The ascension seems like a really bad plan. Why would Christ leave his disciples? Is the indwelling Spirit truly better than Christ in the flesh? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss Jesus’s gifts to the church through his intercession and his continuing priestly office in which he acts as our advocate and intercessor.

The Bad Plan of the Ascension

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Caleb Wait, Sola Media’s Director of Content, interviews Michael Horton on his new book, “Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” in Antiquity. Many preachers today appeal to headlines that announce a surge in spirituality as if this news offers the church encouragement. We tend to think of modern secular culture as hostile to spirituality—an atheistic world of soulless materialism. So if modern people now want spirituality, Christians often think, that must mean people will find their way toward Christianity. This thesis, among many others, is challenged by Horton in the first volume of his new series on the Divine-Self.    Listen in as Horton shares how this new intellectual history of “spiritual but not religious” as a phenomenon in Western culture is the biggest project he’s ever undertaken. Horton shows how ancient shamanist practices and philosophies appear in Plato, schools in Alexandria, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and more, revealing to us that modern practices and beliefs are far more ancient than we think.    SHAMAN AND SAGE: THE ROOTS OF “SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS” IN ANTIQUITY: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802877116/shaman-and-sage/   CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S OFFERS:   FREE DOWNLOAD - Secular Spirituality: A Brief History   Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer by Adriel Sanchez.   Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.   Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is “This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For,” where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs.    For more information, visit us at whitehorseinn.org or email us at info@whitehorseinn.org.   Featuring:  Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb  

Michael Horton’s New Book on the Origins of “Spiritual but Not Religious”

Where does the spirituality of enthusiasm and the New Apostolic Reformation ultimately lead? Hosts Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb show how ecstatic shaman-like spirituality wrought in enthusiasm results in an isolated life. While autonomous spiritual practices may free us from the external structures and authorities of religion, the hosts share how the ordinary means of grace is the only place where we find true freedom and rest in our spiritual lives.   CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S OFFERS:   Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer by Adriel Sanchez.   Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.   Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is “This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For,” where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs.    RESOURCES MENTIONED:      The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud by Philip Rieff    The Sixties Spiritual Awakening by Robert Ellwood    The Narcissism Epidemic with Jean Twenge and Michael Horton    Generation Me with Jean Twenge and Michael Horton    For more information, visit us at whitehorseinn.org or email us at info@whitehorseinn.org.   Featuring:  Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb  

“I Have Nothing Left to Hear Me Say”: Religion without Authority

The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is one of the fastest growing movements "within or on the periphery of American Christianity." Join Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb as they discuss where this contemporary movement came from, what its tenets of dominionism, new apostles, and direct revelation are, why its teachings are so prominent in Contemporary Christian Music, and how they are connected to the old, esoteric tradition of enthusiasm.  CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S OFFERS:   Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer by Adriel Sanchez.   Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.   Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is “This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For,” where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs.    RESOURCES MENTIONED:     Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures by Herman Ridderbos    Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church by Holly Pivec, R. Douglas Geivett    A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement by Holly Pivec, R. Douglas Geivett      For more information, visit us at whitehorseinn.org or email us at info@whitehorseinn.org.  Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb  

The New (Old) Apostolic Reformation

Martin Luther once said that, "Adam was the first enthusiast," and by "enthusiast" he doesn’t mean someone who is enthusiastic. The philosophy of enthusiasm is "god-within-ism," a belief and tendency to pit internal spirituality versus external texts, institutions, and authorities. In this episode, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller discuss how this "god-within-ism" has appeared in the church, from Montanists, to medieval monks, radical figures in the Reformation, Enlightenment philosophers, and contemporary movements today.   CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S OFFERS:   Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer by Adriel Sanchez.   Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.   Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is "This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For," where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs.    For more information, visit us at whitehorseinn.org or email us at info@whitehorseinn.org.  Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb  

The “Enthusiasts'' of Church History: From Montanists to Modern Day ``Prophets''

Watch this conversation at YouTube.com/@WhiteHorse1990 Bob Hiller sits down with Adriel Sanchez to discuss the most famous prayer in history and his new book, Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer. Adriel is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church in San Diego and the host of Sola Media’s radio program, Core Christianity.  Pastor Adriel shares how the Lord’s Prayer presupposes the gospel and the doctrine of the Trinity, and how prayer is itself a gift as well as a discipline that requires intentionality on the part of the Christian. Listen in as Bob and Adriel also walk through the petitions of our Lord’s Prayer and how practicing the prayer transforms our lives. (Episode SP017) ON THIS EPISODE:  Adriel Sanchez is senior pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church in San Diego and cohost of the Core Christianity radio program. He is also the author of Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer. Bob Hiller is the Senior Pastor of Community Lutheran Church in Escondido, California. He is also the author of Finding Christ in the Straw.  CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S OFFERS:   Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer by Adriel Sanchez. Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is “This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For,” where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs. 

The Bad Plan of the Ascension

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