The Baptist Press features an article highlighting the March 6 Harvest America crusade in Texas (and worldwide via live-streaming) led by megachurch pastor Greg Laurie. The article, entitled Harvest America Event Sees 25,000 Professions of Faith, includes a summary of these “professions”: Event organizers reported that 6,300 in attendance [at the AT&T Stadium gathering] responded … Read more
Evangelical pastor of Harvest Church, Greg Laurie, is the latest in a string of evangelicals who have declared the devout, professing Roman Catholic, Marco Rubio, a genuine believer. The trend started when the SBC Company Man™, Dave Miller, posted a video of Marco Rubio giving his conversion to Catholicism testimony at a political rally and declared … Read more
A movie about the “Jesus People” movement is coming to the big screen in the form of Lionsgate’s Jesus Revolution. Inspired by the true story of the national spiritual awakening in the early 1970s and its origins within a bunch of teenaged hippies in Southern California. Deadline is reporting that: Gaffigan is Chuck Smith, the … Read more
Jeff Lasseigne, a pastor at Greg Laurie’s Harvest Christian Center, recently put out a video of him asking a statue of Pope Francis to pray with him for the upcoming Harvest Crusades. https://youtu.be/WTS18LqO2Rs This man is greatly deceived if he believes the Pope, in real form or in statue form, has any ability to intercede … Read more
Harvest America, with Greg Laurie, is coming to AT&T stadium near my house. This has sparked a lot of conversation lately for me. The conversation tends to end the same way each time. It ends with a question similar to this one, “If there are people that get saved what is wrong with calling people … Read more
(June 22, 2016 – Update: This article has been updated to include the following comments from Phil Johnson of Grace To You. They are included with his permission. The original article continues following the screen shot below.) Greg Laurie’s promotion of his Harvest Ministries upcoming crusade in Georgia, scheduled for September 23-25, 2016, has … Read more
**Editor’s Note – This post first appeared at the Berean Examiner’s blog at Pirate Christian’s site, and has been reposted here with permission. Pulpit & Pen would also like to add that Greg Laurie will be a featured speaker at the 2016 Southern Baptist Pastor’s Conference. We have covered the sliding trajectory the SBC has taken … Read more
In the Halcyon days of Pulpit & Pen, new articles came out every day. There were multiple writers contributing back then and if nothing was getting published JD Hall would inform us quickly that “the website was growing cobwebs”. Unfortunately, the site has had cobwebs for a few years now; it’s just me writing. Between … Read more
Adulterous and unqualified Pastor Greg Locke, recently gone viral for his threats to kick in the teeth of a Dunkin Donut worker who allegedly called him a liar and forced him to wear a mask or leave the establishment, has stuck his toe yet again in the news cycle by claiming that Democratic Nominee for … Read more
A megachurch in California, once battling for the right to have church services and stay open, is now battling to not go to prison or be fined into oblivion, as California prosecutors have levied threats of criminal charges for each individual congregation members, amounting to thousands of individual $1000 fines and jail time for up … Read more
A judge who issued a restraining order against a California church opening during the pandemic and who threatened to arrest and fine the first 1000 people who showed up, had his plans thwarted when another church came to rescue, with members driving over 150 miles to attend the service and be counted as among the … Read more
Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church brought the house down when he opened up his service with an iconic introduction to his congregation, leading to 20 seconds of raucous cheering and clapping, even as California law enforcement agencies looked on and took pictures and collected evidence of the church in defiance of the states … Read more
We’ve written at length about the disgraced, self-appointed, adulterous, and unqualified Tennessee “pastor” Greg Locke. Locke is the founder of his own church, Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet Tennessee, and was most notable for being a popular internet pundit before making news by divorcing his wife of 20 years and marrying his secretary. You can … Read more
Two robbers are dead and another is on the run, possibly wounded, after three men stormed into the Querencia Ministries church in Wierda Park, Centurion, during a service on Sunday and proceeded to rob the congregants at gunpoint. The Pastor of the South African Church, Kobus Erasmus, was pistol-whipped by the thieves and suffered injuries … Read more
A “Baptist pastor” who gave the congregation the shock of their lives when he announced during a sermon that he was coming out as a “transgendered woman” (see video below) has been fired by the church in what came down to a nail-biter vote. The “right Reverend” Justin Joplin of Lourne Park Baptist Church in … Read more
