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In an impassioned and urgent attempt to use the time left in Obama’s
term to salvage what he can of this situation, Carter called for Obama
to take specific steps toward this aim at a peaceful resolution. One
step specifically, among many mentioned, is Carter’s opinion that Obama
should give formal recognition to a Palestinian state. In the editorial
he explains that, “I am convinced the United States can still have the
future of the Israel-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short.”
(Andy Beth Miller, “Jimmy Carter Calls for Dividing Land of Israel,” ChristianHeadlines Online, December 02, 2016)
[TBC: Jimmy Carter (as a professing born again Christian) may seem out of place among the “evangelical theologians” who support Christian Palestinianism, but as we have pointed out, that’s not the case. As Dave Hunt noted concerning Carter, “His book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, embodies all that the others (Stephen Sizer, Hank Hangegraaff, Tony Campolo, Brian McClaren) stand for in their opposition to Israel and the Word of God–and then some.”]
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(Evangelical Focus) — Coinciding with the fifth centenary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, the State Library of the German city of Berlin will exhibit three of the seven original prints of Martin Luther’s 95 theses that are still preserved.
Published in 1517, they laid the theological foundations for one of
the most important political, spiritual and intellectual movements in
European history and the world today.
This initiative will be included in a wide exhibition, that the
Berlin library will open on February 3, under the name of “Bible,
Thesis, Propaganda.”
Published in 1517, they laid the theological foundations for one of the
most important political, spiritual and intellectual movements in
European history and the world today.
This initiative will be included in a wide exhibition, that the Berlin
library will open on February 3, under the name of “Bible,Thesis,
Propaganda.”
See more: http://evangelicalfocus.com/culture/2193/Germany_will_nail_Martin_Luthers_theses_again
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USA -(Ammoland.com)- On Monday, Barack Obama’s Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will doom tens of thousands
of law-abiding (and vulnerable) disability insurance and Supplemental
Security Income (SSI) recipients to a loss of Second Amendment rights
under the guise of re-characterizing them as “mental defectives.”
The
SSA, for the first time in its history, will be co-opted into the
federal government’s gun control apparatus, effectively requiring Social
Security applicants to weigh their need for benefits against their
fundamental rights when applying for assistance based on mental health
problems.
Barack Obama’s political party and the presidential candidate he personally endorsed and campaigned for suffered perhaps the most dramatic rebuke in the history of American politics with the election of Donald J. Trump.
Far from being humbled or chastened, however, Obama is spending the waning days of his presidency releasing duly convicted felons from prison, making low-level appointments, and pushing pet policy projects, all to do something, anything, to leave his stamp after a lackluster tenure.
The Social Security rule is the final version of a proposal that we reported on earlier this year. Public outcry against the proposed rule was fierce, and the comment period drew over 91,000 responses, the vast majority of them opposing the plan.
The
NRA itself submitted detailed comments, taking the proposed rule to
task for its many legal problems, its lack of empirical support, and the
way it would politicize the SSA’s functions and stigmatize its
beneficiaries.
For example, the SSA did not attempt to answer
most of the legal questions raised about its authority, instead
deferring to an over broad and problematic ATF regulation defining who
counts under the federal Gun Control Act as a “mental defective” and to
Department of Justice guidance on reporting.
The SSA did not
explain why, some two decades after the federal background check system
came online, it was reversing its earlier determination about its
reporting responsibilities and only now asserting a mandate to do so.
Incredibly,
the SSA also brushed aside empirical evidence the NRA submitted
suggesting that the proposed rule would have no public safety benefit.
“We are not attempting to imply a connection between mental illness and a
propensity for violence, particularly gun violence,” the SSA wrote.
“Rather, we are complying with our obligations under the NIAA, which
require us to provide information from our records when an individual
falls within one of the categories identified in 18 U.S.C. 922(g).”
This
would seem to be the very definition of the sort of arbitrary and
capricious rule making prohibited by the Administrative Procedures Act.
The
SSA also insisted that it was not stigmatizing those who receive
disability insurance or SSI for mental health conditions, arguing that
the names of the beneficiaries reported to NICS would not be made
public.
What the administration ignores is that it would stigmatize the entire category of beneficiaries subject to reporting.
The
administration further acknowledges that the rule would not provide
those subject to its terms the ability to defend their suitability to
possess firearms before the actual loss of rights took place.
