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Tim Hurd of BTWN Interviews Pastor James Coates: Questions Timestamped

Friend of the ministry Tim Hurd of the Bible Thumping Wingnut had a chance to interview Pastor James Coates on the weekend, asking him a host of questions that were submitted by listeners and supporters. Here is the full interview, with timestamped questions below.

1:32 When did you go to the Masters’s seminary and when did you become Pastor of the Church?

2:37 When did God save you?

3:52 How do you get locked out of your Church when Covid-19 isn’t that bad in Alberta?

6:39 What time do you think the Police showed up to put the fence up around your church facility?

8:28 What would happen if you didn’t decide to meet secretly, but showed up to the church anyway and had your sermon publicly there?

10:43 What did you think when you saw the fence being taken down by protesters?

13:23 How do you decide when to obey or disobey the government?

15:56 How would you respond to other pastors and brothers and sisters in Christ who disagree with your stance? Those who are saying ‘we can still worship in Alberta’ and ‘they are not being persecuted.’

18:51 Have you seen spiritual growth among your congregation and in the leadership of the church because of this?

22:55: What do you think is going to happen with all this. Will your worship team be arrested next week, might you be imprisoned again? What do you think the future hods?

27:15 While you were in prison, were you ever tempted to give in and sign the condition statement? How hard was it not to?

28:57 One day you heard you were being let out. How did that come about and what changed their mind?

32:59 Did you watch the interviewers Erin did while you were in prison? What did you think of her doing the interviews and the thing she was saying? What about the critique that it should have been the elders giving the statement.

36:01 Thoughts on some mosques showing full parking lots, and whether or not there is a double standard.

39:39 Did you preach the gospel to other inmates in prison? What about the rumor you couldn’t have a bible?

… so you know would I’d walk by doors to connect with another inmate and on the way, there’d be guys banging on the cell door and getting me to pray for them. And so I had tons of opportunity to share the gospel with the inmates. Not so much with the guards because they’re kept quite a bit removed from you, but let me just tell you this story just to kind of show you the relationship that I had with these guys.

On my final moment basically, as I’m leaving the cell- everyone knows when you’re leaving- and there was lots of visibility around my leaving because I had a court case, a court hearing and then the radio station was announcing my release and so everyone was almost waiting and looking for me to be released. And everyone in the cell can see the exit door and the exit entrance from their cell, and so as I was about to leave and I’m getting to that door, the cell doors are banging.

And there would have been, you know, 30 plus cells with in some cases 2 guys in each cell, so you know 50 to 70 guys. And so I turned around and I waved and the place just shook. I mean it was a moment. And I looked over at the guards to just say ‘see you guys’ and ‘appreciate you and I could see that they were impacted by it. I mean like this was unusual that this would this kind of response would take place as I left, and that the chaplain was there for that moment to witness it and he emailed me after the fact and just said ‘I’ll never forget that moment’. It was just a moment where they were expressing support respect affection for me, and it was a sweet, sweet moment.

45:02 How can people pray for you? How can people help?

48:03 Asking about a message he gave where James describes how ministry and fellowship within a church must take place face-to face.

52:33 In what Ways has John Macarthur reached out to you?

54:32 What scriptures have strengthened you and encouraged you during this time of difficulty with the government?

57:46 How have your church numbers been? How has attendance been impacted by this?

1:00:16 Thoughts on Government taking your building/ has this happened in Canada before?

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A Gallery Of The Faithful Gathering For Church Amid Pandemic – Album Fifty Six

The fifty-sixth album in an ongoing series documenting faithful churches gathering for Sunday service in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

One year in, and we’re still doing this.

With some churches still not gathering in-person in these dark times and others being persecuted by the government for being open, these are the congregations who are meeting faithfully at the command of Scripture (Heb. 10:25).

