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Circus Church! Church Christmas Service Includes Pyrotechnics, Magical dissapearing acts, Circus Performers

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, led by David Hughes, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying.

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, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons! and put on an Addams family themed service.

During their 2023 Christmas service, the church put on a…welll…. you’ll see.

Hughes previously explained his rationale for putting on wild church servives, using obscene bible twisting as his rationale:

Welcome to this… I don’t know what to call this anymore. I really don’t. The team does such a great job. Give it up for our creative people, if you would-thank you guys, for making this so much fun.

I guess technically we’d call it a service, it’s a worship service, that’s kind of short for worship service, a service, our Christmas service. But it’s an experience. It’s a Christmas experience. It’s now an event. In fact, I love my friends who don’t do church a lot, the last few years they say, “David, what time are your Christmas shows? What time of your Christmas shows?”

And it used to be I try to reframe that “no, it’s actually a worship..-” Guess what? It’s a show. Yes. Welcome to our Christmas show. And if you’re deeply spiritual that offends you, like we shouldn’t have show. No. We should have a show.

The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.

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SBC Megachurch Dresses up a Horse as a Unicorn and Drags it on Stage for a Sermon Illustration

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying.

Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch led by David Hughes played a Beyonce song about Dominatrixes, a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!

For their new sermon series, Hughes dragged a horse up on stage dressed like a unicorn- with the smallest horn possible- in an attempt at a sermon illustration of some sort. Thankfully the horse in some way “misbehaved” and was quickly taken off stage, rendering the whole thing pointless and bizzare.

Hughes previously stated that he wants every weekend to be as memorable a spossible, using this lame bible twist to justify his actions.

The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.

Our only regret is that the horse didn’t leave a gift for Hughes- which would have been a real illustration.

When the Bible isn’t enough, nothing is ever enough.

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SBC Megachurch Liturgy Includes Beyonce Cover Song About Queens and….Doms?

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying. During their New Year’s Eve service, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch led by David Hughes continues its celebration of all things fleshly with a Beyonce cover (who herself frequently dresses like a whore in order to entice the flesh) that has become an anthem for the Black LGBTQ community.

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, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!

In fact, almost all services include a secular music cover right after the worship and before the sermon, so much that it’s become part of their liturgy. In this case, Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” which includes the lyrics:

I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind
Bey is back and I’m sleepin’ real good at night
The queens in the front and the Doms in the back
Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped
There’s a whole lot of people in the house
Tryin’ to smoke with the yak in your mouth

According to Genius, which seeks to explain unclear song lyrics:

Beyoncé is likely referencing the queer Black origins of house music, a genre she pulls from heavily on “BREAK MY SOUL” with its four to the floor beat and use of drum machines and synthesisers.

The most popularly accepted origin of the term “house music” stems from the Chicago nightclub The Warehouse…. While The Warehouse originally started as a members only club for gay Black men, it eventually found diverse audiences from all over Chicago, driving its popularity up until its closure in 1983.

They continue:

“Queens” could refer to drag queens: primarily gay men and transgender women who take on oftentimes exaggerated female personas as a performance of gender. A “house” is a found family of queens who might compete against other houses in ballroom and pageant competitions

…while “Doms” likely means bottles of Dom Perignon, a luxury vintage champagne brand, the word “doms” can also have a queer context, referring to “dominants” in BDSM subcultures who take on a more controlling (and stereotypically, but not necessarily, masculine) position in a relationship.

BDSM has a long history with queer culture; “doms in the back” could be Beyoncé’s way of including all facets of queerness in her music, but making sure the feminine origins of house music’s queens are at the forefront.

This is what Hughes wins them with, and what he keeps them with.

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SBC Megachurch Christmas Service Features Spaceships and Aviation Themed Songs?

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying. During their Christmas service, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch continues its celebration of all things fleshly with an aviation/ passport/ flight-themed Christmas service. 

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, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!

Pastor David Hughes, wanting to highlight the “movement” theme he sees in the Christmas story, tells congregants they should “frame up” the Christmas story against the backdrop of their financial and relational struggles.

How do I make (the Christmas Story) personal? Anybody here going through like, a really serious problem this time of year? Set of problems-it’s financial or it’s relational, you got this stressed out situation your kid uh you know, it’s a health issue, you’ve lost something or someone….why don’t you kind of frame up the Christmas story, this is the story we love we know so well, against the backdrop of your problem?…And I want to tell you this; God as we see in Christmas is really, really good with problems.

He reiterates that “embodiment of the Christmas story is God is with us, God is with you” as you struggle with your addictions and dysfunction, and that “God is really good at dealing with problems” like the virgin birth. He notes that because he was able to solve the problem of the virgin birth, he can solve the problems in your life.

Because the birth of Jesus was based on ‘movement’, his church service featured interludes like this:

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SBC Megachurch Justifies ‘Willy Wonka Christmas Worship Service’ with Stupidest Bible Twisting Ever

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 epitaphs for a sermon illustration.

Now, as part of their worship service earlier today, immediately after a rendition of Hark the Herald Angel Sing, demonstrating how creative and relevant they are, they perform a modified version of Bow Wow Wow’s I want Candy with a Willy Wonka theme, seamlessly interchanging between “Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth” with “I know a guy who’s tough but sweet. He’s so fine, he can’t be beat. I want candy. I want candy.”

This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain, with the 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.” He reveals after the show:

Welcome to this… I don’t know what to call this anymore. I really don’t. The team does such a great job. Give it up for our creative people, if you would-thank you guys, for making this so much fun.

I guess technically we’d call it a service, it’s a worship service, that’s kind of short for worship service, a service, our Christmas service. But it’s an experience. It’s a Christmas experience. It’s now an event. In fact, I love my friends who don’t do church a lot, the last few years they say, “David, what time are your Christmas shows? What time of your Christmas shows?”

And it used to be I try to reframe that “no, it’s actually a worship..-” Guess what? It’s a show. Yes. Welcome to our Christmas show. And if you’re deeply spiritual that offends you, like we shouldn’t have show. No. We should have a show.

The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.

Note. The I want Candy song was abbreviated, leaving out these lines:

I go to see him when the sun goes down
Ain’t no finer boy in town
You’re my guy, you’re what the doctor ordered
You’re so sweet, you make my mouth water

I want candy
I want candy

Hey

Candy on the beach, there’s nothing better
But I like candy when it’s wrapped in a sweater
Some day soon I’ll make you mine
Then I’ll have candy all the time

I want candy
I want candy

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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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SBC Megachurch Sings Sanitized ‘Astronauts in the Ocean’ Song for Pirate-Themed Church Service

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, an 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch continues its celebration of all things fleshly. Know 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 preformed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration.

Now, as part of their month-long, Pirate-themed church sermon services, they played a cleaned up cover of Masked Wolf’s 2019 hit ‘Astronauts in the Ocean’ for reasons senior pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes explains below:

Happy Spooktacular weekend. If you’re new to the church and you’re confused I get it, most churches don’t do something quite like this. But we just got to wrap our arms around this time of year and embrace the costumes and the spooky and the candy to hopefully entice a lot of families to come check out our church.

…So thanks for being the kind of church that just does this to reach people, man. Thank you for being a ‘whatever it takes’ kind of church. And Jesus says something I thought was so intriguing the same way, the same way., uh you know pirate stories have been around for a long time…

To make it “church friendly” the performers removed a couple curse words from the lyrics, including s****, a few “damn’s’ and the word T.H.O.T (that hoe over there.)

By the way, look how quickly they transition from the show to the worship portion. It’ll give you theological whiplash!

It’s incredible jarring, but goes to show that in the grand scheme of things, it’s all just more of the same; designed to entertain, and not bring glory to the Lord.

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Worship Leader Soars Above Congregants While Singing Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Fly Away’

Juggling the heads of sheep to entertain the goats, FL, an 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch, Church by the Glades, continues its celebration of all things fleshly. Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone they’ve played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, a Kasey Musgraves cover which saw aerial silkists flying above the crowd, and a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration.

In The Power of Small series, we learn that Pastor David Hughes “continues his teaching on Proverbs 3, showing us how to mimic the behavior of the locusts by banding together with like-minded people.”

