WATCH THIS VIDEO, THEN READ MY BLOG ON THE EMERGING PATH TO HELL BELOW!

No offense is meant to anyone who loves to read or owns a copy of the Message Bible. This is not about the Bible part of the Message Bible, but it's editor - Eugene Peterson. Sure, Peterson took too many liberties with mistranslating the Pure Word of God, but many have done so in the past centuries.

Here is what he said in "EAT THIS BOOK" (Erdmans 2006, page 44) "We want a spirituality that is world-embracing, all experience-encompassing.....We are finding out about the remarkable spiritualities in Australian bush aborigines....HOW CAN WE BE SATISFIED TO BE PEOPLE OF ONE BOOK?!!"

Holy Book, Batman! Message Bibleman Peterson just said we need more than Holy God's Word for spirituality! This heresy is compounded by the fact that he seeks to equate God's Holy Word with the earth-based pagan religions of the god of this world! This is precisely what the Emerging Church movement is.

To them, the Bible is just a book of stories, nice stories...but "we need a fresh way to 'know God'. So they are okay with the faiths of other gods that Jehovah has specifically warned against from antiquity - hinduism, buddhism, islam etc....for the Emergents, it is all about "the Story". There is no doctrine, no moral law and no hell - ask Doug Paggitt from Minnesota's Solomon Porch.

So this movement, birthed by its guru Brian MacLaren and others see nothing wrong with gay marriage, abortion and other lifestyle choices...and are leading an entire generation of so-called "evangelicals" away from the faith. It is so bad that extensive surveys by both the Barna Group and The Pew Center for Religion have confirmed that between 56% and 57% of "evangelicals" believe there are other ways to Heaven than Jesus!

Brethren, the Exhortation from the Apostle Paul is to examine yourself daily to see if you are in the Faith. It is better to get this extremely correct NOW, because a day is coming when The Way, the Truth and the Life will say to those who call Him "Lord, Lord...didn't I sell millions of books or "preach" to Millions, or made many strange looking nooming DVD's in Your Name"?!

Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'"

The Literal meaning of those final Words from Jesus to those who have a change of mind, when it is too late is "GO AWAY FROM ME, I WAS NEVER AWARE OF YOU AT ANY TIME, YOU WHO OPERATED AGAINST RIGHTEOUSNESS or the LAW or MY WORD.

Nuff said.

GUEST BLOGGER - NIKKI HAHN ON "WALKING IN FAITH"

Taking The First Step, Part 5

by Nikki Hahn

www.thehahnhuntinglodge.com

Taking the First Step is a series about how a person deals with trauma and grief in their lives. My husband has been a great emotional and spiritual support throughout this process. It's been two years and the healing is slow but steady. I am very lucky to have him in my life.

A scale can feel pretty discouraging. Although I do feel good about how far I have come in my weight loss, there is a weight that I cannot move past. I walk more, eat better, and have a better attitude about things and all of this I blame on God. In spite of my weariness from Crohns, I continue to strive for good health. I strive for good health for my husband and myself.

In March, the doctor’s office had a hard time reading my blood pressure. They took it three times. It is no wonder they thought it a little high. It happens when trauma re-enters your life. I was grateful for the love and support of my husband and family during this time. Sometimes, things happen in your life in which you have no control. This is where I should have trusted God with these things. With a crystal clear direction now in my life, I take each day and each step from that difficult period with confidence and trust.

Crohns is not an easy disease. It is not as bad as some with Crohns and there are certainly worse diseases out there. I am grateful to have Crohns and not anything worse. With Crohns I can still live a healthy life. I watch my diet most times, exercise 1-3 times a week on average, and eat more fruit and veggies now. My life is active, but it does have side effects like fatigue which occasionally slows me down. Recently, I had to get treated for a skin infection. A year ago I had to go the eye doctor’s office because my eyes were swelling. These are just little things compared to the things I hear from other people.

Paul went through his life with a “thorn in his side.” He asked God to remove the thorn, but God didn’t remove it. My thorn in the side is this disease. I can complain about it, sulk about it, or maybe just give up, but I can’t and won’t give up on this life in which God has blessed me. I figure I must be doing something right with all the mountains and hills in my path. Someone once said if the going is easy, you must be going the way of the devil. Since the going has been hard these past two years, I suppose I’m doing everything right in my life.

