Pray for our Manuscript

Please pray for us! Kerri & I have been working on a transcript for a book for several months now. (Since April 2013) We have been plugging away at it for these past 10 months now on a fairly regular basis. We are nearing the end. We hope to finally be done within the next week or two with each of the individual chapters. We will do one last full edit of the manuscript as a whole. We may also pick some "outside" eyes to look at it and make any suggestions. We hope to get it published and use it as a tool for ministry. Please pray for the book to be published and for us to get back to doing things on our website and blog in a diligent fashion. I still can remember back to the initial years when I first started our former websites beginning with: A True and Faithful Witness. Those initial articles about Rick Warren's teachings as well as articles on Richard Foster's teachings (and a few others) brought in over 100,000 page views. It was obvious there was a need but it also took quite a bit of time and energy and it was very intense warfare. Back then I knew that there was tremendous need - so we launched out. As we look at the current "Christian" landscape we now see multitudes of false teachings and writings disguised as if they were Biblical. And it is getting worse. And much of the church is asleep or too busy with "life" to consider what is happening. So pray for us! We wish to launch out into more intense ministry once again. Thanks, David Sheldon

Fighting for the Faith: Piper / Warren Debrief With Phil Johnson Part 1

As many of you know, the growing apostasy of Rick Warren is being given an audience and, believe it or not, is being justified by John Piper! "Fighting for the Faith" has provided a debriefing of an interview that Piper had with Warren. A listen to this is well worth the time:

Fighting for the Faith: Piper / Warren Debrief With Phil Johnson Part 1

Real Passion versus Artificial Enthusiasm

There is a great post today over at Pyromaniacs:
Real Passion versus Artificial Enthusiasm by Phil Johnson
Well worth the read and so true.

Passivity at the Hands of Antichrist

American Evangelicalism is losing ground due to the passiveness of leaders and attendees. Important Biblical matters are being swept under the rug for another time. God terms these people a "carefree multitude" (Ezekiel 23:42)
Read full article Passivity at the Hands of Antichrist

The Knowledge of the Self-Revealing God: Starting Point for the Christian Worldview

"Christian thinking is not reducible to mere theism—belief in the existence of a personal God. To the contrary, authentic Christian thinking begins with the knowledge that the only true God is the God who has revealed himself to us in the Bible."

Read Albert Mohler's full article

MacArthur on Warren’s Apostate “Gospel”

Fake Evangelicalism

According to Tony Campolo the best way to really be filled with "Christ" is to get everything out of your mind through centering prayer. Is he Catholic, mystic, Quaker, new ager? Hmmm.
Please note his heretical thought and listen carefully for it: every person is born with "Christ, the light," already in them.

So has the entrance into the eternal kingdom now become a mystical inner-knowing of a "Christ" who is already present in everyone?
Or is it repentance/faith in the Holy Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who was sent into the world as "the Light" to the world?
True evangelicalism says the later.
Please carefully consider how he takes out of context his quote in the first chapter of John's gospel. Jesus Christ came into the world. He is "the Life" and "the Light."
Does the context indicate that He shines from "within" the darkened human heart?
Or that He shines in, from without, the darkened human heart that desperately needs to receive Him and, thus, be regenerated by this very Light?
The later is the truth.
John 1:1-13 ESV