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Disgraced Pastor Carl Lentz’s Friends say ‘He Will NOT Start His Own Church’ – They Mustn’t Know Him Well



A friend whose identity has been confirmed and authenticated by People Magazine says that Carl Lentz is “not working and plans to take time away from the church to work on his marriage. He has no plans to open a church or seek fame at this time...He never planned to leave his marriage nor said he would do so. He has led the church and his parishioners for more than 20 years and takes his duties extremely seriously and has never shared confidential information about parishioners.”

According to reports, the couple, who are parents to three youngish children, are going through intense therapy after Carl chased and pursued another woman in a bid to scratch his fleshly desire. It worked. He dragged his fingers bloody through that one and lost his church and his reputation in the process.

The telling words from the friend, however, are “away from church” and “at this time.”

First, the idea of being caught in sin and then selling all you own and running away across the country is completely foreign to the scriptures. We are not privy to what steps Hillsong took, but we have some good indication based on their actions and their silence. Rather than just firing him and sending him on his way, Matthew 18 should have been implemented for the purposes of restoration.

The biblical, Christian response from Lentz should have been to stay within that community and be disciplined and discipled by its elders and co-laborers. It should involve the church body supporting his family as he seeks biblical counseling for the restoration of his and his wife’s marriage. This is because that couple needs both the church and the grace of God to fix their marriage. Hillsong should have done all they could to make that happen.

Instead, Lentz sold his home for 1.5 million dollars, moved across the country mere weeks after the revelations of his infidelity came out, and is now living in California renting a $16,000 a month manhattan beach home, and plans on staying away from church for a while, with Hillsong saying nothing further about it.

That’s a bad plan.

And because it’s a bad plan, it means he will only be able to keep his manicured fingernails off that itch for the better part of the year before he will announce he is starting a new church so that he can scratch the hell out of it.

That church will be called “Freedom Church” or “Second Chance Church” and after he is restored by T.D. Jakes or another one of his friends, he’ll leverage his infamy, stock the place up with young millennials, and take the stage and begin preaching the same mix of sugary fusion of wokeism and name-it-and-claim-it theological delicatessens. If we had to guess, by the end of 2021 he’ll have over 500 attendees and the hippest ethos around.

Another outside possibility is that he will join one of his friend’s churches as an attendee and within a few months will be brought on as a pastor. There he’ll spend a couple of years before he heads off on his own and starts his own church, with said given names and personality.

Mark it down and chisel it in stone. It’s going to happen. Given all we know about this whole wretched situation, how could it be otherwise?






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John MacArthur, Grace Community Church, and the Strip Clubs

Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church (GCC) are readying themselves to go to court and fight for their right to have church services now that they have a trial date, which is set for January 15th, but a recent ruling on strip clubs being open may be the key to the case in showing how absurd these restrictions really are.

Two weeks ago, on November 6th, Judge Joel R. Wohlfeil of the San Diego Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order against the tyrannical Governor Gavin Newsom and San Diego County, stopping them from enforcing their shutdown restrictions against the strip-club, “Pacers Showgirls.”

The court found that the strip clubs’ ungodly entertainment of women shamelessly dancing in the nude is “constitutionally protected speech” and decided that “the harm to the strip clubs if the application is denied is greater than the harm to the government if the application is granted.”

How lovely.

Paul Jonna, a lawyer at the Thomas Mores Society, which is representing Grace Church, explained the relationship between both entities staying open when he told ONN:

The county is trying to hold the [Grace Community Church] in contempt for violating the court’s preliminary injunction, so there is actually a trial set now for January 15 where the court will hear testimony and consider whether to hold Pastor MacArthur and the church in contempt for holding indoor services in defiance of the court’s preliminary injunction order. So, our position, the church’s position, is that the order is unconstitutional.”

We have currently pending multiple petitions at the U.S. Supreme Court we could hear next week or next month. We could get the five justices we need to enjoin these restrictions, because we previously had four in a different case we were involved in. But with Justice Barrett on the Court, these restrictions could easily be enjoined with five votes…”

[As fas as the strip clubs go], they said that the dancing was protected speech. So, I mean, the absurdity in California right now with judges saying there’s constitutional protections for strip clubs and not churches, we’re quite confident that ultimately this will get sorted out the right way.

This is a constitutional travesty that must be immediately rectified. As one California judge aptly noted — you can’t treat a church like a hair salon because churches are entitled to greater protection under the Constitution. And you certainly can’t treat a church like a strip club. In California, churches are being treated worse than strip clubs. The constitutional right to worship God is infinitely more important than any right to entertainment.