In a strong case for the Regulative Principle of Worship, the worship band plays Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Fly Away’ as the main singer swings over the crowd, with the only explanation given for the inclusion is that the church likes to “have fun’ and ‘be sensational.’

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SBC Megachurch Covers Kendrick Lamar’s Dirty Rap Song for ‘Sermon Illustration’

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, an 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch continues its celebration of all things fleshly and sinful. Fresh off from doing a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way, they preformed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs.

It’s not the first time the church has engaged in such shenanigans. According to the Dissenter:

(They) made headlines in early 2020 after its pastor, David Hughes, was selected by another Florida pastor, David Uth, to speak at the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. Church by the Glades has been well known for its carnality, worldly appeal, and extravagant performances of secular dance and music including the Stormtrooper Dance, Disney Medleys, and covers of Beyonce’s Freedom.

Other world-worship songs selected by this church and its band include a cover of the pro-LGBTQ Mormon band, Imagine Dragon, and another of Shirley Manson’s band, Garbage.”

They also explain:

One of Lamar’s most popular songs, We Cry Together, contains hundreds of cuss words including the F-word 76 times, the S-word 14 times, the D-word twice, the N-word 23 times, the B-word 43 times, the A-word 13 times, the P-word 4 times, and multitudes of other foul, sexually explicit words.

In this case, the song in question was performed on July 31, 2022 as part of a lesson from the book of Acts. Pastor Charlie Hughes preached the sermon using Acts 27 where Paul had the multi-day storm at sea to engage in an utter and complete narcegesis of the text. He explains why the church used the song:

“(when storms come) We have no choice, we have no other option but to do what this song we just listened to is saying. We must operate with an out-of-pocket outlook. We must approach opposition as opportunity. “

That is a poor and flimsy reason to include it if there ever was one. See the lyrics and video below. The text with lines going through it is what the church edited out, and the bold portions are the lyrics they added in:

N95

Hello, new world, all the boys and girls
I got some true stories to tell
You’re back outside, but they still lied
Whoa, oh, oh, oh (yeah)

Take off the foo-foo
Take off the clout chase
Take off the Wi-Fi
Take off the money phone
Take off the car loan
Take off the flex and the white lies
Take off the weird ass high class jewelry
I’ma take ten steps
Then I’m takin’ off top five
Take off them fabricated streams
And them microwave Instagram memes
It’s a real world outside (take that shit off)
Take off your idols
Take off the runway
I take off to Cairo (take that shit off)
Take off to Saint-Tropez
Five day stay, take a quarter mil’
Hell Well, if I know (take that shit off)
Take off the false flag
Take off perception
Take off the cop with the eye patch (take that shit off)
Take off the unloyal
Take off the unsure
Take off decisions I lack (take it off)
Take off the fake deep
Take off the fake woke
Take off the I’m broke, I care (take it off)
Take off the gossip
Take off the new logic, that if I’m rich, I’m rare (take it off)
Take off the Chanel
Take off the Dolce
Take off the Birkin bag (take it off)
Take all that designer bullshit designer off
And what do you have? (Bitch)

Huh, huh, we louder you ugly as fuck
(You out of pocket)
Huh, two ATMs (hah, hah, hah, hah)
You steppin’ or what? (You out of pocket, huh)
Who you think they talk ’bout?
Talk about us (you out of pocket, shoot, shoot, shoot)
Who you think they copy off? (Brrt, brrt, brrt, brrt)
Copy off us (get back in pocket)

The world in a panic
The women is stranded
The men on a run
The prophets abandoned
The Lord take advantage
The market is crashin’
The industry wants
Niggas and bitches (unintelligible) to sleep in a box
While they makin’ a mockery followin’ us
This ain’t Monopoly
Watchin’ for love
This ain’t monogamy
Watch you get shoved Y’all gettin’ fucked
Jumpin’ on what the heck hell is that?
I gotta relax when I feel (huh, facts)
All of my descendants
They come in my sleep and say I am too real (huh, facts)
I’m done with the personal taking it sensitive sensitive takin’ it personal
Done with the black and the white
The wrong and the right
You hopin’ for change and clericals
I know the feelings that came with burial’s cries (bitch)

