Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men,…
Author: ELLIOTT NESCH
Dr. Oz and Saddleback “Quackery”
Oprah Winfrey’s “favorite doctor” and a highly renowned cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is training Saddleback Church on health and apparently “quackery.” In recent news, even the secular world has exposed the “quackery” of Dr. Oz. For example, one headline of the San Jose Mercury News says, “Dr. Oz should be booted from Columbia over ‘quack treatments,’…
Leadership Network: Spend a Year Learning From Drucker
Leadership Network encourages evangelical leaders to spend a year learning the best business management practices of Peter Drucker. Leadership Network is a “Non profit 501c3 donor supported ministry organized in the United States.” In a 2011 article called “Drucker’s Discipleship” and the book Hath God Said? Emergent Church Theology, I documented how the genesis of…
Cases of Christians Who Fell Away
The New Testament not only contains many warnings about Christians falling away, but also contains actual cases of Christians who fell away. For example, Paul brought up several examples in his letters to his protégé Timothy: This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them…
Can a Christian Be Cut Off from Christ?
Can a Christian be “cut off” from Jesus Christ? Perhaps one of the most explanatory passages on salvation is Jesus’ teaching on the vine and branches in John 15:1-14. Clearly Jesus said, “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw…