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Twitter Suspends Lifesite News for ‘Misgendering’ Transgendered Politician

Twitter has continued its trend of science-denying activism by suspending two of Lifesite News’ accounts for the sin of calling President Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health a “man.”

Both their main account and their “We Can Defend Marriage” account received the banhammer for tweeting about transgendered politician Rachel Levine, who is most definitely a man but believes he’s a woman.

Biden names transgender ‘woman’ as Assistant Secretary of Health. ‘Rachel’ Levine is a father of two who divorced his wife in 2013 after 30 years of marriage.

Certainly provocative in our day and age, and also 100 percent true.

Lifesite’s YouTube channel also received a 2-week ban a few days ago for one of their videos on vaccines, which the media giant says violated its’ “community guidelines.”

It is not the first time Lifesite have been axed for going against Twitter’s rules on junk science. They recently spent almost a year locked out of their feed for tweeting out an article that was negative towards transgender activist “wax-my-private-area-or-I’ll-sue-you ‘Jessica’ Yaniv.”

Lifesite has no plans to relent and take down their post.

[Editor’s note: Lifesite should follow the appeals process, and if Twitter won’t give up its’ moronic stance, then it should be pursued legally.]

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Beth Moore is up to Some No Good, Very Bad, LGBT-Affirming Pastrixy Stuff

Beth Moore has been following the debate on the dailies in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over whether or not a woman can be called “Pastor” after news broke that the SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) helped plant a church with a lead pastrix who intended to lead as that very thing. This led Moore to weigh in with her usually couched and vague language about the roles and titles that ladies can and should assume within her denomination.

Moore is an egalitarian who alternates between sneaky and veiled advocacy for women preachers all the while publicly claiming the squishiest form soft-complementarianism possible, an example which can be found here.

In fact, recently she lauded another pastrix as a woman of faith who is the insightful and brilliant bee’s knees, none other than LGBT-affirming, openly pro-choice, Episcopalian priestess Ally Henny, who is also Vice President of Jemar Tisby’s Witness BBC.

Henny, who makes sure her pronouns (she/her) are known in her bio, was recently featured in a sermon by @wokepreachertv that abused the scriptures so much, we had to file a proverbial police report after listening to it.

Moore’s point is clear though. If you’re a woman, don’t wait for men to tell you that you can’t be a preacher or pastor. Follow Jesus, call yourself whatever you’d like, and “you do you.”



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Charismatic Prophet Arrested After Viral Video Shows Him Performing Naked ‘Money-Making Ritual’

A Charismatic prophet from Nigeria has been arrested by the Police for a little stunt that went viral, after he was filmed performing a “money-making ritual” by throwing money at a bunch of naked men in the river.

The action by Mr. Onyebuchi Okocha, founder of Children of Light Anointing Ministries and popularly known as Prophet Onyeze Jesus, was just one of a series of bizarre actions that have him on people’s radar and which prompted the police to step in.

The other issue of note is claiming he will raise several people from the dead later today, January 28th, prompting the government to issue a bulletin to morgues and hospitals several days before, telling them to keep an eye on their corpses and not give the prophet access to them.

Prophet Onyeze Jesus was arrested by the government for “criminal and indecent conduct in the name of religion.” They released a statement about the affair, explaining:

Onyeze Jesus promotes superstition and strife in society. By telling his gullible and brainwashed followers that their misfortune is caused by family members, relatives, friends and business associates through magical powers, he is fomenting serious troubles and instigating eternal enmity in various places and businesses. Some of these troubles can lead to physical fights, bodily injuries and even deaths.

By throwing plenty of naira notes into the river regularly as part of sacrifice to the river goddess and filming it and distributing the film to the whole world, he has brought Anambra State into global ridicule, and worse, gregariously committed a criminal offense. Burning or destroying the naira through any means is an offense criminalized by the Central Bank of Nigeria Act of 2007, and the offender is liable to imprisonment.

By forcing his disciples to have a bath naked in a river, then film the naked adults and distribute the videos across the globe, Onyeze Jesus is guilty of denying his followers the right to self-dignity and of promoting indecent exposure, which is a crime under the Nigerian law.

