Has Joel Osteen gotten better at talking about Jesus? A new survey of...
6 months ago I wrote a post titled Joel Osteen Likes God…He just doesn’t like Jesus [A Twitter Survey of @JoelOsteen] It was a post critical of a particular idiosyncrasy that I discovered about Joel,...
View ArticleMistaking Gratification for God
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless;...
View ArticleThe Strange Case of Brenda Maxwell
This is a very timely post written by Ken Fryer, posted with permission, that speaks to a current controversy and serves as a case study to demonstrate how a failure to be faithful in a seemingly small...
View ArticleDisagreeing with God and Ronnie Floyd
“Imagine for a moment that God might manifest His presence in your life in a powerful, unusual – even Supernatural – way. Suppose He were to stand at your side, waiting to infuse your spirit with a...
View ArticleThe Strange Case of Brenda Maxwell
This is a very timely post written by Ken Fryer, posted with permission, that speaks to a current controversy and serves as a case study to demonstrate how a failure to be faithful in a seemingly small...
View ArticleBeth Moore Confronts Young Pastor’s Wife for Criticizing Her Direct, Divine...
Beth Moore recently wrote a post at her Living Proof Ministries, apparently fed up and perhaps feeling the heat of being criticized. The precipitating event, according to Moore, was the criticism...
View Article“The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven” Recants Story, Rebukes Christian Retailers
Lifeway has been selling The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven for many years now. It is part of the trifecta of books on “heavenly tourism” that Lifeway has sold and has promoted, along with 90 Minutes...
View ArticleEmails Suggest Lifeway President Knew of Heaven Scam, Chose Not to Act
Earlier today, the news broke that the publishing arm of the SBC, LifeWay, and Tyndale House, a major Christian publisher, would stop selling the book “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven.” In a...
View ArticleTyndale House Publishers Knew The Malarkey Book Was A Fraud
In response to the revelation that Alex Malarkey has recanted of his claims to have visited heaven, and repudiated his book “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven” and in light of Tyndale releasing this...
View ArticleBaptist Press Silent on SBC’s Heaven Scam, While Major Media Talks
Well, the world has now heard about Alex Malarkey’s brave journey and the opposition he has faced by Christian book retailers. For Alex, his journey to reveal his truth began over two years ago. For...
View ArticleFranklin Graham, Muslims, “Secret Church”, Easy-Believeism
“Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.” Thomas The Apostle Paul, who was put to death as a result of (or at least partly as a result) his Christian evangelism, wrote to the Ephesian church...
View ArticleDave Miller Calls Critics of SBC Leaders “Social Media Terrorists”
The New York Times. The London Telegraph. The UK Daily Mail. Fox News, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News. The Washington Post. The Los Angeles Times. The Christian Post. Christianity Today. These are all...
View ArticleLBC PASTORS: “TOO MUCH POWER IN THE BAPTIST BUILDING”
A group of Louisiana Baptist pastors, led by former Louisiana College executive vice president Dr. Timothy Johnson have organized a new Baptist association in response to the undue power and influence...
View ArticleTommy Kelly and Doing the Right Thing
It’s all too easy to point fingers at the bad actors in American churchian life, and when we avoid self-righteousness, having removed the log from our own eye so as to see clearly to remove the specks...
View ArticleEvangelicalism, Inc., and the silencing of critics
From Jim Fletcher: ” One popular technique is to label such critics as “Pharisees,” “legalists” or some such pejorative label. Witness this frequent technique employed by key evangelical leader Ed...
View ArticleLess about Moore: A Minimal Facts Case for Breaking Free of Beth Moore
“I want to put a stone in his shoe. All I want to do is give him something worth thinking about. I want him to hobble away on a nugget of truth that annoys him in a good way, something he can’t...
View ArticleLight Shed on Caner Resignation – News from Brewton-Parker
_______________________________________________ A few hours ago, Southeast Georgia Today released an article giving details about the firing of CB Scott, former Vice President of Institutional...
View ArticleBeyond Johnny-Dome: Taking a Right Turn off of the Johnny Hunt Highway
Originally posted on Seth Dunn: “I wonder when we are ever going to change…We don’t need another hero.” Britten and Lyle This is a post that was almost never written. It’s one that has been in my...
View ArticleA Source Reaches Out to the Pulpit & Pen about Brewton-Parker, CB Scott, and...
[**Warning: Graphic Language used**] “For the rest of the story on southeasterngeorgiatoday…I can help with that. Secrecy is evil’s friend and it is time to shine the light…” A statement by the source...
View ArticleSBC Today: There Must be Some Understanding
SBC Today posted a blog today about the Caner situation. Sadly, I’ll never get the time that I spent reading it back. I won’t bother to link it. The SBC Today piece seems like some kind strange way...
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