Speak the Truth in Love
Welcome to a site devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's my desire that the Lord would use these pages to proclaim His Gospel, to invite people to put their trust in Him, to build His Ekklesia, and to warn of false gospels, false messiahs, and counterfeit religious systems.
Our Calling
Our calling, as followers of Jesus, is to proclaim the Truth to whoever will listen and leave the results in God's hands. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is an invitation, not a debate. If we love people we will warn them about that which draws them away from a pure devotion to Jesus Christ.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Who Jesus is
"Biblical Counseling" vs.
Biblical Christianity
Please consider the Bobgan's free ebook:
Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible
Is CCEF Biblical?
The Bobgan's answer the above question in their book:
"An example of a biblical counseling service separated
from the church is the Christian Counseling
and Educational Foundation (CCEF). CCEF is
flawed with all of the errors of psychological counseling
discussed in this chapter."
Visit the Bobgan's site:
PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries
Have we been given everything we need for life and godliness?
Should we sell the Gospel and Biblical Truth?
Can the fruit of the Spirit come from anything or anyone but the Holy Spirit?
Does the New Testament tell us how to be disciples of Jesus and how to make disciples of Jesus?
Does the New Testament tell us how to be the Church of Jesus Christ together?
What forms might an unbiblical priest-craft take?
Jim Jones
Cultivated a Following
12/29/08 Updated 1/1/09
Last month, on November 18th, was the 30 year anniversary of the massacre at Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people lost their lives by poisoning or gunshot in a mass suicide supplemented by murder. While questions remain as to what actually happened, the entire horrible event appears to be the result of a coercive leader who cultivated around himself a loyal following using the force of his personality and his Messianic message that mixed the teachings of the Bible with political and economic promises of heaven on earth.
One may wonder how the whole world will be deceived by the coming Counterfeit Christ according to Revelation 13. What happened with Jim Jones’ “Peoples Temple” is a glimpse.
How did an entire nation become deceived to follow Adolph Hitler as Fuhrer? He cultivated around himself a loyal following using the force of his personality and his Messianic message that mixed the teachings of the Bible with political and economic promises of heaven on earth.
Jonestown and Hitler’s Germany are glimpses of what is now happening to the entire world system in preparation for the Counterfeit Christ.
We are all susceptible to the fleshly thinking and behavior that characterized Jim Jones and his followers. We need Jesus to help us, moment by moment and day by day. We need each other, speaking the truth in love.
Consider the following account of a simple act of “lording it over” the people as Jim’s Jones speaks to those assembled at the People’s Temple in 1974 in San Francisco.
“About halfway through the address, Jones notes that some people aren't applauding his remarks, and tells them, they need to clap or to get out. He then tests the gathering by telling them to clap, and admonishes one man in particular who doesn't.”
From The Jonestown Institute, San Diego State University
From Matthew chapter 20 verses 25-28:
But Jesus called them to Himself, and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. "It is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Witness to Jonestown - MSNBC
Four Ways Christians Are Deceived
Counterfeit Christs: Is your pastor a one-man show?
What does it take for a cult follower to realize he's worshipping the cult leader?
Obama’s Inauguration and
Rick Warren’s Invocation
December 19th, 2008 Updated 12/23/08
Link to this article
Media Hype intended to manipulate Christians
Don’t be manipulated
As the Rulers of this world move mankind toward the New World Order of the Anti-Christ, their goal is to keep every group and subculture under control and moving in the proper Tower of Babel direction.
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Rick Warren to pray the invocation for his Presidential Inauguration ceremony. This is a long-standing tradition for politicians to include religious leaders in their ceremonies. Billy Graham has participated in at least eight inaugurations. There is now a huge media frenzy highlighting the polarization of opinions for and against Rick Warren’s invitation by Barack Obama. News and Talk shows are featuring Gay and Lesbian leaders on one side of the screen and "Pro-family Pro-life" representatives on the other side.
The media hype is intended to manipulate Evangelicals in one of two ways.
Be against the Rick Warren invocation because you are a Right Winger and you are against President-elect Obama politically because you are part of the Culture Wars, or
Be for the Rick Warren invocation because you want to see the Evangelicals' celebrities get respect and prominence and be liked by the world and to be a representative of a kinder, gentler Christianity that is seen as part of the worlds’ new vision of unity.
Either way, you’re playing into the Ruler’s program!
How do the rulers manage and control the Evangelical Christians?
Through:
Celebrity Leaders,
National and global institutions, and
Political manipulation.
Celebrity Leaders
Each religious or cultural group must have their Celebrities appointed and promoted by the rulers. For the Evangelicals, over the last fifty years, one of the major Celebrities has been Billy Graham. He was brought from obscurity through promotion by the Hearst Newspapers. Since then he has been a frequent Royal Court Clergyman of Presidents, praying at inaugurations and yoking in many ways with the powerful, endorsing other of the world’s power structures such as the Roman Catholic system and spiritual leaders of Freemasonry.
