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Dr. Michael Brown Joining Famed ‘Leg Lengthening’ Huckster Todd White For Joint Ministry Event

Years ago, Jim Osman (author of God Doesn’t Whisper) called into Michael Brown’s show and criticized him for platforming the worst of the worst of charismatic ne’er do wells, telling him, “I would say that you have given a lot of shade,(cover) in fact, shade to some of the worst and most egregious charismatics, charlatans, false prophets, and hucksters that the charismatic movement has turned up in recent years, including Sid Roth and Benny Hinn and others just like it.” 

Osman was not wrong, however, and it’s a problem. Brown routinely platforms, partners with, and promotes false prophets and teachers- the worst of the worst- making thin and indefensible excuses along the way.

Case in point:

Brown is joining Todd White for ‘Truth over Tradition’ for a two-day at White’s Lifestyle Christianity training center, where they will ‘gather for worship, training, and equipping in the Word and presence of God.’

White is perhaps best known for his dreadlocks and his debunked leg-lengthening scam, which is nothing more than pure, calculated and intentional deception.

This is in addition to the fact that Todd White is routinely unsound in his teaching. He has insisted he hasn’t told a lie in nearly 20 years, since the day he was saved, claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross, sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, famously taught that God’s in bed with you watching porn and wants to be your ‘climax’, and recently said that God wants to have ‘intercourse’ with us.

Leading figures in Christian discernment, like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough, have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed. We absolutely concur and believe strongly that the extent of demonic possession over this man is more profound and apparent than most.

Unlike the misled youth pastor down at the Assembly of God who might get carried away with old wives’ tales of the goofy-miraculous, White is not an ordinary charismatic. White engages in parlor trickery that must be learned, practiced, and honed. His leg-lengthening stunts, mentalism, cold readings, and street-level “healings” are all tricks learned and mastered by secular magicians.

He has not just ignorantly bought into a Sid-Roth-Style charismaticism; he has had 100% knowledge that the tricks he regularly employs to make him famous are manufactured and manipulative.

Brown had been directly confronted with evidence of White’s shenanigans, but has repeatedly brushed it off, saying “All I can say that my knowledge of Todd , behind the scenes and him being raw and open, everything he’s done is sincere.”

In short, Todd White is the worst of tricksters and miracle hustlers. His career has been to dupe religious types and gullible people into believing he is sincere. Brown is in on the con, promoting, partnering, and platforming him, thereby sharing in his evil deeds.

Truly, a match made in hell.

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Todd White Says He Hasn’t Told a Lie in 18 Years

Pastor, evangelist, and Leg-Lengthener Extrordinare Todd White continues to offer novel interpretations of the bible and assessments of his own spiritual walk, recently claiming that he hasn’t told a lie in nearly 20 years, since the day he was saved.

For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. 

Since then, he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross, sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, famously taught that God’s in bed with you watching porn and wants to be your ‘climax’, and recently said that God wants to have ‘intercourse’ with us.

In a recent interview on ‘How to cruficy your flesh’, White, who teaches Christian perfection is achievable in this lifetime, explains:

When you talk to somebody they’ll box themselves in to a place and if you wait long enough it’s really obvious ‘here’s the lie.’ So what we need to do is we need to train our own soul in the truth so that the spirit of counsel can be on our life, so that when you hear that lie you can bring the truth into that lie.

So I’ve honestly, I’ve been saved for 18 years- I have not lied for 18 years because it’s sin to me. When I found out that Satan is the father of lies and I found out that God is my father, I’m not partnerinf with the Father of Lies for one more moment in my life forever. It’s not going to happen.

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Todd White Says Jesus’ Disciples Weren’t Saved or Born Again

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:11-13

Pastor, evangelist, and Leg-Lengthener Extrordinare Todd White continues to offer his own novel interpretations of the bible, claiming that the disciples were not saved or born again.

For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. Since then, he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross, sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, and taught that “God’s in bed with you watching porn and wants to be your ‘climax’.

In a newly unearthed video* he explains:

“When I prayed the devil ran away! Look at me”- The disciples prayed and the devils ran away and they weren’t even saved”

and

“You are greatly deceived because the disciples prayed for the sick and weren’t even born again.”