In spite of the thorn in my side, God has blessed us. We have a good marriage, good jobs and we are surrounded by wise people. Disease or no disease, preferred weight or no, God loves me. You can be a child of God, too. All you have to do is ask!

THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK FOR AMERICAN CHURCH AND MINISTRY LEADERS IN DECADES!

Already Gone (AG) is the most serious work on Christianity to come out in the past five years. Why? It is a warning to the church and us - fathers, husbands and men in who call ourselves Christians, that we have failed the next generation. Worse than the warning, it is evidence that modern church leaders in the Evangelical movement will be held more than accountable on Judgment Day!

Written by Answers in Genesis founder and well-known Apologist Ken Ham (with the research by C. Britt Beemer, AG gives us the bad news, for those even in our own conservative churches. The in-depth and wide ranging exhaustive research shows that not only are the kids sitting across from us going to leave the church when they get out of high school, they have already checked out mentally.

The numbers are worse in the liberal mainline churches. The analysis of the numbers show that Sunday School is to blame! Yes, Sunday school! I already feel bad for all the nice men and women who teach our kids there across America, but "facts is facts"!

Read and weep: 24.6%of kids in our Sunday Schools believe God used evolution to create humans! ONLY 40.8% believe Pre-marital sex is NOT right!

It gets worse: 39.1% of our Sunday school kids think they have become MORE anti-church over the years and 46.4% thing the church is NOT relevant to their needs!

These are just some of the horrible facts, evidence and trends in this most critical work in years. It is no wonder young evangelicals think being pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage is okay and live, vote, eat, read and think like this. The problem is not just the vile teachings of the darwinists and morally relativists in the public schools but people who run the seminaries where prayer is lost, discipleship is trivialized and modern apostates in the Gospel-free zone of the Emerging Church are looked to, instead of the orthodox masters of Expository preaching. One particular conservative christian college (well known) does not even believe in the 6000 year story of Genesis.

Here is where we lost the young - the book of Genesis where we see the Fall of man. Sin has so corrupted the church (which is a group of people who live in the secular world) that now the god of this world - satan - has deceived millions to turn from the Faith of their Grandfathers. I said Grandfathers, because we are still struggling with the sons of the so-called greatest generation, to encourage them/us to grow or become TRUE men of Christ.

Can this madness be turned around? Can we bring the next generation to an understanding of why they need Christ? Maybe. We start small - by calling every church leadership to account. Sunday school in most conservative churches have the lowest attendance for this same reason, even among adults. Only the faithful like us, who are proactive 24/7/365 go to make sure our own kids develop the practice.

I suggest, if you are any kind of leader in ministry, in FCA, in a church or just care about the lost, forget about overseas missions. God has His people for that. The biggest mission field can be found inside ALL American churches.

The sign over the exit door used to read "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE MISSION FIELD". THAT SIGN HAS NOW BEEN MOVED TO THE DOOR THAT LEADS INTO THE SANCTUARY! THIS IS SAD, IT MUST BE ADDRESSED!

Purchase "Already Gone", you will thank God you did!

CHURCH SILENT AS AMERICA GOES TO HELL!

^{Matthew 28: 18-28 (AMPLIFIED BIBLE):
18}Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

¹⁹Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

²⁰Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be).

There are two important facts to note in this Gospel passage:

1. Jesus breaks His silence (verse 18).

2. He gave a DIRECT command.

We see here that Jesus BROKE His silence. Since then, His church has taken it up! As American culture slips further into Sodom and Gomorrah type status, there is seldom or never a peep from the pulpits of America to warn the flock of the wolves out there and secondly to go into the world and create disciples.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that over 57% (YES! 57%) of Evangelical so-called Christians say there are other ways to salvation (and therefore Heaven) than Jesus Christ!!! What are they learning in church? AND, do you and I still want to be identified as an "evangelical"! I will no longer call myself one these heretic sheep!

