Posted on 10/19/2013 8:50:26 PM PDT by jodyel
always wondered that myself. plus he didn’t step down as he had said he would if he ever divorced.
Erwin Lutzer.
Yes, I know and thank God for those 144,000 in the Trib period!
But we sure could use a Spurgeon or a Moody or a Peter Marshall or a Martyn-Lloyd or a Bunyon or an Edwards....any Puritan will do. :)
Someone bold and unafraid just like Paul...someone whose love for Christ is all-encompassing and someone on fire for the Him.
I, too, use an Inductive Study Bible. NASV
See my post 36.
Second link shows him backtracking from what he said, so perhaps he realizes it was an error?
I have become very alarmed at what I’ve been seeing happening in the church. The emergent church stuff and this contemplative prayer and Christian mysticism and the *you are God* nonsense.
I have friends who are falling for this stuff and I am praying like never before that they see where they are headed. I believe that they are genuinely saved, but I hate to see them go down this path.
For myself, I am getting back to the basics and that means getting heavily into the Word.
Our mandate from Jesus is to preach the gospel and make disciples. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.
Here’s someone you might be interested in.
Alistair Begg
Truth for Life
http://www.truthforlife.org/about/about-alistair-begg/
I’ve heard him several times and have found him to be very challenging and solid.
There is also...
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Revive our hearts
https://www.reviveourhearts.com/
I heard some teaching of hers on suffering and its purpose in our life and it was very good. She said that God did not owe us a pain free life. That alone gives her credibility. They moved her radio program time on our local Christian station and I do not catch her anymore as I’m usually not around.
I agree, metmom...it is creeping in on the elect and that is frightening. I have to say I never thought I’d be alive when solid Christians started going for this stuff....but then again a lot of stuff is happening now that I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.
Great, I will check them out along with a David Jeremiah another member mentioned.
Thank you!
"In closing this, we’ll leave this aside; and in the interest of fairness, which I’m rarely given credit for, Interview with Dr. Ravi Zacharias on his latest book, “Why Jesus?” has been brought to my attention today.
Zacharias was asked in this January 2012 interview:
If in your book, you wrote how Eastern mysticism is completely erroneous, why did you state in one of your speaking engagements that Henri Nouwen was one of the greatest saints who lived in our time, when Nouwen is known to have been influenced by Thomas Merton and others who practice Eastern mysticism? (source)
Here is his answer:
I regret having said that. At the time, I based my comment on Nouwen’s story of the prodigal son which I felt was on target. But later as I learned more about Nouwen and Merton, I found their writings to be very troubling. I believe that doctrinally, Nouwen lost his way.
I used to read Malcolm Muggeridge too until I read his book, “Jesus Rediscovered”. Muggeridge was morally and culturally a good thinker, but he was not theologically sound. (source)"
An encouraging comment from Ravi.
No kidding!!!
The whole issue I see with the direction the church is going today is getting our eyes off Jesus.
It's now all about what God can do for you. Give you a house, health, money, a problem free life. People have become so obsessed with their circumstances, that they are not focusing on Jesus and just looking for what they can get out of God, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
And that's just what the word of faith preachers are promoting with Joel Osteen being among the worst.
It’s interesting.
Here we live in the freest and most prosperous country this planet has ever seen and I was reflecting on what a privilege it is, and God kind of chastised that thinking by pointing out to me that it isn’t as easy as I’d think. Maybe the material aspect is fine, but the spiritual atmosphere takes a real strength of character to handle.
The U.S. is the Laodicean church and the moral struggles are harder than physically struggling.
Yes, I saw that and referenced it in a couple of my posts...that he did seem to realize his error and regretted it. Wondering about the Mormon stuff though and him agreeing not to pray in the name of Jesus at that one venue.
You really do have to not care what anyone else thinks of you when you are standing up for Jesus and that has got to be hard in a public ministry. Of course, you know that ain’t an issue for me but I am not in public ministry either. Must be enormous pressure to compromise.
Reminds me of one interpretation of Matt 13:32 re: the parable of the mustard seed and the birds of the air which come and lodge there. Some may be angels, and some interpret some may be fallen who come to lodge there.
Like the tares, they will be sorted out at the harvest.
I can’t imagine......
I never heard that interpretation before. That’s an interesting one.
When the music program at Stanley’s church went insipid contemporary and theater-type razzle-dazzle, I knew everything else would slide downhill and the doctrine would suffer. (It always does; it starts with the music and then modernism creeps in from there.) That’s when he lost me.
My nephew goes to Stanley’s son’s church in Atlanta and they hosted Michelle Obama as an honored guest there a few years back. I know that what the kid does isn’t necessarily what the father believes, but it does reflect badly in general.
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