YOGA UNCOILED: From East to West (1 of 2)

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"Christian" yoga? ~ Sola Sisters from solasisters.blogspot.com - "Yoga is the salvific practice of Hinduism; in other words, it is the Hindu form of "salvation." But Hindus have no concept of sin against a holy God....instead, it teaches that man's greatest problem is his ignorance that he is "God" (or Brahman). Obviously, this is very different from the Christian understanding of what salvation is: Jesus's atoning death for the forgiveness of sins, and being made right with a holy God."


Yoga Today's Lifestyle For Health   from letusreason.org - "As Christians who are in relationship with the God who created the universe, we should not be among those who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worship and serve created things rather than the Creator (Romans 1:25). While many Christians rationalize the exercises as neutral they only need to ask a professional Yoga instructor what it is really about to find that it is in fact religious. As a Christian we need to ask ourselves would Jesus or the apostles be doing yoga? If not why not. Would they promote another religions way to be united with a different gods? According to the BibleYoga is an idolatrous practice which leads one away from the one true God and into the spiritual realm of false gods and demonic spirits, and there are consequences? If we sin ignorantly God understands, He is merciful, giving us grace on the one hand, but not to continue after we receive knowledge of the truth. On the other He cares of our sin, not willing to leave us to our deception. “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” In Hosea’s time people had a lack of knowledge concerning God. As a result, they turned to other gods, and their idolatrous practices became a snare to them and a delusion. They became the prey of false gods-even while thinking that their lifestyle was pleasing to the true God."

"Why we don't need women's ministry" or do we? by Dr. Georgia Purdom

A friend sent me an article entitled, “Why We Don’t Need ‘Women’s’ Ministry.” Of course the title intrigued me since I direct the Answers for Women ministry at AiG! As I read the article, I realized the point the author was trying to make was not that we don’t need women’s ministry but that we don’t need the type of women’s ministry that is common in our churches and larger Christian community today. Read these excerpts from her article:

We’re choking on cutesy things and crafty bits, safe lady topics, . . . . We are hungry for authenticity and vulnerability, not churchified life hacks from lady magazines. Some of us are drowning, suffocating, dying of thirst for want of the cold water of real community. We’re trying really hard–after all, we keep showing up to your lady events, and we leave feeling just a bit empty. It’s just more of the same every time.

I would love to wrestle with some questions that don’t have a one-paragraph answer in your study guide. I would like to do a Bible study that does not have pink or flowers on the cover.

So here is my suggestion: Please stop treating women’s ministry like a Safe Club for the Little Ladies to Play Church.

We are smart. We are brave. We want to change the world.

We want to give and serve and make a difference. We want to be challenged. We want to read books and talk politics, theology, and current events. We want to wrestle through our theology. 

Read the rest at the link: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/georgia-purdom/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-need-womens-ministry-or-do-we/

An obituary for the Emerging Church?

An obituary for the Emerging Church?

Reposted from Stand Up For the Truth

Is the shelf life of the Emergent Church past the date?  Not by any means! In fact, we’re going to make the case today that it is morphing into something very dangerous.

Today many Christian leaders are trying to convince us that the Emerging Church movement is dead–and that we should simply stop talking about it. But when you hear our special guest today, Mary Danielsen, you’ll understand why some leaders want you to believe that there is nothing to worry about–nothing to see here.

You’ll want to make sure you pay particular attention to the name Philip Clayton, one of the top post-modern intellectuals today and a driving force behind Big Tent Christianity. He is also the chief guru of Emergence Theology, part of a new field of emergent sciences, and the underlying force of the ever-evolving Emergent Church.

Mary is a teacher and writer who has studied prophesy for 3 decades. Check out her site,thethings2com.org, and read her “Contender’s Series.”

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