The Lord Jesus used the truth of His Word to divide believers from unbelievers. As born-again Christians we must seek spiritual unity only with those who believe the glorious Gospel of grace. Those who name the name of Christ, while embracing another gospel, are victims of deception. They are not our brothers and sisters in Christ and they must be discipled in the truth and exhorted to obey everything Christ has commanded. 

The very disturbing "Conversation on Unity" that took place March 26 at Wheaton College between John Armstrong and Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago was revolting and offensive to those who love God's Word. The two men spent the evening exploring the common ground evangelicals and Catholics share. Not once did they discuss

The Vatican has launched a rare criminal investigation to uncover who is behind leaks of highly sensitive documents that allege corruption and financial mismanagement in Vatican City. The governor of Vatican City, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano complained of corruption within the church and protested orders to remove him from his post. Officials were concerned that His efforts to clean up the Vatican would tarnish the pontiff's image. The Vatican Bank was enmeshed in scandals 30 years ago involving allegations of money-laundering and mafia connections. The U.S. State Department has put the Vatican on a list of countries of concern for money laundering and other financial crimes. Read more.

Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in the nation's capital, warned on the opening day of the 2012 Together for the Gospel Conference that false conversions are "the suicide of the local church." Thousands, if not millions, of church members sitting in America's pews aren't really born-again Christians, a Washington, D.C., pastor said April 10 to a pastors' conference in Louisville, Ky. Dever said. "When a congregation is made up of many people whose lives more resemble the works of the flesh than the fruit of the Spirit, the experience of following Christ together, of love and encouragement and spurring on and mutual advocation and accountability, all of this is eroded and cooled and diminished. The church becomes more like the world." He said pastors unwittingly contribute to false conversions with watered-down teachings aimed at drawing a bigger crowd. "False teachers create false converts," he said. "And false converts -- guess what they do? They hire false teachers." Read more.

Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley is being criticized for a recent sermon illustration involving a gay couple in which Stanley labeled adultery, but not homosexuality, a sin. Does this signal the normalization of homosexuality at North Point Community Church?"  Read more.

In an effort to give a balanced perspective on the CNN link that I shared in our April e-newsletter regarding ex-terrorist Walid Shoebat's conversion to Christianity, here is his response to me. "No news agency, CNN or otherwise, has released any interviews with any official agency; no interviews with any police official, government officials or any recorded calls, memos or email correspondence from any Israeli government agency that can validate any of the slanderous claims made against me. CNN's Drew Griffin claimed that he checked my prison records. This is impossible since Israeli law prohibits access to such records without permission from an official or from the prisoner. Thomas Grieff, a prominent attorney in Israel already checked, and no probes have been done on my records to date by anyone."