This was echoed in something he said 6 years ago:

Leading figures in Christian discernment, like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough, have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed. We absolutely concur and believe strongly that, along with Kenneth Copeland and Todd Bentley, the extent of demonic possession over this man is more profound and apparent than most.

Unlike the misled youth pastor down at the Assembly of God who might get carried away with old wives’ tales of the goofy-miraculous, White is not an ordinary charismatic. White engages in parlor trickery that must be learned, practiced, and honed. His leg-lengthening stunts, mentalism, cold readings, and street-level “healings” are all tricks learned and mastered by secular magicians.

He has not just ignorantly bought into a Sid-Roth-Style charismaticism; he has had 100% knowledge that the tricks he regularly employs to make him famous are manufactured and manipulative. Todd White is the worst of tricksters and miracle hustlers. His career has been to dupe religious types and gullible people into believing he is sincere, and he does it repeatedly.

Making up theology about the disciples is more of the same.

h/t Sean at Revealing Truth on YouTube for the vid.

*These clips are way shorter than we like, as we like to offer more robust context. We’re working on getting access. If/once we do, this post will be updated accordingy.

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Todd White Posts Fake Leg-Lengthening Video Ft. Young Children

Charismatic evangelist and professional cold-reader and leg-lengthener Todd White has re-upped one of his greatest hits on his website, posting a video of him doing a fake-miracle parlor trick on a group of teens.

For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. Since then, he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross and sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, showing that he’s sketchy as ever.

Leading figures in Christian discernment, like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough, have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed. We absolutely concur and believe strongly that, along with Kenneth Copeland and Todd Bentley, the extent of demonic possession over this man is more profound and apparent than most.

Unlike the misled youth pastor down at the Assembly of God who might get carried away with old wives’ tales of the goofy-miraculous, White is not an ordinary charismatic. White engages in parlor trickery that must be learned, practiced, and honed. His leg-lengthening stunts, mentalism, cold readings, and street-level “healings” are all tricks learned and mastered by secular magicians.

He has not just ignorantly bought into a Sid-Roth-Style charismaticism; he has had 100% knowledge that the tricks he regularly employs to make him famous are manufactured and manipulative.

In the case of leg lengthening, White claims that someone’s in some pain because their legs are different lengths, and he can fix it by having them grow. He has them sit in a chair and shows the discrepancy, flashing the camera a closeup to prove his point. However, the con has already begun because of the way and angle he holds the legs in the first place. White then manipulates the leg, ankle, hip, and shoe, saying spiritual words and pleading ‘in Jesus’ name’ while pulling, tweaking, and rotating until voila, healing! The leg has been regrown.

In short, Todd White is the worst of tricksters and miracle hustlers. His career has been to dupe religious types and gullible people into believing he is sincere, and he does it repeatedly.

h/t to Brother John Elving on YT, who does a longer video with commentary, as well as uses measurement tools to show White is engaging in pure manipulation.

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Todd White Posts Fake Leg-Lengthening Video in 2022

Charismatic evangelist and professional cold-reader and leg-lengthener Todd White has re-upped one of his greatest hits on his website, posting days ago a video of him doing a fake-miracle parlor trick.

For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. Since then, he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross and sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, showing that he’s just as sketchy as ever.

Leading figures in Christian discernment like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed. We absolutely concur and believe strongly that, along with Kenneth Copeland and Todd Bentley, the extent of demonic possession over this man is more profound and apparent than most.

Unlike the misled youth pastor down at the Assembly of God who might get carried away with old wives’ tales of the goofy-miraculous, White is not an ordinary charismatic. White engages in parlor trickery that must be learned, practiced, and honed. His leg-lengthening stunts, his mentalism and cold-readings, and his street-level “healings” are all tricks learned and mastered by secular magicians. He has not just ignorantly bought into a Sid-Roth-Style charismaticism; he has had 100% knowledge that the tricks he regularly employs to make him famous are manufactured and manipulative.

