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Cowards! Calvin University Caves to Pro-LGBTQ Faculty, Allows them to Affirm Sodomy and Sin

Calvin University, the Michigan-based University belonging to the conservative CRCNA (Christian Reformed Church in North America) has been lost, revealing itself to be fully compromised on issues of biblical sexual morality and continuing its dark descent into theological deviltry. 

This sad revelation comes after the school’s board of trustees voted to allow pro-LGBTQ faulty members to dissent from having to uphold the denomination’s view of sexuality and purity, and instead hold to their sodomy-loving convictions. 

Several months ago, the denomination took a step in the right direction and voted during their annual synod two days ago to elevate their opposition to homosexuality into becoming part of their confession; their very declaration of faith, with the motion passing 131-45.

This bombshell caused faculty at Calvin to freak out, including the gay-affirming Kristen Kobes Du Mez, and meltdown as only progressives can. Their ire only betrayed their dishonesty and low moral character, as a condition of employment insists these hirelings sign a document attesting that they will teach what is in accordance with the historic confessions of faith, with the faculty handbook saying that must “teach, speak, and write in harmony with the confessions.”

Instead, a bunch of professors and support staff decided to submit ‘statements of confessional difficulty’, also known as gravamina, noting they could not submit to the portion of it that says men must not have anal sex with each other.  

The board of trustees, being weak and cowardly men and women, went along with it, allowing them not to affirm it but instead remain on staff and in good standing, offering up pathetic excuses for why they caved to lost souls who hate Jesus and his word. 

Provost Noah Toly sent out an email to staff offering these pathetic excuses and justifications: “While we understand that not every member of the Calvin community will agree with every position or decision the University makes, our desire is that this be a place where even our disagreements are characterized by respect and love for one another., I am hopeful that this process and outcome can serve as a model for our students and other observers as we continue to wrestle with important issues” while the chairman of Calvin board, Bruce Los, argued that the university would only benefit from having “diverse viewpoints among its faculty while remaining committed to upholding the confessional standards of the CRC.”



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Hillsong’s Brian Houston Slams Church Board For His Resignation, Denies Any Wrongdoing; “They Poured Ultimate Shame And Humiliation On Me”

Disgraced Hillsong Church’s former Global Senior Pastor has come out swinging at his former church Board in a Facebook video posted today, blaming them for his resignation and insisting he did nothing wrong.

Houston left the church he founded after being accused by the leadership of committing indiscretions with two women and having a drinking problem, including getting drunk and spending nearly an hour in a woman’s hotel room in 2019, and has not spoken up publicly about the incident other than in veiled references, until now.

He reveals that he’s disappointed the Board did not fight for him to remain on staff and weather the storm.

On March the 21st 2022, in unison with Bobby, I made the hardest decision of my life. And that was to offer my resignation to the Hillsong Church board after pioneering the church in 1983 and giving 39 years of service. I guess a big part of me hope that the Board, knowing the pressure I was under, would reject my offer and continue to fight for me, but that was not to be.

Houston denies resigning because of any mistakes he made but rather because after the Board threw him under the bus with their accusations, it poisoned the well too much to recover.

I want to be clear. The media and others incorrectly say I resigned because I breached the Hillsong code of conduct, but that’s just not true. I didn’t resign because of my mistakes. I resigned because of the announcements and statements that had been made, which Bobbie and I felt made my position untenable. And I spelled out my reasons for my resignation in my resignation letter to the Hillsong Church Board.

He’s super torqued about it as well.

In direct quotes from my resignation letter, I said, the Board statement to the church has made my position untenable. the Board gave enough detail to allow people’s imaginations to run wild and draw their own conclusions… there was enough detail to pour ultimate shame and humiliation on me, but enough ambiguity to lead people to make their own conclusions about what did or didn’t happen. Frankly, in many cases, those conclusions are wrong.

He concludes by giving more details about the Board’s claim that he abused alcohol and these women.

I spoke about alcohol has having not proven itself to be my friend. But sadly, that has built a narrative out there that I’m an alcoholic, and the stories about my alcoholism that are the result of gossip and whispering and innuendo.

The narrative that I’m an alcoholic is false. In fact, I’ve been told by an expert therapist that I do not display the behaviors that are typical of an alcoholic. My apology was about the specific incidents of which the Board are aware; incidents which were unbecoming for a minister of the gospel, and for which I’m deeply sorry.