These of course are actions that Dr. Michael Brown would have no reasonable grounds to object to. Once you’ve defended the “Sneaky Squid Spirit,” you’ve really backed yourself into a corner and limited what you will and will not accept.

According to reports, the Anambra State Ministry of Health “warned public and private hospitals and mortuaries operating in the state against allowing ‘Onyeze Jesus’ access to their facilities to carry out his practices after he claimed he could raise 7 corpses from the dead on the 28th of January, 2021”

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Lavish Lifestyles of Former Hillsong Pastors Revealed

Pastors at Hillsong Church were living lavish lifestyles for years, spending money like drunken sailors at the expense of member’s tithes, according to a new report in the NY Post that spoke with former pastors and members.

They describe how Hillsong NY, the former home of the disgraced woke pastor Carl Lentz, did not expect their leaders to act modestly or use the tithing wisely.

“Pastors splurged on fancy restaurant meals, designer clothes and weekly manicures while living in the same Kent Avenue Williamsburg high-rise (whose apartments rent on average of nearly $6,0000 a month) and zipping around the neighborhood on ATVs .”

Former Hillsong LA service pastor Nicole Herman recounts how they all used PEX cards (prepaid expense cards) which were loaded up at the end of services after all the tithes were collected.

These cards would be used on pretty much whatever they wanted and did not have to be reconciled, explained or justified at the end of the month.

The post reports that “Of the $12.7 million that Hillsong East Coast made in 2019, 88% of it came from “tithes & offerings.” Over 66% of that revenue went to a combination of staff salaries, benefits and expenses ($3.8 million) and operating expenses including venue rentals, staffing, and production costs ($4.9 million).”

One congregant who nannied for many of the pastors,Jenna Babitt, described a long list of extravagant purchases, including large quantities of food for the pastors before services, mostly consistent of Sushi and expensive takeout, with the occasional Chipotle chipped in. They frequently rolled out the red carpet for guest and celebrity attendees, pushing designer purchases and spending up to 200$ on a single meal from pricey the Dean and Deluca restaurant.

Another former member, Megan Phalon, got a job babysitting for pastors Kane and Karla Keatinge, eventually doing light personal assistant duties for them. She says “He’d be spending all this money and at the end of the month he’d be like, ‘I don’t know what this was for.” She describes going out and buying a brand new unlocked iPhone without being told who it was for, and the pastors buying All-Terrain Vehicles to drive around town.

Another former member who functioned as lead pastor Reed Boggard’s assistant and was there from day one, Brandon Walker, describes how Hillsong leadership were all about eating out and staying in fancy hotels and Airbnb’s, including booking one that cost nearly$1100 a night. 

According to the post:

“Walker recalled one day out on the town with Jess Bogard and two of his friends when she bought the group matching $100 jackets before taking them out to dinner at a “pretty nice, pretty expensive Italian restaurant” called North Italia, where she dropped hundreds on a decadent, wine-filled meal. “I think the bill was $600 to $700,” Walker recalled. “It was just, like, ‘Wow. [She] just dropped over $1,000 for no reason.’ ”

He concludes:

At the end of the day, there’s no accountability, there’s no self-reflection. Everything’s a flex, everything’s a show.”


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NAMB Church Plant Takes the Money and Runs, Leaving SBC

1Name Church, the North American Mission Board Church plant that blew up in Southern Baptist circles after it was revealed they had a woman as lead pastor has left the SBC, sources have confirmed.

We wrote about this recently, after Jamie Farver, a woman, was aggressively and prominently marketed all throughout the church website and social media as a “pastor” and “lead pastor” even though that is strictly prohibited by the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BF&M2K), the official position document of the SBC.

Tom Ascol updated the world after talking to Kevin Ezell, NAMB president, about the status of the church plant, later adding, “If the church isn’t in agreement with SBC confessional commitments then it was an honorable decision to leave.”

Of course, we don’t find anything honorable about taking cooperative program dollars and then running off with the money. In fact, the “honorable thing” would be to pay NAMB back.

