This week, a video surfaced where well-respected pastor Alistair Begg had advised that it was acceptable for a Christian to attend a transgender/gay wedding, and also to specifically buy a gift.

This caused everything from head scratching to a furor online. Open letters were written and published. Begg is even trending on Twitter(X).

In this podcast I recount what happened, show there are a couple other issues with Begg's stances, perhaps at this point creating a pattern of a lack of discernment? I also include lots of resources.

Read and see what you think. Is this the beginning of the end for Begg? Or just a misstep to be corrected?

Links mentioned

John MacArthur's answer: more here

Kevin DeYoung's answer at Ligonier: More here

Owen Strachan's Open Letter to Begg: here

Heart Head Hand blog

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I look at wife/mom 'Bible' teachers and influencers who calm the conservative evangelicals by claiming they are tending to their children and at home and their ministry doesn't interfere, but are they? Their speaking event schedule contradicts this.

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Jackie will be a speaker at Bethel Music's 2024 Worship School, alongside Bill Johnson. Is it time to firmly say goodbye to Jackie Hill Perry? many say yes.

Further Reading

GotQuestions: Is the Word of Faith (WoF) movement biblical?

Christian research and Apologetics Ministry: What is the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)?

Ligonier: Are there prophecies today?

Q&A various pastors at Ligonier: How do you define a false teacher?

Open Letter from Truth + Fire

Jackie Hill Perry renounces Enneagram
Jackie Hill Perry comes out as a prophet
Jackie Hill Perry on her false prophesying
Jackie Hill Perry Discernment Review
Jackie Hill Perry performs jig-a-boo, about not tolerating false teachers, (ironic now that she's doing that exact thing).

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Looking at God who is intimately involved with His people

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Do you notice that word "endure"? The verse does not say "they will not like sound doctrine..." It does not say "they will not enjoy sound doctrine..." It doesn't even say "they will not accept sound doctrine." It uses the word endure. Why?

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After a terrible natural disaster, people often wonder, “Where was God in all this?” Others wonder “Did God cause it? Did He allow it? Did Satan do it? Was it just the natural outcome of a fallen world?” And the biggest question, “Why?”

Previous entries were:

The Language of God: Natural Disasters, Introduction
The Language of God: Hail
The Language of God: Drought

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God spoke to His people in the Old Testament in many ways, one was through weather. In these New Testament days we cannot know whether a 'natural disaster' is a specific judgment or not, but we CAN know that God controls or allows all weather to happen for His purposes. Today we look at drought.

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Yesterday I started a short series on the Language of God in Natural Disasters. I explored the questions of where is God when a tsunami happens? Does God send the hurricane, or is it merely the result of the proper meteorological elements coming together?

Today I want to start looking at some specific disasters that happened in the Bible, and today we'll start with hail.

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After a terrible natural disaster, people often wonder, "Where was God in all this?" Others wonder "Did God cause it? Did He allow it? Did Satan do it? Was it just the natural outcome of a fallen world?" And the biggest question, "Why?"

Links mentioned:

Ligonier - How Should We Pray when Natural Disasters Strike?

Ligonier - Responding to Disasters

Ligonier - Why Does God allow Disasters?

Jerry Bridges - God and Natural Disasters

MacArthur - When God Abandons a Nation

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A brief presentation of the 1300s Middle English poem and a summary of its meaning- reflections on death as in winter the death of summer, and in life the death that comes for us all. It's not as sad as the summary makes it sound :)