This explains why the entire US church suffers from the Sin of Silence. Because there is NO biblical moral and worldview leadership in most megachurch or even small church, the sheep (or the children of God) have no passion or qualifications to go out and share the Good News of Christ! When you combine that with rampant spiritual laziness, we find the Great Commission is now the Great OMISSION!

Many words can be written on this topic and outrage would be totally appropriate here. The correct response would be for the remnant ( the less than 3% of us in the pews) to take up the dropped ball and run with it in the other direction. It does not matter if we are starting at the opponent's 1 yard line with 99 yards to go to the endzone. There is no clock - just a direct command to obey - and a lifetime of mission to accomplish this, prayerfully and humbly. The good thing is God does not expect us to score a touchdown on every carry....all we have to do is advance the ball (in Kingdom terms) down the field!

Lutchman Family Golfing At Annual Charity Classic

The 6th Annual Rob Isringhausen/ Business Men In Christ Charity Golf Classic was a perfect example of God's Economy NOT being man's! In these days of prolonged recession, unemployment, high taxes, socialist medicine and climate change hoaxes.....states and countries all over the Globe are under duress.

Not so when God wants a job done. This year, we took on another charity to support - Contact Ministries of Springfield, in addition to our usual beneficiaries Inner City Mission, Relevant Practical Ministry for Men etc. After getting off to an impossibly late start just 7 weeks ago on a golf outing that takes 6-8 months to plan, the Lord took over and blessed it big time! Doug Ryherd, President of BMIC and myself got a team together that stuck it out and brought off this entire things with MORE sponsors than we have had in three years and more golfers than last year!!

We still stand in amazement about how all of this happens and fully acknowledge the 100% Sovereignty and Majesty of Holy God, who showed His Glory at the Piper Glen Golf Club, Chatham, Illinois(ranked no. 50 in the US by GOLF magazine).

Lutchman Family Ministries was one of the early sponsors. Sam and Bernie Lutchman, our two sons, golfed their first tournament for the first time and did great in their foursomes for newcomers!

God STILL speaks today!

Does God still SPEAK to His people?

There is a significant school of thought which says NO!! Most of the time, they can be formed in my Reformed and Bible churches etc. I am part of both - I believe in Reformed theology. This means I believe like Martin Luther and others that we ONLY saved by Grace, though Faith in Christ, to the Glory of God! I also believe all Bible-believing churches should teach the FULL Counsel of God ALL of the time - verse by verse, phrase by phrase, just as God wrote it!!

I also believe the Bible is a document set in stone. The pages of the Bible - all 66 books - are ALIVE THROUGH CHRIST and not for the manipulation of liberal, mortal, evil man for him to twist to his own political purposes. There are warnings against this in Revelation 22 (the last chapter). So there is no dispute about the Sanctity, Sufficiency and Security of the Bible....to put it bluntly, you mess with it at your own peril!

Where I separate myself from my fellow Reformed brethren is on the issue of God speaking to us in these last days. By denying this as a fact, they stifle the Work of the Holy Spirit! God has always communicated with His two-legged creation - man! Even before Moses wrote the Aleph Tav of the Torah, God was speaking to Adam. Christ sent His Holy Spirit to live in saved people as Guidance Counsellor and basically, to be our Satellite to what the Father wants us to know.

If, as they say, God is not speaking in these past 2000 years, why do we pray? Why do we intercede? Why do we fast? Why? Why? Why?!!!!! If, as the Five Point Calvinists there is such a thing as "LIMITED ATONEMENT" why even evangelize to reach the Lost for Christ?!! Huh???!!!

I have lost several conservative friends (and there is no one more Biblically conservative than me) who try to insinuate that I am a sort of whacked out "charismatic" because I believe in the many experiences and encounters I KNOW I HAD with the Lord! One very conservative well known person, won't even communicate with me anymore because of this. He and I were great friends for years before my first book came out.

This is still the Time of the Gentiles. Christ has not returned yet. We are all in God's plan for man. Until He comes, He will speak to, communicate with and commission whom He very well pleases and no doctrine of man will ever change that fact!

GUEST BLOGGER: NIKKI HAHN!

FROM NIKKI'S BLOG : THE HAHN HUNTING LODGE

When The Storms Come...

