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Dr. Michael Brown Poses Some Questions to Joseph Prince

by Posted By Staff | Feb 6, 2015 | Apostasy, Deception, False Ministers, False Teaching, Hyper-Grace | 0

On a regular basis, I hear reports about believers who have been transformed through the ministry of Joseph Prince, and I thank God for every one of those good reports. Without a doubt, his message of grace is liberating many from legalism, performance-based religion and a spiritual inferiority complex, and for all of this, I am grateful. In 1992, God spoke to me to do a fresh study of grace, and the results of that study were eye-opening, to the point that one of the chapters in my 1997 book Go and Sin No More is called “It’s All Grace” while another is called “The Letter Kills.”

Michael Brown Answers Jars of Clay Leader’s Pro Gay Marriage Tweets

by Posted By Staff | Apr 24, 2014 | Apostasy, Character/Contrition, Church News, Deception, Homosexuality | 2

Beginning on Tuesday, April 21st, Dan Haseltine, front-man for the popular Christian band Jars of Clay, took to Twitter to announce his apparent support for same-sex “marriage.” And for the life of him, he can’t figure out a single good reason to oppose it. In a series of tweets posted over a three-day period, and prompted by a movie he watched while in flight, he wrote: “The treatment of people as less than human based on the color of skin is crazy… Or gender, or sexual orientation for that matter.”

Exposing the Dangers of Hyper-Grace

by Posted By Staff | Mar 26, 2014 | Apostasy, Deception, Doctrine-Teaching, False Ministers, False Teaching, Hyper-Grace | 0

There is no doubt in my mind, then, that the notion of a “grace reformation” (or “grace revolution”) is highly exaggerated, that some of this new grace teaching is unbalanced, overstated, at times unbiblical, and sometimes downright dangerous – and I mean dangerous to the well-being of the Body of Christ.

Four Hyper-Grace Fallacies

by Posted By Staff | Jan 28, 2014 | Apostasy, Deception, Doctrine-Teaching, False Ministers, False Teaching, Hyper-Grace | 0

The bottom line is that Jesus said that the truth sets us free (John 8:32), and if the message of hypergrace is not true, as I and many others contend, then it is by rejecting that error and embracing the full testimony of God’s Word—thereby embracing God’s true grace—that freedom and liberty will come.

Condemn Not! You May Be the One That’s Wrong!

by Posted By Staff | Jan 21, 2014 | Blessing-Curse, Discernment, Fivefold Ministry, Leadership, Relationships, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual Gifts | 0

All of us should examine ourselves to be sure that we are “in the faith” (2 Cor. 13:5) and all of us should be diligent to “confirm [our] calling and election” (2 Pet. 1:10), and this does mean falling into performance-based religious exercises but rather living out our calling to be God’s children (see 2 Pet. 1:3-11; this is our response to what God has graciously done for us). At the same time, we need to be very careful about setting ourselves up as the ultimate judge of who is saved and who is lost–meaning, among those who claim to be followers of the Jesus of the Scriptures.

Are We Charismatics Doing Enough to Correct Abuses in Our Midst?

by Posted By Staff | Jan 20, 2014 | Apostasy, Church, Deception, Doctrine-Teaching, False Ministers, Hyper-Grace, Leadership, Prosperity/Wealth, Revival | 0

In fact, one of the real problems in the body today is the lack of true accountability for many leaders and churches (charismatic and non-charismatic alike), making it very difficult to bring correction and discipline when it is needed. (To be perfectly candid though, there were errors that existed in New Testament times and in the succeeding centuries; the church has always had to confront error and heresy.)

John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference

by Posted By Staff | Jun 21, 2013 | Apostasy, Deliverance-Healing, Demonic, Discernment, Doctrine-Teaching, False Teaching, Leadership, Revival, Spiritual Gifts | 0

Pastor John MacArthur has announced a “strange fire” conference to be held this October, claiming that part of the charismatic movement “offers to God unacceptable worship, distorted worship. It blasphemes the Holy Spirit. It attributes to the Holy Spirit even the work of Satan.” If these charges are true, this means that many leaders in the charismatic movement have committed the unpardonable sin and are therefore hell-bound. If these charges are not true, Pastor MacArthur has seriously overstepped his bounds and misused the Word of God.

A Dangerous and Deadly Deception

by Posted By Staff | Apr 1, 2013 | Apostasy, Church, Deception, Doctrine-Teaching, False Ministers, False Teaching, Hyper-Grace | 0

It is one thing to downplay the ugliness of sin in the life of a believer. It is another thing to deny the existence of sin in the life of a believer. Yet today, there are believers who claim that they do not sin, even when they do. As scary as this deception is, the reasoning behind it is even scarier.

Hyper-Grace Horror Stories

by Posted By Staff | Mar 18, 2013 | Apostasy, Deception, Doctrine-Teaching, Hyper-Grace | 0

Hyper-grace teachers frequently emphasize that they do not condone sinful living and that God’s true grace will produce a holy life, and I believe they sincerely mean this. One hyper-grace author even states at the beginning of his book, “We are not propagating immorality, because if we truly believe in God and love Him there will be corresponding works (because faith without works is dead).” Absolutely!

Confronting the Error of Hyper-Grace

by Posted By Staff | Mar 15, 2013 | Apostasy, Deception, Hyper-Grace | 0

The biblical message of grace is wonderful, glorious and life-transforming. We can’t live without it for one second of our lives. But there is a message being preached today in the name of a new grace reformation, mixing powerful truth with dangerous error. I call it hyper-grace.

One of the foundational doctrines of the hyper-grace message is that God does not see the sins of his children, since we have already been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and since all of our sins, past, present and future, have already been forgiven.

That means that the Holy Spirit never convicts believers of sin, that believers never need to confess their sins to God, and that believers never need to repent of their sins, since God sees them as perfect in his sight.

It is easy to see how such teaching can be dangerous, especially to a believer being tempted to compromise.

Is it Time to Throw in the Towel?

by Posted By Staff | Feb 27, 2013 | Political | 0

Republican leaders have capitulated, pro-family pundits have caved, and gay activists have announced that their struggle for equality is just about over. Is it time for biblical conservatives to throw in the towel?

An Open Letter To My Black Evangelical Friends

by Steven Lambert | Nov 15, 2012 | Political | 0

Tag: Michael Brown

Dr. Michael Brown Poses Some Questions to Joseph Prince

Michael Brown Answers Jars of Clay Leader’s Pro Gay Marriage Tweets

Exposing the Dangers of Hyper-Grace

Four Hyper-Grace Fallacies

Condemn Not! You May Be the One That’s Wrong!

Are We Charismatics Doing Enough to Correct Abuses in Our Midst?

John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference

A Dangerous and Deadly Deception

Hyper-Grace Horror Stories

Confronting the Error of Hyper-Grace

Is it Time to Throw in the Towel?

An Open Letter To My Black Evangelical Friends

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