Month: March 2021

A.A. Christian tells atheist anything can be his “god,” even a bedroom dresser

Would a Christian ever tell a hurting addict that it is okay to envision “god” as a doorknob, or a bedroom dresser, rather than sharing the Good News about Christ? Happens all the time in Alcoholics Anonymous, where anything and everything can be your “god.” Sadly, most Christians in A.A. bow to 12 Step theology.

The following is a comment from a reader who watched this occur. She writes:

A family member who had been in AA for bondage to alcohol was explaining the program to another family member in bondage to drugs. The drug abuser said they couldn’t do AA because they did not believe in God. The AA member said “Oh, no problem! Anything can be your higher power – even your bedroom dresser!” I am not kidding, this is an actual conversation. …the AA member is also a professing Christian yet had no problem explaining to the atheist that anything could be their higher power. It left me speechless and that isn’t easy to do! (emphasis mine)

“For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:38)

Alcoholics Anonymous is tremendously successful. That success, however, is not in treatment effectiveness, but in pointing unsaved alcoholics away from Christ while watering down the faith of the Christians who do attend the 12 Step meetings.

Until the Body of Christ understands A.A. and other 12 Step groups promote an unholy theology, nothing will change.

When a doorknob could be your god

But twelve-step programs made one critical change in Christian ideas. They switched from God to a ‘Higher Power’ of each person’s understanding, which doesn’t necessarily mean any god anyone else has ever seen or thought of. This Higher Power, this made-up god, has healing force that had previously been reserved only for known gods. Sometimes twelve-step leaders, in trying to explain how loose this concept is, will say, ‘That doorknob could be your god.’ [1]

Source Notes:

1. Christine Wicker, The Fall of the Evangelical Nation, p.137 (Kindle version)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1 Tim 4:1)

This is what the LORD says:
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
Then you will find a resting place for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ (Jeremiah 6:16)

What was the original title of ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’?

So, a few years ago, at a little before 2 a.m., I was at the table eating peanut butter and crackers, when I saw The Swiss Family Robinson on the bookshelf. As it turns out, this is not the original title of this wonderful classic. It was first published as The Shipwrecked Preacher and His Family: An Instructional Book for Children and Their Friends in City or Country.

The author, Johann David Wyss, was a pastor with four sons. One of them (Johann Rudolf Wyss, who also wrote the Swiss national anthem) got his father’s permission to edit the written stories that Pastor Wyss had shared with his children when they were young.

It may be that the sons also contributed to these stories; or it may be that his son Johann Rudolf Wyss not only edited but finished writing them–or actually wrote them based on his father’s oral stories.  There are competing versions of this on the internet and elsewhere. At any rate, the book was published in 1813. Pastor Wyss died in 1830, but already his book was popular in many countries.

If you have children, this is a good book to read as a family.

George Muller and the Word of God

“As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.”
― George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller

“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
― George Müller

“It was at this time that God began to show me that his word alone is our standard of judgment in spiritual things; that it can be explained only by the Holy Spirit; and that in our day, as well as in former times, he is the teacher of his people.”
― George Müller, The Autobiography of George Müller

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder “claimed some power over spiritualistic phenomena”

Spiritualism according to Merriam-Webster: a belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living usually through a medium.

“[A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson] experimented with and eventually claimed some power over spiritualistic phenomena. So profound was Bill’s immersion in this area that he at times confused the terms ‘spiritualism’ and ‘spirituality.’” (Ernest Kurtz, NOT-GOD, pg. 136)

“There shall not be found among you…a medium or a spiritist or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord.” (Deuteronomy 18:10, 11, 12)

In PASS IT ON, A.A.’s official biography of Bill Wilson, Lois Wilson recounts some of her husband’s experiences of 1941. Saturday was generally the scheduled day for these psychic adventures. “Bill would lie down on the couch. He would ‘get’ these things. He kept doing it every week or so. Each time, certain people would ‘come in.’ Sometimes, it would be new ones, and they’d carry on some story.” (PASS IT ON, pg. 278-79)

So, “every week or so,” Wilson would open himself to this entity (or entities), and “certain people would ‘come in.’” Today this is known as channeling.

Who or what is the force that drives the Left to cancel conservatives?

…so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. (2 Cor 2:11)

According to Marsha West of Christian Research Network:

It has become clear to discerning Christians that the Spiritual Forces of Darkness engineered America’s shift to the far left.  And anyone who chooses not to toe the line, anyone who won’t buy into the “woke” narrative or dares voice their disagreement with the totalitarian Left finds themselves “cancelled” (smeared, maligned, demeaned). This is especially true for followers of Jesus Christ. …continue reading article…

Quotes from H.A. Ironside, an official A.A. pamphlet, and Jesus Christ

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself. –Henry Allen Ironside [1]

In fact, I am convinced that the greater a member’s years in A.A., the less important the nature of this [Higher] Power becomes. –Author of the A.A. pamphlet, A Member’s Eye-View of Alcoholics Anonymous [2]

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. (John 14:6)

Source Notes:

1. https://www.azquotes.com/author/19809-Henry_Allen_Ironside?p=

2. https://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/p-41_amemberseyeviewofaa.pdf

Don’t be deceived: The founders were not Christians

It is a fearful thing, leaving A.A. The Big Book (the A.A. “Bible”) states, “We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not.”[1] Because this passage of A.A. “scripture” is taken literally, alcoholics rarely look elsewhere for help. Christians continue to jam their God, the Ancient of Days, into A.A.’s chameleon theology.

“Do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11-12)

It is not just fear that keeps us bound to this all-gods religion. The 12 Step experience becomes an idol–long term involvement almost always results in a transference of faith. Bluntly stated, when it comes to sobriety, many Christians end up with more faith in the power of the 12 Step program than in Jesus Christ.

This idol worship is by no means limited to those in A.A., but applies to many in “Christian 12 Step” groups.

This transference of faith is subtle, gradual, and frequently inevitable. The result is that sobriety without the 12 Step program will not even be considered. Biblical wisdom, given by concerned and caring believers, is rejected. …continue reading article…

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Glorifying the Savior/Exposing Deception: Why We Wrote The Omega Point Series

Wowza! I’m buying the first book of the series, The Glittering Web, as soon as I get done posting this. Authors Linda and Richard Nathan begin their article by sharing their past (which would also make for a good book) and then share about the Christian fiction series they have written. I’m looking forward to reading it when the book gets here. –TWLF

By Linda and Richard Nathan
Former New Age followers and authors of The Glittering Web and Darkness Comes in Like a Flood

​It was 1962, and there was a sense of awakening in the air, a call to a different kind of life.

Young people hearing the siren song were pouring into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District from across the nation. A once-declining neighborhood, the Haight was blossoming overnight into a counterculture Mecca, spreading the new consciousness in a chaotic profusion of hippie pads, light shows, and drugs. …continue reading…