In other words, it offers no due process on the question of losing Second Amendment rights.
Instead,
the rule forces affected beneficiaries to file a petition for
“restoration” of rights and to somehow prove their possession of
firearms would not harm public safety or the public interest, even
though the government never established, or tried to establish, the
contrary.
The major parameters of the final rule are the same as those we detailed in an earlier alert
on the proposal. It will affect those who receive SSI or disability
insurance because of a listed mental health impairment and who have been
assigned a representative payee to manage the benefits because of the
person’s mental condition.
The bottom line, however, is that tens
of thousands of completely harmless, law-abiding people will lose their
rights every year under the rule, a premise the SSA did not even try to
refute.
The NRA has already prepared proposals for corrective
action, and we certainly hope they will be given favorable consideration
by the incoming administration.
In the meantime, this is one more
reminder of the petty, partisan politics of Barack Obama, and one more
reason to be thankful that in a few short weeks, he will no longer wield
the power of the presidency against the nation’s law-abiding gun
owners.
About the NRA-ILA:
Established
in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying”
arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for
preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative,
political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for
legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
Visit: www.nra.org
George
Soros and Barack Obama are doing their best to sell America out to the
Middle East before Donald Trump is sworn in as President of the United
States.
Anis
Amri, the jihadist that drove a truck into scores of people in Berlin,
leaving 12 dead and injuring dozens finally faced justice in Milan,Italy
as a rookie police officer took Amri down in a hail of bullets after
Amri pulled a gun after being asked for identification. Amri had been
one of many refugees leaving Tunisia during the Arab Spring in 2011 for
European shores. Tunisia now seen as a jihadist hotbed, sending more
fighters to Syria than any other Country. Amri had been allowed to
remain in Europe regardless of the fact that he had spent four years in
prison after being held responsible for burning down a migrant reception
center on the Italian Island of Lampedusa.
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At the very peak of this year’s Christmas shopping season (during
which most Americans do a quarter of their yearly shopping) Chip Bergh,
the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., asked his customers to turn his stores into gun-free zones:
Since many of his stores are located in shopping malls, what Bergh is
asking is that people who have firearms leave them at home, or in their
vehicles — turning those malls, as well as his stores, into gun-free
zones.
Gun-free zones are just what unhinged criminals are looking for:
places with lots of people present who are unable to defend themselves.
John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) published a report
two years ago showing that 94 percent of mass public shootings between
January 2009 and 2014 took place in gun-free zones.
That report was followed by a similar study, this time from Stanford
University, that confirmed the CPRC study: Going back to the beginning
of 2002, of the 54 mass shootings (involving a shooter targeting people
at random), the shooter chose gun-free zones 37 times. Of the 17 times a
shooter choose a location where guns were legally allowed, a third of
the attacks were ended when the shooter was confronted by an individual
legally carrying a firearm.
Perhaps Bergh can be forgiven for his ideological, knee-jerk reaction
to the single incident he referred to in his letter where someone in
one of his stores injured himself when his firearm accidentally
discharged. That same reaction occurred earlier this month when the
shooter in the Ohio State University attack was assumed to be using a
firearm. This included Senator Tim Kaine (Hillary Clinton’s running
mate) and Shannon Watts with Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun
Safety. It was later learned, of course, that the attacker used a
vehicle and a knife during the attack.
If Bergh wants “clarity” and is sincere about his employees’ and customers’ safety, perhaps his letter should have read:
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Outgoing President Obama’s final series of policy initiatives is part of a “desperate frenzy” to leave a legacy that will end up being reversed by Trump, says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“His
legacy is like one of those dolls that, as the air comes of out it,
shrinks and shrinks and shrinks,” Gingrich told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “The things he’s done this week will be turned around.”
“He’s in this desperate frenzy.”
In the past week alone, the Obama administration has blocked future
oil and gas leases offshore in parts of the Artic and Atlantic oceans,
canceled a once-mandatory registry focused on immigrant men from Muslim
countries, and is moving to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo Bay.
These actions are also an effort to heighten divisions in an already polarized country, says Gingrich.
“What
he’s actually doing is he’s setting up a series of things to distract
Trump, which will make his liberal allies feel good about Democrats and
hate Republicans when Trump rolls them all back,” Gingrich stated.
Because
the majority of Obama’s policies were implemented by executive action,
rather than with bipartisan legislation, his legacy will be easier for
President Trump’s administration to dismantle.