Huh, huh, uh, we louder what you ugly as fuck
(You out of pocket)
Huh, two ATMs (hah, hah, hah, hah)
You steppin’ or what? (You out of pocket, huh)
Who you think they talk ’bout?
Talk about us (you out of pocket, shoot, shoot, shoot)
Who you think they copy off?
Copy off us (brrt, brrt, brrt, brrt)

Servin’ up a look, dancin’ in the drought
Hello to the big stepper, never losin’ count
Ventin’ in the safe house, ventin’ in the sa-, ahh

Can I vent all my truth?
I got nothin’ to lose
I got problems and pools
I can swim in my faith
Camera’s movin’ whenever I’m movin’
The family suin’ whatever I make
Money Murder is stackin’, the president actin’
The government taxin’ my funds in the bank
Homies attractin’ the feds
When I’m brackin’, look at my reaction
My pupils on skates (hold up, hold up)
Let’s think about this for a second (let’s go)
Tell me what you would do for aesthetic (let’s go)
Would you sell your soul on credit? (Let’s go)
Would you sell your bro for leverage? (Let’s go)
Where the hypocrites at?
What community feel
They the only ones relevant? (Let’s go)
Where the hypocrites at?
What community feel
They the only ones relevant? (Let’s go)

You outta pocket, yeah, you outta pocket (this shit hard)
You entertain the mediocre, need to stop it (this shit hard)
You entertainin’ old friends when they toxic (this shit hard)
What’s your life like? Bullshit fake friends and gossip (this shit hard)

What the fuck Tell me what is cancel culture, dawg?
Say what I want about you people niggas
I’m like Oprah, dawg
I treat you crackers like I’m Jigga, watch I see you don’t really know me but
I own it all
Oh, you worried ’bout a critic?
That ain’t protocol (bitch)

h/t The Dissenter

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SBC Church Performs Dirty Rap Song During Worship Service

Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, an 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch continues its celebration of all things fleshly and sinful by singing a cover of Run D.M.C’s Walk this Way.

It’s not the first time the church has engaged in such shenanigans. According to the Dissenter:

(They) made headlines in early 2020 after its pastor, David Hughes, was selected by another Florida pastor, David Uth, to speak at the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. Church by the Glades has been well known for its carnality, worldly appeal, and extravagant performances of secular dance and music including the Stormtrooper Dance, Disney Medleys, and covers of Beyonce’s Freedom.

Other world-worship songs selected by this church and its band include a cover of the pro-LGBTQ Mormon band, Imagine Dragon, and another of Shirley Manson’s band, Garbage.”

In this case, the song in question was performed as part of an ongoing sermon series they’re doing titled “80s/90s When MTV Played Music” and the lyrics to the song are very sexual. The song is about a young man who is caught masturbating and his father tells him that as pleasurable as that is, having actual sex will be way better, with the rest of the song talking about his views and experiences with sex. Lots of euphemism and slang abound- down on a muffin, real big bleeder, being with multiple partners in the same family, diddling, kitty, etc.

Now there’s a backseat lover that’s always undercover
And I talk ’til my daddy say
Said, “You ain’t seen nothing ’til you’re down on a muffin“
“And there’s sure to be a change in ways”

Now, there’s a cheerleader that’s a real big bleeder
As far as I can reminisce
But the best thing of loving was her sister and her cousin
And it started with a little kiss, like this

See-saw swinging with the boys in the school
With your feet flying up in the air
Singing “Hey, diddle-diddle with your kitty in the middle
Of the swing like I didn’t care.”

So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn’t me she was fooling ’cause she knew what she was doing
And I knew love was here to stay when she told me to

-h/t to the Dissenter

-Because they know the song is dirty, however, they leave most of the references there, but change two lines from it. Instead of “down on a muffin” they say “get caught bluffing” and instead of “real big bleeder” they say “real big reader.” If you have to change the lyrics of a song to make it PG-13 instead of R-rated, then you probably shouldn’t be singing it in church.