Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

I am going through a bad case of bloggers’ block at the moment, but with so many thoughts on my mind I’d really like to share, I thought this a la carte series would be a good way to do so without having to kill too many brain cells trying to conjure up a decent post.

There Is A “The Other Side”

This video reminded me a lot of the time when my maternal grandpa passed away when I was very young. I still vividly remember the conversation that an aunt had with my mom when the latter asked what his last words were (we lived a distance away and wasn’t there when my grandpa passed on).

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I’m back with another installment where I share with you my favorite blog posts in the past week:

Have You Been To The Church Of “O”?

Are you a Christian woman or man who is intently following Oprah Winfrey’s series on The New Earth or even A Course in Miracles? Well, stop!

You’re listening to a woman who “took God out of the box” and thinks that God is “jealous of me” in her own words! Instead of finding out for herself what that word ‘jealous’ means, she goes on a search for something “more than doctrine” then lands herself right smack into the occult teachings of people like Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle.

She’s just full of herself, really. As my wife pointed out, if she could interpret “jealous God” as “God is jealous of me”, we all know just who she is centered on! And now, she’s misleading millions down a slippery slope that ends in a plunge into the bottomless pit called HELL.

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Seriously, how do people fall for this!?

It just boggles my mind that there are Christians who fall for such tricks! No offense to old ladies and those who were victims of con men, but it just reminds me of those who prey on old women at Chinese temples selling them ‘miracle’ stones and crystals in exchange for their life savings. You could say, well, the old women were superstitious, which is true, but… but… Christians?!

I’m both amused and saddened.

I hope the second woman in the video is crying because she’s feeling the guilt of telling such a BIG LIE!

May the Lord expose and punish the wicked who use His name in vain!

HT: A Little Leaven.

This is an ad-hoc weekly column where I share some of the best blog posts I’ve come across in the previous week. Some are notable for their content, while others are calling you to action to help pray about an issue or for fellow bloggers.

Twenty-Three Great Sins Of American Evangelism — Why We Must Pray For A Reformation Again

While reading a great blog Theology Today, I came across a mention of the above post over at Al Tosap Al Davaraiv which lists the 23 reasons why the author feels a reformation is needed in this day and age.

I don’t know much about the American church, but I think it’s apt to say that the author’s observations are true for the Visible Church as a whole.

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Ripping Off the Poor in Uganda — The Creflo Dollar Half a Million Dollar Africa Meeting

Ooh, reading this just made me boil with anger!

If not for the fact that I don’t believe in violence against another human being (and assuming that I can actually locate him while he’s zooming around in his private jet), I’ll be right up to Creflo Dollar’s face and just do something bad to him.

Uganda is one of the most impoverished countries in the world where people make less than a US dollar a day if they do make anything at all. And here comes Word of Faith ‘Christian’ preachers like Creflo Dollar who are bringing the gospel that claims Christ wants to make everyone who believes in Him rich.

Well, of course, there’s a condition — you first need to give till it hurts to the ministries of such “anointed men” like Creflo Dollar before you get financial blessings that are “pressed down, shaken together, running over”!

This is worse than simply ripping off the poor.

This is rape.

HT: Yesumulungi — African Christian Perspectives.

Get Out Before They Suck You Dry!

In my interaction with some folks following my post on the prosperity gospel teachings of a particular church in Singapore, I’ve come to hear from some who have expressed concern that they have loved ones still caught up in the Word of Faith (WoF) movement.

They wonder how best to tell their loved ones to get out.

Perhaps this testimony published at Pulpit Pimps will help — it comes from a man who has left the WoF “cult” after being involved in the movement for 30 years giving and giving to Joyce Meyer’s ministry.

I’ll share my favorite quote from the post here, something which I have expounded on again and again but few seldom listen:

The salvation of Jesus Christ is NOT about all the things that the Lord gives to His people! And people who seek the Lord for what He can give them are seeking Him for all the WRONG reasons! A person cannot receive the salvation of Christ unless first he realizes that he is a wretched sinner who deserves HELL, not all of the worldly stuff you WoF people clamor after! It’s not about getting all the STUFF. It’s about giving up their lives for HIM and becoming His slaves. Somehow you Word of Faith people have gotten that all backwards. You think salvation is about getting, and getting more It’s just STUFF, material worldly stuff, it’s CARNAL and ungodly! You think that all your STUFF is proof that you are blessed. There is one thing that is promised for sure to all true followers of Christ and that is PERSECUTION!

You Word of Faithers only think of earthly “blessings”. But God does not promise us the things of this world. Think about it What would it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own SOUL? Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Paula White, all of those hellish creatures on TBN - I can’t even name all of the pulpit pimps on TV (and maybe even your pastor too by the way) all of them have their reward. They have their “Best Life Now”. But they can’t take any of it with them where they go!

You may want to print out and show the article to your loved ones whom you are concerned about, and may God open their eyes to see and ears to hear!

Does your church support and invite the likes of Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn et al to speak at Sunday services, and perhaps even sell their publications by the dozens at the church bookstore? If it does, it is about time you reflect on what you are actually learning at church.

I’ll leave you with what the Apostle Peter wrote regarding these WoF teachers.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

– 2 Peter 2:1-3, emphasis mine

HT: Real Christianity.

Shalom Aleichem.