This is called “prayer” but it’s all about getting “within” one’s self

I have a link to a prayer site by the youth camp corporation or organization I am concerned about lately.  This certainly doesn’t seem right to me…
http://www.sacredgateway.org/02_default.asp 
If you click through the “prayer guide” a window pops up that tells a definition of God, then has breathing exercises and the like.  This is NOT prayer, but [...]

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Great Slicecast

Considering my obnoxious side, my desire to be right and following God rightly, I can go very far.  I really love research and to know much.  In this, I can become prideful or forget the gospel itself.  This Slicecast on the link is awesome and speaks to my weakness.
Psalm 1
1Blessed is the man that walketh [...]

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Dead Giveaway

I was on the steering committee of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) in it’s founding year at our old church about six years ago.  I recall being frustrated with the idea that speakers should not mention the Bible often, that talks should not be “preachy.”  I expressed concern about this, and was told women who came [...]

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What Reveals Lectio Divina and Contemplative Prayer is not Biblical Meditation

My recent experience with a church focusing on Emergent youth with adult leadership reading Dallas Willard and others has taught me a great deal about this current movement toward meditation in the church.  It is not the same thing as meditation mentioned in the Bible.  First of all, the Bible outright says to meditate on [...]

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Sermons online

I’ve noticed a few things.  First, the one major sermon where the pastor said the strangest things…is still not up on the church web page.  Last weeks sermon is also not up.  Usually, by midweek, the sermon is up with notes.   I really do like to read the notes just to see the progression of [...]

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after many revisions…I sent the letter

I spent a few weeks on the letter to my pastors.  It was one of the most difficult things I have written in that I wanted so much to convey my thoughts and my concerns.  I wanted it to be a warning, and to be specific enough to get the point across.  I wanted the [...]

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Wishing I was wrong…

Anyone have this feeling?  I wish I was wrong.  I wish I didn’t know what I was talking about.  I am really getting frustrated thinking about how many churches are falling for this falsehood.  All this interconnection.  The Bible says you’ll know them by their fruits.  Wonder if it also applies that you’ll know them [...]

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What Would Make You Turn Against Christ?

I remember as a teen, I attended a church in my small town.  We’d have Sunday school in people’s houses, and then have service at church.  We’d discuss topics or bible verses.  I recall we were speaking of end times events, and one hypothetical was, “if someone told you to deny Christ, what would tempt [...]

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Pepperdine University…Bible Lectures…

Pepperdine University Bible Lectures go contemplative.  Doesn’t surprise me to hear this as the guest speaker at the church we attended today mentioned taking his daughter to this.  This is reported by Lighthouse Trails Research http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=1190&more=1&c=1.
While you’re at it, if you click on the link below to see that Ravi is rubbing shoulders with some [...]

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Testing the Spirits while Searching for a Home Church

Visited a local church this Sunday.  We’ve gone there before, they are a church “plant” of our old church.  I was assured they are independent of the old church.  We’ve gone before and not had too many issues with the sermons.  Since this church is closer to our home by twenty minutes, and services start [...]

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