Tom Buck is a friend of mine. We haven’t always been so friendly, but we seem to have made some kind of amends. So then, let me come along and mess up all that peace and harmony by using him as an example of something that is quite annoying to many of us who aspire … Read more
To James White, “yellow journalism” is any kind of reporting he doesn’t like or is personally critical of him. Terms are fluid to James White, but gender should not be. For whatever reason, White has felt the need to defend Sam Allberry, the (celibate) gay Anglican priest who has encouraged gay people to have physical … Read more
Steven Anderson, the highly controversial pastor from Tempe – a suburb of Phoenix – is in a heated back-and-forth with Jeff Durbin, a self-styled “hipster pastor” who is best known for booze, tattoos, and Calvinism. Anderson is best known for being tased by the border guards, some pretty insane sermon rants, and being banned from … Read more
Calvinism is a doctrine of devils. They think babies go to hell and don’t believe in evangelism. Their trinity is the Father, Son, and John Calvin. Or so some would have you think. A new documentary has been created to expose what its creators feel is a dangerous doctrine commonly known as Calvinism. Created by … Read more
The heresy of Pelagianism is named after its founder, Pelagius of the (354-420). Pelagius argued that Original Sin (the Fall of Mankind in Adam) did not so corrupt man’s nature that it left man incapable of choosing God and salvation without a special work of God in or through him. In other words, Pelagius believed … Read more
Steven Furtick, who named a book “Unqualified” in reference to John MacArthur’s assessment of him, preached a sermon from a non-existent Bible verse. Oddly enough, before preaching from the verse as though it were Inspired Writ (and allegorizing the text at that), Furtick acknowledged that the older (and better) manuscripts do not have the verse. … Read more
Steven Furtick goes on a 49-second rampage stating that the devil “ties us up” because “he is so afraid of what might happen to him if we got loose,” because we are just “so important to God’s purpose.” For more on Steven Furtick, see here: Discernment Database – Steven Furtick
“I’ve heard of the strength of Jesus. I’ve heard about the sovereignty of Jesus…Nobody ever talks about how sneaky Jesus was. You’re looking at me strange…” Charismatics have been adding to the attribtues of God. Usually, when someone speaks of the nature of God, they stick to attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, immutability, sovereignty, or … Read more
In the video below, Steven Furtick, pastor of Elevation Church, admits that one of his pastors is “prone to exaggeration” about baptism numbers. In other words, they lie about it. See the video for yourself below: HT: Is Not Satire
You can hear the nightclub-type sounds coming from the doors of Elevation Church campus in Winston-Salem. Some well-meaning and seemingly reasonable open air evangelists were politely handing out tracts with the face and words of Charles Spurgeon. This is, in reality, a great idea, considering that a long line of young people waiting to get … Read more
Steven Furtick’s transition from string-bean adolescent preacher to muscled, vein-bulging inspirational speaker hasn’t been his only evolution. The preacher chords he added as musical accompaniment on cue to his preaching and his increasingly African American stylistic vocal inflections have created a celebrity pastor almost unrecognizable to his former self. One of the few things that … Read more
Greg Locke, an Internet-famous pastor from Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, admitted to his 1.6 million Facebook followers that he had indeed been in the midst of a divorce, after we wrote about the situation here. In the aforementioned video from Locke, he acknowledges the divorce, but claims that he was not in adultery. When I spoke … Read more
Yes. Yes, we know it sounds stupid. That’s because it is stupid. Jared Moore – the former Second VP of the Southern Baptist Convention – has also claimed to find Gospel themes in Harry Potter, and wrote a “Harry Potter Bible Study,” which we wrote about back in 2013. This time, Moore took to SBC … Read more
At the weekly skinny jeans convention known as Elevation ‘Church,’ Steven Furtick had an audience member come up, dress like Waldo, and find Waldo in a screen projected on stage. Furtick likened Waldo to Christ, and then went on a Waldo-infused tirade. Calling a volunteer, “Wade,” out of the audience, Furtick said it would … Read more
It’s not the Babylon Bee satire site. It’s just another day in the life of Steven Furtick. Fiction couldn’t be any more absurd than the reality at Elevation ‘Church.’ Furtick released a video in which he exposits his relationship with Alexa, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant created and marketed by Amazon. In what appears to … Read more