And then prescription medication. It was in the early 2000s, with my constant global travel and the stress I was under, I became dependent on sleeping tablets, which I’ve spoken about openly many times, including in my book, Live, Love Lead. Let me be clear. The last time I took a single sleeping tablet was over 10 years ago. And even though I’ve continued to travel widely, I haven’t taken even one sleeping tablet for a decade. It’s not an ongoing problem.

And the notorious night in 2019 where I mixed a double dose of anti-anxiety tablets with alcohol was a one-off occasion. It happened once. It hadn’t happened before, and it hasn’t happened since. So I don’t have an ongoing problem with anti-anxiety tablets or any other prescription medication. And I respectfully ask you to please not label me that way or blindly accept that narrative.

Houston did not directly address the flirtatious text messaging he was caught having with a staffer, which has been previously described by interim Hillsong leader Phil Dooley who at the time explained: “It was along the line of, ‘If I was with you, I’d like to kiss and cuddle you,’ words of that nature.” 

Dooley said the staff felt upset and awkward by the encounter and reported the incident to Hillsong general manager George Aghajanian, and then quit her job. The woman was given several months’ salary as severance, with Dooley explaining, “Pastor Brian said, ‘I want to pay that personally because it was my fault,’ because it was a personal indiscretion.”

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Christian University Gives LBGTQ-Affirming Professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez Permission to be Against Biblical Marriage

With the recent news that Calvin University, the Michigan-based University belonging to the conservative CRCNA (Christian Reformed Church in North America), has been lost, revealing itself to be fully compromised on issues of biblical sexual morality and continuing its dark descent into theological deviltry, faculty member and Jesus and John Wayne author Kristin Kobes Du Mez has weighed in, and it’s about what you’d expect.

According to RNS, who reported on the story, Du Mez was one of the first professors to ask for an exemption in order to dissent from affirming biblical marriage:

Faculty hired by Calvin University must sign a document saying their beliefs align with a set of historical Christian creeds and confessions, such as the Nicene Creed and the Heidelberg Catechism. The faculty handbook says they must “teach, speak, and write in harmony with the confessions.”

But many professors at the 146-year-old school no longer hold that sex outside of heterosexual marriage is sinful. And they want to be supportive of LGBTQ students on campus.

“It’s a matter of integrity,” said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin who was among the initial group of faculty members who requested permission to dissent from the CRC’s stance on sex. “It seemed necessary to register my dissent so that I could have clarity in terms of whether it was a space where I could continue to work, or whether I no longer fit within the mission of the community.”

Given the trajectory she’s on, the LGBTQ-affirming and possibly abortion-affirming professor has shown that she has no understanding of what the bible teaches and how it ought to be understood, and any commentary and criticism she has for Christendom should be roundly dismissed as the braying rants of a lost soul.

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Bethel Pastor Claims Adam is ‘Procreating With God’ and ‘Co-Creating’ When Naming the Animals

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. — Genesis 2: 19-20 (ESV)

Kris Vallotton is the co-founder of the School of the Prophets and Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church. We’ve covered him a few times, such as during our Bethel Leader Says Prophets Can Cause Randos To Prophecy + be ‘Activated’ Just By Being Around Them, our story on Bethel Prophet Reveals Miracle of ‘Second Virginity’: ‘Hundreds of Hymens Grew Back’ the time Bethel ‘Prophet’ Who Falsely Prophesied Trump’s Victory Headlines Prophetic Conference and Bethel’ Pastor’ Says Michael the Archangel Dresses in ‘Wrestling Tights,’ is ‘always Grumpy’ posts, and our most recent Bethel Church Prophet Says Jesus Frequently ‘Took the Scripture out of Context’’

With men like discernment minister Mike Winger affirming that he would freely fellowship with the Bethelites and that ‘real prophecy and real healing are coming out of this group,” we continue a brief series on Vallotton, such as this clip from 2018, where he claims that when Adam named the animals, he was “procreating” and co-creating” with God- and that we can do the same thing.

