches, Dominionistic New Apostolic “apostles and prophets” are rising up and declaring that they’re going to lead the church into perfection. Like the Emergents, they also are calling for a paradigm shift, and a new “reformation” in Christianity. Their views are extreme. One of their main beliefs is that when the bride

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Chapter 20 Section 2 The Emergent Church Movement:

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The Emergent Church can be a bit difficult to pin down. This is because they don’t like to identify themselves as a movement, and there are varieties of expression – various “streams” of emergent. It can be viewed be a logical “next step” of the church growth movement in transforming the visible church under the

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Chapter 20 Accelerated Moves Toward a Counterfeit System

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There is a dramatically accelerating shift happening in the visible “Protestant” church, even in the last five to ten years. It seems that there are three major movements that are swiftly moving to totally redefine Christianity I only have space to speak briefly of them here, although we need to be aware of these trends.

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Chapter 29 Healthy teaching resources.

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In the midst of all of this, there are still faithful stewards of God’s word who labor to produce food for his household. If you find yourself in need of resources to feed your family. I recommend the following websites and ministries: Roger Oakland – www.understandthetimes.com – excellent speaking about the trends in the Church

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Chapter 28 Warning and Encouragement

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We will stand at the judgment seat of Christ, possibly sooner than we imagine. The good news is that Christ comes “without sin unto salvation” for us who look for Him. We are safe in His hand. If we would be confident at His appearing, we need to abide in Him by letting that which

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Chapter 21 A Secret Weapon – Small Groups

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It’s staggering to stand back and look at the tidal wave of changes coming into the church. Not long ago things like New Age (contemplative) spirituality or the notion of the “Manifest sons of God” would not have been able to make headway in the mainstream Evangelical churches. One has to wonder – why is

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Chapter 16 That Which is More Excellent

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As I close this section on discernment, I’m reminded of Paul’s word to the Philippians. Paul says that we are to let our love abound yet more and more, in “all knowledge and discernment” that we may prove by testing the things which differ and are “more excellent.” This section was about discerning that which

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Chapter 15 Section 2 Is it Divisive?

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Much of the stigmatization against discernment comes in the name of unity. Those who do not go along with the “flow” are considered to be divisive. One of the more popular quotes is from Augustine but was picked up again by the Moravian brethren a couple of hundred years ago: “In essentials unity, in nonessentials

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Chapter 15, Section 1 Is it Biblical?

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We’ve already established that discerning between truth and error is biblical. Consider what John, the Apostle of Love says: 1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Not every spirit is of God – because many false

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