MacArthur, commenting on the moral freefall of America that allows this to happen, said in an interview with Laura Ingraham:

America is in a moral free fall. Just look at it as I would as a pastor. You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they’re young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family and if they grow to be adults, you drown them in a sea of pornography. This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me. In fact, I would be shocked if a judge said, ‘Open all the churches and close all the strip clubs.’

Just a quick run through history. Go back to Julius Caesar. Go back to Napoleon. Go into the modern era. Every revolution – including Hitler’s revolution and the revolution in Russia – every revolution took place in a time when the powers of the people in authority were enlarged because of a supposed emergency. Power-hungry people are using this emergency to gain greater power. This is historic. This is nothing new, and if people don’t fight back, they’re going to fall victim to whatever the intention of this revolution is.

Pray for GCC and Pastor MacArthur as they ready for battle.


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Francis Chan Claims to Be Jesus, Heals Whole Village without the Holy Spirit

Francis Chan has upped the theological ante recently, going from the relatively sound reformed pastor, through Bill Johnson-loving charismatic, to a full-fledged faith healer, and now to Jesus in the Flesh when he described in a recent video how he laid hands and healed a whole village in Myanmar, ostensibly without the Holy Spirit.

Chan has a particularly irritating way of speaking, where his modus operandi is to consistently engage in religious performance art, not unlike Todd White who falls to his knees red-faced and weeping every three sentences or a certain baptist and pentecostal segment of preachers who insert “-ah” after every few words.

In Chan’s case, he reads the scriptures and preaches like he has an intestinal blockage, with strained features and gasping breaths, as if he’s fighting to speak when he’s not gesticulating wildly. It’s all a show, and it’s sad that some find it convincing.

But in his “Final Message to America,” Francis describes how he laid hands on he healed an entire village of unbelievers, ascribing his success to alleged miraculous machinations, rather than the normative means that Christ saves. He says:

Every time I pray nothing would happen, but that night in that village, I’m going God these people have believed one thing their whole lives, and there’s some really elderly people sitting at my feet. How am I supposed to convince them that this message that contradicts everything they’ve ever believed is true? God you have to do something. There’s little children here. I have no power. I’m speaking through a translator. You need to do something. Please. Visit. Show them one night of Power like nothing they’ve ever seen in their lives, begging God for this.

And believing, believing scriptures, scriptures that I memorized as a high school student came alive in me. Where I believe that Christ and I are one. And I was walking around that village and going ‘this is no different than if Jesus walked through this village.’

Because he says I can do whatever he did, and I can do greater things than he did. John 14:12. and I go I memorized that as a high school student and I believe it right now. I am Jesus right now. He and I are one. He abides in me, I abide in him. These are not just memory verses.

We seem to recall scripture about wicked and adulterous generations looking for a sign, but more importantly, this is a complete abrogation of John 16:7-1, which says:

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.  And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:  of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

For Francis Chan, however, the preaching of the word and the power of the Holy Spirit was insufficient to save. You heard him say it. “I have no power.” In fact, there’s not even a recognition of the Holy Spirit to bring about faith and repentance.

Because he has no power, and the preaching of the gospel doesn’t quite cut it, he needs that “poison drinking, serpent handling power” to get things done. Perhaps Chan has an extra verse tacked on to the back end of Romans 10:14, which after saying, “and how shall they hear without a preacher?” adds, “and how shall they believe without signs and wonders?”

This is notwithstanding that Chan is promoting some sort of TOS (Theosis on Steroids), a position he assumes by saying “I am Jesus right now” and likened himself walking through a village as literally NO DIFFERENT than if Jesus was walking through that village and engaging in mass healings of bad backs.

We await with bated breath to see where Chan goes next.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Cuomo’s COVID-19 Limits – Barrett plays Key Role

Justice Amy-Coney Barrett had Ruth Bader Ginsberg rolling in her grave (metaphorically speaking; all Indication is that sadly she is in hell) late last night when she joined with the other conservative justices to block NY Mayor Andrew Cuomo’s re-imposition of hard attendance caps on church services.

Naturally, Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal wing to uphold Cuomos’ “cluster initiatives” – a territorial color-coded system that assigns caps on how many people can attend churches depending on how hard hit by the coronavirus an area is – i.e., “Red Zones” were limited to 10 people or 25%, or whatever is fewer.

Churches did not like this, found it unconstitutional and discriminatory, and sued.

With Coney joining the majority against Beyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor, it was her first consequential action on the court, casting the deciding vote in favor of the religious groups.

The case also has national implications, as other states have similar “hot spot” impositions.

Gorsuch, another of Trump’s nominees, was delightfully sarcastic and caustic in his opinion:

It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques…

So, at least according to the Governor, it may be unsafe to go to church, but it is always fine to pick up another bottle of wine, shop for a new bike, or spend the afternoon exploring your distal points and meridians. Who knew public health would so perfectly align with secular convenience?