And God begins to create creatures that Adam names. Now you can imagine that this was probably a long process because there’s a lot of creatures, right? A couple of things I want to point out here. Did you notice that by the sixth day, God stopped talking? Like God did not speak the creatures into being, he did not speak Adam into being. He literally molded them from dirt. I’m simply saying that sometimes when God’s silent, he’s doing his best work.

And so, God begins to form creatures from the dirt, and he passes them by Adam. And I’d like to suggest to you that when Adam’s calling the creatures names, that he’s not calling them ‘Spot’ ‘Fefe’ and ‘Trigger’.

And that literally, and the connotation in the Hebrew is that Adam is calling them names. He is actually procreating with God. He’s actually prophesying your divine destiny, and it says, ‘and whatever Adam called them, that was their name’.

In other words… let’s say that Adam sees the creature that God has formed and Adam goes “Lion.” And when Adam says “Lion”, suddenly that creature takes on the dynamics of a lion. Are you with me? Adam is co-creating with God. God was silent, so therefore it gave room for Adam to speak.

It gets worse. This is not the first time he’s said he’s talked about ‘procreating with God’. He preached at a business convention in the Netherlands in 2018 that Adam was procreating and co-creating with God, and we can too:

You’re running around like, “I don’t know why bad things keep happening to me — you’re not sitting in your proper seat. You’ve relegated your seat to someone else. When we pray for healing and bad circumstances, we are praying in reaction to something that went wrong. But how many understand that when we are living from heaven towards earth? ” Jesus said to the Apostle John — come up here and I will show you what must take place after these things.

How many know if you live from your heavenly seat, your heavenly seat gives you an eternal perspective so that you see things not as they are, but as they should be. Then your prayers become prophecies and your words become worlds. So no longer am I always in reaction to what has already happened, but now I am living in response to God’s word and I begin to procreate with God.

And instead of always being like ‘hey this person’s sick/hey this bad circumstance has happened’, God goes, ‘hey this is how I want the next 50 years to go.’ And I begin to pray and prophesy into that, and I am not just praying to God but actually praying with God. I’m actually procreating with God. I become an heir — a co-reigner with God.”

…. When we are called to be ministers for God, one of the ways we do that is we create by speaking for God. ‘Earnestly desire the spiritual gifts but especially that you prophesy.’ Why especially prophecy and why does the devil hate it when we prophesy? Because you are co-creating with God. When Adam named the animals he was prophetically declaring their DNA.

When he said “lion,” the characteristics of the lion were now on that creature. Adam wasn’t just naming the animals — he was defining them. I am simply saying that part of what we get to do with God is we get to sit with Him, listen to what God thinks about something that isn’t, and call it as if it were.”

Editor’s note. We are hunting down the video for that last clip. Kris Vallotton has made a copyright strike and removed it, but we have confirming testimony in 2018 from BSSM students who heard it and made notes that repeat the same thing.

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Andy Stanley Says There’s No ‘Clear Divine Standard’ of God Revealed to Mankind

North Point Community Church ‘impastor’ Andy Stanley continued his wretched job of unhitching the church from all the scriptures by offering a curious take on the perspicuity of scripture, claiming there’s no “universally defined standard” and there’s no “clear divine standard” that’s been revealed to mankind of what ‘good is.’

You’ll recall that Stanley previously said that it doesn’t matter if the bible is true, so long as it’s ‘mostly reliable, and that the “foundation of our faith is not the whole bible. In 2018, he got shellacked from all sides for saying that Christians needed to unhitch themselves from the Old Testament and in a recent sermon told Christians not to follow Jesus through the Old Testament, but only through the Gospels.

During his October 30, 2022 sermon, Stanley seeks to rebuff the notion that “good people go to heaven” by making some curious claims and approaching the subject in a very Stanleyesque way:

The first thing that kind of undermines this whole idea that you know, ‘good people go to heaven and I’m a good person’, is that ‘good’ is a moving target historically.

What was considered ‘good’ 1000 years ago is considered evil now. What was considered evil 1000 years ago in some capacity is actually considered ‘good’. So depending on when you drop into history, the history of mankind, gosh, the definition of ‘good’, it’s kind of all over the place.

And it’s a moving target culturally, I mean, right now you can go to different parts of the world and what’s considered good in some parts of the world we consider evil, and what we consider evil in some parts of world they consider good. So who’s right?

