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Listed in order of date they were posted.<\/p>\n

See also Part 1 Year in Review<\/a> | See also Part 2 Year in Review <\/a> | See also Part 3 Year in Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/New Spirituality Teacher Says \u201cThe Jig is Up\u201d to Those Who Believe in \u201cthe Blood of the Lamb\u201d <\/a><\/strong>Every now and then something come along that presents our case in such a succinct and obvious way that we are compelled to share it with our readers with the hope it will leave no question as to how serious the present situation is with regard to Christianity in the Western world. Religious author Diana Butler Bass, who was one of the speakers at the recent Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions in Salt Lake City, has written a book titled Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2\/NEW MOVIE, CAPTIVE: The Stories Behind the Story and Another Plug for The Purpose Driven Movement <\/a><\/strong> On September 18th, a new movie will hit the theaters, Captive.<\/em> The film is the story about Ashley Smith, the young woman who was held captive by an escaped murderer and how she convinced him to give himself up. When the incident happened in 2005, it came out in news reports that the woman had read excerpts from The Purpose Driven Life<\/em> to her captor.<\/p>\n

3\/Southern Baptist Leaders Call for a \u201cGreat Awakening\u201d in US\u2014But SBC Continues Promoting the Anti-Gospel New Spirituality\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>The second piece of evidence is with LifeWay Resources (the SBC resource arm), which continues to present to Southern Baptist members a deluge of contemplative\/emerging\/New Spirituality promoting books. Here is a short list of the many examples that are on the LifeWay Resources website<\/p>\n

4\/Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Pastor, Brian Brodersen, Says Sometimes It\u2019s OK to Attend a Homosexual Wedding\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>According to an article titled \u201cCan I Attend My LGBT Friend\u2019s Wedding?\u201d written by Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa\u2019s senior pastor Brian Brodersen, it is sometimes OK to attend a LTGB (Lesbian, Transgender, Gay, Bisexual) wedding. He says it\u2019s not<\/em> OK to attend the wedding if the two people getting \u201cmarried\u201d proclaim to be believers in Christ, but if they don\u2019t claim to be believers then it may be OK.<\/p>\n

5\/Dr. Oz Accused of Medical \u201cQuackery\u201d While His New Age\/Spiritual \u201cQuackery\u201d Goes Unaddressed by Rick Warren and the Church\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>Major secular and Christian news media sources are reporting on an effort\u00a0by\u00a010 doctors to oust celebrity doctor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, from his faculty position at Columbia University for what the doctors\u00a0are calling \u201cegregious lack of integrity\u201d\u00a0and promoting\u00a0\u201cquack treatments.\u201d The ten doctors wrote a letter to New York\u2019s Columbia University, calling Dr. Oz a quack and an endangerment to his followers for advice he gives about diet and health-related issues.<\/p>\n

6\/Christian Pastors and Leaders \u2013 Exchanging the Word of God for a \u201cNew\u201d Way of Doing Things\u00a0<\/a> <\/strong>The church of today is very much astir. Everywhere we turn,\u00a0 embellishments are\u00a0being added to Christianity as if to improve it. The old ways do not seem to satisfy anymore. A great influx of new teachings and practices have exchanged the God of old as depicted in the pages of the Bible with a deity much more palatable to the post-modern mind.\u00a0Brennan Manning illustrates this when he stated in one of his books, \u201c . . . the god who exacts the last drop of blood from His Son, so that His just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

7\/How to Deal with Those Who Teach False Doctrine \u2013 According to Scripture <\/a><\/strong>While we don\u2019t believe the\u00a0New Testament\u00a0condones cruel or hateful behavior to anyone, we do see a consistent pattern in Scripture\u00a0that does not look lightly upon those who are teaching heretical doctrines or practices.\u00a0 Let us heed the whole counsel of God, which we believe tells us to remain humble and in an attitude of grace (knowing that we are no better than anyone else in that\u00a0it is only by the grace of God that we can see these spiritual things), but also tells us to speak courageously, with confidence, honesty, and strength.<\/p>\n

8\/Contemporary Christian Musical Artists Say: We Will Stand \u201cUnited\u201d\u2014\u2014With New Age Sympathizer Roma Downey? <\/a><\/strong>On January 21st, about 30 of contemporary Christian music\u2019s most well-known singers from the last four decades will be joining New Age sympathizer and devout Roman Catholic Roma Downey for a special live online concert called \u201cWe Will Stand.\u201d The concert is being presented by CCM United and has a motto of \u201cOne Message, Many Voices.’\u201d According to an article titled \u201cWe Are United: The Story Behind \u2018The Greatest Night In Contemporary Christian Music,\u2019\u201d there could be over a million viewers with a potential reach globally of 40 million.<\/p>\n

9\/Elephant in the Room: Rodney Howard-Browne and America\u2019s \u201cGreat Awakening\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Howard-Browne\u2019s \u201crevival\u201d activities were brought to our attention when we were informed that the \u201cHoly Ghost Bartender\u201d had organized and hosted a star-studded two-week \u201cCelebrate America\u201d event over the 4th<\/sup> of July last summer (2014) in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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