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An Intellectual Black Hole: On The Susceptibility to Deception
Aware of human propensities to deception, Paul confessed, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (II Cor. 11:3).
Anthony T (Tony) Evans and Scripture: A Comparison Without Commentary
A side by side comparison of the sin and salvation teachings of Dr. Anthony T (Tony) Evans and scripture reveals inconsistenies. Dr. Evans hosts The Urban Alternative on the Moody Broadcasting Network is an alumnus of Dallas Theological Seminary and is promoted and published by Moody Press.
Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll and Scripture: A Comparison Without Commentary
A side by side comparison of the sin and salvation teachings of Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll and scripture reveals inconsistenies. Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll hosts "Insights For Living" on the Moody Broadcasting Network and is an alumnus of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Chuck Swindoll: Redefining John Wesley and The Great Awakening
Chuck Swindoll buttresses his views of grace with the respected names of John Wesley and The Great Awakening. The views Wesley promoted during The Great Awakening, however, are opposed to Swindoll.
Chuck Swindoll: Reforming Reformation History
In his magnum opus, The Grace Awakening, Chuck Swindoll presents himself as taking up "the torch of freedom" as brandished by protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther. In this he leads his readers to believe that by following him and his teaching in The Grace Awakening that they are being true to historical Reformation teaching, but is this actually the case?
Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer and Scripture: A Comparison Without Commentary
A side by side comparison of the sin and salvation teachings of Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer and scripture reveals inconsistenies. Dr. Lutzer hosts "Running To Win" on the Moody Broadcasting Network and is an alumnus of Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Lutzer is also senior pastor of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago.
Eternal Security, Once Saved Always Saved and Falling From Grace
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish..." Many eternal security/once saved always saved teachers quote Jesus in this passage as if He had said, “They shall never perish whether they follow me or not.”
Gospel Adulteration: A Two-Headed Monster
Conservative pastors such as Anthony T. Evans or Charles R. Swindoll would never knowingly speak a word against God’s law or encourage the immorality it seeks prevent, yet they unwittingly oppose what God promotes.
Moody Press: Don't Trust The Name
Moody Press boasts of being "The Name You Can Trust." In this, Moody proposes to Christians that they are true to scripture and to Christ. Masses the world over, however, who lean their eternal hopes on much of the doctrine published by "The Name You Can Trust" would be astonished to find that Moody Press should not be trusted.
Not By Faith Alone
Modern Christian teachers proclaim salvation through "Faith Alone," but is such "faith alone" actually able to save if it is not a faith which works by love?
Practicing Drunkards and Adulterers Headed for Paradise? On Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer
Erwin W. Lutzer, pastor of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, promises heaven to practicing drunkards and adulterers through a faulty view of grace and the gospel.
Rewriting History and Chuck Swindoll
Like those who reinvent history to suit their own agendas, Dr. Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll has rewritten Reformation history. Does Swindoll insist that "the faith that justifies is a vital and living faith that yields the fruit of works" as did Luther? No he does not, rather, Chuck Swindoll teaches the opposite and this he does under the banner of restoring Reformation doctrine! How is this anything other than historical revisionism?
The House of Mourning: On Godly Sorrow and Revival
Without contrition true conversion and revival are impossible. We can have big churches and thousands at altar calls without contrition, but we cannot get one sin-laden soul to repent and genuinely be converted without contrition.
The Stretch Armstrong of Theology: Free or False Grace?
Preachers like Antony T. (Tony) Evans may appear to stand for truth and the gospel, but if their teaching on salvation by grace allows a professing Christian to continue in willful rebellion against God’s moral law without fear(like that of Dallas Theological Seminary), they destroy with one hand what they attempt to build with the other.
Tony Evans: Carnal Christianity
Errant dogmas always creep around the Christian church. In fact, Revelation chapter two records a warning from Jesus against dangerous doctrines that led His people astray. In the contemporary church the "carnal Christian," a sin-friendly doctrinal hybrid, is worming its way into Christian orthodoxy.
When Bedlam Seized Repose: On Deception
Popular contemporary, evangelical teachers tone-down, dress-up, disguise and Christianize Satan’s garden lie, “Ye shall not surely die,” stupefying the minds and blinding the eyes of men just as it did with our first parents.
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