Hooked on Theology, Hooked on Christ, Hooked on the Gospel

adapted from a blog post at Wired4Truth

Well it's Doug, the old troublemaker out of London, and I have a little something I want to put into the air.

Todd Bentley. For a couple of months, the man shocked his way into Charismaniac stardom with his shocking, audacious and sometimes painful "ministration of the Glory" – that was until his fall from good graces when his marriage disintegrated like a laser hit… Continue

I wrote a paper regarding the miscreant revival down in Lakeland, FL, and yesterday I finally released it. You can get it at my blog:

http://blackreformingkid.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/biblical-reasons-to-reject-the-lakeland-revival-the-paper/

Last time, I began with some background as to the topic before us, looking at attitudes to the practice of tithing, and why people do it. Today, I wish to consider the definitions of tithing that are extant in the Christian world.

Before I cover the main content of this post, let me say this. Most evangelicals/fundamentalists would like to believe that they have no problem with settling the place of Scripture and tradition. After all, we believe the Bible to be the word with tradition having no… Continue

First off, a big shout goes out to my brother Andrew Clerebout, who brought it up in conversation when we were on PalTalk. I have never put this into writing before, so this should interesting.

As you can already see, I want to deal with the question: Is tithing required for the New Testament Church? Now bear in mind that I grew up a Pentecostal. In my church, if you didn’t tithes, the following observations were made about you [all of which were wrong]:

Either:
You’re a greed… Continue