Shawn Bolz
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Friday Church News Notes
- July 18
PENTECOSTALS USING CHATGPT TO INTERPRET “TONGUES” (Friday Church News Notes, July 18, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “New Claims,” Crosswalk, July 11, 2025: “Self-professed prophet Shawn Bolz recently claimed that Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians have engaged in a trend where they can interpret speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, by using Chat GPT. Bolz, who was previously accused of fabricating prophecies, addressed the matter in a video titled ‘God, Technology & the Next 25 Years: the Prophetic Mandate for Innovation’ on his YouTube Channel late last month.” CONCLUDING COMMENTS: This is just.. see full report
- July 18
PENTECOSTALS USING CHATGPT TO INTERPRET “TONGUES” (Friday Church News Notes, July 18, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “New Claims,” Crosswalk, July 11, 2025: “Self-professed prophet Shawn Bolz recently claimed that Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians have engaged in a trend where they can interpret speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, by using Chat GPT. Bolz, who was previously accused of fabricating prophecies, addressed the matter in a video titled ‘God, Technology & the Next 25 Years: the Prophetic Mandate for Innovation’ on his YouTube Channel late last month.” CONCLUDING COMMENTS: This is just.. see full report
Home Schooling Bible Curricula - July 17
Bible Course Information
Way of Life Literature publishes a complete Bible curricula for home schooling.
We can educate children and youth in Christian homes so that they would already have the equivalent of a a typical Bible college education by graduation from high school.
The heart and soul of the education is a personal, saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and surrender to pursuing God’s will. The students must have the fear of God. Otherwise, the education will be wasted on self.
One of the great errors of Bible-believing homes and churches today is the failure to disciple young people in a serious, effectual fashion. Young people are entertained or they are neglected, but rarely are they seriously discipled. But serious.. see full report
Bible Course Information
Way of Life Literature publishes a complete Bible curricula for home schooling.
We can educate children and youth in Christian homes so that they would already have the equivalent of a a typical Bible college education by graduation from high school.
The heart and soul of the education is a personal, saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and surrender to pursuing God’s will. The students must have the fear of God. Otherwise, the education will be wasted on self.
One of the great errors of Bible-believing homes and churches today is the failure to disciple young people in a serious, effectual fashion. Young people are entertained or they are neglected, but rarely are they seriously discipled. But serious.. see full report
What in the World Has Happened to America? - July 16
Many are truly and fundamentally shocked at what is happening in America, and it is shocking, but what we are seeing today is the product of a long process of apostasy (for lack of a better word). It is a process of incremental wickedness. It is a warning not to overlook “little” sins and “little” heresies and “little” crimes.
The destruction of America is like the life cycle of ivy. First it sleeps, then it creeps, finally it leaps.
In the 19th century, destruction was sleeping, as the seeds were being sown through the dawning of theological modernism, Humanism, Unitarianism, Darwinian evolution, Marxism, and Freudianism. By the 20th century, destruction was creeping. Now in the 21st it’s leaping!
Already in the first half of the 20th century, the nation was being.. see full report
Many are truly and fundamentally shocked at what is happening in America, and it is shocking, but what we are seeing today is the product of a long process of apostasy (for lack of a better word). It is a process of incremental wickedness. It is a warning not to overlook “little” sins and “little” heresies and “little” crimes.
The destruction of America is like the life cycle of ivy. First it sleeps, then it creeps, finally it leaps.
In the 19th century, destruction was sleeping, as the seeds were being sown through the dawning of theological modernism, Humanism, Unitarianism, Darwinian evolution, Marxism, and Freudianism. By the 20th century, destruction was creeping. Now in the 21st it’s leaping!
Already in the first half of the 20th century, the nation was being.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes - July 11
PM Netanyahu, President Trump, Ayatollah Shirazi
IRAN DECLARES FATWAH ON TRUMP AND NETANYAHU (Friday Church News Notes, July 11, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Iran Just Declared,” Israel365News, July 3, 2025: “On June 29th, Iran’s most senior religious cleric, Grand Ayatollah Makaram Shirazi, issued a chilling fatwa calling for the global assassination of President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. This isn’t just political rhetoric--this is a direct religious ruling urging Muslims worldwide to carry out targeted killings. Backed by a reward from Allah for anyone who dies attempting the assassination, and brutal punishments for anyone who supports the West, this fatwa reveals the true spiritual and ideological.. see full report
Blind Followers of Men - July 9
One of the great errors that has permeated large segments of the independent fundamental Baptist movement (IFB) is the blind loyalty given to some men.
It is a product of biblical ignorance and lack of spiritual discernment. It is the product of men following men rather than following God’s Word, of men who are man-centered rather than Christ-centered.
This is one of the reasons why I predict that most IFB churches will be well down the emerging path within a generation. (See our free eBook Why Most Independent Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging.
The correction that is needed will not be received because reproof is not allowed in the context of these exalted heroes.
The Grand Poobah of poobahs among fundamental Baptists.. see full report
One of the great errors that has permeated large segments of the independent fundamental Baptist movement (IFB) is the blind loyalty given to some men.
It is a product of biblical ignorance and lack of spiritual discernment. It is the product of men following men rather than following God’s Word, of men who are man-centered rather than Christ-centered.
This is one of the reasons why I predict that most IFB churches will be well down the emerging path within a generation. (See our free eBook Why Most Independent Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging.
The correction that is needed will not be received because reproof is not allowed in the context of these exalted heroes.
The Grand Poobah of poobahs among fundamental Baptists.. see full report
Is Hyles a Bygone Issue? - July 8
Recently a pastor wrote the following:
“My opinion is I wish you would move forward from Jack Hyles and those who probably 75% of struggling Christians today have never heard of and help us with those today on tv and the circuit who preach a false gospel.”
A number of preachers have expressed to me the same thing in various ways.
I explained to this man that I have dealt with hundreds of men and heresies facing the churches and that“struggling Christians” need help with, and I have put most of that material online for free distribution.
I further explained that though Jack Hyles is dead, his influence among fundamental Baptist churches is vast.
We have documented this.. see full report
Recently a pastor wrote the following:
“My opinion is I wish you would move forward from Jack Hyles and those who probably 75% of struggling Christians today have never heard of and help us with those today on tv and the circuit who preach a false gospel.”
A number of preachers have expressed to me the same thing in various ways.
I explained to this man that I have dealt with hundreds of men and heresies facing the churches and that“struggling Christians” need help with, and I have put most of that material online for free distribution.
I further explained that though Jack Hyles is dead, his influence among fundamental Baptist churches is vast.
We have documented this.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes
- July 4
BOTH PARTIES WANT A KING (Friday Church News Notes, July 4, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - America continues its steady march to totalitarianism. It began a long time ago, with the vast increase in federal bureaucracy during and after the Civil War, with the creation of a federal income tax, a national currency, a national banking system, the creation of the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce and Labor. “They inserted the government into railroads, education, agriculture, immigration, the sciences, financial regulation [and] industry” (Roger Lowenstein, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War). Totalitarianism received a major push with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and a steady stream of ever newer deals, such as Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. America has long been a socialist.. see full report
- July 4
BOTH PARTIES WANT A KING (Friday Church News Notes, July 4, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - America continues its steady march to totalitarianism. It began a long time ago, with the vast increase in federal bureaucracy during and after the Civil War, with the creation of a federal income tax, a national currency, a national banking system, the creation of the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce and Labor. “They inserted the government into railroads, education, agriculture, immigration, the sciences, financial regulation [and] industry” (Roger Lowenstein, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War). Totalitarianism received a major push with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and a steady stream of ever newer deals, such as Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. America has long been a socialist.. see full report
Bruce Metzger
As a student at Tennessee Temple in the 1970s, I was given zero information about the editors of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament that we were required to use. These were Bruce Metzger, Matthew Black, Allen Wikgren, Carlo Martini, Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, and Johannes Karavidopoulos.
I looked into these people for myself as a young missionary in the early 1980s and was amazed to find that Martini was a Roman Catholic cardinal and most of the others were theological modernists. I found, further, that the entire field of modern textual criticism was rife with unbelief from its inception. Modernists and Unitarians and modernist-influenced Evangelicals were the chief voices, with few.. see full report
I looked into these people for myself as a young missionary in the early 1980s and was amazed to find that Martini was a Roman Catholic cardinal and most of the others were theological modernists. I found, further, that the entire field of modern textual criticism was rife with unbelief from its inception. Modernists and Unitarians and modernist-influenced Evangelicals were the chief voices, with few.. see full report
I Love Israel - July 2
For a review of and refutation of Steven Anderson’s Marching to Zion see the free eBook What about Steven Anderson?
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
Israel has been the subject of false teaching and unbiblical thinking among professing Christians since the time of the church fathers, so called, and the invention of Replacement Theology and the subsequent sad history of persecution of Jews by professing Christians. These heresies were subsumed by the Roman Catholic Church and were part of the heretical baggage that was brought out of Rome by many.. see full report
For a review of and refutation of Steven Anderson’s Marching to Zion see the free eBook What about Steven Anderson?
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
Israel has been the subject of false teaching and unbiblical thinking among professing Christians since the time of the church fathers, so called, and the invention of Replacement Theology and the subsequent sad history of persecution of Jews by professing Christians. These heresies were subsumed by the Roman Catholic Church and were part of the heretical baggage that was brought out of Rome by many.. see full report
A Mindset of Guarding the Eye-Gate - July 1
The following is excerpted from the new book/course The Pornographic Age and Victory in Christ, www.wayoflife.org --
God’s people must cut themselves off from major channels of temptation. They must practice strict separation, but there is no possibility of spiritual victory if the individual is not willing to guard the eyes. The strongest filtering system and the most diligent accountability program will not protect you if you don’t guard your eyes. Temptations are not limited to the internet; they are everywhere. Pornography walks the streets today!
Guarding the eyes is a primary biblical way of protection. “I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I THINK UPON A MAID” (Job 31:1). “I will.. see full report
The following is excerpted from the new book/course The Pornographic Age and Victory in Christ, www.wayoflife.org --
God’s people must cut themselves off from major channels of temptation. They must practice strict separation, but there is no possibility of spiritual victory if the individual is not willing to guard the eyes. The strongest filtering system and the most diligent accountability program will not protect you if you don’t guard your eyes. Temptations are not limited to the internet; they are everywhere. Pornography walks the streets today!
Guarding the eyes is a primary biblical way of protection. “I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I THINK UPON A MAID” (Job 31:1). “I will.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes
- June 28
RUSSIA SAYS IRAN’S NUCLEAR ARMAMENT WILL CONTINUE (Friday Church News Notes, June 27, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - After Israel and America bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities last week, Dimitry Medvedev, former Russian president, said, “The enrichment of nuclear material--and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons--will continue. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads” (“Russian.. see full report
- June 28
RUSSIA SAYS IRAN’S NUCLEAR ARMAMENT WILL CONTINUE (Friday Church News Notes, June 27, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - After Israel and America bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities last week, Dimitry Medvedev, former Russian president, said, “The enrichment of nuclear material--and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons--will continue. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads” (“Russian.. see full report
Lancaster Baptist Church
- June 24
Lancaster Baptist Church of Lancaster, California, pastored by Paul Chappell, is spawning large numbers of contemporary churches by graduates, associates, and former staff members. Examples are Rock Hill Church, Fontana, California (pastored by Chappell’s son Matt); Coastline Baptist Church, Oceanside, California (pastored by Chappell’s brother, mentored Matt Chappell); Grace Gathering, Santa Barbara; Ambassador Baptist Church, Fresno, California; Southridge Church, San Jose, California; Citypoint Baptist.. see full report
Lancaster Baptist Church of Lancaster, California, pastored by Paul Chappell, is spawning large numbers of contemporary churches by graduates, associates, and former staff members. Examples are Rock Hill Church, Fontana, California (pastored by Chappell’s son Matt); Coastline Baptist Church, Oceanside, California (pastored by Chappell’s brother, mentored Matt Chappell); Grace Gathering, Santa Barbara; Ambassador Baptist Church, Fresno, California; Southridge Church, San Jose, California; Citypoint Baptist.. see full report
Rick Warren
Friday Church News Notes
- June 20
RICK WARREN EXHORTS ROMAN CATHOLICS TO FULFILL CHRIST’S GREAT COMMISSION (Friday Church News Notes, June 20, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, spoke at a Roman Catholic evangelism event in Rome last week. Global 2033 is a “worldwide movement to unite Catholic believers in fulfilling the Great Commission.” The year 2033 refers to the 2000th anniversary of Pentecost. Rick Warren is a second generation Southern Baptist pastor who, after Billy Graham, has probably done more than any other one man in this generation to build a one-world “church.” Warren has.. see full report
- June 20
RICK WARREN EXHORTS ROMAN CATHOLICS TO FULFILL CHRIST’S GREAT COMMISSION (Friday Church News Notes, June 20, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, spoke at a Roman Catholic evangelism event in Rome last week. Global 2033 is a “worldwide movement to unite Catholic believers in fulfilling the Great Commission.” The year 2033 refers to the 2000th anniversary of Pentecost. Rick Warren is a second generation Southern Baptist pastor who, after Billy Graham, has probably done more than any other one man in this generation to build a one-world “church.” Warren has.. see full report
Sorrow in the Christian Life - June 19
The following is excerpted from What Is the Emerging Church?, a free eBook which is available from Way of Life Literature, www.wayoflife.org.
The born again child of God can be very puzzled by the experience in sorrow when he thinks he should have only joy, but the Bible is very clear on this subject. There is sorrow in the genuine Christian life. Consider some examples:
- There is sorrow because of sin and our fallen condition. We live in “a body of death” (Ro. 7:24). We are subject to “the bondage of corruption” (Ro. 8:21). “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 Jo. 1:8). We have the “old man” (“that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man,” Eph. 4:22). We have “the flesh” (Ro. 13:14, “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof”). David described a severely sorrowful condition that came because of his sin. “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day.. see full report
The following is excerpted from What Is the Emerging Church?, a free eBook which is available from Way of Life Literature, www.wayoflife.org.
The born again child of God can be very puzzled by the experience in sorrow when he thinks he should have only joy, but the Bible is very clear on this subject. There is sorrow in the genuine Christian life. Consider some examples:
- There is sorrow because of sin and our fallen condition. We live in “a body of death” (Ro. 7:24). We are subject to “the bondage of corruption” (Ro. 8:21). “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 Jo. 1:8). We have the “old man” (“that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man,” Eph. 4:22). We have “the flesh” (Ro. 13:14, “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof”). David described a severely sorrowful condition that came because of his sin. “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day.. see full report
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