With the advanced age of Billy Graham, the establishment media has been searching for possible replacements. One who has surfaced to prominence and is being intensely promoted is Rick Warren, Clergyman over the megachurch, Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. Saddleback is associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Rick Warren is world famous for his Purpose Driven books and Church programs.
Institutions: National and Global
The New Testament teaches that disciples of Jesus are to assemble together in local assemblies. We are to fellowship as assemblies and individuals with believers, wherever they may be because together we are Jesus’ body on earth.
Not taught in the New Testament are institutional hierarchies and religious-political-economic systems designed to organize, and control Christians throughout the nation and the world. This is the Tower of Babel vision that the world system promotes. This is the vision of Megachurches and denominations. This is the vision of the empires of history that are leading to the final empire of the Counterfeit Christ.
This is the vision of the Purpose Driven Global Peace Plan of Rick Warren. Read the transcript of Rick Warren’s interview on Meet the Press with the late Tim Russert.
Read the condescending vision of merging Evangelicals into the global system in the Council on Foreign Relations’ periodical, Foreign Affairs, which uses Rick Warren as an example of the new Evangelicals.
Political Manipulation: Opposites and Synthesis
The Rulers don’t really care who agrees with whom. The goal is to control the people no matter what side they choose.
It is easiest for the Rulers if each issue can be promoted as being about two opposites. So, the goal is to promote the polarization of everyone, including professing Christians, into two sides. Everyone has been conditioned to see every conflict as between “good guys” and “bad guys”. So then each tries to decide which side is the good guys and then jump on that side. But what that accomplishes is the ability for the powerful to control both sides of every conflict by controlling the celebrity leaders, the media hype, and the agendas given to each side.
The last thing the rulers want are people who resist such manipulation by thinking for themselves. Christians are called to be Acts 17:11 Bereans!
The cleverness of the strategy of polarization is that at appropriate times there can be managed periods of synthesis. Opposite sides can actually be merged through circumstances and movements and celebrity leaders.
Having extremists on one side serves to polarize others into the other camp. Then "moderates" can be cultivated, ripe for synthesis.
Polarization and then synthesis is a means that the rulers see as moving the world toward their Tower of Babel vision of Heaven on Earth… apart from the God of the Bible. Apart from our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our calling as Christians is to be in the world, not of the world. We should step out of the polarization and be ambassadors for Jesus Christ to everyone.
Synthesizing the Evangelicals: Barack Obama & Rick Warren
The Shameful Social Gospel: Warren Peace - Berean Call
Foreign Affairs magazine: 9/06 article about Religion & U.S. Foreign Policy
Machiavelli and How Rulers Think
Rick Warren, Tony Compolo, & Brian McLaren
Purposed Drive Life Critique by T.A. McMahon, Berean Call
Report: Purpose Driven Program - Media Spotlight
A False Doctrine Of Subtle Purpose - Al Dager
Deceived on Purpose - Warren Smith
Trilateral Commission & CFR Membership
The True Nature of the World System
Four Ways Christians Are Deceived
Lucifer, the Garden of Eden, & the Tower of Babel
Crusades for "Morality", Political Action, Social Activism
Important Principles to Understand
National Identification Numbers
What do you want to be known for? What you’re against or what you’re for?
Professing Christians are seduced by many things, while forsaking the Bible:
The Popular Mythology of "Right Brain-Left Brain"
"Building Your Mate's Self-Esteem"
A "Challenge"?
12/9/08 updated 12/10/08
Calling problems, "challenges", is due to the influence of the false gospel of Positive Thinking and the pervasive effects of the Human Potential Movement in society and the Church.
Biblically, a problem, whether trial or tragedy, is something in which we trust our Lord Jesus while facing up to the truth. We call it what it is, a trial or a tragedy, suffering, but we know Romans 8:28 is true.
The Human Potential philosophies try to get people to positive confess themselves through problems by their own mind power.
For a Biblical view of trials, tragedies, and suffering see 1 Peter 1 and James 1 and Ephesians 3:10, 11.
Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychology 1 of 2
Lucifer, the Garden of Eden, & the Tower of Babel
Sometimes it seems so hopeless...
...and yet didn't our Lord warn us about these things? And so we press on by His grace!
The following is from the article linked to below:
Eventually the Lord completed the process of drawing me out of the "Christian Activist" mentality. I began to realize that the very things I was confronting in society at large were being embraced whole-heartedly among Evangelical Christians. I began to wonder what good it was to confront the pagans with these things when my fellow Christians were being deceived by the same things.
