Calvinist Standard Version (CSV) - Nov. 6
“There is not a single verse in the Bible to indicate man is incapable of responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit to repent of his sin and receive Christ as his personal Savior” - (Bob Kirkland)
According to Calvinist TULIP theology, God unconditionally and “sovereignly” elects who will be saved, and this election has nothing to do with anything the sinner does, including exercising faith in the gospel. Those who are sovereignly elected will be irresistibly drawn and saved, and those who are not elected cannot be saved.
Consider the words of the Westminster Confession: “By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot.. see full report
“There is not a single verse in the Bible to indicate man is incapable of responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit to repent of his sin and receive Christ as his personal Savior” - (Bob Kirkland)
According to Calvinist TULIP theology, God unconditionally and “sovereignly” elects who will be saved, and this election has nothing to do with anything the sinner does, including exercising faith in the gospel. Those who are sovereignly elected will be irresistibly drawn and saved, and those who are not elected cannot be saved.
Consider the words of the Westminster Confession: “By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot.. see full report
Promise Keepers and Rome - Nov. 5
Promise Keepers is a men’s movement founded in 1990 by Bill McCartney, who at the time was a successful football coach for the University of Colorado. McCartney was a member of the Boulder Vineyard Church. The first president of Promise Keepers, Randy Phillips, was also a member of the Boulder Vineyard. (The church left the Association of Vineyard Churches in late 1997, after the death of John Wimber.)
Promise Keepers is a men’s movement founded in 1990 by Bill McCartney, who at the time was a successful football coach for the University of Colorado. McCartney was a member of the Boulder Vineyard Church. The first president of Promise Keepers, Randy Phillips, was also a member of the Boulder Vineyard. (The church left the Association of Vineyard Churches in late 1997, after the death of John Wimber.)
There is one Mediator and one High Priest, and that is Jesus Christ.
Promise Keepers is trying to make a comeback after largely fading from the limelight after McCartney’s resignation in 2003. After a 23-year gap, it held its first stadium event in July 2021. The rally in Dallas, Texas, drew 30,000 and was simulcast to all fifty states and 25 countries. Ken Harrison is the new president... see full report
Friday Church News Notes - Nov 1
TRUMP AND AMERICA’S FUTURE (Friday Church News Notes, November 1, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - I am very thankful that God protected Donald Trump from assassins and have prayed much that he would win the U.S. presidential election in a few days. I have prayed earnestly that new birth salvation in Jesus Christ will come to the Trump family. A Trump presidency would be endlessly better than a Kamala presidency. I also understand that Donald Trump can’t make America great again and anything he does will be like putting a Band-aid on a terrible cancer. Trump can’t change any of the fundamentals that are destroying America and will continue to destroy America during and after his term. He can’t wake up lukewarm, disobedient pastors. He can’t.. see full report
TRUMP AND AMERICA’S FUTURE (Friday Church News Notes, November 1, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - I am very thankful that God protected Donald Trump from assassins and have prayed much that he would win the U.S. presidential election in a few days. I have prayed earnestly that new birth salvation in Jesus Christ will come to the Trump family. A Trump presidency would be endlessly better than a Kamala presidency. I also understand that Donald Trump can’t make America great again and anything he does will be like putting a Band-aid on a terrible cancer. Trump can’t change any of the fundamentals that are destroying America and will continue to destroy America during and after his term. He can’t wake up lukewarm, disobedient pastors. He can’t.. see full report
“..Christianity Today listed Swindoll as one of the top 25 influential preachers..”
A Warning About Chuck Swindoll and Unbiblical Grace - Oct. 30
Chuck Swindoll (b. 1934) is an extremely influential evangelical leader and nationally syndicated radio personality.. He was the senior pastor of First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, California, from 1971-1994, president of Dallas Theological Seminary from 1994 to 2001, and founder of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, in 1998. In April 2024 he stepped down as senior pastor but continues to preach as health allows. His Insight for Living ministry hosts his web site, publishes his 70 books, and airs his radio program on about 2,000 stations in 15 languages. Swindoll’s wife, Cynthia, serves as president and chief executive officer of the ministry and its 90 employees... see full report
Chuck Swindoll (b. 1934) is an extremely influential evangelical leader and nationally syndicated radio personality.. He was the senior pastor of First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, California, from 1971-1994, president of Dallas Theological Seminary from 1994 to 2001, and founder of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, in 1998. In April 2024 he stepped down as senior pastor but continues to preach as health allows. His Insight for Living ministry hosts his web site, publishes his 70 books, and airs his radio program on about 2,000 stations in 15 languages. Swindoll’s wife, Cynthia, serves as president and chief executive officer of the ministry and its 90 employees... see full report
Pentecostal Scandals- Oct. 29
The Pentecostal movement, from its inception, has been marred deeply by moral scandals and deception, and nothing has changed.