Was it honorable for the NAMB not to do their due diligence by ensuring that the church would be fully in line with the BF&M2K before they gave them who knows how much financial and infrastructure support?
Did NAMB know they weren’t in full co-operation with the BF&M2K before they funded them or after?

When did they leave the SBC? Was it immediately after they were planted, or just recently as they received the negative attention?

Furthermore, who is the sending church? These things don’t happen ex nihilo. Surely the mothership would have known 1Name Church had no intention of her not preaching, teaching, and leading the church. Was this disclosed?

John Kaleo on Twitter is likewise asking the right questions.

As far as the request to leave them alone, we have that covered too:

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Even in Death, RZIM seeks to Hide Ravi Zacharias’ Sins

Ravi Zacharias International Ministry has confirmed they have no intention of releasing one of Zacharias’ victims from a non-disclosure/non-disparagement agreement she signed years ago, according to her lawyers, continuing to a long-standing pattern of silencing, victim-blaming, and ignoring her wherever possible.

The world-renown apologist who passed away last year, signed the agreement in 2017, before it was confirmed that he was a long-time sexual molester and deviant. A year before he entered into a friendship/counseling relationship with Lori Anne Thompson, grooming her to the point that he began requesting that she send him nude pictures. Thompson eventually decided to end things and tell her husband, which led Ravi to threaten to kill himself if she revealed his actions. He sued her, filing a RICO lawsuit and they settled out of court, with RZIM pledging to drop the suite and offering her $250,000 if she signed non-disclosure agreement.

Despite the agreement, it didn’t stop Ravi from widely defaming her and spreading malicious lies about her, claiming she was trying to blackmail him and releasing a statement to the rag Christianity Today, saying:

“Subsequently, she began to contact me via the email address I had used to contact her husband after first meeting them. My responses were usually brief. Then, last year, she shockingly sent me extremely inappropriate pictures of herself unsolicited. I clearly instructed her to stop contacting me in any form; I blocked her messages, and I resolved to terminate all contact with her.

That of course is a lie. In the same letter he also wrote this, before news of him groping and propositioning his employees at a spa he owned came to light:

In my 45 years of marriage to Margie, I have never engaged in any inappropriate behavior of any kind. I love my wife with all my heart and have been absolutely faithful to her these more than 16,000 days of marriage, and have exercised extreme caution in my daily life and travels, as everyone who knows me is aware. I have long made it my practice not to be alone with a woman other than Margie and our daughters—not in a car, a restaurant, or anywhere else.“

In a letter sent to Ministry Watch, RZIM likewise reiterated their libelous allegations of false claims, blackmail and harassment.

Since then, Thompson has made many appeals to RZIM to release her of her NDA over the years and they have refused, despite their namesake being a known deceiver. Recently her lawyer Boz Tchivijian again requested that she be released, and again they refused.

What makes this all the more frustrating is that despite RZIM allegedly launching a full investigation into his “spa activities,” they have also confirmed that she is ‘beyond the scope’ of their investigation, setting the stage for a continued cover-up without justice or resolution.

Thompson has reveled to Protestia that none of the investigators have spoken to her, and seemingly have no plans to, despite being the most prominent and visible victim, the catalyst for his exposure, and the one woman they continue to libel.



Ruth Hutchings said it best, writing on Twitter:

RZIM has a special responsibility to Lori Anne because the Board and senior leadership personally choose to slander her and her husband as “greedy extortionists” inside and outside the company. For other situations, they likely can say they didn’t know, they weren’t involved. Perhaps they were deceived, but these are still actions they’re responsible for correcting to the best of their ability. If Margie (his wife) continues to refuse, the least RZIM can do is take her off the Board/staff and make a statement repudiating their earlier remarks.

The fact is that the lawsuit that precipitated the signing of the NDA wasn’t done to prove and assert Ravi’s innocence, but rather to hide and conceal his guilt. RZIM refusing to release her because it “honors his last wishes” needs to be viewed from the perspective of a deeply dishonorable man who wielded the lawsuit as a cudgel to maintain his oppression and silence the victim.