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Pope Condemns Anti-Mask Protests and COVID-19 Deniers in ‘Scathing’ New Book

In Pope Francis’ new book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, which is set for release December 1st, the pugnacious Pontiff who has been keeping Roman Catholic apologists on their toes with a whirlwind of spicy comments approving same-sex civil unions, affirming Biden’s catholic faith, appointing pro-LBGT cardinals to positions of power, and generally engaging in Green New Deal fanboyism, takes aim at protesters who have publicly voiced their displeasure for anti-mask mandates while naming George Floyd and giving his protests the scepter of approval.

Rolling up his robed sleeves at citizens rallying against COVID lockdowns and restrictions, he offered an open fisted backhand to those who said that “being forced to wear a mask is an unwarranted imposition by the state”

He writes that “with some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the wellbeing of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives,” and insinuates that the United States was one of the few countries who “mortgaged their people” by “putting the economy first”.

“Some groups protested, refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions — as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom…

“You’ll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd, or joining a demonstration because there are shanty towns where children lack water or education, or because there are whole families who have lost their income.

On such matters, they would never protest; they are incapable of moving outside of their own little world of interests.”

The publisher describes the book as:

“A scathing critique of the systems and ideologies that conspired to produce the current crisis, from a global economy obsessed with profit and heedless of the people and environment it harms, to politicians who foment their people’s fear and use it to increase their own power at their people’s expense.”

Sounds thrilling.

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Oh the Irony! ERLC’s Russell ‘Shut Down the Churches’ Moore Wins Award for ‘Defending Religious Freedom’

In a move done with a completely straight face and nary a smirk or an eye roll to be seen, the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) presented the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore, with their “2020 Defender of Religious Freedom Award.” The award is given to “a person who defends religious freedom for everyone, everywhere from within his or her faith tradition.”

Thomas Farr, President of RFI, said in a press release about their newly minted winner:

Dr. Moore is a brilliant, winsome, and tireless advocate for religious liberty. Whether making his case from the pulpit, or in the pages of The New York Times, Dr. Moore finds a way to speak so others can listen…

Dr. Moore defends the religious liberty of all people. He challenges believers to be better public witnesses to their faith, and he challenges secularists to have greater appreciation for the importance of religion in American public life. Dr. Moore stresses: ‘One thing we need to be very clear about is that religious liberty is not a government “benefit,” but a natural and inalienable right granted by God.’


Oh Really?

How interesting.

I suppose from their clearly warped perspective, it makes sense to give the award for “defending religious freedom” to the man who has been on the record multiple times saying that the government has a right to shut down the churches and that churches must comply with restrictions on if they can gather, when they can gather, how many they can gather, and what they can do or can’t do when they gather.

In fact, he’s on record as saying that God gave the government the right and authority to shut churches down, and when we obey the government and not have services, or not have services in a way that the government forbids, we are in fact “rending what is due both to God and to Caesar.“

Prohibiting singing? Moore’s ok with that. Required to put up signage in the Church? That too. Forced to write down the names and contact information of every person attending Church, or requiring pre-registration? Straight into his veins, man.

Thoughts on John MacArthur’s months-long struggle to stay open amid national and international scrutiny? We have no idea because Moore has been utterly silent about that one.

But hey – according to the RFI he writes winsome articles in the New York Times.

That’s got to count for something, right?

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Suspect Identified in Horrific Baptist Church Stabbing that Left 2 Dead and 3 Injured

A suspect has been been identified in the Brutal stabbing deaths and maiming at Grace Baptist Church in San Jose on November 22.

Fernando Jesus Lopez, 32, who was on parole at the time of the incident, was staying in the Church basement on the night he went haywire and stabbed five people in a bloody melee, including church volunteers.

The gay-affirming and inclusive church runs a winter program in the basement and gymnasium of their building that is designed for the “forgotten and vulnerable.” Guests are able to stay overnight and receive a hot meal, breakfast, a boxed lunch, and even a shower. 

Shaunn Cartwright, a homeless-outreach worker who is also involved in the church’s shelter community, described Lopez as “friendly and helpful,” and said, “that’s why it makes it even more shocking.”

Lopez was featured in a KTVU news segment about the cold snap facing the homeless population just a few weeks ago, where he said on camera, “it’s warm, cozy. They provide everything, such as showers, hygiene, food, a warm bed, a warm blanket, and it’s a blessing to be able to have this spot.”

Though accounts are still vague, by all indications Lopez had a dispute with another person staying at the shelter and stabbed him and other volunteers who sought to intervene. The three who were injured are in serious but stable condition.

Lopez has a long and storied criminal history, marked with multiple arrests for domestic violence, drug use, and assault with a deadly weapon.