Since that time, I have gone through many phases in which I have tried to warn those who profess to be followers of the Lord Jesus. I am including articles on this website that tell the above story in the hopes that more individuals would be warned about these deceptions and that somehow others could gain from the experiences that the Lord Jesus brought my wife and me through.
Confronting "Motivational" Training Programs
Morals & Ethics
Morals and ethics that derive from the Bible are a necessary fruit and evidence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
But morals and ethics are not the Gospel. They are not Christianity.
Jesus is Christianity. People being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ is what the Gospel is about: ceasing to be enemies of God and becoming children of God.
A false gospel of morals and ethics turns Christianity into Freemasonry or Catholicism or Islam.
"The Last Days"
The God of Prophecy
False Prophets despise authority
See 2 Peter 2:10
Corrupt authorities despise these little ones (believers)
See Matthew 18:1-10 & 19:13; Mark 10:42; Matthew 23
The Political Clergyman
Sees people only as:
- Assets, or
- Enemies
Free E-Books available for download from the PsychoHeresy site of Martin & Deidre Bobgan, beloved disciples of Jesus.
From the
PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries
Download these free books here
PsychoHeresy: The Psychological Seduction of Christianity
Competent to Minister: The Biblical Care of Souls
Christ-Centered Ministry versus Problem-Centered Counseling
The End of "Christian Psychology"
12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency Recovery Heresies
Four Temperaments, Astrology & Personality Testing
Hypnosis: Medical, Scientific or Occultic?
Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible
Larry Crabb's Gospel
James Dobson's Gospel of Self-Esteem & Psychology
Missions & Psychoheresy
CRI (Christian Research Institute) Guilty of PSYCHOHERESY?
TheoPhostic Counseling: Divine Revelation? OR PsychoHeresy?
El ministerio centrado en Cristo comparado con el asesoramiento
centrado en el problema
(The Spanish translation of Christ-Centered Ministry versus Problem-Centered Counseling.)
Download these free books here
Many of us who belong to Jesus are
Tormented by the occultism and mystical myths that are creeping into the Church
2 Peter 2:7-10
11/16/08
Lucifer, the Garden of Eden, & the Tower of Babel
Four Ways Christians Are Deceived
The Emergent Church Movement & Contemplative Spirituality
Harry Potter & The Chronicles of Narnia
Disney and The Chronicles of Narnia
Five Things that Dungeons & Dragons Begat
[I do not endorse this article or the author's view. However his
testimony on the influence of the world of the occult among young
people is insightful.]
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils... 1 Timothy 4:1
Charter for Compassion Project
11/15/08
A New Global Initiative
Followers of Jesus are called to love everyone and do good to everyone.
So much evil has been done in the name of "Christianity".
And yet we must not be caught up in the growing propaganda for uniting in a common ethic of compassion.
These developing initiatives are a thinly veiled attempt to promote the world religion.
The end result is global worship of the Counterfeit Christ.
Visit the site for the Charter Compassion Project to observe these trends.
It is tragic, indeed, that honest differences will be suppressed and the freedom to speak out will be curtailed. It appears that many celebrities in the world of technology are moving toward leadership in this world vision and that bodes ill for a true freedom of expression on the internet.
Lucifer, the Garden of Eden, & the Tower of Babel
Four Ways Christians Are Deceived
CREDO: A Glimpse of the World Religion
Good Samaritan or Tower of Babel Vision?
The Financial Crisis Turning Point
The September 11th Turning Point
Did You Know about the Missing Cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building?
11/10/08
I did not.
While watching a C-SPAN tour of the new Capitol Visitor Center, I heard the acting Architect being asked about a recent controversy regarding the cornerstone laid by President George Washington. The Architect responded that the cornerstone has not been found.
After an internet search I found the following article by Craig Shirley on the site Townhall.com. I am not familiar with either the site or Mr. Shirley, so I do not endorse them. However, the article is very interesting.
Romancing the Cornerstone
By Craig Shirley, April 2nd, 2008
"It was a beautiful day as accounts noted. September 18, 1793, found President George Washington decked out in his ceremonial Masonic apron festooned with the universal Masonic square and compass symbols.
"That day, in a Masonic ritual, the president laid the cornerstone to the U.S. Capitol along with a dedicatory silver plate.
"In a mysterious turn of events sometime thereafter, the priceless plate and cornerstone disappeared. Eluded by investigators and searches and clouded by false claims of discovery throughout the decades, the issue remains a puzzlement. Further complicating the matter is bureaucratic incompetence and a cover-up by the office of the Architect of the Capitol. "
Read the rest of the article
Lighthouse Trails Research spot on YouTube
"Lighthouse Trails Research now has a spot on YouTube, where we will place video clips of people like Warren Smith, Ray Yungen, and Roger Oakland."
¿Por qué es tan importante estudiar la Biblia?
Special Report on the Elections
Please read
Media
Spotlight's pdf report on the Elections.
