The Old Testament closes with this amazing prophecy of Malachi: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Malachi 4:5-6). Continue Reading…
-extracts by Michael Brown
Hyper-grace teachers frequently emphasize that they do not condone sinful living and that God´s true grace will produce a holy life, and I believe they sincerely mean this. One hyper-grace author even states at the beginning of his book, “We are not propagating immorality, because if we truly believe in God and love Him there will be corresponding works (because faith without works is dead).” Absolutely! Continue Reading…
Think of the hour we are in, when the very worst Tsunami in history occurs in Southeast Asia in late 2004 – and then this one (the worst-ever in Japan) just over 6 years later in 2011. Below is a shocking 2011 documentary showing amateur Tsunami footage from Japan – and interviewing the survivors who captured the video. Very sobering. Take a look-
-extracts by Michael Brown.
The biblical message of grace is wonderful, glorious and life-transforming. We can’t live without it for one second of our lives. But there is a message being preached today in the name of a new grace reformation, mixing powerful truth with dangerous error. I call it hyper-grace. Continue Reading…
Just for the record, my big concern in this was that homosexuals were being welcomed right into actual Pentecostal ‘fellowship’ – with no sign that it was being called “sin” at all. In fact, complete “acceptance” of homosexuals ‘just as they are’. I personally have no problem with reaching out in love toward homosexual people for the sake of their salvation and cleansing through Jesus. I do believe in compassion for the sinner. But this is very different. This is total “acceptance” of Homosexuals into actual Pentecostal fellowship. Where is the repentance? Where is the stand on what God calls “SIN”? That was my big concern. Continue Reading…
It all started with a 2009 blog post by Rob Buckingham, pastor of a large Pentecostal megachurch called ‘Bayside’ in Melbourne, Australia. His blog post was entitled, “Is Jesus Anti-Gay?” and made the case for ‘acceptance’ being the true Christian attitude toward Homosexuals. Now bear in mind that this is not some “liberal” church or ‘liberal’ congregation here. This fellowship is part of the “C3″ (Christian City Church) denomination – one of the largest mainstream Pentecostal groups in Australia. That is why the Gay community was so delighted by it all. Continue Reading…
If it’s one thing I hear over and over from people, it is this. They literally look everywhere they can think of in their town, and cannot find a fellowship that seems in any way “right”. Many will heap blame on these people. But I am not one of them. What are you supposed to do when you go right around a town and cannot find good, sound, anointed teaching anywhere? What if you are left with a choice of hyper-grace, prosperity, dead formalism or anti-Charismatic “King James only”? Which one do you settle for? Continue Reading…
In 1993, the well-known evangelical preacher John MacArthur put out a book entitled ‘Ashamed of the Gospel’ (subtitled, “When the church becomes like the world”). Obviously, because it was written by a known Conservative, many modern leaders may have found it easy to bypass this book’s insights and warnings. But when I read it, I found it an incisive and devastating expose of much that is now occurring in Christendom… Continue Reading…
I wanted to take down this video when I first found out the truth about it, but people have begged me to leave it up. However, I do find the presentation very misleading (which is not Cahn’s fault). Though they use the ‘Presidential Seal’ in this video – we have since found out that it was NOT truly an “official” Presidential prayer breakfast as we thought. Actually more of a Christian/ GOP type event. Anyway, below is Jonathan Cahn speaking in Washington. It is sad that it had to be presented in a misleading way. Especially using the Presidential seal like that. But he certainly made his point well-
-Andrew Strom.
Before the recent US election and “gun” controversy, many would have laughed at the idea of Civil War or similar conflict in America. I guess it is not quite so “laughable” now… Continue Reading…
