The Wrestle With Demons

ā€œThe devil’s cleverest ruse is to make men believe that he does not existā€

Baudelaire 

If you have been a genuine Christian disciple for any length of time you will likely know that Paulā€™s words in Ephesians 6 are a good place to start to understand something of our daily warfare.

12 min vlog

This video is to whet your appetite before the longer conversation about the demonic over on the Into the Pray podcast below.

Follow-up conversation w/ Nick & Mairi

Please also read this very short related blog re the horrors of euthanasia and the squeamish ā€œChurchā€ in response.

Not all problems are not demonic

Finally, my first-class honours university pastiche is here.

A Trustworthy Prophetic Word to the British Church (1963-2023)

Thank you for listening to Into the Pray, a podcast akin to a growing library of voice-notes helping disciples of Christ around the world to breach the global chaos of the unfaithful Church…because Christ is coming and we are not ready. 

This week I read out an excerpt of an address of Martin Lloyd-Jones to his own church during an annual day away as a church family in 1963. Encouragingly for us, the crux of what Lloyd-Jones was saying 61 years ago in 1963 is the same embryonic train of thought as the things I have written in The Glorious Few in 2023, (60 years hence).

ā€œIf I am right in my diagnosis, the position is moving very rapidly and unless we do something, it may be too late; or we may be so overwhelmed in disaster that it will only be out of a terrible wreckage that we may gradually crawl out into a new position. I say the alternative is to recognise that it is time for us to act, to clarify our own minds.ā€

ā€” MLJ (1963)

A prophetic word thatā€™s actually trustworthy

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Maintaining the Evangelical Faith Today | An Address of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1953)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaking to the compromised British Church in 1953

In this weekā€™s episode of Into the Pray, I drive to a local quiet spot on the east coast of north Scotland to read for you an address of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones that ultimately would cause John Stott, (the British theologian from Cambridge), to publicly rebuke him thirteen years later when things came to a controversial head in October 1966.

Lloyd-Jones disagreed with ecumenicalism and the socio-political gospel of  Billy Graham and John Stott so strongly that he chose to face the ignominy that resulted from distancing himself from them both rather than falling into the reality of Galatians 1:7-8.

Are the attitudes which are central to the popularised ecumenical agenda in the so-called Church today (and in Christian homes) true to the gospel of Jesus Christ? What really of these ā€œagree to disagreeā€ agendas that cast a very dark shadow over those who refuse to agree that some doctrines, (and some behaviours), shouldnā€™t ever be expected to change?

Listen to what Lloyd-Jones warned the church about in 1953 and consider the consequences of such an unheeded warning all these years later.

Advice for New Christians | Born into the Apostate Church

ā€œHi Nick, I’m a pretty new Christian and fell right into cessationist theology. This video is making me question everything but I don’t know where to begin. I’m wondering what denomination are you in? I’m feeling called to find a new Church…ā€

An overwhelmed new Christian

A new Christian asked me a very good question on my last video whilst expressing their state of being overwhelmed at the apostate chaos of the Church. These are some of my prayerful thoughts in response.

Advice for those coming to see the apostasy

Examining Cessationist Theology

According to “The Charismatic Illusion”, written by Peter Masters (2016), I am a proponent of cultic belief and practice because I do not believe that the Bible teaches that the gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased at the end of the first century. Masters has been the Minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle church in London since 1970 and yet, as I will explain, is pedalling profound deception himself.

Please grab your Bible, a notebook and pen and follow prayerfully with my reading of Masterā€™s book and ask yourself whether or not you’re the kind of person who would quietly get on with eating a cold bowl of soup for fear of creating a fuss. A great fuss needs to be made because this cold slop is covering the entire table!

Butchering the Bible with Peter Masters
Podcast follow-up (w/ Nick & Mairi)

The Demonic Deception of Catholicism

Is it consistent with biblical theology to claim that, on occasion, only The Rosary will rid our homes of demonic nuisances? This is precisely what the former Chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth, Gavin Ashenden, claimed in his conversation with me.

Spiritual leaders in Godā€™s house are required not to be likeable but rather faithful to Scripture.

Please listen to my conversation with Gavin Ashenden below with further reading here.

Taster
Full-length conversation

The Alpha Course ā€” Nicky Gumbelā€™s Anti-Reformation Legacy

The Disaster of the Alpha Course

Episode #3, discussing Nicky Gumbel’s #AlphaCourse, is from the world-famous Dunnottar Castle followed by a detour in from the wind to a coffee shop, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).

The conversation today follows on from Nick’s more in-depth podcast a few days ago in which the sobering reality of Billy Graham and John Stott’s Lausanne “covenant” was exposed for what it is. You can listen to it here.

One of the chapters of Dr. ES Williamsā€™ book featured in that conversation covers Nicky Gumbel’s ecumenical Alpha Course. šŸ˜­

Looking Back at Lausanne (1974-2024): 50 Years of False Covenant

This important episode of Into the Pray features the disturbing details (including lack thereof) of the Lausanne Covenant and all thatā€™s followed since 1974.

The late Billy Graham and John Stott believed that conservative ā€œfundamentalistsā€ were sinful in their ā€œindividualismā€ and that “agreeing to disagree” for the sake of the “common goal” should be our virtuous posture.

But was this true and is this true today?

What are the implications of Lausanne?

You can also find readings of select Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ addresses here that authoritatively explain the crippling problems of false doctrine within the Church and the para-church missions world.

Finally, please also take the time to listen to this podcast vlog dealing with the same disturbing realities as manifested in Nicky Gumbel’s Alpha Course.

The Disaster that is Nicky Gumbel’s Alpha Curse