“He would have been a more limited president, but his legacy would have lasted much longer,” Gingrich said.
He
added that Trump can likely reverse 60-70% of Obama’s 260 total
executive orders by simply vetoing them out because they don’t require
Congressional approval.
Realizing that his legacy is in jeopardy,
Obama recently lamented on NPR last week that President Trump’s
initiatives would be more difficult to undo when if he passes
legislation through Congress rather than executive order.
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By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
While the news media provides wall-to-wall coverage of President-elect Donald Trump
and his family -- most of it consisting of negative stories -- and continue to portray a
failed president as having eight-years of achievement, they are once again purposely
ignoring the federal government breaking laws, regulations and agreements regarding
immigration.
In
a last ditch effort to underscore his tyrannical reign, President
Obama, along with approval of members of both the “right” and “left”,
signed the 2017 NDAA on Christmas weekend. While hardly a surprise, the
biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the
Defense Authorization Act.
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Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming
holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.
In a statement, Obama said that:
Today,
I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017
appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for
Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital benefits
for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to
facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It continues many
critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we are able to sustain
our momentum in countering the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant and to reassure our European allies, as well as many new
authorizations that, among other things, provide the Departments of
Defense and Energy more flexibility in countering cyber-attacks and our
adversaries’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Much of the balance of Obama’s statement blamed the GOP for
Guantanamo’s continued operation and warned that “unless the Congress
changes course, it will be judged harshly by history,” Obama said. Obama
also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead
(like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military health
care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing the
military in the years ahead.
But while the passage of the NDAA –
and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest
news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense
Authortization Act.
Recall that as we reported in early June, “a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress.
As
with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the
Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a
further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify
avenues of accurate information.
Introduced by Congressmen Adam
Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach
without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign
disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the
world’s “security and stability.”
Also called the Countering
Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by
Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold
War-era government propaganda battles.
“These
countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital
media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political
movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and
populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a
relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides
enormous funding for its news organization, RT.
“Surprisingly,”
Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental
agency or department charged with the national level development,
integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to
counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”
Long before the
“fake news” meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such
discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the
Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the
Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of
Governors to “establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,”
which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in
true dystopic manner — develop and disseminate “fact-based narratives”
to counter effrontery propaganda.
In short, long before “fake
news” became a major media topic, the US government was already planning
its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label
“fake news.”
Fast forward to December 8, when
the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” passed in the
Senate, quietly inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) Conference Report.
And now, following Friday’s Obama
signing of the NDAA on Friday evening, the Countering Disinformation and
Propaganda Act is now law.
Here is the full statement issued by the generously funded Senator
Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the singing into law of a bill that further
chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for
future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an
accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a source
of “disinformation and propaganda” and is shut down by the government.
President Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law
Portman-Murphy
Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against
Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others
U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.
The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by
Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the
United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our
enemies by establishing an inter-agency center housed at the State
Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts
throughout the U.S. government.
To support these efforts, the bill
also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and
other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda
related work.
This will better leverage existing expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from foreign manipulation.
It
will also help foster a free and vibrant press and civil society
overseas, which is critical to ensuring our allies have access to
truthful information and inoculating people against foreign propaganda
campaigns.
And so, with the likes of WaPo having already primed the general public to equate “Russian Propaganda” with “fake news” (despite admitting after the fact their own report was essentially “fake“),
while the US media has indoctrinated the public to assume that any
information which is not in compliance with the official government
narrative, or dares to criticize the establishment, is also “fake news”
and thus falls under the “Russian propaganda” umbrella, the scene is now
set for the US government to legally crack down on every media outlet that the government deems to be “foreign propaganda.”
Just like that, the US Ministry of Truth is officially born.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has issued a proclamation declaring 2017 the “Year of the Bible,” making it the second year that Bevin has issued such a decree.
He noted that several prominent figures throughout American history have lauded the importance of the Scriptures.
“President Harry S. Truman said, ‘The fundamental basis of this
nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of
our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St.
Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul,’” Bevin’s proclamation reads in part.
“In addition to encouraging Americans to rediscover the Bible’s
‘priceless and timeless message,’ President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Year of
the Bible Proclamation stated, ‘Of the many influences that have shaped
the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be
said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible,’” it continues.