Fall 2008 (Posted here 11/3/08)
Who will be our authority?
"With the up coming elections many Christians are concerned
about the future not only for the country, but for their personal lives. What will things be like with Barack Obama or John McCain as president? What will they be like with a Republican or Democrat Congress? How will our economy fare? What will happen to Roe v. Wade? What will happen with illegal immigration? Not all who call them selves Christians are in agreement on those issues. Of particular concern is who will occupy the office of the presidency."
Read the rest of the article (pdf).
"Speak evil of no man."
Thoughts on Voting and Politics
11/1/08
Please view John Piper's videos via the link below. My daughter recommended them via Matthew's (the newly wed) blog.
Brother Piper makes some EXCELLENT points. I don't know enough about him to endorse him in general. I do know that a number of people I highly respect have appreciated his teaching.
HOWEVER...
The Youtube videos are entitled, "The Most Important Issues In the 2008 Election".
This implies that an American election has any importance.
The leader text on the video says, "Don't Waste Your Vote".
This implies that voting wrong... or not voting at all would be a waste.
If these two comments of mine sound shocking, I would say it is because of the influence of the world, including worldly religious thinking.
But what does the Bible say?
I agree that Christians have the Biblical freedom to vote.
But we are not commanded to vote in the New Testament, therefore it is a disputable matter.
We must be willing to examine, as Acts 17:11 Bereans:
- What our priorities should be according to the New Testament?
- Who sets up Kings and takes them down?
- Is the government truly, "We the people"?
- If "the People" are now the "king" are we really called to yoke with them?
- Who has God allowed to temporarily be in control of the entire World System?
- What role might political rituals be playing in preparing the people to worship the Counterfeit Christ?
With these bigger picture thoughts in mind, I do believe that Brother Piper's videos can help us point to the simplicity of the Gospel and our calling in these last days.
Thoughts on Voting and Politics
October 31, 2008 | By: John Piper
The Financial Crisis Turning Point
10/20/08
Every event will be contrived or taken advantage of for the purpose of establishing the new order: a global government, economic, and religious system. World history is unfolding just as the Bible said it would. The whole world is being prepared for the counterfeit Christ. We are transitioning into the global “peace” system, but it is a counterfeit peace: Pax Romana, Pax Americana, Pax Universalis, Novus Ordo Seclorum. (See the September 11th Turning Point)
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” Psalm 2:1-6
The Ontario edition of "The Globe and Mail", Canada's National Newspaper - selected quotes:
"Washington defends partial nationalization - Calling it necessary to maintain global financial order." 10/15/08
"Amid market chaos, the winner is...
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will arrive today at a financial-crisis summit in Brussels as the most influential leader in the world.
By Doug Saunders, London 10/15/08
"'The man who saved the world banking system'"
"As a result of his wide-ranging financial reforms, Britain's PM has gone from low-key leader to 'European superhero' in a matter of days.
"His bailout of the British banking system... has been imitated in the past 48 hours by a dozen other countries, including the United States."
"At a briefing yesterday he said he wants to take this triumph to a new stage today, by rebuilding the entire world economic order with the launch of new institutions to replace those that have regulated world finance since the Bretton Woods conference launched the modern financial system in 1944."
"'We are in the first financial crisis of the new global age,' he said. 'We need to recognize that if risks are globalized, then responsibilities have to be globalized as well. ... What we are asking is that we set up a new international financial architecture for the global age."
10/16/08: "Urging an overhaul" - Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel led calls for a global financial shakeup. Mr. Sarkozy said a 'new form of capitalism' is need, while the G8 agreed to meet."
Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is up to a number of activities. Note the following from US Airways Magazine, October 2008:
"Among Tony Blair's projects since stepping down... in 2007, has been the creation of a foundation promoting understanding and cooperation among the world's major religions. To that end, Blair began a three year stint as a Howland Distinguished Fellow at Yale in September, teaching a series of seminars on faith and globalization at the School of Divinity and School of Management. Blair's goal: to create a course that 'can become an enduring part of Yale's teaching; can be spun off to other universities in different parts of the globe; and can stimulate original research.'"
Our Lord Jesus wants us to love Muslims, Jewish people, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, Freemasons, Pagans, pagans, Apostate Evangelicals and everyone else.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." Ephesians 6:12-13
In the midst of all that is going on, followers of Jesus ought to try to be good citizens without worshipping what our fellow citizens worship. We ought to pray for the leaders of the world while understanding their true nature. Our calling is the same whether society is in the midst of peace and prosperity or cataclysm and disaster. The whole world is being prepared for a counterfeit Christ. We ought not be caught up in the manipulation of the masses, but we ought to stand for our Lord Jesus, desiring to rescue individuals out of the corrupt world system with its false christs and false gospels.
“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4
“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:7-8
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-18
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33
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