For previous albums: 

Album #1  Album #2  Album #3  Album #4  Album #5  Album #6  Album #7  Album #8  Album #9  Album #10  Album #11  Album #12  Album #13  
Album #14  Album #15  Album #16  Album#17  Album# 18 Album #19  
Album #20  Album #21 Album #22  Album #23 Album #24 Album #25
Album #26 Album #27 Album #28 Album #29 Album #30 Album #31 Album #32 Album #33 Album #34 Album #35 Album #36 Album #37 Album #38 Album #39 Album #40 Album #41 Album #42 Album #43 Album #44 Album #45 Album #46 Album #47 Album #49 Album #50 Album #51 Album #52 Album #53 Album #54 Album #55

These churches are preaching outside, are back in their buildings having in-person services, or are having drive-through services. Some with masks and social distancing, others without.

All are being safe. All are being obedient to the scriptures. All are loving their neighbors.

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Charismatic Prophetess Explains the Trinity – with Disastrous Results

Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired, mainstream-continuationist, spunky charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” has given us a fresh round of “revelation” about heaven.

Appearing on Episode 20 of Wednesdays with Kat and Steve,” chief enabler Steve Shultz of the Elijah List asks her about the Trinity and what it means to be part of the Godhead. She responds with a brief explanation the personhood of God and then things get wild. Really Wild.

In the upper room in Israel, I saw the portal the Holy Spirit came to when he put the tongues of fire on those waiting [for him] and they were asking to be consumed by the Spirit of God. So Holy Spirit is the third member of the Trinity and He stands to the left side of the throne. There’s even like a well of oil called ‘the oil of the Holy Spirit’ that He takes and pours on people, sometimes it comes out of bibles – those things really do happen right – so there’s three individual Gods, they’re all God, but the reason He’s called the “three in one” is because they have the ability to step inside of each other.”

And the way the Father explained to me was He caught me up to heaven, I saw the Father sitting on his throne. There’s Christ sitting at His right side there’s the Holy Spirit on the left, and He said ‘now we will be the three in one.’

Jesus stands up and steps totally inside of his Father – you can’t see Him anymore, He’s in the Father. Holy Spirit comes and steps inside the Father and the Father goes ‘now we’re the three in one.’ It is that simple.

Steve: “That’s a literal thing? That’s not a symbolic picture? They literally did that?”

That literally happens. And even in the bible when Jesus would say to the Father ‘Me in You and You in Me, I desire that they that talks about the body of Christ be one as We are one,’ because when you go to heaven you can step inside the Father, Jesus steps inside the Father and Holy Spirit steps inside the Father and then you’re all there together.

It’s an amazing thing and you have more understanding of the spirit realm, you have a spiritual body, and so they as God, they are the Godhead, they each have a head, they’re three individual Gods, and they step inside to become the ‘three in one,’ the Holy Trinity.

And so that’s the best explanation. That’s exactly the one the Father gave me. I understood clearly and then of course the Holy Spirit steps out, Christ stepped out when I’m standing before the throne of God. He said now we are Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is so simple a 5-year-old can understand that.

[Editor’s note: It sounds more like a 5-year-old made it up…]

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Dr. Seuss Enterprises Threatens to Sue Babylon Bee over Satirical Post

The lawyers at Dr. Seuss Enterprises have sent a letter to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, accusing the Bee of defamation and threatening to sue them for a post they did mocking the company’s titular Cat in the Hat book.

The subject of the ire is their article In New Dr. Seuss Book, Cat In The Hat Gives Kids Puberty Blockers While Their Mother Isn’t Home, which explains that in order to be fully woke compliant in the wake of banning their own books, Dr. Seuss and company had reworked the classic Cat in the Hat book .

Now called The Cat in the Hat (He/Him), it features that lovable feline scamp giving the bored children puberty blockers while their mother is away, having “diagnosed their malaise as gender dysphoria.”

An excerpt from the satirical book reads:

‘I have some new drugs,’
said the cat in the hat.
‘A lot of good drugs!
I’ll inject them in you.
Your mother will not mind at all if I do.‘

This resulted in action from the mothership, threatening to “proceed accordingly” if they do not remove the article.