When Todd White walks up to a person with a limp and says, “The Spirit tells me you have a hurt ankle,” and then rubs his hands together violently (to create heat from friction) and then “lays hands” on the cripple’s skin he 100% knows what he’s doing when he then asks, “Does it feel warm? It’s working! It’s working!” and claims a miracle took place.

In the case of leg lengthening, White claims that someone’s in some pain on account of their legs being different lengths, and he can fix it by having them grow. He has them sit in a chair and shows them the discrepancy, flashing the camera a closeup to prove his point. However, the con has already begun because of the way and angle he holds the legs in the first place. White then manipulates the leg, ankle, hip, and shoe, saying spiritual words and pleading ‘in Jesus name’ while pulling, tweaking, and rotating until voila, healing! The leg has been regrown.

In short, Todd White is the worst of tricksters and miracle-hustlers. His career has been to dupe religious types and gullible people into believing he is sincere, and he does it over an dover again.

h/t Brother John Elving

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David Platt Joining Arch Heretic Todd White for New Conference

Either David Platt’s speaking fees are ridiculously low, or he just really likes to partner with questionable characters within the Christian world. Perhaps it’s a little of both? How else can you explain his perchance to travel the country and speak at seemingly every Christianish conference that throws an invite his way?

We wrote about his last two ones here and here, and now we have the worst one yet, with Platt speaking at 2022 Send Conference.

The Send Lead Pastor Summit, billed in conjunction with decidedly charismatic Azuza Now, was conceived in 2011 when, according to their promo material, “The Lord spoke to the leaders of The Call through a group of YWAM (Youth With A Mission) missionaries that a shift was coming that would give birth to a new sending movement, as a beginning fulfillment to their years of prayer and fasting.” They further note that:

We believe the only way to see nation-wide impact is through uncommon collaboration. That’s why Circuit Riders, Lou Engle Ministries, Youth With A Mission, Lifestyle Christianity, Christ For All Nations, Jesus Image, Dunamis Movement, Crazy Love, and many others are uniting together to form THE SEND.

  • We have YWAM and its subsidiary Circuit Riders, who focus on reaching high schools and universities with an emphasis on intense, fully immersed missionary work. They accept missionaries and volunteers from all denominations, including Roman Catholic, and are all charismatic.
  • Lou Engle is the founder of the “Azusa Now: The Call. Engle emerged from the Kansas City Prophets and Latter Rain movement, and was a senior leader of IHOP (International House of Prayer).  Engle’s Azusa Now signs and wonders revival was inspired by dreams, visions and extra-biblical prophecies, and he also welcomes Roman Catholics into the mission.
  • Christ For All Nations is the massive organization formerly led by Reinhard Bonnke and now By Daniel Kolenda, who has claimed to have personally led more than 22 million people to Christ, as well as as having performed tons of miracles, including healing cancer, blindness, deafness, paralysis, regrowing limbs, and the like.
  • Lifestyle Christianity, led by Todd White, prolific faith healer and prosperity gospel teacher who is currently taking three months off to recover from a bad heart condition, even though he teaches that bad hearts and sickness come from the devil himself, and that God always desires and will heal sickness if you have faith.
  • Jesus Image, led by Michael and Jessica Koulianos, frequently collaborators with Benny Hinn and are run-of-the-mill hyper charismatic/ you must receive the second bapstim in the spirit sort of ministry. They do, interestingly, have a bizarre statement of faith about God and the Trinity that raises a few eyebrows.
  • Crazy Love, led by Francis Chan, who has fully embraced every false teacher who can think of, and who was last seen healing an entire village without the Holy Spirit, butchering church history, and speaking at a Roman Catholic conference.

The fact that Platt feels completely comfortable in such an environment, speaking alongside them with nary a rebuke or word of caution to be found, ought to lead the reader to surmise that any biblical discernment he claims to hold to be seriously, seriously wanting, and he’s not to be viewed or regarded as a trustworthy leader or teacher.

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Todd White on Medical Leave for 3 Months After Major Health Issue

Charismatic evangelist and professional cold-reader and leg-lengthener Todd White has announced that he’s on 90 days bed rest, on account of a problem with his heart, and that this would be a good time to sow into his ministry.

For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. Since then he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross and sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, showing that he’s just as sketchy as ever.

In a message posted to YouTube he explains:

Hey guys, it’s Todd White at Lifestyle Christianity. As you guys know, we’re doing a campaign called Expand 22. Unfortunately, for the beginning of this campaign, I had an issue come up with my heart. I haven’t been here at the training center, I haven’t been able to preach like I want to, I haven’t been able to speak like I want to.

I’m actually on 90 days of bed rest. Well, medical rest, the doctor said. Anyway, I had some kind of some kind of virus come in and weaken the left ventricle side of my heart, because I’m a big advocate of working out, big advocate of cardio exercise and healthy eating, which I still am. But it caused my left side of my heart to get weak, and so the pumping capacity was at 20%.

My heart is on the mend. It’s actually better than it was. I’m only 60 days out from being fully released to be able to go and preach the gospel and do everything that I’m called to do, and that is going across America, bringing the power and loves, (and?) making LCU as strong as it can possibly be.

And we want to bring God’s kingdom right here, right now. We want to see America saved but we need you guys to help partner. Please help us right now with this Expand 22, we really need help, we need you to sow now. Go to lifestylechristianity.com, look for Expand 22 and sow your seed now.

Bless you, we love you. Help us if we’ve helped you. Love you

Todd is on record as saying that all sickness comes from hell and Satan, and that it’s always God’s will to heal. He’s also claimed to heal hundreds if not thousands of people from muteness, blindness, cancer, bad backs, crippling arthritis, inability to walk, deafness, etc.

That this is a curveball in his own theology is an understatement. Still, we pray for his salvation and his healing.

h/t Shawn from Revealing Truth

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Todd White Church Samples Aerosmith As a Worship Song

During Todd White’s October 24th Encounter Night, the worship band featuring Jake Hamilton broke into a rendition of Aerosmith’s ‘Dream On‘ on account of the anointing Hamilton felt in the church service, and as a way to encourage the people there to dream again and to ‘dream with God’. He even did the famous falsetto during the cover.

It’s more theological tomfoolery from White, who many had thought had repudiated his goofy behavior after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. He was last seen explaining that Jesus BECAME Child Por******* and Bestia**** on the Cross.

Hamilton told the congregants after the song:

“I feel like there’s an anointing in the place. I felt it since last weekend. That’s why I wanted to sing this song because I was like, hey, listen. We need new ideas. We need innovators to rise up.’  And I feel like God is marking innovators and inventors. He’s awakening your dreams. And I just want you to begin to speak your dreams out- the crazy stuff.

I just want you to begin to speak the thing you thought you were going to be when you were eight years old. I want you to just begin to speak those things out. Begin to just dream with God for a minute. Disciples are ones who dream with God. A disciple is one who dreams of God. A disciple is one who can dream with God.

I want to dream the dream of heaven with you. Untie myself from earth and see what we can do. Oh God I want to dream with you. Untie me from this baggage and let’s see what we can do. Awaken the dreamers”  

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Todd White Says Devil Can’t Do Miracles and Teaches Us a New Charismatic Expression

A Todd White sermon has brought us a couple of little tidbits of bad theology and has broadened our vocabulary by teaching us some charismatic jargon, giving us an inside school of what happens during a youth conference when everyone is at full throttle.

Last year there was hope that White had repented of his false gospel when he specifically said in a message, “I feel like I’ve just seen something completely brand new! This is hard for people, huh? It’s hard for me. It’s hard for me because I feel like I haven’t preached the whole gospel. And I repent. I repent,” but then within a few days, he clarified that he didn’t really mean it like that.

In a message given to his church, White teaches that it is a demonic doctrine to teach that any healing signs and wonders might be caused by the devil, insisting that he cannot have anything to do with it. He says that all sickness comes from the devil and is “twisted” and stupid to say that God might use sickness to build character.

…It’s demonic doctrine to say that if someone prays for healing and they get healed, the devil did it. If I’m praying in Jesus’ name for somebody to get healed, and they get healed, and the devil did it, we all pack our bags.

