Pulpit & Pen was notified last week that Jackie Hill Perry had been disinvited from the upcoming Answers in Genesis Conference. This follows on the heels of a controversy two weekends ago, after Perry endorsed Jenn Johnson of Bethel Church and later defended her actions by claiming that Word-Faith theology isn’t heretical. After receiving emails … Read more
James Dobson, the 83-year-old founder and president of Family Talk, has seen the handwriting on the wall in regards to Marxism invading America, and he took to his newsletter in August to warn against leftists corrupting America through the sinister ideology. Dobson, who holds 17 honorary doctorate degrees and is an inductee to the National … Read more
In a show of Christlike compassion, a Southern Baptist megachurch is sending mission teams to the Texas-Mexican border to help show love to overwhelmed border guards who are being demonized in the media and unappreciated by our populace. Prestonwood Baptist Church, pastored by Jack Graham, decided to send a mission team to hand out food, … Read more
Jack Graham, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, preached on Sunday that socialism is incompatible with Christianity. He did so in a televised sermon, and he pulled no punches. Graham, who threatened to pull more than a million dollars in his church’s funding from the ERLC because of Russell Moore’s leftism, pulled no … Read more
Kentucky press outlets are now reporting that Bobby J. Blackburn, pastor of the Elevate Church in Prestonsburg, was arrested and charged with using an electronic communication system to get a minor to commit a sex act. Blackburn is still featured prominently on the church’s website. And yes, the church does seem to be an attempted … Read more
James White, the “Scholar in Residence” at Apologia Church and host of The Dividing Line podcast, had some tough words for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He posted the following on his public Facebook page. He wrote… I received an email soliciting donations for the Southern Baptist ERLC (The … Read more
I’m not worried about churches that hide Easter eggs for kids once a year – I’m worried about churches that hide the Gospel from people every week. – Clayton Pruett Dr. Jack Graham’s Prestonwood Baptist Church is having their annual Easter Egg Drop – in which they dump thousands of eggs out of a helicopter for an egg … Read more
Today, Jack Graham will speak at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a group of students plan a Baptist-style soft protest to demonstrate how entitled they think they are to his church’s money. Graham is pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas-area megachurch that recently voted to escrow funds ordinarily designated to the Cooperative Program (CP), which … Read more
To My Fellow Students, I hope you can agree with me on something – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is the best seminary in the world. I’ve been a student there since 2009, slowing working towards my MDiv in Christian Apologetics. As a distance learning student, most of my classes have been at the Johnson … Read more
Imagine the scandal. A former Democratic staffer who has been called “an open border zealot” by the press, who moonlights for a George Soros-funded pro-illegal immigration think tank, and who has repeatedly attacked border security as inherently unchristian, signs a brief on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention to help get a Mosque built in New … Read more
“Southern Baptists have made a golden calf of the program… It’s almost easier to be against the virgin birth than the program.” Adrian Rogers, 1982 In the wake of the announcements that Prestonwood Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Morristown have decided to suspend their Cooperative Program giving, I thought it important to provide some … Read more
Another day, another report about the problems in the Southern Baptist Convention. According to The Message, the official newspaper of Louisiana Baptists, a story reported on February 16, 2017 that former Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham, pastor of the 41,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, has led his congregation to suspend the church’s support … Read more
On December 19th, 2016, despite the best efforts of Russell Moore, the Electoral College of the United States affirmed Donald J. Trump as the nation’s 45th president. Moore, the President of the Ethics and Religious Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (ERLC), ardently opposed the candidacy of Trump on moral grounds in the months leading … Read more
“All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.” Judges 2:10 People forget. No matter what type of scandalous enterprises come to light, there seem to be those people in society who are continually … Read more
“If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by His Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.” Charles Spurgeon Sometimes believers are blessed in our … Read more
