Joel Osteen’s Texas-based megachurch has repaid all $4,400,000 of the stimulus money they were given nearly two years ago; the result of taking advantage of the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program, in order to help offset their several months of virtual services. The program, which the federal government passed in response
Pastor Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith did a meme-review on his program yesterday, and we figured we’d share the love. You can watch the whole show here:
A collection of brief things our publisher posted on his personal Facebook page this week, bringing you some hard truths and prescient insights in the pithiest of forms.
Charismatic “prophet” Todd Bentley, the only huckster in the whole of Christianity that Dr. Michael Brown has ever bothered to condemn (and that only slightly), is up to no good again—the result of a string of angelic encounters and personal visions from Jesus who gave him a new 25-year ministry
The eleveth album in our series showing our brothers and sisters in Christ gathering for church service as faithful believers. While going to church does not make one a believer, refusing to faithfully attend a local church should seriously call that faith into question. This is a glimpse of what
The vast majority of black churches are down nearly 60 percent in attendance compared to pre-pandemic days, with no optimistic uptick on the horizon, according to the chairman of the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC). Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson, the megachurch pastor of the 4000-member multisite Grace Baptist Church
The city of Oakville, Ontario (technically a town, though it has over 210,000 people, and ironically called “Jokeville” by some of its residents) has enacted the harshest restrictions in the country in order to “prevent” the spread of COVID—by forcing anyone wanting to get a marriage license to show proof
Hillsong Youth Leader Jorden Bicknell had an interesting take on what it means to build one’s house on the rock, explaining during an episode of Hillson UK Kid’s church (after singing over and over these somewhat self-centered lyrics “You made me special. You made me precious. You made me wonderful.
Televangelist Jim Bakker took the airwaves to claim that this really is the end of it, that he has less than a week to raise a million dollars in funds or else the network is going cancel his broadcast – a fund-raising endeavor unlikely to be achieved. Bakker has long
Editor’s Note: This is an older story, but was not covered by us at the time it happened, and is worth writing about for posterity in a simplified version so we can use it as a reference. This is the saga from start to finish. “Pastor” Ron Carpenter has resolved
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