Who says Reformed Pastors can’t engage in theatrics? Last week PCA Pastor Greg Johnson, who recently published his gay coming out article with the help of Christianity Today, put on quite a performance for his applauding brothers at General Assembly. Pastor Johnson delivered a speech full of victimology, identity politics, and blame with the aim … Read more
Baptism. Communion. Potluck. These are all sacraments, right? Well, technically no. Believe it or not, potluck is not the third ordinance of the New Testament Church. Although, that doesn’t mean it’s not important. Hear me out. THE DECLINE OF POTLUCK Churches across America used to do potluck ubiquitously. It was just a part of congregational … Read more
Many Biblical conservatives are awakening and disturbed to find social justice indoctrination happening in their own seminaries. As revealed in 2017 – a massive effort to introduce the social justice /victim narratives of far left “Christianity” began in late 2007-2009 and scaled up in 2013 to include some 23 conservative evangelical seminaries. The Kern Family … Read more
Last night I published an article reporting that Summit Church in North Carolina, which is pastored by Southen Baptist Convention President JD Greear, was charging admission to it’s Good Friday service. In less than 24 hours and during a period of typically low weekend readership, that article has already been shared over 700 times. Reaction … Read more
Today is Good Friday, the anniversary of Jesus’ death on the cross. Given the significance of this day, as well as the general interest that surrounds Easter Weekend, many churches choose to hold special “Good Friday” evening worship services. One such church is Summit Church, a multi-campus organization based in North Carolina. Summit is led … Read more
By Toni Brown Michael Horton headlines the Valued Conference 2019 on sexual abuse. Given the recent and no doubt opportunistically timed controversies regarding so-called rampant sexual abuse in protestant churches, some may consider this more than appropriate – I say not so fast. Firstly, this is nothing new, especially considering the vast number of false converts in the church, and it’s … Read more
Pulpit & Pen is regularly accused of writing exaggerated clickbaiting headlines.** I have no doubt that someone saw the one above and disregarded it as so far-fetched that this article didn’t warrant a click. How I wish this headline was an exaggeration. It’s not. This week the US Senate voted on a Republican Bill that would have … Read more
The Archdiocese of New York found molestation accusations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick to be credible. On July 28, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as his molestation against both minors and adult seminarians came to light. Although a new case of abuse is about to break, the molestation originally in question was McCarrick’s rape of an … Read more
If anyone preaches, let him preach as one who speaks oracles of God…1 Peter 4:11 There was a time when pastors stood upon pulpits as the congregation peered up at him behind the Sacred Desk. He stood there because that is from where he lifted up his voice in exultation of God and exposition of … Read more
Angels We Have Heard on High is a classic Christmas Hymn that tells the story, as recounted in Luke 2, of the chorus of angels that appeared in the region of Bethlehem to announce Christ’s birth and proclaim God’s glory. Let it Go is the most popular song from the hit Disney animated film Frozen. It tells the story of a queen … Read more
JD Greear is the President of the Southern Baptist Convention and the pastor of The Summit Church, a nine campus church based in North Carolina. This Sunday, his church won’t be meeting. Greear has encouraged his congregation to worship at home. There are no services at our campus locations this weekend. This is a great … Read more
[HuffPo] The level of trust Americans have in clergy members has dropped to a record low, a recent Gallup survey suggests. The polling organization found that only 37 percent of 1,025 respondents had a “very high” or “high” opinion of the honesty and ethical standards of clergy, according to a report published on Thursday. Forty-three percent … Read more
[Conservative Review] Another child has died while in government custody at the border, and yet again, the open-borders crowd is using the death to score political points against the Trump administration. In this most recent tragedy, an eight-year-old boy from Guatemala died early Christmas day at a New Mexico hospital, after a Border Patrol agent noticed that … Read more
Fred Butler was called by Brannon Howse the “Grace to You Mailroom Guy.” Butler is more than that. He’s the unofficial resident blogger at Grace to You, who for some reason heads up GTY’s Senior Citizen volunteer division (or something like that) instead of doing what seems to make far more sense, which is writing … Read more
[LMT Online] A Houston group that projected the message “Jesus was a migrant” onto the walls of several Houston buildings says leaders of Lakewood Church summoned police to remove its crew from a public sidewalk. Over three hours Sunday evening, members of Indivisible Houston projected the message onto a wall at Discovery Green park and on buildings … Read more
