I got about two-thirds of the way through the Second Amended Class Action Complaint and Jury Demand filed by attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against young, restless, and reformed icon, C.J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), two SGM churches, one SGM school, and ten other SGM leaders.1 Truth is, I couldn't go on. It's most horrifying and even solicits the deepest anger and rage from a person's soul.
Today on SBC Tomorrow, I’d like to critique two Calvinists, their churches, and their ministries. I’ll be dealing with James White, a well-known critic within evangelicalism and a vigorous critic of non-Calvinist evangelicalism. White serves as an elder at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church and is a vocational debater who constantly takes issue with those whom he regularly insinuates are heretics apparently because they hold to less than what he sees as true biblical “Reformed” Christianity. Many times his criticisms are scathing and over-the-top toward fellow evangelicals.
Ryan T. Anderson serves as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society for The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington, DC. According to his bio, Anderson researches and writes mainly about marriage and religious liberty, but also has expertise in justice and moral principles in economic thought, health care and education, and bioethics and natural law theory. In addition, he co-authored the book entitled What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense (Encounter Books, December 2012) along with two Princeton scholars, Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis.
On January 8, Michelle Boorstein, reporter for The Washington Post, announced President Obama's two choices to spiritually bless his official Inauguration less than two weeks away. The first named to offer the invocation was Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights champion Medgar Evers. Evers-Williams marks an historic choice because, as Boorstein indicates, the President’s choice is the first time a president has chosen either a woman or non-ordained clergy to offer prayers at an inaugural event >>>
Just last week, Dr. Ed Stetzer, Vice-President of Lifeway Christian Resources, minced no words in condemning a few so-called "Christians" for publicizing to the evangelical community an allegation claimed by a scorned male participant of a supposed homosexual encounter with Stetzer's young friend, Jonathan Merritt. Dr. Stetzer wrote on his blog defending Merritt against Merritt's purported fiend(s), penning an emotive but decisive judgment:
I first posted on this issue when I followed a pingback to one of my posts wherein I critically examined one of Jonathan Merritt’s positions. It ultimately led me to the site of self-professed “gay evangelical” Azariah Southworth >>>
UPDATE #2: Ken Silva at Apprising Ministries offers a similar perspective to what I've offered here. Silva apparently personally talked with Azariah Southworth. Note also he writes of his decision to post the article: "The story had already hit the Internet and it’s only a matter of time before it would be widespread..." Precisely. I discovered Southworth's post via a pingback to one of my posts on Jonathan Merritt. (//link)
NPR reports about 9 year old, Josef Miles, who stood up to Westboro Baptist Church's hate-filled protest against "fags" with his own personal protest--"GOD HATES NO ONE." Below is a picture courtesy of his mother, Patty Akrouche, who posted the pic on facebook, a pic now shared over 100k times. And we think protests don't work any more...
Close to a cool three-quarters of a million viewers have watched a minute and a half clip of Charles Worley's Mother's Day sermon uploaded to youtube. I suspect every pastor would like that kind of traffic on a sermon he'd preach >>>
Since the Liberty University fiasco with Mark Driscoll began a few weeks ago, a lot of interesting things grabbed my attention but I just couldn't let go LU's disastrous invitation to the controversial pastor >>>
Not only did our brother and fellow servant, Dr. Danny Akin, offer accolades to bad-boy young, restless, and reformed icon, Mark Driscoll, as I recently lamented, he also characterized the preaching of another well-known celebrity, James Merritt >>>
Recently, Cross Pointe’s1teaching pastor, Jonathan Merritt, was interviewed by Paul Edwards concerning Bryant Wright’s proposed name change for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Edwards asked young Merritt several questions to which he responded, responses some of which I’d like to address below >>>
(Encounter Books, December 2012) along with two Princeton scholars, Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis.
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