The proclamation also notes that 2017 will be the second year that
Kentucky has held its statewide Bible-reading marathon. It begins on
Jan. 1 as participants take turns reading portions of the Bible from
Genesis through Revelation.
As previously reported,
the effort is organized by Mark Harrell, pastor of Victory Christian
Fellowship in Somerset and founder of the Kentucky Pastor’s Prayer
Focus. He hopes that all 120 counties throughout the state will become
involved, but so far, has confirmation from over 70.
“At midnight Jan. 1, someone in a county will read from the Bible for
15 minutes and then someone else and then someone else and so on until
the entire Bible is read aloud,” Harrell explained to the Lexington
Herald Leader. “It will take about three-and-a-half days to do this.”
He said that Bevin, who signed the “Year of the Bible” proclamation
on Dec. 19, had encouraged him to carry on the marathon again this year.
But some have expressed objection to Bevin’s decree, including the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).
“The proclamation excludes and alienates Kentuckians who are not
Christian, not religious, or believe in the patriotic principle of
upholding the First Amendment by keeping religion out of government. To
use the secular gubernatorial office to propagandize a religious book is
an unacceptable abuse of power,” FFRF writes on its website, calling
upon its supporters to ask Bevin to “stop Bible thumping.”
As previously reported, throughout America’s early history, a number
of the Founding Fathers issued proclamations calling inhabitants to look
to God, including in 1798, when President John Adams proclaimed a
national day of humiliation, prayer and fasting.
“As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially
depend on the protection and blessing of Almighty God, and the national
acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the
people owe to Him,” he wrote, “…this duty, at all times incumbent, is
so especially in seasons of difficulty and of danger, when existing or
threatening calamities—the just judgments of God against prevalent
iniquity—are a loud call to repentance and reformation.”
President Abraham Lincoln also proclaimed a National Fast Day in 1863.
“[I]t is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime
truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that
those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord,” his proclamation
read.
“Insomuch we know that by His Divine law, nations like individuals
are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not
justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates
the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous
sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole
people,” Lincoln said.
With
the results of the US election derailing their plans, the globalists
are now beating the drums for California to break free from the union.
Alex Jones breaks it down.
Trump
Has Delivered more hope/confidence than Obama did in eight years! The
left has always cloaked their intentions with promises of plenty for
all, but time and time again, they have proven to be sinister salesmen
for the globalist, slowly eroding our freedoms and taxing us even deeper
at every turn. Trump promises to change that with sensible policy and
laws that protect the economic engine of this nation, the middle class.
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Earlier this year Pulpit & Pen brought you the story
of Hillsong, NYC’s youth pastor, Diego Simila, who posed as the
infamous “Naked Cowboy” at a Hillsong women’s conference. There were
also other more than questionable appearances of debauched characters at
various other Hillsong conferences during that time, including the sex
pervert, Austin Powers, who showed up at the London conference. Hillsong received quite a bit of backlash for these lewd acts of moral degeneracy including from Montanist apologist and noted Hillsong defender, Michael Brown.
As if these salacious acts weren’t enough to turn any
biblically-minded Christian away from the perversion of the Bride of
Christ that is Hillsong, Diego Simila is back–posing once again in an
obscene display of lasciviousness, as a nearly-naked Santa.
On Esther Houston’s (wife of NYC Worship Leader, Joel Houston) Instagram site (click with caution), you’ll find the following festival of flesh.
This comes as no surprise since Hillsong is known for its debauchery
and trashy performances, watered down gospel, and compromise on nearly
everything Christians stand for. Several weeks ago, Joel Houston, son of
Hillsong CEO, Brian Houston, posted on Twitter
that he found Jen Hatmaker’s affirmation of gay marriage “refreshing.”
In 2015, the same NY-based branch of Hillsong put on what many dubbed
Hillsong’s Sleazy Silent Night, where a woman was paraded on stage in a seductive manner
wearing provocative clothing. Carl Lentz, lead pastor of Hillsong NYC,
was recently interviewed on Oprah’s television show where Lentz denied that you must be a Christian to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Lentz’ church also had two openly gay members of his congregation serving in the choir–one as the choir director.
All of this anti-Christian, anti-gospel vulgarity and compromise for
the sake of pleasing man instead of God is what makes Hillsong famous.