What a wonderful legacy RZIM is hoping to leave.




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Hillsong ‘Pastor’ Joins With Joe Biden Transition Team and Muslims to Call for Religious Unity

(Reformation Charlotte) Interfaith unity seems to be all the rage these days — but historically speaking, it always has been. There has never been true unity between God’s people and the rest of the world. But the world, itself, despite the vast diversity of religious beliefs, have always been unified around one thing — their rejection of the Biblical Jesus.

This includes Jews, Muslims, Eastern religions, and false churches such as the Roman Catholic Church. It also includes false Evangelical churches — like the cult of Hillsong — that have turned Jesus primarily into a social justice activist who seeks spiritual unity with Pagans to affect societal change.

And this is right where Hillsong Church is. Christine Caine, one of Hillsong Australia’s “pastors,” is teaming up with Jews, Muslims, and even Joe Biden to call for spiritual unity and “societal change” in the public square.

In a roundtable discussion on Thursday, which is open to the public, Caine will join Islamist, Dalia Mogahed and…

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Editor’s note. This article was written by Jeff Maples and published at Reformation Montana.

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The Gospel Coalition Launches ‘TGC Albania’ + We Respond…in Albanian. ‘Si Koalicioni i Ungjillit (KIU)’

With the news that The Gospel Coalition has launched a new International branch “TGC Albania,” we have a message of warning for our Albanian brethren: stay as far away from this ministry as possible.

Të dashur shqiptarë të krishterë,

Një shërbesë e re midis jush ka nisur, e cila përbëhet nga një shoqëri kishash dhe udhëheqësish të njohur si Koalicioni i Ungjillit (KIU). Ata synojnë të mbështesin kishën dhe të jenë thellësisht të përkushtuar në “ripërtëritjen e besimit tonë në ungjillin e Krishtit dhe në reformimin e praktikave tona të shërbesës për t’u përshtatur plotësisht me Shkrimet” duke siguruar “burime të besueshme dhe në kohë, të dobishme dhe të mençura dhe të përqendrua në ungjillin e Jezu Krishtit.”

Asgjë nuk mund të jetë më larg së vërtetës.

Në vend që t’u qëndrojnë besnik shkrimeve të shenjta dhe t’u besojë atyre të diktojnë praktikat e shërbesës, KIU është një entitet i korruptuar plotësisht – një bastion i krishterimit liberal dhe progresiv dhe një vrimë kryesore e atyre që sjellin herezi të dënueshme pa dijeni.

Disa nga emrat më të shquar që duhet të shënohen dhe shmangen janë Thabiti Anyabwile, Ligon Duncan, Tim Keller, Sam Alberry, Joe Carter, Jonathan Leeman, dhe Russell Moore. Këta janë autorët që po shtyjnë doktrinën korruptuese dhe jobiblike në Amerikën e Veriut dhe ne lutemi që ata të mos eksportojnë axhendën e tyre liberale në Shqipëri.

Në njoftimin e tyre për shtyp, ata thonë se “armiku nuk është i kënaqur me këtë zgjim (Në Shqipëri) dhe po përpiqet të mbjellë fara mosmarrëveshje dhe mësimi të rremë në komunitetin e krishterë që po Lind.” Kjo është e vërtetë. Dhe mbjellësi më i madh i mosmarrëveshjes është vetë Koalicioni i Ungjillit. Me 40% të shqiptarëve që flasin anglisht si gjuhë e dytë, ju mund të shihni pse Këtu dhe Këtu.

Ikni nga kjo organizatë që helmon gjithë çfarë prek dhe spërkat shpirtin si një gajzer. Nuk është e mirë për shpirtin tuaj dhe nuk janë pasqyrim i krishterimit biblik.