And if good people go to heaven, again, there’s no universally defined standard and there’s no clear divine standard that’s been revealed to all of us otherwise everybody in the world would know exactly what good is and we would measure it the same way. And good is a moving target personally, right?

As stated in the aforementioned links, Stanley has said Christians need to “unhitch” themselves from the Old Testament on account of its troubling morality, and other minimizing of the OT. He later notes in this sermon:

This is kind of a western thing too, well we say ‘wait a minute but the Bible, the Bible tells us what’s good and bad and the difference between right and wrong’ and so some people want to use the Bible as the standard. And as we said last time, that’s a terrible idea.

Because if the Bible is the standard (Ed. note. he’s referring to the NT here) , you in fact don’t make the cut. You aren’t a good person. And I’m not judging you, I’m just telling you if you hold your standard of behavior up against the Bible’s standard of you know, right and wrong, good and bad, you’re not all that good.

And as we said last time, the Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures the Hebrew scriptures doesn’t even mention Heaven. People just all went to sheol, right? So there’s no theology. And of course they had some beliefs about the afterlife but there’s no coherent theology of heaven or of the afterlife in the Old Testament…. If you’re looking for an answer to the question ‘how good is good enough’ the Bible is really of no help because we’re not that good.”

Stanley is correct in much of his sermon. Still, because of his idiosyncratic theology, he repeatedly goes out of his way to de-emphasize the authority of the bible and instead emphasize the person of Jesus. It’s why in last week’s sermon, he goes out of his way to say strange things like ‘just because Jesus believes something, that doesn’t make it true.’

Hear me, for the moment. Don’t hear me saying what I’m saying because it’s necessarily true. Just hear me saying what I’m about to say, because this is what was said (in the bible.)

According to Jesus, good people don’t go to heaven. According to Jesus, it’s the very opposite of what most people who believe there’s a heaven actually think and believe. And the fact that Jesus didn’t believe that good people go to heaven, that doesn’t necessarily make it true. That’s just what He taught. And that’s what he said, and clearly, it’s what he believed.

But at the same time, and here’s the gotcha, here’s the strange thing, here’s the sit up straight and pay attention. Here’s the ‘wow’, you know, ‘that’s something to consider’: Jesus did not teach that good people go to heaven, but Jesus instructed his followers to be good, and more than that to do good.

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Creflo Dollar Urges Congregation to Vote for Stacey Abrams After She Visits his Church

Democrat Gubernatorial Stacey Abrams is traipsing across the state, showing up at church services, butchering bible verses and getting standing ovations and cheers. This is all the while hirelings beg and plead with their members to vote for her– a lost cause given she’s looking to get crushed by Republican opponent Brian Kemp.

It was no surprise then to see her show up at Creflo Dollar’s church, where he likely urged his members to vote for the radical pro-choicer and “do what you got to do”.

Dollar is one of the most infamous and successful prosperity preachers ever, joining such men as Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland as the trio of arch-heretics most responsible for exporting the false prosperity gospel throughout the world.

A televangelist and pastor of the 30,000-member World Changers Church International (WCCI) in Atlanta, he’s known for his wealth and extravagant lifestyle, owning several multi-million dollar homes, expensive luxury cars, being a proponent of “little gods’ theology, and making headlines back in 2015 when he asked followers and supporters to fund his purchase of a $65,000,000 private jet. He told the crowd:

“I just want to say this because I want to see how it sounds. Governor Stacey Abrams just walked in. [Applause] So you already know what to do, right? How many of you have already done it? [Applause] Wow. It’s big time. Make it happen. Do what you got to do.”

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SBC Church Performs Crazy ‘Baby Shark’ Mashup During Service+ Smoke and Canons!

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, an 8000-member Southern Baptist megachurch, continues its celebration of all things fleshly. Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone, they played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, as well as performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epiteths for a sermon illustration.

Now, as part of their month-long pirate-themed church sermon series, to close it all out, they performed a mashup of ‘Youngblood’ by 5 Seconds of Summer (edited to remove offensive lyrics) & the viral ‘Baby Shark,’ by Pink Fong. 

This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain, with senior pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes previously explaining that they are a “hyper-creative church,” and they embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality in order to “entice a lot of families to come check out our church.”

Check out the last 30 seconds or so. This is part of the church service.