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Kenneth Copeland Casts Away Bald Spots in Jesus Name


Kenneth Copeland, our favorite punching bag due to his punchably bad theology, played nice this time and engaged in some good old fashioned continuationists that would be right at home in the most mildest of charismatic churches.

The 81-year-old arch-heretic, still fresh from being dropped by TBN, getting hacked by Russian ransomeware thugs, and demonically laughing at the devil for 30 seconds, took the break from his usual litany of fantastically manic nonsensical teaching to have his congregation pray for spiritual deliverance from bald spots.

Thank goodness we have some more typical, saner charismatic fare like curing baldness or the healing of the bad back and unspecified leg pain.

Put your hand on your head like that. Bald spots, I call you gone! Hair! Grow! AHHHHHHH hahahahahaha. Hair! Grow!

This behavior occurred after Copeland did some bad math calculations, talking about a faith claim he made to keep his hair, and the Lord delivered. Ostensibly this prayer of follicular super-abundance would be available to everyone going forth and doing likewise:

“Dead hair follicles live, and not die be a testimony. Jesus said he was on earth that the hairs on my head are numbered. I make a faith claim for the exact number of hairs on my head that I had when I turned 30 years old, December 6, 1966, and stepped into the perfect will of God at Oral Robert University and I’m still in the perfect will of God…thank you and praise God. My hair is strong and in 2056 when I’m 120 I’ll have more hair than I have now and it’ll be stronger than it is now. “

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Breaking: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Satanists Abortion Suit

Followers of the “Father of lies” who hoped to get a hearing for their court case challenging and overturning Missouri’s pro-life laws were left feeling damned and disappointed after the supreme court declined their lawsuit and dismissed it. This was the final nail in the coffin for the Plaintiff, Judy Doe, who had been claiming that the abortion restrictions violated the tenets of her satanic faith.

According to the unfriendly Friendly Atheist (TFA):

“As the law stands in Missouri if a woman wants an abortion, the state requires her to wait 72 hours before obtaining one, hands her a booklet designed to change her mind by saying life begins at conception, requires her to be given the option of looking at an ultrasound which is supposed to guilt-trip her out of having the abortion and makes her sign a document saying she was given the book and ultrasound opportunity.

The sketchy Satanists, who were last seen raffling off a free abortion (really) have been appealing their case, “Doe, Judy v. Parson, Gov. of MO, after being ruled against or dismissed every step of the way since they took it up in 2019.

The suit has been claiming that Missouri and their pesky anti-baby-killing regulations (Editor’s note. These states need to stop it with the wheel-spinning pro-life regulation and engage in some robust abortion abolition) violates the Plaintiff’s “First Amendment right to “exercise [her] freedom to believe abortion is not immoral and act upon their belief without interference or influence by the State of Missouri.

Specifically, they say it “violates her belief in The Satanic Tenets as a condition for getting an abortion in Missouri.” In this case, that tenet is “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”

Though they may be defeated, for now, they’ll likely put their bad intentions to bad use in the near future, and we’ll be here to talk about it when they do.

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Nurses Are Wildly Exaggerating COVID-19 “Crisis” Claims

Following in the footsteps of useful victims like Bubba Wallace, Christine Blasey-Ford, and self-hate-criming legend Jussie Smollett, a new breed of useful victims has risen to the top of the heap: COVID calamity nurses. And the best of the best is South Dakota’s Jodi Doering.

Fake news outlets like CNN, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Huffington Post promoted her account – that of an ER nurse in South Dakota with tales of dramatic, horrifying, COVID-induced deaths at her hospital. Claiming that patients died amidst cries of COVID denialism, she urged people to mask up or face a similar fate.

The problem was it wasn’t true. To date, Huron Regional Medical Center (where the nurse works) has registered only six COVID-related deaths. Even if she treated all six of them, her stories seem a tad exaggerated (and wildly untrue).

The lazy ideologues at CNN interviewed Jodi Doering after she posted her viral tweet describing how a “culmination” of COVID patients in her care went to their graves crying, “This can’t be happening, it’s not real!” Yet a basic analysis of South Dakota COVID data – in particular information and accounts from her hospital – shows no corroboration of her account at all.

Turns out, Doering is a President Trump-hating, Governor Kristi Noem-bashing Democrat with a clear ax to grind, not dissimilar to the not-so-hidden motives of reporters crying foul over COVID parties and actively rooting for calamity. This woman is a lying Democrat operative who, like so many other hucksters before her, is happy to lie right to our faces for the sake of her ideology.

As of this writing, no one has been able to determine how patients who can’t breathe on their own can cry out anything at all, but if we figure it out we will be sure to update this post.

See the too-good-to-be-true-for-Democrats interview below: