In March 2017, Brother Paul Washer suffered a massive heart attack in his Virginia home and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Undergoing emergency surgery, he ultimately spent nearly a week in the hospital, witnessing to everyone he encountered, even the chaplains. It was exceptionally frightening, given that
(Ministry Watch) Sarah Young’s Check My Church website seeks to “check every church in the country” and “expose corruption, abuse, legalism, materialism, and wolves” in sheep’s clothing. But the watchdog ministry’s articles about “red flags” at Apologia Church have generated angry denials from lead pastor Jeff Durbin, who claims that Young is a
With the news that troubled Christian musician Israel Houghton and his wife recently became parents with a son through the use of a surrogate, which involved multiple rounds of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF,) we wanted to discuss something that should be uncontroversial: IVF is almost always mass murder and the
Grammy award-winning Christian music recording artist, composer, and worship leader, Israel Houghton, perhaps best known for his band ‘Israel & New Breed,’ and repeatedly cheating on his first wife and having babies outside of wedlock, announced on Instagram that his new wife Adrienne Bailon has given birth to a son
Hillsong Australia has released their 2021 annual report and it’s bad. It’s not as stinging as the 2022 worldwide report will be, as the current missive does not include the fiscal realties stemming from the termination of Global Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston, the loss of most of their North American
The largest Mennonite denomination in the United States has gone gay, passing a resolution in June, with 55.7% of delegates committing itself to full LGBTQ inclusion in the church, and in a separate vote, 82.8% of members repealed previous prohibitions from pastors officiating same sex weddings, declaring in part: Current
There is a growing concern over The Federal Vision (FV) again in North American Reformed Churches, here is why and here’s how to stop it: 1. Very few (at least initially) are attracted to its theological positions. Most people aren’t interested in Baptismal Regeneration, Padeocommunion, and a questionable view of
This is an expanded Twitter thread. See notes at bottom for more details. The Venue Church in Chattanooga (under Pastor Tavner Smith) filed for bankruptcy yesterday, roughly 9 months after the pastor’s alleged affair received national attention. Here’s what stood out to me in the megachurch’s filings. But first, we
Update. See more details here Weeks after Venue Church ‘pastor’ Tavner Smith addressed rumors surrounding the foreclosure and sale of their property, the result of hemorrhaging members and money for nearly a year after he was exposed for carrying on an illicit affair with his worship leader/ personal assistant, the
Mark Burns is Pastor of Harvest Praise & Worship Center in South Carolina. A political candidate for congress and co-founder of the NOW Television Network, he who once led Greg Locke’s congregation in a spirited chant of “Let’s Go Brandon”– a phrase designed to be a stand-in for the coarser and
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