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Texas Baptists Adopt Statement Affirming Women in ‘Ministerial’ Roles
Post Date: 2023-07-25 20:09:00 by Charles_Byrd
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A month after Southern Baptists confirmed the expulsion of churches from their denomination for allowing women in pastoral roles, the Baptist General Convention of Texas adopted a statement on Tuesday (July 18) urging its staff to continue to affirm women in “ministerial and leadership roles.” Click for Full Text!
Captured on Film! Is This The Fakest Leg Lengthening Miracle of All Time, or THE MOST REAL!?
Post Date: 2023-07-25 00:10:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Daniel Adams is the cringiest deliverance minister on the internet, rendering men and women flush with second-hand embarrassment while he works his charismatic dark arts and staged performances. Click for Full Text!
Disgraced Pastor James MacDonald Responds to His Felony Assault Charges: ‘I Blacked Out’
Post Date: 2023-07-25 00:02:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Disgraced former Harvest Church pastor James MacDonald has offered some insights into an incident that saw him arrested and charged with felony battery and assault after allegedly attacking a woman in a road rage incident four months ago, claiming that she was the aggressor, not him, and that he ‘blacked out’ during their interaction. Click for Full Text!
North Point Church Staffers Found ‘Liking’ Pride Parade Celebration
Post Date: 2023-07-20 19:28:03 by Charles_Byrd
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With the news that Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church has become a cesspool filled with LGBTQ+ affirming pastors, leaders, ministries, guest speakers, and conferences, it’s unsurprising that as more stones are overturned, more deviant theology emerges. Click for Full Text!
ERLC Speaker Blasts Pro-Lifers For ‘Useless,’ ‘Un-Scriptural’ Opposition To Government Welfare
Post Date: 2023-07-20 19:23:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Kelly Rosati is a regular ERLC contributor, speaker, and National Association Of Evangelicals board member. A Focus On The Family alum and former member of the March For Life’s board of national directors, she’s a frequent speaker at pro-life events and would not be caught dead at an abortion abolitionist rally. Speaking at NAE’s “Flourish” conference last year, Rosati calls pro-life Christians’ opposition to state-run welfare “useless,” “un-scriptural,” and “madness, ” explaining that “I just want to plant a flag and say: Let us be people that never advocate for abortion restrictions without an accompanying paid family leave ...
Isaiah Saldivar Leads Mass Deliverance To Remove Demons that ‘Got Passed Down to You In the Womb’
Post Date: 2023-07-20 19:16:01 by Charles_Byrd
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Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right on account of a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être. We’ve written about him previously after he claimed that a gospel presentation without signs and wonders is inadequate, that the Apostle Peter was demon-possessed, that Christian couples and their children can be inhabited by demons all the time, and so families should cast demons out of each other every few months, and on account of his bizarre belief that demons can still impregnate humans and make literal incubus ...
Guidepost Throws SBC and ARITF Under the Bus in Newest #Churchtoo Lawsuit Filings+ Says it Did NOT Investigate Lyell vs. Sills Claims
Post Date: 2023-07-20 18:49:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Two months ago, former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills filed a lawsuit against the SBC and several other high- profile personalities, thirteen in all, including current SBC President Bart Barber, former president Ed Litton, Albert Mohler, Jennifer Lyell, Guidepost Solutions, and others. Sills alleged conspiracy, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after they and Guidepost Solutions branded him as a sexual predator. The thirteen defendants argue that this is a religious question that the courts can’t judge, so the case should be dismissed. Sills, in turn, claims it’s a secular problem, which they very well can. Years ago, Sills ...
Hurricanes Result in Increased Insurance Claims by Churches in Coastal Regions
Post Date: 2023-07-17 18:44:57 by Charles_Byrd
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According to the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), Wisconsin-based Church Mutual Insurance is a defendant in 26 open cases filed just this year, with about 43 cases (open and shut) filed since last July. Click for Full Text!
Worship Leader Matt Redman Speaks Up About Abuse by UK Pastor Mike Pilavachi
Post Date: 2023-07-17 18:26:10 by Charles_Byrd
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In a recent Facebook post, popular worship leader Matt Redman reported that both he and his wife had suffered “harmful behavior and mistreatment” at the hands of their former pastor Mike Pilavachi. Pilavachi and Redman co-founded Soul Survivor, a ministry that began as an evangelistic festival and camp for teens and eventually morphed into a network of churches over the next three decades. Click for Full Text!