Dillon explains that they will be not be taking down the post, given that it is fair use, and instead challenged his audience that whoever comes up with the best rhyme will be included in their response back to the lawyer’s takedown request.

If you have an entry, you can tweet him back in response.

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GraceLife Church is a Ghost Town + Lone Protester Arrested

Unlike the raucous turnout last week at Gracelife Church that saw up to 500 people and over 100 police officers present, with people shouting, praying, giving speeches, singing, and making their displeasure known while helped along by caravans from around the province who bussed in patriotic protesters, the scene this morning has been markedly different.

With the congregants at Gracelife gathering at an unknown, offsite location there was no one at the church building. Unlike last week, the property was a ghost town.

There was no one there, other than about 15 RCMP officers, along with members of the Enoch Cree First nation on the other side of the property, who were anticipating a large crowd that did not materialize, and who wanted to avoid a repeat from last week, when their property was trespassed by attendees looking for parking.

In fact, unlike for the last few months, there weren’t even any reporters for major news organizations there, watching from their perch across the street in the ditch.

The place was dead.


One lone protester showed up and was prompted arrested. He was identified as one of the individuals who helped tear down the fence at the rally last week, an act he regrets and wishes hadn’t happened. In an interview with Protestia, he explained:

I got caught up in the moment. And I promised them that would not happen again. I made a mistake once and I wouldn’t make the same mistake again.

He was taken to the Spruce Grove RCMP attachment where he was charged with mischief under $5000 and obstruction. He was fingerprinted and was released with a promise to appear and a restraining order prohibiting him from being within a mile of the church property.

This is the same man who put up signs yesterday around the perimeter fence, all of which were ripped down early this morning.

Meanwhile, the Church of Gracelife gathered in secret. Police did not show up to their gathering, nor were they accosted by AHS. At this point it appears that the RCMP is aware of where the congregants and pastor James Coates are gathering, and they are choosing not to take action. The barricaded and fenced-in church are enough of a symbol for the government, who does not want to exacerbate the situation further, the public being temporarily assuaged.

Continue to pray for this congregation.

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Pastor with Viral ‘Look More Like Melania Trump!’ Sermon is Back and Humbled

A pastor whose sermon went viral after preaching that wives need to look more like Melania Trump and subsequently brought on a tsunami of mockery and condemnation has emerged after over a month of silence.

Returning to the pulpit, Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of First General Baptist Chuch explained that he’s been in counseling for the last six weeks after being chastised by his church for an unbecoming sermon, that he’s sorry and embarrassed by his unbiblical words, and is desiring to be restored.

You’ll recall he made these comments:

Now look, I’m not saying every woman can be the epic, the epic trophy wife of all time, like Melania Trump — I’m not saying that at all. Most women can’t be trophy wives, but, you know, like her — maybe you’re a participation trophy. I don’t know. But all I can say is not everybody looks like that! Amen?! But you don’t need to look like a butch either!

….So how important is this? Let me tell you something: I have a friend. He has put a “divorce weight” on his wife! That’s how important this is!

…You know, makeup! Makeup is a good thing. You know, my little boy said, “Why do girls wear makeup and perfume?” You say “Because they’re ugly and they stink.” You don’t want to be ugly and stink!

…Scientists have discovered, by the way, a food that diminishes the woman’s sex drive. It’s called the wedding cake. Hahahahahahahaha, yeah.

After the outcry, it was announced by the Deacon ministry team that Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark had taken a leave of absence and was seeking professional counseling. Now, 6 weeks later, he liveth.

In a message on the church website, Clark apologizes for making “insensitive” and “unbibical’ remarks. He states that he is personally embarrassed, and is sorry he embarrassed the church. He writes “I recognize and understand that what I said was imprudent and discourteous. I sincerely ask for your forgiveness and to be restored as your pastor. I genuinely believe this is the best way forward.”

