More about Beth Moore

Her talks are man-cenetered, meaning human-centered, rather than about the bible, r, she preaches to men when scripture saysz a woman should not havew any sort of authority over a man, and a couple other points:\

What's the Problem With Beth Moore? - YouTube

TGhis one goes into more detail.

about how she imposes her own concdenerns on the scripture rather than letting the scripture be the authority, about how she teaches smen when scripture is clear that women should not, and so on:

Beth Moore's wild unbiblical teachings: Michelle Lesley interview - YouTube

This critic starts out saying how Beth Moore is cute and funny aand seems to be sincere about her blove of Christ and the women she teaches, but after hearing about the men in Ryle's book which I reported on in recent posts I don't want any more cute and funny preaching from anybody.  I want sober serious deep soul-searching praching, about Christ and Christ alone,, with our human examples kept to examples and not made the main point of the teaching as it seems to be with Moore.

And I'm still flummoxed by a couple of her teachings in which she just makes no lobical sense at all, the one called The Art of Growing Up which I mentioned before, and another where she gets all carried away about the meaning of the word "compelled" which has about zero relevance in the very passage she is supposedly teaching from. Maybe I'll eventually try to lay all that out.  Fortunately most of her teachings seems to have more coherence than that.

Some Strong Words Against the Book "Jesus Calling"

 A former New Age adherent says "Jesus Calling" should be burned and those who read it need to repent beause it's false teaching, it's heresy, that leads us away from the Bible:

Should Christians read Jesus calling? - YouTube

Here's another denunciation of the book, as promoting a false Jesus, a counterfeit Jesus, either a channeled "entity" masquerading as Jesus or the product of the writers' own mind, which he doesn't think is the case:

Chris Lawson - Letting Sarah Young's 'Jesus Calling' "Jesus" Speak for Himself! - YouTube

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Jan Markell, Chris Pinto, Jill Martin Rische and the Georgia Guidestones

Happy I am to sere two of my favorite Christian commentators get together for a program on the Georgia Guidestones.  Jan Markell had Chris Pinto on as her guest for the first half of today's radio show to discuss his film which exposed the man who arranged to have the guidestones errected in Elberton Georgia.

The Ten Commandments of the New World Order – Chris Pinto and Jill Martin Rische - YouTube

The Georgia Guidestones have connections with globalism and the World Econinomic Forum and that level of evil in o today's world.  

The second part of the radio show focused on witchcraft and its recent rise in an apparent attempt to answer the growing insecureity of our times.   I noticed that there is also a connection with feminism, being a means of "empowerment" of women.  And that brings me back to my own preoccupation with the abandonment of the women's head covering by the Church and its possible role as a linchpin in the growsth of apostasies in the churches, starting with the elevation of women into positions scripture reserves only for men.

What if those pastors who have been deceived by that false interpretation of the pasage in first Corinthians eleven about the head covering were to see their error and rrepent and require the women in their congregations to cover their heads?   Would God have mercy on us and send us revival and push back these evils in the culture?  

A Feast of Great British Christian Teachers in the Century of the Great Awaakening in America

What a feast I've been having as I listen to J. C. Rle's book about the great Christian evangelists and preachers of the eighteenth century.  I'm now half way through the second video:

Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century | J.C. Ryle | Christian Audiobook (Part 2) - YouTube

It was a revival though not of the kind we usually think of.  Many individual preachers all being brought  out of a dead and worldly state to a passionate understandeing of the work of Jesus Christ, the gospel to a  fever pitch all over the British Isles, but that was also the time just refore the American Revolution when Whitefield and Wesley came over here and brought the Great Awakening.  

How I wish God would raise up another small army of such men to wake us up today.  

George Whitefield said he was strongly influenced by a book by a Henry Scougal, The Life ofr God in the Soul of Man, and that too is at You tTube.  You Tube is the layer of my feast these days.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man (Version 2) by Henry SCOUGAL read by msirasky | Full Audio Book - YouTube

Want to add here a personal report that I've been going through some pretty depressing mental states over the last few weeks, including the conviction that I'd committed unforgiveable sins and would never see God or heaven.   The Lord let me stew in this state of mind for a whole dat at a time, which was almost more than I could stand although I kept trying to tell myself that surely He would show me that I was wrong, while at the same time being so convinced I was trying to imagine being in Hell knowing that H3e was right to send me there.  

I had more than one of these states and may have more.   He's sent me encouraging words through my reading each time though He seems to have wanted me to stew in them for quite a while before He did, and the encouraging words only last a short time before I'm in the pits again.  

One thing that was encouraging in an overall way was the reports of some of these men, but particularly Spurgeon whose semons I've been listening to separately, that these states of mind have happened to them too and do happen to true believers and are a means of growth.    That doesn't keep me from polunging into them each time but I'm always relieved to come back to it.