It’s no wonder SBTS president, Al Mohler says that Hillsong is “a
prosperity movement for the millennials, in which the polyester and
middle-class associations of Oral Roberts have given way to ripped jeans
and sophisticated rock music…What has made Hillsong distinctive is a
minimization of the actual content of the Gospel and a far more diffuse
presentation of spirituality.”
Hillsong isn’t a church. Michael Brown says
that this is simply an “exaggerated picture of the church of America.”
But sadly, this is not exaggerated. This is commonplace and is quickly
becoming the mainstream. The true church in America is the minority.
It’s time the true church separate completely from the world and
Hillsong.
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The youth leader at Hillsong NYC, who generated controversy earlier this year after appearing at a Christian women’s conference as a look-alike to the city’s famed “Naked Cowboy,” recently was photographed at a “Christmas tropical party” again half-naked—a photo that was later deleted following concerns.
Esther Houston,
the wife of Joel Houston, who serves as the leader of the popular
worship band Hillsong United and co-pastor of Hillsong NYC, posted the
photo to her Instagram this week with the caption “When the Christmas
tropical party is lit.”
The photo featured youth leader Diego Simila with his shirt
completely unbuttoned to bear his chest and short cut-off jean shorts,
while wearing a Santa hat and having a tropical drink. Adjacent to
Simila is Houston, a former Brazilian model, posing in a manner that
exposed up her thigh.
Some of the commenters under the photo found the snapshot to be humorous.
“Hahahaha @diegosimila!! I’m crying!” one wrote. “Diego, you make my life complete.”
“@diegosimila me and @strazzabeatdown are dying right now!!!” another exclaimed.
But one woman expressed concern about the example that Simila and Houston were setting as professing Christians.
“How is this glorifying to Jesus Christ?” she asked, and pointed to 1
Thessalonians 5:22, which admonishes Christians to “abstain from all
appearance of evil.”
“God will hold you accountable for your poor example to young Christians,” she opined.
One viewer shot back at the woman, stating that she was being
“ridiculous,” and contending that there was nothing sinful about the
photograph.
But blog sites also picked up on the matter, noting a pattern of concerning behavior within Hillsong.
“Still no sign of Hillsong bearing fruit in keeping with repentance.
Just a false Jesus endorsing their sinful lifestyle,” opined the site
Church Watch Central.
Houston has since deleted the photograph without explanation.
As previously reported,
Simila raised controversy in May when he appeared at Hillsong’s Colour
Conference as a “Naked Cowboy” lookalike—a popular New York City figure
who walks the streets shirtless and without pants.
“I usually don’t expect to see a near-naked cowboy gyrating from the
stage of a Christian women’s conference. … Indeed if I were of the
world, I’d expect these sights and sounds to come from a giant
bachelorette party at a strip club,” wrote Amy Spreeman of Berean
Research.
Hillsong Co-Founder Brian Houston, while expressing concern, refuted
those who referred to Simila as being the “Naked Cowboy” since he wasn’t
completely naked.
“He was wearing proper shorts, not underwear, and he had a flag
draped over him—bare-chested and perhaps inappropriate, certainly
unexpected and unauthorized; but not naked,” he said in defense, adding
that he and others were not aware of the plan.
“Some well-meaning person just made a silly decision,” Houston asserted. “It won’t happen again.”
Hillsong likewise raised controversy last year over its sold-out Christmas services in London, which included dancing elves, mini-skirt-wearing flappers, shirtless men pounding on drums, Santa Claus and more.
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Two of the most popular artists in Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
are Matt Maher and Matt Redman. The two have produced many popular
songs that can be heard in just about any church of any flavor around
the world today. Songs like Redman’s Here For You, with references to the charismatic belief of a separate baptism of the Holy Spirit, and Maher’s Lord I Need You,
with references to the Roman Catholic doctrine of infused
righteousness would ring familiar in almost any modern Christian’s ears.
While it may appear that the music popular CCM artists like Maher and
Redman glorify God with the production of music that has been so widely
accepted by the church, most Christians have no idea the background and
agenda of these men. I wrote an article last year entitled Matt Maher is Not Saved, Stop Singing His Music in Church.
The article describes Maher’s Roman Catholic background and his
alignment with the damning doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, and
why promoting his music in the pews neither does the church, nor Maher
himself any favors–let alone glorify the Risen Lord.