Scandals can be found in any group of Christians, sadly, but scandals among Pentecostals and charismatics are significant because they claim a special anointing of God’s Spirit. They claim double blessings and triple anointings and super Spirit baptisms. They claim to operate in the Spirit and flow in the Spirit and talk in the Spirit and prophesy in the Spirit and laugh in the Spirit and soak in the Spirit and even get drunk in the Spirit. They claim to have the “full gospel” and the “four square gospel” and to operate in the “five-fold.. see full report
The Pentecostal movement, from its inception, has been marred deeply by moral scandals and deception, and nothing has changed.
Scandals can be found in any group of Christians, sadly, but scandals among Pentecostals and charismatics are significant because they claim a special anointing of God’s Spirit. They claim double blessings and triple anointings and super Spirit baptisms. They claim to operate in the Spirit and flow in the Spirit and talk in the Spirit and prophesy in the Spirit and laugh in the Spirit and soak in the Spirit and even get drunk in the Spirit. They claim to have the “full gospel” and the “four square gospel” and to operate in the “five-fold.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes - Oct. 25
ONE-YEAR DISCIPLESHIP COURSE IN SPANISH (Friday Church News Notes, October 25, 2024, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Way of Life Literature’s One-Year Discipleship Course is now available for free download in Spanish. This course features 52 lessons in Christian living. It can be broken into sections and used as a new converts’ course, a discipleship course, a Sunday School series, a home schooling or Bible Institute course, or for preaching outlines. The lessons are thorough and practical. There is an extensive memory verse program built into the course, and each lesson features carefully designed review questions. Following are some of the lesson titles: Repentance, Faith.. see full report
ONE-YEAR DISCIPLESHIP COURSE IN SPANISH (Friday Church News Notes, October 25, 2024, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Way of Life Literature’s One-Year Discipleship Course is now available for free download in Spanish. This course features 52 lessons in Christian living. It can be broken into sections and used as a new converts’ course, a discipleship course, a Sunday School series, a home schooling or Bible Institute course, or for preaching outlines. The lessons are thorough and practical. There is an extensive memory verse program built into the course, and each lesson features carefully designed review questions. Following are some of the lesson titles: Repentance, Faith.. see full report
Ignorant Preachers - Oct. 24
The following is excerpted from A History of the Churches from a Baptist Perspective, www.wayoflife.org -
The downplaying of the importance of a solid Bible education, an emphasis on shouting and histrionics to the detriment of Bible content in preaching, and the emphasis on emotionalism as the evidence of spiritual reality has weakened large numbers of churches in “the South” even to this day.
As early as the turn of the 19th century, there was opposition to serious education of Baptist preachers in the South, as described by B.F. Riley, History of the Baptists in the Southern States, 1898:
“With rare exceptions the ministry of the Baptists of the South at this period was composed of illiterate, but earnest and devout men. ... These sincere, honest, though unlettered men ... insisted that if called of God to preach there would be supernatural provision for the duty as occasion might.. see full report
The following is excerpted from A History of the Churches from a Baptist Perspective, www.wayoflife.org -
The downplaying of the importance of a solid Bible education, an emphasis on shouting and histrionics to the detriment of Bible content in preaching, and the emphasis on emotionalism as the evidence of spiritual reality has weakened large numbers of churches in “the South” even to this day.
As early as the turn of the 19th century, there was opposition to serious education of Baptist preachers in the South, as described by B.F. Riley, History of the Baptists in the Southern States, 1898:
“With rare exceptions the ministry of the Baptists of the South at this period was composed of illiterate, but earnest and devout men. ... These sincere, honest, though unlettered men ... insisted that if called of God to preach there would be supernatural provision for the duty as occasion might.. see full report
Lancaster Baptist Church’s Contemporary Fruit - Oct. 23
For a multimedia video presentation of this issue, see The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music series, “Lancaster’s Role in the Downgrade”
California is being populated with contemporary churches that are products of, and spin-offs of, Lancaster Baptist Church of Lancaster and the West Coast Baptist College that it operates. The same thing is happening in many other parts of North America and beyond. In fact, the reason we began warning about Lancaster some years ago was that we had witnessed the fruit of its contemporary compromise in churches overseas, particularly in the Philippines.
