J. Randall Easter, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Briar, Azle, TX, tells us: These quotes were sent to me from a friend in Denton.  I pray you will read them and meditate upon the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ.  This week we celebrate Thanksgiving and I can think of nothing to be more thankful [...]

And he said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. (Luke 12:22) Anxiety is to be unduly concerned about things we have no control over.  Anxiety is to doubt the goodness and sovereignty of our [...]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Written by Gary Gilley    Radical has been a New York Times bestseller and is reminiscent of Francis Chan’s Crazy Love in its call for radical lifestyle changes, especially in material ways, and in spreading a two-tiered gospel [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn [Ed. Note: Part 6 concludes this important series by Pastor Larry DeBruyn. In the past 6 months Herescope has been documenting the rapid "confluence" of the mystical New Apostolic Reformation with the Emergent Church movement in doctrine, personnel, and agenda. [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Neale Donald Walsch peddles New Age spirituality in books, recording, dialogs or “conversations” he had with “God.” The books are formatted so that his conversations and musings are typeset in normal characters while God’s statements appear in bold print. Walsch [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “They have discovered a subatomic particle called a lepton. And the general consensus is that leptons do exist as individual subatomic particles. The only hitch is they’ve only been able to observe leptons in communities of two and three. And [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Linear Versus Non-linear Time Quantum theory also influences one’s view of time. Previously understood as linear by the old view, time is now viewed as nonlinear. As Emerging Church leader Leonard Sweet states: “We do not live in linear time [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Whereas—viewing the universe according to largest scales of measurement (i.e., from the top down)—the old Newtonian physics saw “the system” as ordered and determined, quantum mechanics—looking at the universe from the perspective of the smallest scales of mathematical measurement (i.e., [...]

The following is originally posted on Herescope and republished with permission: By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Emphasis Mine, Colossians 2:8, KJV) [When Pastor Larry DeBruyn released his new book Unshackled: [...]

God’s Word reminds us that our comfort is in Him.  As many of us mourn the passing of Rick Hutton, I pray that we will be drawn to the God of all comfort and that He will receive great glory during this difficult time.  Whatever comfort there is to be had it will be found [...]