Maher and Redman, however, produced a song together, Remembrance, for the purpose of worshiping and having communion together–people from completely different doctrinal backgrounds. In an interview with Family Christian Bookstores, Maher says,
Like Matt Redman and I wrote a song about communion together. He comes from an Anglican or Evangelical background and I came from a Catholic background. We have completely different doctoral[sic] teachings about communion and about the Eucharist.
Does that mean that we can’t write a song together about the importance
of communion. Or that when Jesus says in the Bible, “Remember me … do
this in remembrance of me… that we can’t. What we can say is let’s try
to serve the Church with a song that somehow reflects truth and leaves a
little bit of room for the mystery of faith.
Maher
is correct that he and Redman have completely different doctrinal
teachings about communion and the Eucharist. The Roman Catholic teaching
is blasphemous and idolatrous–God hates it. Further, and more
importantly, what Maher failed to say is that he and Redman also have
completely different doctrinal teachings on salvation. In fact, Maher’s
church anathematizes any, like Redman, who claim to believe in salvation
by grace alone through faith alone. The Roman Catholic Church
explicitly denies Matt Redman’s supposed “evangelical” beliefs in the
Council of Trent which is held to be one of the most important councils
in the history of the RCC.
Why don’t the two artists do a joint production on that one? Sadly,
Redman’s association with Roman Catholics is not a new phenomenon.
Redman has held several joint concerts with Maher and last year he spoke and played at one of the largest Catholic youth gatherings in the U.K., which was replete with the idolatry of the mass. The Protestant Standard writes:
Throughout the day Roman Catholics speakers will bring
messages to the young people gathered there, and at the conclusion of
the day Cardinal Vincent Nichols will lead everyone in a time of
Adoration i.e. the Mass. None of this is unusual, or worthy of special
comment for it what we would expect at a Roman Catholic event. This
issue which attracts our attention on this occasion is the presence of a
leading Contemporary Christian Music artist, Matt Redman.
And Redman promoted the event on his own Twitter account.
Sadly, Redman is neck deep into the false belief system that doctrine
doesn’t matter as long as you can set that aside and hold hands and
sing together. Matt Redman was interviewed by Tony Cummings and said,
You’ve got Catholics there, you’ve got high church
Anglican, you’ve got house churches, Baptists, Methodists and no one
even cares. Denominations don’t even register on anyone’s radar. They
are all there centering around God. It’s great.
Yes, Matt. That is great. We’re so glad that God’s truth doesn’t
matter in your world, and we’re so glad that your millions of followers
are being taught to have a shallow understanding of God and center their
worship around their emotions and personal experiences instead of God’s
truth. Cummings then posed the following to Redman:
I remember interviewing David Watson and he was one of
the key figures in the development of charismatic renewal within the
Anglican church and I was quizzing him about Catholics on his platform
and that kind of thing and he had a very simple rationale. He said
anybody who confesses faith in Christ in sincerity and isn’t simply
using Christian profession but actually meaning something else – like a
cult might do – should be accepted as a Christian. It’s not for him to
argue the finer points of doctrine with them.
To which Redman responded:
I’ve got a friend in America called Matt Maher and he
wrote a song called “Your Grace Is Enough” which Chris Tomlin recorded
and that song has been sung all over the world. But Matt is a Catholic
guy, full-on. It’s funny isn’t it? Some people would think that “Your
Grace Is Enough” is probably the most unlikely title to come from a
Catholic guy. But that is what God is doing in the Church. It’s a unity
thing and unity comes when you all look in one direction, doesn’t it?
Worship is always going to be a very unifying thing. The moment we take
our eyes off all these differences between us and we look in one
direction, towards the Son of God, worship is going to unify.
But the unity is false. It isn’t around the true God or Jesus of the
Bible, and Matt Redman is putting up with it “readily enough.”
The Scriptures teach that unifying with unbelievers and those who
proclaim a false Gospel is an abomination to God. Roman Catholics are
idolaters. Roman Catholics bear the name of brother. 1 Corinthians 5:11
commands us not to even eat with such people as it gives a false
impression of their acceptance into the body of Christ and it
compromises the truth of the Gospel. Redman has chosen to be unequally
yoked with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 2:14) instead of, as commanded in Scripture, exposing their unfruitful works to the light of God’s word (Ephesians 5:11).
Matt Redman has chosen to align himself with the doctrineless and
fruitless works of darkness masquerading as members of the church
deceiving himself and others (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).