If I’m praying in the mighty name of Jesus, for someone’s deaf ear to open and it does, the devil had nothing to do with it except run. Run! I must run out of this here right now and get out of here. That’s the only thing he had to do with it; leave.

When someone gets healed, all healing comes from God. All sickness comes from hell. 2000 years ago all sickness came from the devil. 2000 years later, people have come up with all kinds of things. Well, no, God does it because he wants to make you a better person. God’s trying to build character – look, God doesn’t have to make you sick to build character in you. That’s so twisted and so stupid.

By now our readers naturally have a couple of bible verses ringing in their ears. A few that come to mind:

  • Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness…’  Matthew 7:22-23
  • For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect,” Matt. 24:24
  • The LORD furthermore said to him, ‘Now put your hand into your bosom.’ So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow… Exodus 4:6
  • And the Lord said to him, ‘Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?” Exodus 4:11
  • Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope Romans 5:3-4

Further taking shots at discernment ministries who have a habit of covering the things that Todd does, he suggests there is no ability to compartmentalize, and says those who spend their time exposing false teachers have no relationship with Christ and are leading others to hell:

And if you are religious without relationship person, you will study the Word, to find the ways that you can expose all the false teachers that are out there and not realize that you’re actually leading people to hell. I say that, again. It feels so good inside as you study religion, but you do not have intimacy or relationship. God did not create you to have a relationship with a book. God did not create you to have relationship with a book. I am not to have a relationship with a book. It’s not God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Bible.

That aside, he then goes on to describe a service he attended at “Apostle Maldonado’s church.” If that name sounds familiar to you, we wrote about Pastor Guillermo Maldonado and his prophetess wife here, recounting how he and his wife have 120 million dollars in assets to figure out, the fruits of his heavy emphasis on the prosperity gospel and.

You know, I just came back from Apostle Maldonado’s church…at a youth conference, where there was like 2500 kids. 2500 kids!…Crazy, crazy stuff. But the youth I saw such a hunger for purity and power…yesterday, after my session…I said, ‘let’s lay hands on all these kids.’

And so they brought them up. They call it a ‘Typewriter’- where you bring people up to the front. But literally, it’s like and old fashioned typewriter [makes hand gestures an sound effects of typing, and every keystroke results in a child being ‘slain in the spirit’ and dropping].

And kids were flying everywhere. Little kids. Jesus was landing on the youth in such a powerful,
fiery way. They were getting baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire. I mean, like, power, power. It was absolutely crazy.

h/t to Revealing Truth

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‘Pastor’ Todd White Ministry Merges to Form New Church

Evangelist Todd White has announced that he’s merging his Lifestyle Christianity Church with Risen Nation Church, taking on the role of a Senior Leader of the ministry and Pastor within the new multi-site campus, with former employee and now partner William Hinn becoming Senior Pastor.

For years Todd White traveled the world as a prosperity preacher and faith healer, head of his own ministry, but always as an evangelist. Since the normally traveling evangelist has been grounded during the pandemic, White focused on his family – 5 kids ranging from 24 years old to 2 – and his own ministry, forming Lifestyle Christianity Church in September of 2020, ordaining himself to be the new senior pastor.

That season [as pastor] has been absolutely wonderful for me. You know, I stepped into being pastor, and so it’s always been weird for me to like, hear people say, ‘Pastor Todd, Pastor Todd…’

White will be merging his church with Risen Nation Church on August 1 – itself barely two years old, and the church will operate under that moniker, having two campuses in the city. Excited for the event and moved to tears,
White says their new church will unleash the miraculous in an unprecedented fashion.

You know we’re gonna go after the supernatural like never before. We’re gonna see miracles, signs, wonders, the prophetic words of knowledge. We’re going to see the most outrageous miracles that DFW [Dallas–Fort Worth] has ever seen, let alone the body of Christ has ever seen. We’re going to go after this together and it’s going to be beautiful.

Last year there was hope that White had repented of his false gospel when he specifically said in a message, “I feel like I’ve just seen something completely brand new! This is hard for people, hunh? It’s hard for me. It’s hard for me because I feel like I haven’t preached the whole gospel. And I repent. I repent,” but then within a few days, he clarified that he didn’t really mean it like that.