In the book Pagan Christianity, Frank Viola and George Barna finish by talking about the dangers involved with the style of Bible study known as proof texting. They also talk about how prevalent this practice has become, especially in the American Christian culture. I am not going to get into too many details here and [...]
I keep pretty good track of my statistics for this and my other sites and I’ve noticed something really interesting, in the month of December 2009, the most popular search term that brought people to this site was:
john hagee site:damascusgate.com
For those of you that don’t know what that means, in Google, if you type [...]
I came across an article by Gary Burge, a professor at Wheaton College, that cleared up a lot of things for me about dispensationalism, convenant theology, and the arguments related to Christian Zionism. If you want to download the entire article, here is the link.
Why I am not a Christian Zionist, Academically Speaking – by [...]
Rod Parsley’s rhetoric about September 11th being a “generational call to arms” is eerily similar to the call to arms which mobilized the First Crusade. During that crusade, European “noblemen” pillaged, destroyed, conquered, and raped their way from Europe to Jerusalem, all in the name of the Church. Today the Crusades are seen universally as [...]
Dear members of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas,
I believe that the most important way for us to live as Christians is to follow the example and teachings of Jesus Christ. The last commandment of Jesus Christ was to go into the world and preach the Gospel. It was not to make war against those [...]
As far as Christian responses to the modern state of Israel, I know that the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem is far from correct. I visited the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and got a presentation from one of their volunteers. What he told us astonished me. For one thing, the Christian Embassy is [...]
I’m starting a new series of posts here regarding how we as Christians need to respond to the actions of the state of Israel. Many American Christians use the worn out phrase “we need to support Israel” without offering much in the way of what supporting Israel actually means or why we need to [...]