Thursday, 25 June 2009

20 years ago: The Death of Walter Martin

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Christian apologist Walter Martin went to be with the Lord on June 26, 1989 at the age of 60. He was the founder of the Christian Research...
Friday, 15 May 2009

25 years ago: The Death of Francis Schaeffer

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May 15, 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer. Mr. Schaeffer was a Presbyterian pastor in the United States for...
Monday, 11 May 2009

Social Gospel and postmodern heresy at a Christian and Missionary Alliance assembly

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More Books and Things has a post about Erwin McManus being invited to address the biennial assembly of the Canadian Pacific District of th...
Saturday, 9 May 2009

40 years ago: The revised Roman Catholic calendar

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On May 9, 1969 a revised Roman Catholic calendar of church feasts, dropping more than 200 saints and adding saints from outside Europe, was ...

Libertine University

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The reaction of some male students to Carrie Prejean’s recent "chapel" address at Liberty University came as no surprise to this b...
Friday, 8 May 2009

The Rock Church in San Diego (Carrie Prejean's church): First Church of Christ, Druckerist

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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefo...
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Focus on the Family is beyond satire

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If an anti-Christian activist were to write a novel or fictitious screenplay mocking early 21st Century North American evangelicalism, he...
Tuesday, 5 May 2009

The Outhouse (aka The Shack) in God's house

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Paul Young, author of The Shack (or, as I call it, The Outhouse ), made another return visit to his native province of Alberta in March 200...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

Dominionist church in Hamilton loses its charitable status

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And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he p...
Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Finding God in The Shack?

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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8 Finding God in The Shack is the title of a recent book by Roger E. Olson, prof...
Sunday, 29 March 2009

Confession may be good for the soul, but not for the reputation

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...and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23b Man recovers after 'deathbed' murder confession By Tom Leonard in New ...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Zechariah's Messianic prophecies

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There are so many prophecies of Christ in the book of Isaiah that the book has been referred to as the "Gospel of Isaiah." A less...
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Monday, 16 March 2009

Grovelling Christianity

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I’m a Christian, but I’m also a white person (and not ashamed of it), and as such, I’m becoming increasingly nauseated with grovelling befor...
Saturday, 7 March 2009

Identificational Repentance

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One of the more annoying fads to come into evangelicalism in recent years is identificational repentance, where Christians take it upon them...
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Friday, 6 March 2009

Ambrose University College trains Nazarene pastors using materials from a company with ties to Mormonism

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If you look at page 8 of the Ambrose University College Report to Donors 2007-2008 , in the section titled "Transforming the Church,...
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Ambrose University College and "Transformation"

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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable...
Wednesday, 4 March 2009

The Ambrose-contemplative connection

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This might offer part of the explanation for the naming of an evangelical college after Ambrose of Milan. From The Catholic Encyclopedia ...
Monday, 2 March 2009

Why is an Alliance-Nazarene college named after a Roman Catholic saint?

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In 2007, Alliance University College and Nazarene University College joined to form one institution, and chose the name Ambrose University C...
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Sunday, 1 March 2009

Campus Crusaders and Atheists Together

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When I was a student involved with Campus Crusade for Christ at the University of Alberta in the 1980s, we occasionally brought in a guest...
Thursday, 26 February 2009

Taylor Seminary promotes contemplative spirituality

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An example of the continuing Romeward drift of evangelicalism is the increasing popularity of "contemplative" prayer or spirituali...
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Baptists, Anglicans and Pentecostals team up to host Emergent speaker and writer Peter Rollins

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From the Edmonton Journal : A trio of unlikely Christian partners are hosting radical author Peter Rollins, well-known proponent of the Emer...
Monday, 2 February 2009

Urban Bridge Church brings heaven to earth?

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Thus saith Urban Bridge Church : We believe that it is our responsibility and privilege to bring heaven to earth. A dissenting view from Mal...

The words of Urban Bridge Church vs. the words of the Lord Jesus Christ

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The words of Urban Bridge Church : As a community of mercy, we endeavour to enable people to overcome challenges by actively participating i...

Just what do you mean "professional masturbation counselor"?

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Those who haven’t yet read Jeff Sharlet’s book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , published in 2008, may...
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Monday, 26 January 2009

Amusement Church U.S.A. (and Canada)

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Sung (with an extra verse added) to the tune of Amusement Parks U.S.A. by the Beach Boys. To find the original version and lyrics, go here...
Saturday, 24 January 2009

Raising the dead in British Columbia, Mozambique, and Ukraine

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Another church where Jason Upton has performed (see post below) is The Harvest in Kitimat, B.C., yet another New Apostolic Reformation chur...

I prefer pastors who are adults

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More from the former Paramount Theatre in beautiful downtown Edmonton; I suspect the female speaker is a blonde. It’s also, like, you kno...

Universalist drivel from contemporary "Christian" performer Jason Upton

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If you want to hear a really stupid message, go here and listen--if you can make it all the way through. I have no idea what Hebrews 8:10-...
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Your sin will find you out

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...and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23b When Billy Graham visited Edmonton in 1980, he preached a message on this, and o...

Jesus condemned it, Rick Warren commends it

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God's To-Do List: 103 Ways to Be an Angel and Do God's Work on Earth is a book by Ron Wolfson, published in 2007. Dr. Wolfson is p...
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