Calvary Chapel Franchises: Is it all about the money?
Crowned1 shared on another thread. I also believe that calvary chapel has an agenda. I believe their agenda is to ‘market’ Jesus Christ (pursuit of mammon). From guest speakers, to book signings,...
View ArticleCalvary Chapel and End Times Eschatology
Rachael’s story: I left Calvary and will probably leave Christianity forever. Calvary Chapel’s problem is it’s toxicity in ‘end times’ eschatology. The ethnicity to which you are born is the...
View ArticleCalvary Chapel Senior Pastors’ Conference 2013
Source The 2013 Calvary Chapel Senior Pastors’ Conference took place this last week at Murietta Hot Springs Conference Center, CA. You can find their schedule and speakers here. The theme:...
View ArticleCalvary Chapel’s Selective Fundamentalism, Truth and things as they are
Selective Fundamentalists pick and choose which sins are taboo and to Law vs. which sins are to Grace. They Taliban what they don’t like and Liberal what they do like. No one truly applies a “simple”...
View ArticleResponse to Michael Newnham’s PhoenixPreacher TGIF 6/13/13
http://michaelnewnham.com/?p=12868 LOL, you’re much more of Universalist and Liberal (in the Christian context) than you have the courage to admit publicly. I’m much more in that Camp these days and I...
View ArticleBob Grenier addresses his lawsuit from the Calvary Chapel Visalia pulpit: The...
Bob Grenier gave a long angry rant from the Calvary Chapel Visalia pulpit just prior to the judge’s lower court ruling in which he claims he’s innocent of all the allegations against him and that he’s...
View ArticlePCA to consider Child Abuse Amendment, Ligon Duncan votes to receive it
Ligon Duncan, of the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America), responded to our tweet today questioning whether he’d support the recent PCA Child Abuse Amendment. We were curious if he’d publicly support...
View ArticleFinal PCA Child Abuse Amendment gets watered down, pulls punches on Reformed...
Nnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwnham (read in Seinfeld voice). Well, Michael is right a lot, even though he’s got an itchy-mod-trigger finger. He predicted the PCA would neuter their Child Abuse Amendment,...
View ArticlePCA General Assembly tables the Child Abuse Amendment, effectively killing it...
Well, that was quick. The Presbyterians don’t seem to think Child Abuse is that big a deal. The General Assembly sent the watered down Amendment packing, according to PhoenixPreacher.com. The PCA...
View ArticleVoices In My Head 6/21/13: Slogging through the morass of Political, Business...
1. To the Political bullshit: Hello to our friends at the NSA, CIA, DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Big Brother Alphabet Soup! Good luck with your spying on all of us. I’m sure you wouldn’t abuse your powers to...
View ArticleChuck Smith’s lung cancer moves to Stage 4, family urges prayer, calls for...
Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and co-founder of the Calvary Chapel movement. His daughter is reporting his lung cancer has moved from Stage 3 to Stage 4. A Facebook update and now the...
View ArticleSupreme Court DOMA ruling: Selective Fundamentalists appeal to “Cultural...
The bible presents several “definitions of marriage”…which is the correct one? Appeals to “Cultural Context” only support a position that says it’s not a Moral Absolute. Moral Absolute: “Gay Marriage...
View ArticlePastor Brian Abeyta opens Beauty For Ashes Fellowship just up the road from...
Former Calvary Chapel Castle Rock franchisee Moses pastor Brian Abeyta opens up Beauty For Ashes Fellowship right up the road from the CC he allegedly left in a big financial hole. Pastor Brian Abeyta...
View ArticleWill the real ‘God’ please stand up? Christianity’s* bi-polar version of...
Jesus issues a “new Law”…the Law of Love. Even Paul the Apostle establishes “Love” as the top of the Hierarchy of God’s attributes. Who is God? What are his attributes? Is he Good? Is he Merciful? Is...
View ArticleIf you “like” the God of the Old Testament…then you should LOVE the Taliban....
If you “like” the God of the Old Testament and you claim that all Truth in the bible is Absolute…then you should have no problem with the Taliban executing women and children with stones today. If...
View ArticleWhy the perpetual Calvinist vs. Arminian debate doesn’t matter: Both are...
Whether Calvinist or Arminian…both Camps are Predestinarian and miss the more important questions and answers in their perpetual “sound and fury signifying nothing” worthless debates. “The chicken came...
View Article“A Public Statement Concerning Sexual Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ”: A...
Child abuse can be devastating and cause long-term damage. The Christian* Church should lead on this important issue…not ignore it, not cover it over, not make excuses for it. G.R.A.C.E. blog, an...
View ArticleWhat is Truth? The bible as inerrant, infallible, mistake free and perfect...
“Thy Word is Truth”…and “word” is defined in the Greek as the Logos of God or literally Jesus and Truth, not necessarily what we call the entire bible…(an appeal to part of the bible, I know). We must...
View ArticleHow Forging Iron, Simple Math and Archeology poke major holes in the...
The Iron Age began in approximately 1200 BC and is well-supported in the Archeological and Historical Record. If contemporaries of Adam and Eve’s family were “forging Iron”…there’s a major problem with...
View ArticleThe bipolar bible: Will the real Jesus please stand up? What the “bible is...
I’ll give this to John Piper, he may be Larry David’s twin brother…and just about as odd…but at least he’s honest about what the true Evangelical “bible believing” Position is with regards to God and...
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