Eastern Orthodoxy, The Mystical Trap by Richard Bennett (Free MP3) ow.ly/yffwC. ow.ly/yffwC In recent years interest in the Eastern Orthodox Church among Christians has grown steadily and there have been a number of converts to this religious body. A prime reason for this interest has been the growing fascination with mysticism and ancient tradition which has permeated Western societies. Increasing numbers of Christians are coming into contact with Eastern Orthodox mysticism via the Emergent Church and the writings of the Orthodox Church Fathers. There are many strands to Eastern Orthodox mysticism; this paper briefly examines a few significant areas such as Theosis, Hesychasm, the Jesus Prayer, Spiritual Fathers and Light Mysticism. ow.ly/yffwC I read your Eastern Orthodoxy Mystical Trap, and I liked (it) and agree with all youve written there. The Greek Orthodox here in Albania has big activity here and theyre just like youve described in your essay. Your essay is very informative. 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While there is plenty of useful material on Romanism at SermonAudio (not to mention vatican.va), there is very little on its Eastern Orthodox rival, and this paper is a useful introduction to some of its tenets and practices. Given the current Western hostility to head knowledge, propositional logic and theology, I expect Eastern Orthodoxys anti-intellectual mysticism to grow in popularity today, should it gain wider exposure. I cannot help pointing out that such mysticism cannot even begin to be understood without using propositions and language, which makes it self-refuting! - SermonAudio comment from the USA ow.ly/yffwC Systematic Theology Volume 1 (Chapter 4 Mysticism 1 of 2) by Charles Hodge (Free MP3) sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1210091119310 The Key To Pope Franciss Jesuit Identity By Richard Bennett (Former Roman Catholic Priest Who Is Now A Christian), W.J. Mencarow, Greg Price, Robert J. Breckinridge, Ian Brown, J.A. 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This whole MP3 series contains very important messages about how Satan is corrupting the worship of God in our day, using men (like James Jordan, John Frame, Doug Wilson, Steve Schlissel, Jeffrey Meyers, Vern Poythress, et al.) who claim some connections to the Reformed faith, but who, in reality, teach principles of worship much closer to Rome and the Papacy than to the Reformation and the best Reformers. To find out why John Calvin would have excommunicated both John Frame and James Jordan, given the idolatrous nature of their beliefs and public teaching regarding worship, please see swrb/newslett/actualNLs/frameexc.htm. The free article, A Warning Against the False and Dangerous Views of James Jordan Concerning Worship, is at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/blastjj.htm and will also expose more about the heresy and idolatry noted throughout Brian Schwertleys must hear MP3 series entitled Liturgical Antinomianism. This series also contains many clues as to how Papal superstition (Roman Catholicism) and will worship (idolatry) is introduced into Protestant Churches. Sermon four is a much needed study refuting the nonsense, idolatry and heresy of James Jordan. More refuting James Jordan the can be found at swrb/newslett/freebook/refworsh.htm (search for Jordan). The following quote, from Kevin Reeds, The Canterbury Tales, is apropos, In a Lutheran/Anglican posture, Mr. Jordan is asserting that the church has been granted broad discretionary power to establish means of worship. This is similar to the Anabaptist notions, which allow the moving of the Spirit to govern the present activities of the church, without any direct appeal to the law of God. In both cases, the church has the power to worship God according to the devices of men. However, the Anabaptist opts for subjectivism (due to an emphasis on individualism); the other opts for traditionalism (with an emphasis on the corporate consensus). Yet, the law of God rejects both a subjective appeal (Deut. 12:8), and an appeal to the consensus (Deut. 12:30-31). Rather, the biblical admonition directs men to the scriptural pattern of worship (Deut. 12:32). sermonaudio/go/124806 In sermon eight Brian Schwertley conclusively demonstrates how Jordans views on worship are seriously flawed and how his writings often show more charity toward Papists, than toward the Reformed faith (p. 28, The Canterbury Tales by Kevin Reed). 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(CA, USA) bit.ly/ci3g2z. Christmas: 8 New Free Reformed MP3s ow.ly/xXZCD Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, as if he were a king Pharaoh. By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christs birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy. - The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas by Brian Schwertley FREE BOOK at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/CHRISTMAS.htm or on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy puritandownloads/christmas-is-a-roman-catholic-missions-strategy/ The Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness! - Pastor Mencarow ow.ly/dZ3ua In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a pronounced and explicit deliverance against the recognition of Christmas and Easter as religious days. Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. - Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/Xmas_ch2.htm) All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. 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