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Archive for August, 2005

Gospel Poker

It looks like Pragmatic Christianity has cashed in on the latest poker craze. Faith Chips that looks like poker chips.
What’s next, a cast of ‘bizarre’ looking Christians (like some of the characters you see on those poker shows) justifying this? Oh wait, we have that already via the Word of Faith movement [...]

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-27-05

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-27-05 is:

Synapses

If we look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10, we see the following verses:

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did [...]

You’re Gonna Miss Out…

I remember in Pentecostal / Charismatic circles, there was a very popular terminology used to get people to march lock, stock, and barrell to conform to “God” which later turned out to be personal opinion grossly mistaken for Godly theology. This was commonly referred to as:

You’re Gonna Miss Out…

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-20-05

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-20-05 is:

Diversions - From Brennan Manning

Taken from page 71 of his new book The Importance of Being Foolish:

Consider how our churches have explored and exploited our need to replace the numbness in our lives with a passion for something, anything. We’ve created worship in which the music is left to stir the emotions but the soul is left unmoved, in [...]

The Great Schizm, New Millenium Style

I was reading a post over at Arjay’s Weblog (if you had trackback, I would have trackbacked) about a letter he wrote to a pastor of an emerging church that is on the rise. One particular paragraph in this post really got my attention when the author talked about the ‘worship wars’ and [...]