Greg Locke Nukes Facebook Page, Deletes Viral Content That Garnered Billions of Views
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:17:25 by Charles_Byrd
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Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church announced in a sermon that he has nuked his Facebook page, deleting thousands of videos and posts that garnered billions of views, in order to ”minimize collateral damage’ they may have caused. Click for Full Text!
Greg Locke Repents of Writing Book Against Benny Hinn, Now Considers Him a ‘Friend’
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:15:44 by Charles_Byrd
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In an unsurprising turn of events, Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church has publicly renounced his previous criticism of televangelist and prosperity heretic Benny Hinn. Locke, who once penned a book decrying Hinn’s practices, recently joined his television program and attributed his earlier criticism to misconceptions and unease with the supernatural, saying he wrote it “for all the wrong reasons” after watching out-of-context clips. Benny Hinn has long been regarded as the apex predator of the sheep slaughtering world, peddling his particularly noxious brand of property preaching for over 40 years. Renowned as the undisputed titan of televangelism, Benny Hinn ...
Greg Locke Touts His ‘Humbleness’ and ‘Obedience’ by Partnering with…Benny Hinn?
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:13:44 by Charles_Byrd
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As an act of ‘obedience’ to the Lord to build bridges, Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church has built one, with arch-heretic Benny Hinn. Readers of Protestia will recognize Locke as the controversial Tennessee pastor who notoriously divorced his wife of two decades and quickly married his secretary, threatened a Dunkin’ Donuts worker with kicking his teeth down his throat, and taped and zip-tied a bible to a baseball bat and then demolished a doll house on screen. Click for Full Text!
Matt Redman Corroborates Abuse From Disgraced Pastor: ‘I Myself Experienced (It) First Hand’
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:10:23 by Charles_Byrd
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Famed worship artist Matt Redman opened up about enduring “harmful behaviors” UK Pastor Mike Pilavachi, the once-respected but now disgraced founder of Soul Survivor. Pilavachi recently stepped down as Associate Pastor of Soul Survivor after being suspended by the organization in the wake of dozens of allegations of abuse and physical and sexual impropriety. The Daily Telegraph reported “A number (of victims) also claim that they were encouraged to receive full-body oil massages in their underwear while being straddled by Rev Canon Pilavachi in his bedroom, as well as vigorous wrestling matches that could last as long as 20 minutes at a time – sometimes in church.” ...
Not Good! Pastor Says Trump Rally Is Second ‘Most Amazing Thing’ To Happen at His Church
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:08:16 by Charles_Byrd
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In a cringy display of misplaced priorities, Pastor Jimmy Morales of Fervent Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, lauded the advent of Donald Trump at a campaign rally held at his church. He introduced the former president with a statement that was both theatrically overblown and devoid of theological substance, saying: “I am so excited about what’s going on here today. This is the most amazing thing that’s ever happened at this church, other than you giving your life to the Lord.” Click for Full Text!
The Strawman and Liturgical Supremacy
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:03:46 by Charles_Byrd
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“Dennis” is, as the kids say, “big mad” about my last post about liturgy. He responded with a long and bizarre comment that was really more of a blogpost in its own right. Rather than publish his post in its entirety, I would like to focus on his opening paragraph, shared verbatim above. “Dennis” is a disgruntled former member of an LCMS congregation that he alleges, “literally chose pipe organs over missions,” and this is “one reason why [he] left the LCMS.” At any rate, I find his passive-aggressive straw-manning to be typical responses to any and all such opinions that traditional liturgy is superior to contemporary non-liturgy, that ...
Can We Trust Luke's History of the Early Jesus Movement?
Post Date: 2023-07-12 16:59:35 by Charles_Byrd
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Acts 18 tells the story of Paul’s visit to Corinth sometime in the late 40s to early 50s. This date is fairly secure, given that Luke refers to Claudius’ expulsion of the Jews from Rome, which is known from other sources to have taken place around 49 AD.1 Later in that same chapter, Luke goes on to say that while Paul was in Corinth, certain Jews sought to have him arrested and brought before the tribunal of Gallio, the proconsul of Achaia.2 Sometime in the mid-1850s, Cambridge scholar J.B. Lightfoot gave a series of lectures on the book of Acts in which he argued that the reference to Gallio was “Another instance of St. Luke’s accuracy.”3 How so? First of all, he ...