In many cases, the pastors of the contemporary churches are sons of Lancaster’s leaders, staff, and.. see full report
For a multimedia video presentation of this issue, see The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music series, “Lancaster’s Role in the Downgrade”
California is being populated with contemporary churches that are products of, and spin-offs of, Lancaster Baptist Church of Lancaster and the West Coast Baptist College that it operates. The same thing is happening in many other parts of North America and beyond. In fact, the reason we began warning about Lancaster some years ago was that we had witnessed the fruit of its contemporary compromise in churches overseas, particularly in the Philippines.
In many cases, the pastors of the contemporary churches are sons of Lancaster’s leaders, staff, and.. see full report
Steven Anderson’s Children Expose Him - Oct. 22
In 2024, three of Steven Anderson’s oldest children have spoken out publicly about the cultic abuse in the pastor’s home.
When I first learned of one of Anderson’s son’s testimony of abuse in the home, I decided to leave it alone and not add it to the Anderson report (“What About Steven Anderson?”), because it was only one young man’s word against that of his father. But since then, that testimony has been confirmed by two other children. Further, I have since realized that many people have probably been drawn to Anderson because of what appeared to be his good Christian home. Some of his former members are publicly testifying that they feel betrayed by learning the true condition of his home.
In 2024, three of Steven Anderson’s oldest children have spoken out publicly about the cultic abuse in the pastor’s home.
When I first learned of one of Anderson’s son’s testimony of abuse in the home, I decided to leave it alone and not add it to the Anderson report (“What About Steven Anderson?”), because it was only one young man’s word against that of his father. But since then, that testimony has been confirmed by two other children. Further, I have since realized that many people have probably been drawn to Anderson because of what appeared to be his good Christian home. Some of his former members are publicly testifying that they feel betrayed by learning the true condition of his home.
I feel very sorry for the Anderson family. I have no ill feeling whatsoever against them. I only wish that Steven did not claim to be independent Baptist and that.. see full report
Sarah Buteux
Friday Church News Notes - Oct. 18
JONATHAN EDWARDS’ CHURCH THEN AND NOW (Friday Church News Notes, October 18, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a key figure in the First Great Awakening in America. The revival in the northeastern part of the United States started in his church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1734. He preached the new birth and held to the infallible inspiration of Scripture. He believed in a God who is both holy and compassionate, a Judge and a Saviour. He preached salvation through faith in the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ. Edwards’ famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God warned people to flee God’s wrath.. see full report
JONATHAN EDWARDS’ CHURCH THEN AND NOW (Friday Church News Notes, October 18, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a key figure in the First Great Awakening in America. The revival in the northeastern part of the United States started in his church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1734. He preached the new birth and held to the infallible inspiration of Scripture. He believed in a God who is both holy and compassionate, a Judge and a Saviour. He preached salvation through faith in the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ. Edwards’ famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God warned people to flee God’s wrath.. see full report
Christian Drinking Is a Bellwether Issue - Oct. 17
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
- Pr 20:1
The rapid change in attitude toward drinking among “Bible believing” Christians is a major sign of the times.
Baptist pastor Charles Spurgeon said, “Next to the preaching of the Gospel, the most necessary thing to be done in England is to induce our people to become abstainers” (1882), and, “Those beer shops are the curse of this country--no good ever can come of them, and the evil they do no tongue can tell ... the beer shops are a pest ... the sooner their licenses are taken away, the better” (1884).
When the 18th Amendment, which “prohibited the manufacture, sale.. see full report
Baptist pastor Charles Spurgeon said, “Next to the preaching of the Gospel, the most necessary thing to be done in England is to induce our people to become abstainers” (1882), and, “Those beer shops are the curse of this country--no good ever can come of them, and the evil they do no tongue can tell ... the beer shops are a pest ... the sooner their licenses are taken away, the better” (1884).
When the 18th Amendment, which “prohibited the manufacture, sale.. see full report
Transitioning Churches Away From the King James Bible - Oct. 16
“The Translation Transition” is an interview with Bryan Samms by Luke Clayton at the Church Advance YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gbyr_iNj9E
Shallow Baptist churches that are uneducated in the Bible and in the fundamental issues of the day are ripe for the devil’s picking, and they are falling away from the truth on every hand.
