5 Minutes in Church History, hosted by Dr. Stephen Nichols, is a weekly podcast that provides an informal and informative look at church history…. Unlike the Great Awakening of the 18th century, the revivalist preaching of the so-called “Second Great Awakening” left many people disillusioned with Christianity. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols takes us to a region in New York that still bears scars from the 19th century. [He briefly discusses Joseph Smith; William Miller; Ellen White; and the Oneida Utopian Community.]
Category: Man-Centered spirituality (modern false gospel, etc.)
Burning Man Festival, Paganism, Part 45
This post contains a 90-second video about Burning Man Festival; two other posts in this blog, that discussed Burning Man are also linked. This is part of the ongoing series on Paganism, which aims to show examples of the religious and secular expressions of Paganism as they manifest themselves in the western world. These expressions will seemingly culminate in the realization of a one-world, global Pagan civilization. Introductions from posts 1 and 2 were pasted in for context.
Pastor Steven Furtick Called Himself God Almighty
In the following 95-second video, Furtick called himself “God Almighty.” Pastor Justin Peters and, scripture are cited to correctly assess Furtick’s words and actions. Numerous false teachers that Furtick is allied with are prosperity and word-of-faith preachers….
RACISM IN THE CHURCH – DR JOHN MACARTHUR
In the 5-minute video of this post, Dr. John MacArthur explains the Dallas Statement after a questioner asked about it. That statement was drafted by biblical evangelicals against the ideology of social justice, CRT, intersectionality…. MacArthur explained how it is impacting those churches who imbibed of it.
CULTURAL INFILTRATION OF THE CHURCH – Pastor John MacArthur
Pastor MacArthur explained that the current utopian philosophies that the west is embracing began 300 years ago with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and those were imbibed by Marx and other influential thinkers who hated God and viewed Christianity as oppressive…. He explained how contemporary evangelicalism has incorporated these in their strategies of church building [pragmatism… which is unbiblical because it derives from man… and the Bible states in Acts that ‘God is building His church’]
John MacArthur: SEDUCED BY THE CHARISMATIC CULT
In the following 4-minute video, while a congregant asked Pastor MacArthur a question, she noted that she and her husband had been saved out of the charismatic movement. He said some things about that movement that others might benefit from hearing:
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 On Sexual Sin, Part 2 of 2
This post looks at the teachings of SBC pastor J D Greear on sexual sin, comparing them to 1 Corinthians 6:15-20; MacArthur’s Bible Commentary explanations are used to explain scripture. Greear stated his beliefs about sexual sin in the one-minute video below; thereafter, you will find verses 15-20 of 1 Corinthians 6 and explanations of that text from the MacArthur Bible Commentary. There is a vast difference between Greear’s stance and that of the Bible. I am speculating that this difference derives from the SBC’s having incorporated Marxist’s ideologies via Resolution 9 whereby they deemed that CRT and intersectionality could be used “as an analytical tool subordinate to scripture.”
1 Corinthians 6:9-20 On Sexual Sin; Part 1 of 2
This post is the part one of a two-part mini-series, but actually the third post I have written against Greear’s teaching in the following 1-minute video. Therein, J D Greear told his congregation that sexual sin should not be stigmatized; that it should be whispered about because that is what the Bible does while it loudly confronts greed…. Greear is likely saying these things about the Bible because the SBC has incorporated Marxist ideology via CRT and related teachings. Marxist ideology is anti-Christ, anti-God and anti-Bible. Marx stated that religion is the ‘opiate of the masses.’ In other words, those who subscribe to a belief in God, the Bible…are high on opium and not in their right minds, he would have you worship the state as God. The following scriptures and commentary show that Greear’s teachings on that video are grossly unbiblical and heretical.
John MacArthur Rebukes Woke Evangelicals for Perverting the Gospel
The 2-minute video in this post, by pastor John MacArthur, calls for discernment via the critiquing of the CRT movement at the SBC. That is not the only place it has been advocated by undiscerning and unbiblical preachers, however. Pastor MacArthur called it just the most recent example of human philosophy coming to fruition.