Ministry Focuses on Helping Children Aging Out of Foster Care
Post Date: 2023-07-11 18:33:48 by Charles_Byrd
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She walked into the office of First Baptist McKinney in 2012 where Myron Wilson served as worship pastor and asked for help. The 18-year old girl was living in a van and was out of gas. That’s when Wilson first learned that young people age out of foster care and end up living on the streets. Wilson and his wife took her in for several weeks, but she had trouble adjusting. Click for Full Text!
Many African American SBC Churches With Women Pastors on Staff Concerned They’ll be Expelled Next
Post Date: 2023-07-11 18:17:49 by Charles_Byrd
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Earlier this year, Southern Baptists expelled five churches from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination for having women as pastors. Click for Full Text!
Big Churches Sound Alike. Little Churches are the ‘Wild West’ of Music, Study Finds.
Post Date: 2023-07-11 18:09:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Step into a big Baptist church on Sunday morning and chances are you’ll hear the same popular worship songs played at other big churches around the country. Click for Full Text!
Global Leadership Network, formerly Willow Creek Association, Names New CEO
Post Date: 2023-07-11 18:00:53 by Charles_Byrd
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The Global Leadership Network (GLN), formerly known as the Willow Creek Association, has named David Ashcraft as its new president and CEO. Click for Full Text!
After Losing Tens of Millions of Dollars, SBC’s Lifeway Opens 46,000sq.ft ‘State of the Art ‘Teaming Space’
Post Date: 2023-07-10 19:37:23 by Charles_Byrd
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Lifeway Christian Resources, once primarily known as the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, has morphed into a controversial behemoth in the Christian publishing world. A purveyor of spiritual strychnine and peddler of outright heresy, their portfolio includes Heavenly Tourism, Omen Interpretation, New Age mysticism, Anti-Trinitarianism, Word-Faith Theology, and good old fashioned wretched theology, demonstrating Lifeway’s commitment to upholding doctrinal standards is primarily swayed by profit motives. Lifeway’s progressive leanings aren’t exactly surprising. Just look at how Lifeway Employee Political Contributions Favor Democrats 4:1. Or their decision to omit Voddie ...
Premiere Provider of Church Graphics, Story Loop, Features LGBTQ Affirming Media
Post Date: 2023-07-10 19:23:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Dan Stevers, a prodigious American church media creator, has been crafting high-quality worship graphics since 2005. Following a successful decade of running his own website, Stevers recently founded Story Loop in 2021. This innovative platform offers a curated library of premiere church media resources, featuring stock footage, short films, service starters, ministry graphics, countdowns, and social media graphics; a veritable treasure trove for churches seeking to enhance their services. As their website states, “Story Loop’s curated library of church media resources makes it easier to create a compelling service each week. The blend of big-budget quality with spiritual depth ...
Bathtub Baptisms? Charismatic Pastor Oversees Mass DYI Baptisms Streamed from the Bathroom
Post Date: 2023-07-10 19:14:11 by Charles_Byrd
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Meet Richard Lorenzo Jr., the charismatic founder and Senior Pastor of the Remnant Revival Outreach Center (RROC). He describes his community as a spiritual army, destined to bring revival across nations and breathe life back into the heart of Christianity. Lorenzo boasts a colorful past, describing himself as a former drug lord and warlock who practiced voodoo and Santeria. He even went as far as to call himself an ‘apostle for the devil’ before his spiritual transformation. Click for Full Text!
At 79, famed SBC missionary surgeon Rebekah Naylor is about to retire. Again. But she’s not done yet.
Post Date: 2023-07-05 00:42:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The first time she retired, in 2002, Dr. Rebekah Naylor, a longtime missionary surgeon, came home to Texas after 35 years in India to care for her mother, who was ailing. Click for Full Text!
Sunday Thoughts: The Perfect Father
Post Date: 2023-06-26 01:17:57 by Charles_Byrd
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My dad passed away in April 2020, so this Father’s Day is my fourth one without him. I had a great relationship with my dad, even though he could drive me crazy. (What dads don’t annoy their kids?) Click for Full Text!
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