Translated:

Dear Albanian Christians:

A new ministry within your midst has launched, consisting of a fellowship of churches and leaders known as The Gospel Coalition (TGC). They purport to support the church and to be deeply committed to “renewing our faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming our ministry practices to conform fully to the Scriptures” by providing “resources that are trusted and timely, winsome and wise, and centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Rather than being faithful to the scriptures and entrusting them to dictate ministry practices, TGC is by and large a thoroughly corrupt entity – a bastion of liberal and progressive Christianity and chief hidey-hole of those who bring in damnable heresies unawares.

Some of the more prominent names that should be marked and avoided are Thabiti Anyabwile, Ligon Duncan, Tim Keller, Sam Alberry, Joe Carter, Jonathan Leeman, and Russell Moore. These are the authors who are pushing corrupting and unbiblical doctrine in North America, and we pray they don’t export their liberal agenda to Albania.

In their press release, they say that “the enemy is not pleased by this awakening (In Albania) and is attempting to sow seeds of discord and false teaching in the nascent Christian community.” This is true. And the biggest sower of discord is the Gospel Coalition itself. With 40 percent of Albanians speaking English as a second language, you can see why Here and Here.

Flee from this organization that poisons everything it touches and spouts spiritual strychnine like a geyser. They are not good for your soul, and are not a reflection of Biblical Christianity.

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Race-Baiting with Kyle J. Howard. Volume II

Kyle J. Howard, our favorite “White’s ain’t tight” progressive has been in a rare form today, exorcising his trauma demons by having his Twitter feed cranking out a litany of race-baiting invectives that would have even Al Sharpton giving him the side look and slowly backing away, his hands making an “I’m not with this guy” motion.

Here are a few tidbits from the last few days.

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North American Mission Board’s Pres. Kevin Ezell Responds to ‘Woman Pastor’ Controversy

The president of the North American Mission Board, the church planting arm of the Southern Baptist Convention has responded to widespread ballyhoo regarding their recent Florida church plant 1Name Church having a woman as the lead pastor, urging members to keep things private and stop calling people out on it.

The woman at the center of it, Jamie Farver is aggressively and prominently marketed all throughout the church website and social media as a “pastor” and “lead pastor” even though that is strictly prohibited by the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, the official position document of the SBC.

With the ruckus raised to the appropriate level, Kevin Ezell, the man overseeing NAMB has responded writing:

Someone perhaps needs to tell them that, because I don’t think they got the memo, or that they “wholeheartedly agree.” Rather, it’s evident they wholeheartedly disagree, leading one to wonder why they directed resources to this plant rather than others who actually would agree. In fact, who is the sending Church? These things don’t happen ex nihilo. Are we supposed to believe that the sending SBC church faithfully ascribes to the BF&M 2000 when they unleashed that upon the world? Hardly. He continues:

Unfortunately, because NAMB is not a transparent organization where the grassroot churches have easy access to information and to have their voices heard, this sort of slow-moving behemoth only responds to vocal negative attention and pots-and-pans-banging brouhaha, particularly when it threatens their bottom line. Michael Miller on Twitter points out:

Excuse me, but this is occurring PUBLICLY under your watch. It should be addressed publicly. If this church is under your responsibility, where is the oversight? How does that “shared theology” you reference look to the watching world when we don’t actually follow it?

Lastly, Ezell reiterates:

Uhhhh, that ship has already sailed. It’s not a matter of them carelessly calling her a “pastor” by accident, or in some way being loose and imprecise with her title: it’s all over their brand. She’s routinely called the “Lead Pastor.”

In their “About Us” section it reads, “She has over 10 years of full-time ministry experience and has a bachelor’s degree in Christian Ministry from Trinity International University. Because of her experience, Jamie is well acquainted with both the joys and struggles of pioneering a local church.”

You’re not going to get that cat back in the bag unless you tranquilize it and stuff it back in there. The odds of them scrubbing their website and all media chyrons of any mention of her being a pastor, and then releasing a statement to the church that she is not a pastor, being not biblically qualified, and should never have called herself one, is next to zero.

We’ll check in a few months to see where they land, but we’re not optimistic. If this is the quality of churches that the SBC is helping plant, that people’s cooperative program dollars are going to, they need to think long and hard about whether they want to keep on giving until the SBC smartens up.