Paula White, Donald Trump, and Brian McLaren?

News broke today that Donald Trump has decided against running for President, but that doesn’t mean the contents of the following article has no merit.

Paula White and Donald Trump have a rapport, that’s no secret.  But, according to this article, White and Trump teamed up to host a private meeting with Christian leaders, and among them was Brian McLaren.  There’s one problem, Brian McLaren is not Christian … he’s far from it.  He has contradicted and undermined God’s Word to a point where it can never be said that he represents Biblical Christianity.
There’s still no word on what the meeting called by White and Trump was truly about, but seeing as how Trump announced today that he has no plans to run for President, it’s anyone’s guess.

Donald Trump, Paula White Rallying Christian Support?

Pastor Paula White and Donald Trump are teaming up to host a private meeting with Christian leaders in New York this week.

The Thursday meeting has been billed as a “time of dialogue & leadership with Mr. Trump,” who is seriously considering a run for the presidency in the 2012 election.

Details of the meeting could not be confirmed. Multiple calls to Paula White Ministries were not returned.
One of the invitees, however, to the meeting is Brian McLaren, a popular Christian author who is considered part of the controversial emerging church camp.
McClaren posted the invitation he received on his blog last week. It reads: “Pastor Paula along with Mr. Donald Trump would like to extend a special invitation to Brian McLaren for a time of dialogue & leadership meeting with Mr. Trump. This private meeting will take place on Thursday, May 12th, 5:30pm at Trump Tower in NYC.”
The author – surprised by both the invitation and the meeting itself – declined the invite “due to cost of travel” and has thus not confirmed details such as attendees or topics that will be discussed. But he predicts the meeting is an attempt by Trump to reach out to Christians before his expected announcement in June on whether he’ll launch a presidential bid as a Republican.

Read more...

Liberalism is Dishonorable

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 tim 3:1-7)

The Church Visible Cannot Say It hasn’t Been Warned
[I]n religion, they are paradoxists; contradictories can be mutually affirmed. And everybody smiles while they are doing it… This is the pursuit of intellectual suicide and the symptoms of spiritual madness.
It is the blinding of the eye by Satan and it a symptom of the spiritual death of the soul. We have liberal theology which tells us, as {Mormon apologist] Van Hale did today, “We really don’t have to worry the concept of God at all; I mean, this is an evolving concept. It goes on and on and on.”

Read more...

Worship the God of Scripture

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word…
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” (Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 6:16)
The Truth Of God Is As Living And Active As God Himself Is
For online apologetics and discernment works like Apprising Ministries it’s quite common today to hear those caught up in the fickle fantasies of man-centered evangelicalism and the neo-liberal cult within the Emerging Church ask us things like, “Why do you constantly quote dead men?” Well, the answer is really quite simple: These men are more alive now than the “dead” men currently being followed by so many today on the long and broad road to nowhere.
The fact is that there are so many leaders within what is passing for Christianity today such as Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren and/or Living Spiritual Teacher and EC guru Brian McLaren, one of the unholy Emergent Church trinity of apostates along with universalist Emerging Church pastor Doug Pagitt, and his friend Tony Jones—the progressive “theologian in residence” at Pagitt’s Emergent Solomon’s Porch, who put far more emphasis on what other men are now saying than they do upon what the LORD God Almighty Himself has already said.

Read more...

Dollar in graver danger than the euro

Imagine a country that spends and prints trillions to patch up any problem.
Now imagine another country where there is no central Treasury, meaning that bail-outs are less easy, and which has a central bank that has mopped up liquidity over the past year, rather than engage in quantitative easing.

Why does it surprise anyone that the latter, the eurozone, has a stronger currency than the former, the US? Because of peripheral countries’ debt refinancing issues? And the potential for contagion? These are real and serious issues, but in our assessment, they should be primarily priced into the spreads of eurozone bonds, not the euro itself.

Think of it this way: in the US, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has testified that going off the gold standard during the Great Depression helped the US recover faster than other countries. Fast-forward to today: we believe Bernanke embraces a weaker currency as a monetary policy tool to help address the current state of the US economy. What many overlook is that someone must be on the other side of that trade: today it is the eurozone, which is experiencing a strong currency, despite the many challenges in the 17-nation bloc.

Read more...

Egypt: Muslim mob attacks Christians...churches burned (OneNewsNow.com)

CAIRO - Egypt's military rulers have reacted swiftly to attempts to burn down a pair of churches in a Cairo slum during sectarian riots that killed 10 people by referring 190 people to military trial.

Mobs of ultraconservative Muslims from the Salafi religious trend converged on a church in the Cairo slum of Imbaba late Saturday following rumors of an interfaith romance.

Christians barricaded themselves inside and around the church and the demonstrations turned violent. Witnesses said people on rooftops fired into the crowd.

The military said the mass arrests were to deter people from threatening the nation's security. Military trials are notorious for their speed.

At least six of the dead were Muslims.

Pakistani Christians facing false, deadly accusation (OneNewsNow.com)

Christians in Pakistan recently fled when a Muslim mob attacked a seminary and accused believers of desecrating the Quran.

Roughly 4,000 Muslims recently attacked a Presbyterian seminary in Gujranwala and compelled 3,000 believers to flee the area. Pastor Eric Issac, who oversees a local Presbyterian church, was also arrested and falsely accused of burning the Quran.

Read more...

Muslim Brotherhood urges review of Israel ties

Sure saw this one coming...

Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/009e8a1a-7736-11e0-aed6-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1LbYkCcdq

The Muslim Brotherhood opposition group in Egypt has called for a review of the 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and says it should be resubmitted to a “freely elected” parliament for approval.
Regarded as the best-organised political group in Egypt, the Brotherhood is poised to play an influential role in politics in the country after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the former president.

Read more...