“Beware of supposing that a teacher of religion is to be trusted, because although he holds some unsound views, he yet ‘teaches a great deal of truth.’ Poison is always most dangerous when…
Small Doses of Poison
Can You Spell Cemetery?
In my book Devotions by Dead People, I wrote that years ago people used to be able to spell the word cemetery. But at some point, you began seeing it…
Humble Enough to Check
A young minister friend didn’t quite believe that Christians are drifting into dangerous false teaching. I challenged him to survey his church members to see what they read for spiritual…
“Ask God to Tell You?”
Watch for enticements that pull away from God’s Word and lure us with the more “exotic.” I’m speaking of the current emphasis on trying to initiate special revelations and visitations…
Why People Have Left the Church
There are lots of surveys evaluating why people have left the church. I’d like to offer three suggestions: 1—Ministers encouraged it. Over the last decade-plus, as emergent church leaders’ hate-the-church…