The deacons agree, noting their own faults and failures:

“As deacons we became complacent. We accepted God’s blessings toward our church as signs of His favor without adequately attending to our responsibility that the complete principles, truths, and love of Christ are presented from our church’s pulpit. We bear the blame for not offering our pastor counsel, correction, and restoration when errors or inappropriate content was presented. We are called to model Christ’s love through forgiveness and restoration toward our Pastor.”

It is expected that pastor Clark will be back in the pulpit this Sunday

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Matt Chandler Compares BLM Leaders to Prophets- Says Not Participating in BLM Marches is ‘Giving up our Inheritance’

Matt Chandler, the charismatic pastor of the Village Church, head of the Acts 29 network, and prolific conference speaker who never met a conference invitation to speak he could turn down, no matter what scoundrels and theological riffraff he was speaking alongside, continues to openly promote demonic organizations like Black Lives Matter and sex-perverts like Martin Luther King Jr, explaining that by being critical of BLM protests and marches and refusing to participate, Christians are giving up their “inheritance.”

“If you’ll study the civil rights movement in the 60’s, there’s a pattern that emerges there. So the predominant leader there is Martin Luther King, Jr., which we really like right now because he’s dead. I have to believe that a Martin Luther King, Jr. right now, he’d be a liberal Marxist socialist that everybody despises. We’ll quote him now because he’s not here to offend us in the now.”

This is what Jesus means when he says ‘you love the prophets that are no longer with us but you don’t love the prophets that are with us today’.

Chandler explains that the civil rights movement was born out of the church which led the movement, but they have abdicated that role today due to their refusal to participate in social justice marches as defined by BLM.

The church, by and large, has refused to participate (In BLM Marches and activities) which means we have turned over- God help us- we have turned over what is our inheritance to dark ideologies. Like when you say ‘hey we’re not going to get involved (in BLM marches) let’s just preach the gospel to that’, which by the way I find so hypocritical.

You don’t just preach the gospel to sex trafficking. You don’t just preach the gospel on the issue of life and abortion. No, you act! And so it’s like this brain-broke disjoint that’s got us acting absurd, and then critiquing this movement as being evil and dark when we have given up our inheritance.

You cannot point out all the flaws in this current movement while you have abandoned the place we were meant to play. You cannot point out all the ‘well this means this and this believes this and that’s this and that’s this’ and ignore the sorrow and lament of 12 to 13 million image-bearers in our country, you can’t do that. We mourn with those who mourn.

That Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christ-denying, serial adulterer and sexual pervert is irrelevant in Chandler’s eyes. In fact, it sounds about right to set the bar low for who can be considered a prophet in charismatic circles. 

MLK was one prophet and BLM leaders are others, though something tells us they wouldn’t pass the biblical tests.

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TGC Author Wants Those ‘Reparation Dollars’ so much it Hurts

A Gospel Coalition contributor continues to pine for that sweet mammon, comparing Zacchaeus’ robbery and reconciliation in Luke 19 to black folk getting reparations in the 21st century, describing how Christians must “introduce the language of repair (reparations) in all of our conversations about race.”

Naturally, we’re talking to none other than the PCA’s own Duke Kwon, the woke-as-a-joke lead pastor of Grace Meridian Hill. When he’s not thirsting for those white dollars, he’s busy being served by the gay rights activist he employs as his personal pastoral assistant at his Church.

Kwon has even written a book on why white people (and Asians and Hispanics) must give people a whack ton of money in order to be properly reconciled with their black neighbors, and in fact, that true reconciliation can never happen and race relations can never be healed without a sacrificial monetary compensation.

Speaking at a newly unearthed Q shindig in 2019, Kwon explains:

“Zacchaeus was transformed by the shocking welcome and grace of Jesus in Lukes 19. And how then did he respond? Well, he repented. But not just by feeling badly or by saying sorry, but by promising to give half his possessions to the poor and to pay back fourfold to whomever he had robbed.