I Can't Stop Thinking about the Horrible Effect of Abandoning the Women's Head Covering

 Listening again to John MacArthur's very biblical talk on the role of women in the churches and how far feminism has encroached into them despite the clear admonition of scripture against it.  

John MacArthur | Response to the Beth Moore Comment "Go Home"| Women Preaching - YouTube

It's a very good talk that covers just about everything from scripture, and he gives some appalling statistics about just how far the churches are in violation of God's word on this subject.  Then he traces the rebellion of women back to Genesis.  This is all good teaching.

And then he blows it all to smithereens as he himself affirms what must be one of the pivotal elements of this whole sorry situation, the abandonment of the woman's head covering of 1 Corinthians 11.  Right at the very end.  After all his excellent teaching about the scriptureal standard he himself shows that he embraces at least one of the causes of it all, if not The CAUSE, AND FOR ALL i KOW IT MAY WELL BE THE CAUSE.  iT MAY BE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.  aS i SAY, i DON'T KNOW BUT i DO KNMOW THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.  i HAVE NO WORD FROM THE lORD ABOUT THIS, BUT hE HASN'T GIVEN ME ANYH REASON TO THINK IT'S WRONG EITHER THOUGH i HAVE PRAYED THAT hE WOULD IF IT IS WRONG.  

I can't stand the irony.  He spends an hour lamting and documenting the draining away of a great reservoir of biblical teaching and then at the end he holds up the plug he helped to pull that openied the drain.  

That passage is not about feminine appearance, and it's not even about women's submission to authority in any drect way as far as behavior goes.  It's strictly about the hierarchy of authority or HEADship.  I can't say it enough.  It's about the head, the literal head on the body as symbolic of tauthority.   If you cover that head you are saying you are under the authority of another, you are essentially covering up your own authoirty.  Covering your head is covering your authoirty.  It's an acknowledgment of God's creation ordinance of the hierarchy of headship.   If you uncover women's heads you are saying they have equal authority with men.   Men are exhorted in this same passage NOT to cover their heads because they have authority under CHrist in the Church.  If as MacArthur so strongly preaches, women are not to preach in the churches, you don't take away the emblem of the subordination of authority that supports that position.  When you take it away you are essentially saying they can preach the same as any man can preach. 

I wish I could get this across, and of course I wish it could be gotten across to someone like John MacArthur how has the public influence to do something about it.

Indeed the holy angels must be highly offended.

J C Ryle's Book Holds Out Some Hope for America's Degenerative State

 Ryle's book on the great Christian leaders of the eighteenth century is read in its entirety at the link I gave below.  There I thought it was only the part about the history of English just before those great men came on the scene, but it is in fact the link tot he entire book.   Still, the first chapters about the historical stituation are eyeopening.  England's Christian heritage was at its lowest posible ebb.  the churches preached empty nonsesnse, the gospel has never heard in them.  For all intents and purposes Christianity was dead and the culture was in bad shape.

The fact that God raised up strong Christian preachers after that gives me hope for America since we are about as low as it's possible to get too, probably lower than Engla nd was.  Perhaps we still have some pulpits whre the gospel is preached but far too many preach a poisonous pablum or fleshly banality and even the strongest churches are probably a lot weaker than they would be if they took care of the smaller errors that must be true evewn of them.

It may well be that we are in the last of the last days and the Lord will return today or tomorrow or next week, since the condition of the world and the churches seems to fit that prophecy only too well.  Nevertheless wehn I hear of the state of DEngland afew centuries ago and how God riseed up men who turned around their condition I thin kwe have reason to hope it's possible here too.  If the Lord comes I hope we are all ready, but meanwhile we should be hoping and praying that God would send us a similar awakening by men he can raise up out of nowhere for such a task.

Here's that link again.  It's well worth listening to:   Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century | J. C. Ryle | Christian Audiobook (Part 1) - YouTube

Somje Christian Books from You Tube J. C. Ryle biographies and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

I keep finding good Christian books at You tube that can be listened to.   A really good on e is a book by J. C. Ryle  about Christian leaders in the eighteenth century.  I've listened to the one about John Wesley and the one about Geolrge Whitfield.  

George Whitfiedl:  J. C. Ryle - George Whitefield: His Life and Ministry (Christian audio book) - YouTube

John Wesley:   John Wesley and His Ministry (biography) - J. C. Ryle / Audio Book - YouTube

Here's the first chapter of Ryle's book wghich is about the history of England leading up to the eighteenth century::    Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century | J. C. Ryle | Christian Audiobook (Part 1) - YouTube

And here is Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."   I read this years ago but forgot most of it.  It's nice to heart it read:

 Pilgrim's Progress - Puritan John Bunyan / Full Classic Christian Audiobook - YouTube