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Classic Discernment Moment: Bethel Church Prophet Says Jesus Frequently ‘Took the Scripture out of Context’

Kris Vallotton is the co-founder of the School of the Prophets and Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church. We’ve covered him a few times, such as during our Bethel Leader Says Prophets Can Cause Randos To Prophecy + be ‘Activated’ Just By Being Around Them, our story on Bethel Prophet Reveals Miracle of ‘Second Virginity’: ‘Hundreds of Hymens Grew Back’ the time Bethel ‘Prophet’ Who Falsely Prophesied Trump’s Victory Headlines Prophetic Conference and Bethel’ Pastor’ Says Michael the Archangel Dresses in ‘Wrestling Tights,’ is ‘always Grumpy’ posts, of which he was the prime subject.

With men like discernment minister Mike Winger affirming that he would freely fellowship with the Bethelites and that ‘real prophecy and real healing are coming out of this group,” we thought we would repost a classic. On April 14, 2010, Kris Vallotton shared with Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry his novel perspectives on Jesus’ abilities to correctly interpret scripture, demonstrating that with his bizarre hermeneutic, he is in no position to be teaching anyone

(The Way Jesus preached) it’s the total opposite of American Christianity. When we preach, we want to make sure you got the point, we give you three illustrations, tell you a little story. Right? You have to have six scriptures to validate that what you said is actually in the book, make sure that the history of each scripture is actually validated so that all of the people that are in the crowd understand that you didn’t make this stuff, and that you didn’t take it out of context, and so on, so forth.

Jesus is not that careful. I don’t mean you shouldn’t be, I just mean he wasn’t. It’s amazing how many scriptures- okay, this is going to be hard. I don’t even know if I’m gonna believe what I’m about to say.

This would be a really interesting study: take the New Testament and read what Jesus quoted, and then interpreted it to me. Okay? Follow me. And then go back to the different passages that Jesus quoted and see what the prophet meant them to mean, when he wrote them.

You’re gonna find a very interesting dynamic, that Jesus oftentimes took scripture out of context, and meant it to mean something that the Prophet didn’t mean it to mean when he said it. But of course, if you’re Jesus, you could do whatever you want, because… that’s just a little funny. So here’s the point. God speaks in mysteries.

Bonus:

h/t Doctrinal Watchdog

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Lifeway Research: Half of Churchgoers Want Their Congregation To Share Their Politics

According to a new Lifeway Research Poll, most Christians say they’d prefer if their church votes the same way they do and have the same political identity; results that are hardly surprising given the current climate we live in. 

The research found that “Half of U.S. Protestant churchgoers (50%) say they’d prefer to attend a church where people share their political views, and 55% believe that to be the case at their congregation already.”

While these statistics are not dissimilar from a previous 2017 poll, what has changed is the adamancy of “worshipping alongside political peers,” with 19% “strongly agreeing” that they’d prefer not to worship next to someone whose political perspectives are completely contrary their own, a 7% increase from 2019. 

Though there are several biblically defensible perspectives on which party or candidate to vote for, from Republican to Independent, write-in to Libertarian, to even not voting at all, who one votes for does reveal something about the spiritual state of a man or woman. For this reason, no Christian should feel kinship and comfort when surrounded by people who consistently vote for a certain party that is rabidly and unapologetically pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, pro-child grooming, pro-theft and pro-tyranny.

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UK Bans Prayers Near Abortion Clinics, Even Silent Ones: ‘When Did It Become Against the Law to Pray?

(CBN) A person caught praying outside an abortion clinic in England can now face up to six months in prison–even if they pray silently.

In a 297-110 vote, members of Parliament backed an amendment to the Government’s Public Order Bill that would outlaw the offering of prayer and advice to women outside of abortion clinics.

Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Stella Creasy introduced the bill to protect women from alleged “intimidation and harassment” but critics argue it restricts freedom of speech and expression. 

“There is no evidence of the scale of harassment related, indeed, some in this house have referred to today. Therefore, I would take this amendment is not necessary,” said MP Carla Lockhart. “It would risk all intended consequences for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and it would be bad for women.”

She added, “So a blanket ban is an unnecessary and disproportionate response, especially when the police can protect women through other lawful means. The police already have the tools they need to protect women.”

One woman who had… to continue reading click here.

 This article was written by Talia Wise and posted at CBN.