Because true repentance repairs what was ripped and returns what was ripped off. Even my preschool-aged son is beginning to understand this rich theology of repentance. Daniel Tiger, the wonderful cartoon spin-off of Mister Rogers neighborhood -the prophet Daniel Tiger- has been teaching him to sing, saying ‘I’m sorry is the first step, then how can I help?’ Saying ‘I’m sorry is the first step, then how can I help?’

‘How can I help’- that’s a reparation question. Will the church learn to ask that question? ‘How can we help?‘ ‘How must we help?’

You see, reparation is to be handled charitably but it is not charity. It is not retributive but it is still owed...

He continues later in the message.

And when it comes to our racial sins there’s no place the church is more obligated to pursue this ministry of repair than in the church itself. In other words, we need to be seeking ecclesiastical reparations. Church reparations. What does that mean? What does that look like?

First, church reparations means changing our vocabulary. It means introducing the language of repair in all of our conversations about race. Let’s no longer talk about reconciliation without also talking about repentance, and lets no longer talk about repentance without also talking about repair.

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A Gallery Of Woke Signs Put Out By Progressive ‘Church’

A thoroughly deceived congregation of false converts and rebellious demoniacs have been putting out progressive marquees outside their church for months now, sharing with the world every progressive trope imaginable virtue-twerking their way into the hearts and minds of the lost.

The following gallery is brought to you by Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukie, Oregon. They are a “Just Peace” congregation that is “open and affirming of our LGBTQ siblings and believe God calls us to love all of our neighbors, including those who are black, brown, white, rich, poor, religious, atheist, documented, and undocumented.”

Led by Rev. Adam Ericksen, they’ve been livestreaming their services since March 2020 and have no plans to cease until the country, not just their state, is fully vaccinated. They participate in pride events, shill for Black Lives Matter, wear shirts that say “the gospel is antifascists’ and put up banners like this for their communion services.

We hope you enjoy. As much as can be, that is.

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New Free Speech Platform Won’t Let Users Violate 3rd or 9th Commandment

In a few days, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell will be launching a competitor to Twitter, called Frank. Users will be able to “post videos, livestream television, distribute news and information, and find community and fellowship with likeminded Americans” 

It is designed to be a free-speech app that won’t block users from sharing conservative values and sentiment, but also doesn’t have an exactly literal definition of “free speech.” He explains in an interview with Eric Metaxas what sort of things will and won’t be censored.

“People asked me, ‘You’re going to let everything go? Porn? Swearing? Everything?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely not’.We have a thing we found in the Constitution and our founding fathers that defines what free speech is. And Eric, get this, this Judeo-Christian platform we’re going to have here, they go by biblical principles — you know, you get to the Supreme Court, you have the 10 Commandments there — so, in other words, you’re not going to have porn up there, you’re not going to have these sites that contain material that go against our Constitution, go against what our founding fathers put in there.”

“You’re not going to be able to swear. There will be four words for sure you can’t say: You can’t say the C-word, the N-word, the F-word, and you can’t use God’s name in vain. What a concept. Right?”

Apart from banning cursing and violating the third commandment, lying and bearing false witness will also be prohibited.

“What I’m not going to do is suppress true free speech. When someone goes out there and says, ‘I don’t like what’s going down at the border,’ or ‘I don’t like that our country was attacked and nobody’s trying to know you did anything about it or is doing anything about it,’ that’s free speech. Another thing you can’t do… is totally defame someone. What’s the Ninth Commandment? I can’t even think now, but in the Ninth Commandment, you’re bearing false witness, I believe it is. So, if you’re putting a complete lie against Eric; if I say, ‘Eric Metaxas did something terrible’ and it’s an out and out lie, that’s not free speech. That is not free speech.”

The site has had shifting start dates on when it is set to go live, with the newest information either on Friday the 16th or Monday the 19th on Friday, with early access perks being given for those who sign up in advance.