A couple of weeks ago, on Thursday 14th March, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp suffered an outage for approximately 12 hours. Their websites were offline worldwide due to technical difficulties. I didn’t notice, as I didn’t attempt to access any of those websites during that time – I was busy doing other things in the real …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part VI: What Are We Saved To? Kevin Simington There is a new gospel in town. It has arrived slowly, over a period of decades. Superficially, it is clothed in similar verbal apparel to the old gospel. To the unthinking observer, it looks and sounds like the gospel of the Bible, …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part V: How Are We Saved? Kevin Simington So far in this series, we have seen that the post-modern “pop gospel” differs from the biblical gospel in the way it offers alternate answers to the questions, “What is our intrinsic worth?” and “What are we saved from?” A third question that …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part IV: What Are We Really Saved From? Kevin Simington In Part III of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the pop gospel’s appallingly superficial response to the question, “What does Jesus save us from?”. It is a response rooted in pop psychology and crafted to dress the gospel in language …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part III: What Are We Saved From? Kevin Simington In Part II of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the pop gospel’s slippery-tongued lie that we are all “awesome” (of great worth); a blatant appeal to our vanity in direct contradiction to the Bible’s condemnation of us, in our natural state, …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part II: What Is Our Intrinsic Worth? Kevin Simington In Part 1 of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the development of the “pop gospel” – a sugar-coated gospel that avoids the unpleasant themes of sin, judgment, hell and the call to repentance, in favour of a positive message that appeals …