Matt Redman and his Catholic counterpart, Matt Maher, are leading
millions of people astray–into the outer depths of darkness. Their
ecumenical alliance is not glorifying to God. Jesus Christ and His truth
is the foundation of the church and if that is set aside to build a
divided house, it will not stand (Mark 3:25).
To know God is to love Him, and you cannot know Him without knowing His
revealed truth found in Scripture alone. Holding hands and singing
songs with those who do not know God is not what biblical unity in the
body of Christ is. We are to avoid those who hold to a false doctrine
because it is they that cause divisions.
If you truly want unity in the body of Christ, separate from those,
like Roman Catholics, who hold to a false Gospel and proclaim a false
Jesus. Stop holding hands with false converts. Stop setting aside sound
doctrine for warm fuzzy feelings with apostates. And stop anathematizing
the few out there who are willing to stand up and contend for the faith
that was once and for all delivered to the saints.
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Have you heard of the DRT? The Dead Raising Team? It’s an independent ministry operated by Tyler Johnson as part of his One Glance Ministries.
As its name implies, the “ministry” focuses on raising the dead.
Johnson is a graduate of Bethel Church’s “School of Supernatural
Ministry.” Because … where else would you go for heresy,
blasphemy, and Scriptural defiance but Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton’s
portal of demonic doctrines?
(For more on Johnson, go HERE. For more on Bethel, go HERE.)
Johnson just sent out a blanket email of a Christmas YouTube video he published last year entitled “Did Santa Raise The Dead?” The subtext of his email answers this with the affirming question “Did you know that St. Nic raised the dead?”
According to the charismatic false teacher Johnson, “It’s said that he [St. Nick] raised 100 children from the dead.”
This isn’t a new tale. It’s been popular mythology in Roman
Catholicism for hundred of years. The apostate Catholics, like the
apostates coming out of Bethel, laud anything miraculous regardless of
their Scriptural veracity or Biblical compliance. According to CatholicCulture.org,
the Chapel of the Holy Arms in Tolentino, Italy even has the two
severed limbs of St. Nicholas’ enshrined. The arms of the inspiring
“saint” behind Santa Claus were rediscovered there in 1926.
Here’s the story that Johnson tells in this, “oh, by the way, buy our new book” video.
“St. Nick was in prayer in an area where there was a famine. He got a
word of knowledge that there was a wicked innkeeper who, because he
couldn’t give meat to the people staying in his inn, went out into the
street and found three children, butchered them up – cut up their bodies
– and then stuck their bodies in a brining barrel to cure the meat.”
It is, by the way, this “word of knowledge” that Johnson sources as
the notion of Santa’s omniscience. “He knows if you’ve been bad or
good,” according to the children’s Christmas tune, comes from this dead
raising tale of the Catholic saint.
“St. Nick sees this whole thing in a vision, goes into the town,
finds the inn that he was in the vision, confronts the wicked innkeeper.
The wicked innkeeper takes him down to this barrel. St. Nick prays over
the barrel and then tells the innkeeper to open the barrel. The
innkeeper opened the barrel and three children crawled out alive and
well. Raised from the dead.”
The purpose of Johnson’s retelling of this Catholic myth is to point
to the many “creative miracles” that God is still doing. According to
Johnson’s website, his own “ministry” claims “15 resurrections to date,”
evidence that God is still creating miracles by re-creating and
re-animating the dead.
Johnson gives the argument so often heard when a charismatic is
challenged for a Biblical proof text that “signs and wonder” gifts are
continuing today. Jesus was dead for three days, he says. Lazarus was
dead four days, but God brought them back to life “because God is the
same yesterday, today, and forever.” (We’d offer Andrew Rappaport’s response to this claim HERE)
“Sometimes we can feel like Santa threatens the real meaning of
Christmas,” says this charlatan. “But in reality, if we understand
where Santa Claus came from, St. Nick points to Christ. His whole life
honors God.”
Umm. No. Just No.
It’s following this when Johnson encourages the viewer to buy his
latest book. I, of course, do not encourage you to buy his book.
Instead, I encourage you to do as Christ exhorted, “abide in my word.” (John 8:31) Then you won’t be, like so many, likely to wander off the narrow path with the ear-tickling doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1) that come from the likes of Bethel and its protégés.
THE
GIFT THAT TRULY KEEPS ON GIVING
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I
come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses,
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.Refrain:And
He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.He
speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
I’d stay in the garden with Him,
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.
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