North Point Community Church “impastor” Andy Stanley continued his disastrous attempts to shoehorn his idiosyncratic hermeneutic into a Christian apologetic for the deity of Christ and the truth about the Christian faith, picking up where he left off last time by arguing that in our presentation of the veracity of
Denny Burk found himself in a bit of a verbal scrap with Beth Allison Barr over the use (and perhaps the concept) of Innerancy, with Burke pushing for her to affirm it, and Barr affirming everything but. Barr is Professor of European Women, Medieval & Early Modern England, and Church
A few weeks ago we did a story on Bethel Church’s finances, the result of our curiosity after learning the 12,000-member megachurch led by Bill Johnson had broken ground on a nearly $100 million dollar Apostolic Training Center, and we wanted to throw some numbers and statistics at our followers, to
A new Bible translation has been released, the ‘First Nations Version’ (FNV) and right away one thing is clear: this is an absolute trainwreck of a translation. This is because the FNV is not a word-for-word translation; rather, it is a thought-for-thought translation/ dynamic equivalent translation, which means it’s nothing
Yesterday we wrote in our article “Three Oneness Pentecostals, an Adulterer, a Whoremonger, a Pillow Tycoon, and Trump’s Lawyer Headline a Conference Together…” about how a collective of false teachers, Trinity-deniers, and men whose scandal in their personal lives would give the guy sleeping with his father’s wife in 1
As Bill Johnson and the apologists of Bethel Chruch continue to directly confront controversies in YouTube Web series titled “Rediscover Bethel,” courtesy of in-depth Q&A that addresses some of their beliefs and distinctive, they come to the question of “grave soaking” and whether or not this is a normative practice
From a recently unearthed 2019 clip, Lifeway darling Priscilla Shirer, daughter of Pastor Tony Evans, demonstrates with startling clarity why she is such an objectionably terrible preacher and bible teacher, framing scripture as just “hand-me-down-the-revelation” that is not sufficient. In the clip below, apologist Chris Rosebrough details why her exegesis
Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church in Edmonton, AB, gave a special video message to The Master’s Seminary (TMS) class of 2021, where Pastor John MacArthur is the Chancellor. Explaining that Coates’ “faithfulness during a time of government overreach and his willingness to obey God rather than man is a
On March 21, 2021, Mark Driscoll of the elderless and abusive The Trinity Church dropped this image on Instagram with a caption that reads: Some 30 years ago, my beautiful girlfriend (and eventual wife) gave me this bible. Since then, my life has been about learning and teaching the words
As we work on a new investigation regarding Mark Driscoll, we wanted to call attention to a salient fact that has come up in the course of our reporting: his new church has no elders. You’ll recall that back in 2014, Driscoll was embroiled in a controversy for his abusive
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