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Browse our list of books below and order online via PayPal or call our church office at 217-529-1876. Out of Formationby Gary E. Gilley Price: $10.00 For Foreign orders please contact our office for postage costs at svchapel@svchapel.org This Little Church Had Noneby Gary E. Gilley Price: $10.99 For Foreign orders please contact our office […]
Civil Disobedience and the Believer
(March 1996 – Volume 2, Issue 5) In an increasingly secularized world it should surprise no one that the values, standards, and the very laws of God are regularly violated. Many things that are “legal” are nevertheless unbiblical — even sinful. In an effort to deal with such issues numerous organizations and movements (e.g. Operation Rescue; […]
Biblical Guidance in Practice
(January 2007 – Volume 13, Issue 1) A few months ago I wrote a series of papers on the will of God dealing with issues such as finding His will and whether or not He speaks to us today apart from the Scriptures. The position I have taken is one that I would call a full […]
Anger
(May 2000 – Volume 6, Issue 5) In his autobiography, Number One, Billy Martin tells about hunting in Texas with Mickey Mantle. Mickey had a friend who would let them hunt on his ranch. When they reached the ranch, Mickey told Billy to wait in the car while he checked in with his friend. Mantle’s friend […]
The Word of Faith Movement
(April 1999 – Volume 5, Issue 4) Word of Faith The fastest growing segment of Christianity today is the Word of Faith Movement, also known as the Positive Confession or simply “Faith” movement. It’s growth is at least partially due to the massive amounts of money the leaders are able to extract from the faithful. This […]
The Vineyard Movement – Part 2
(November 1995 – Volume 2, Issue 1) Last time we dealt with the background and leadership of the Vineyard Movement (VM). In this newsletter we would like to detail the VM’s actual teachings. It would appear that the VM is orthodox in much of its theology. The Trinity, deity of Christ, salvation by grace through faith […]
The Vineyard Movement – Part 1
(October 1995 – Volume 1, Issue 12) Almost everyone has heard of the Vineyard Movement (referred to as VM from this point on) by now, but it seems that few know much about it. It is our intent in this newsletter to get a firm handle on the VM by describing its beginnings, identifying its leaders, […]
The Toronto Blessing and the Laughing Revival
(October 1999 – Volume 5, Issue 10) Something happened on January 10, 1994, at a Vineyard Church near the Pearson International Airport in Toronto, that was unique in the history of Christianity. While some point back to somewhat similar phenomena during the Welsh Revivals, Cane Ridge Revivals (1800-1801), Charles Finney (1800s), and even the Great Awakening […]
The Holiness Movement
(December 2004 – Volume 10, Issue 12) Pentecostalism was born in the cradle of the Holiness Movement of the nineteenth-century. The Holiness Movement actually traces its roots to John Wesley in the eighteenth-century, who taught sort of a two-tiered salvation. The first tier was conversion or justification, in which one is forgiven and freed from past […]
The History of the Charismatics
(March 1999 – Volume 5, Issue 3) What began in a corner at the turn of the twentieth century is now barreling down main street, with flying colors, at the close of that same century. What was once known as the Pentecostal movement has now splintered into numerous diverse, yet overlapping movements: Pentecostal, Charismatics, Vineyard, Word […]