DITC e-Newsletter
Volume 26, Issue 8
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Dear All,
I'm sorry about the "personalized" opening greeting that did not contain your name in the last newsletter! What happened was when I imported my mailing list it messed up the First & Last Name columns. So needless to say I will not be personalizing the opening greeting anymore. That does not mean I don't care about you personally, it just means I have not way to fix the list. When people sign up for the list again it automatically removes duplicates and updates it with first and last names. PLEASE CLICK ON THE "CONFIRM" LINK ABOVE TO UPDATE YOUR EMAIL INFORMATION! I expect to find other problems but will keep working the bugs out. Bear with me. You can see the DITC e-Newsletter archive here and sign up to receive this newsletter or unsubscribe there as well. |
Preaching a False-Positive with a Smile
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by Mike Oppenheimer, 
Let Us Reason Ministries, 1/10
Most have not listened carefully or long enough to hear Osteen's heresy by Osteen. But give him time and those word faith statements will become apparent. In my opinion, if you have listened often enough you have heard nearly all the subject matter he conveys. He says the same type of message in different ways, or maybe it's his voice and delivery that makes it all sound the same. At best, one gets milk from him; at worst they get positive thinking and word faith heresies. A pastor is called to feed the flock the whole counsel of God- from Genesis to Revelation. Unfortunately, people will interpret his soft-spoken manner as exhibiting a Christ-like spirit and ignore the non-Biblical content expressed, which has been traded in for a motivational spiritual pep talk. Again his fantasy of Jesus going to hell and being under the power of Satan is no small teaching to ignore. It deals with the gospel itself, the nature of Jesus, which does not qualify him as a good teacher or minister by any Biblical standard. It is another gospel.
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The Plumbline Newsletter Archive
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Newsletter Archive of Dr. Orrel Steinkamp
An archive of past The Plumbline newsletters.
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Book Review
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Revival by Martin Lloyd-Jones
Reviewed by Gary Gilley
Revival is Lloyd-Jones at his worst. A man who dedicated his
life to the careful exposition of Scripture inexplicably twists
Scripture to fit his theology, which itself is founded on extrabiblical
sources (p. 282). Perhaps Revival's greatest contribution is to serve
notice to all of us that once we leave the sure foundation of Scripture
there are no limits to our self-deception.
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The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines
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A Critique of Dallas Willard and 
The Spirit of the Disciplines by Bob DeWaay, 12/09
Practices called "spiritual disciplines" that are deemed necessary for "spiritual formation" have entered evangelicalism.
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