ORIGINALLY POSTED by The Hahn Hunting Lodge on Monday, June 1, 2009

(published May, 2009)

"Everywhere there is the persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without paying for it....'Let us have the pleasure of conquerors without the pains of soldiers; let us sit on sofas and be a hardy race.' ...All around us is the city of small sins, abounding in backways and retreats, but surely, sooner or later, the towering flame will rise from the harbor announcing that the reign of the cowards is over and a man is burning his ships." - GK Chesterton

The storm came upon me again. I did not see it coming because this morning the day dawned with clear blue skies. I even dug into my “piggy bank” and managed a second Starbucks this week. The morning gave no indication of a storm. In fact, my morning was stupendous. I would tell you about it, but I take pleasure in keeping some things off the internet between God and me. I knew He was smiling at me this morning. I felt His peace as I sang praise songs to Him all the way to work. Nothing could dim my mood.

The second Starbucks became my fuel for an unusually busy morning. How was I to know when I asked for more work that I would get a deluge? I am not complaining. Most people know I love a good challenge, and just for fun, God threw in a new challenge: get over 200 CD’s done before 3 p.m. Unfortunately, I only reached 170. It felt like running a race and everyone kept throwing things in my path in which to trip. The storm exploded shortly before I left work.

A relative of mine once professed a fear of storms. She had her own dark room underneath the stairs with a bed and lantern. Every time a thunderstorm rolled in, she rolled into her little room. Maybe I would be safer to hide in a dark room with a little lantern and a warm bed. Maybe I will lock the door as the storms rage around me. How would this look to the unsaved of the world? A Christian who runs when a storm begins to gather on the horizon tells a false testimony.

When Tony and I went hiking last Saturday, we were embroiled in a huge storm. We were standing on one big mountain and the rocky cliffs of the dry riverbed in the distance did not offer much comfort. The thunder exploding overhead and the lightning bolt that missed us by fifteen minutes, was a lesson from Jesus. He is watching and taking care of us. He is bigger than any storm. As Tony and I prayed together walking fast down the muddy road, I sang “Amazing Grace.”

What should I fear in my life except fear? Let me stand in the storm with my arms raised to Heaven. Let me have the faith of David and fling my stone at the giants who try to fill my head with negative and false thoughts. Let me walk among my enemies without fear, without causing harm, and still show the strength of my resolve and conviction. In every storm, there is a purpose.

The flowers bloom. The grass smells sweet. The smell of rain, earth, and trees arrest your senses and the damp ground quiets your steps. After a storm, beauty blooms and abounds in the high desert. After a storm in our own lives, beauty abounds because we persevered. Jesus is more than just about love. He is not a flower child. He is God. Every storm brings in the perfect plan and result. We may not know it, but there is reward in trusting. Moreover, a storm eventually passes quickly.

NOTE FROM BERNIE LUTCHMAN:

NIKKI IS ON STAFF AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PRESCOTT, ARIZONA. SHE IS MARRIED TO TONY HAHN.

DON'T READ "THE SHACK"....AUTHOR DENIES THE SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT OF CHRIST!

The "evangelical" Christian world has gone nuts for this outrageously popular book by author William Young. Suddenly he has become the darling of all kinds of well-known Christians from Michael W. Smith to, of all people - Gloria Gaither. You would think the Gaithers would know better than this!

"THE SHACK" is now been touted as the "best" explanation of the Trinity...some people are even using it in Bible studies!!! Goooooood NIGHT!! What is wrong with this picture? Don't these people know that William Young has denied the subsititutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross (meaning he does not believe in Christ's death on the Cross for our sins and the Blood-Covered washing away of our sins!) This man is NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN! LISTEN HERE IN HIS OWN WORDS!

Yet Christians are quoting this from church pulpits I know of, or group studies in youth groups...and Gloria Gaither has Mark Lowry and others touting this garbage!

I am NOT a fan of this pastor - Mark Driscoll. But it is the best explanation of what "THE SHACK" is about and the heresy in it. Watch it, get your Bible out and you will see he is telling the truth!

HIS GRACE IS ENOUGH FOR ME! AMEN & AMEN