Bryan Samms is pastor of River City Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida, which under his leadership (beginning in 2016) transitioned from a conservative fundamental Baptist Church to a contemporary evangelical church. According to his own testimony, after he took the pastorate, he came to a “conviction” that modern versions such as the New King James Version, the New American Standard Version, and the English Standard Version, are to be preferred above the King James Version. He subsequently transitioned.. see full report
“The Translation Transition” is an interview with Bryan Samms by Luke Clayton at the Church Advance YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gbyr_iNj9E
Shallow Baptist churches that are uneducated in the Bible and in the fundamental issues of the day are ripe for the devil’s picking, and they are falling away from the truth on every hand.
Bryan Samms is pastor of River City Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida, which under his leadership (beginning in 2016) transitioned from a conservative fundamental Baptist Church to a contemporary evangelical church. According to his own testimony, after he took the pastorate, he came to a “conviction” that modern versions such as the New King James Version, the New American Standard Version, and the English Standard Version, are to be preferred above the King James Version. He subsequently transitioned.. see full report
Evangelicals Praise Heretic Karl Barth - Oct. 15
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was a thorough-going heretic, yet he has wielded great influence among “evangelicals.”
The December 11, 1995, issue of Christianity Today contained a review of Karl Barth’s Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936, by Bruce McCormack, Oxford University Press, 1995. The review was by Roger Olson of Bethel College. Note the praise heaped on heretic Barth by this publication which professes to believe the Bible:
“When chroniclers of twentieth-century theology look back one hundred years hence, there is little doubt that one name will overshadow all others as THE GIANT OF THIS CENTURY’S THEOLOGIANS--KARL BARTH. Thinkers of Barth’s stature provide a framework within which countless others carry out their own work, and thus a change in the paradigm governing interpretation of a Barth or a Hegel or an Edwards or a Thomas Aquinas has consequences that ultimately extend far beyond the inner circle of scholarly .. see full report
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was a thorough-going heretic, yet he has wielded great influence among “evangelicals.”
The December 11, 1995, issue of Christianity Today contained a review of Karl Barth’s Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936, by Bruce McCormack, Oxford University Press, 1995. The review was by Roger Olson of Bethel College. Note the praise heaped on heretic Barth by this publication which professes to believe the Bible:
“When chroniclers of twentieth-century theology look back one hundred years hence, there is little doubt that one name will overshadow all others as THE GIANT OF THIS CENTURY’S THEOLOGIANS--KARL BARTH. Thinkers of Barth’s stature provide a framework within which countless others carry out their own work, and thus a change in the paradigm governing interpretation of a Barth or a Hegel or an Edwards or a Thomas Aquinas has consequences that ultimately extend far beyond the inner circle of scholarly .. see full report
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Friday Church News Notes - Oct. 11
CATHOLIC COLLEGE OPERATES ON OLD D.L. MOODY PROPERTY (Friday Church News Notes, October 11, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The vast majority of old fundamentalist churches and institutions have become evangelical over the past 50 years, and many of them have morphed from fundamentalism to evangelicalism to liberalism and Catholicism. This is the fruit of the new evangelicalism with its renunciation of separatism and its tendency to erase “boundaries.” Consider Trinitarian Congregational Church of East Northfield.. see full report
CATHOLIC COLLEGE OPERATES ON OLD D.L. MOODY PROPERTY (Friday Church News Notes, October 11, 2024, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The vast majority of old fundamentalist churches and institutions have become evangelical over the past 50 years, and many of them have morphed from fundamentalism to evangelicalism to liberalism and Catholicism. This is the fruit of the new evangelicalism with its renunciation of separatism and its tendency to erase “boundaries.” Consider Trinitarian Congregational Church of East Northfield.. see full report
Rock - The Music of False Christs
Oct. 10
The following is excerpted from What Every Christian Should Know About Rock Music, which is available as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org -
The fourth thing every Christian should know about rock music is that it is the music of false christs and antichrists.
''Even when rockers talk positively about Christ, it is not the Christ of the Bible.
The Bible warns about false christs. Even in the first century, the churches were in danger of being seduced by false christs and antichrists.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds.. see full report
Oct. 10
The following is excerpted from What Every Christian Should Know About Rock Music, which is available as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org -
The fourth thing every Christian should know about rock music is that it is the music of false christs and antichrists.
''Even when rockers talk positively about Christ, it is not the Christ of the Bible.
The Bible warns about false christs. Even in the first century, the churches were in danger of being seduced by false christs and antichrists.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds.. see full report
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