Brannon Howse: Aired February 19, 2014

Topic: Brannon has been discussing Providence and the Will of God. Today he starts out the program by talking about how the sovereignty of God and man’s free will do not contradict each other and in fact what man means for evil God uses to accomplish His ultimate will as Jospeh told his brothers in Genesis 50:20. God working with man’s sinful choices for His ultimate sovereign purpose is known as the doctrine of concurrence. Topic: A major, secular, Mid-South magazine publishes a piece on Phyllis Tickle. Tickle has played a major role in the promotion of the Emergent Church and now Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, and other Emergent Church leaders have written a book on her impact on religion, publishing, and the church in America. This is important because it reveals that that Emergent Church teaching is going even more mainstream even in the Bible Belt as evident in this article in a secular magazine. About three years ago some Christian speakers were saying the Emergent Church was a fad. That is like saying Gnosticism is a fade and yet Paul was confronting it even in his day in the Epistles. The term Emergent Church may be a fade but the philosophies, theology and worldview of the Emergent Church is not a fade and will only increase in popularity until it reaches the crescendo of the one-world religion of Revelation 17. Topic: We take your calls.