This is part 1 of a multipart series on the pastoral career of Stevie Flockhart of 901 Church in Memphis, Tennessee. A few months ago, Pulpit & Pen was contacted by disaffected members of 901 Church in Memphis, Tennessee. These members made a number of disturbing allegations about 901’s founding pastor, Stevie Flockhart. Given what … Read more
Who out there, among the professing, has had the most deleterious effect on the health of the body of Christ in the year 2023? Using a number of criteria Pulpit & Pen has identified a list of nominees from a pool of eligible individuals (obvious charlatans and the theologically heterodox* were not included for consideration). In … Read more
Jason Paredes is the lead pastor of Fiedler Church, a multi-campus Southern Baptist Church out of Arlington, Texas. He was one of the slim minority of Messengers at the June 2023 Southern Baptist Convention who opposed the disfellowshipping of Saddleback Church. Saddleback, as has been widely reported, was disfellowshipped for appointing a female to the … Read more
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention suffered the embarrassment of learning that the interim CEO of its Executive Committee, Willie McLaurin, was a fraud. This week, Southern Baptists learned that McLaurin’s replacment belongs to a church affiliated with the theologically liberal Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). The church is Woodmont Baptist in Nashville. The replacment is … Read more
Last week, news broke that interim CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, Willie McLaurin, had resigned. The reason? He fabricated his educational credentials. Willie McLaurin rose to the highest executive office in the largest protestant denomination** in the United States with a fake resume. Not only that, he worked for fifteen … Read more
New Season Church in Hiram, Georgia is hosting a leadership summit for Johnny Hunt on September 14th. Along with Hunt, the featured speakers at the summit are Steve Flockhart, the pastor of New Season, and Steven Kyle, the pastor of Hiland Park Baptist Church in Panama City. This is absolutely shameful (well, it would be … Read more
Women should study systematic theology. This is something I thought was obvious to other Christians walking around planet earth. Apparently it isn’t. Some controversy has arisen lately on Twitter (I’m not yet ready to call it “X”) as to whether half of the Christian population should study the various doctrines of Christianity. As far as … Read more
Dear Nancy, I am going to come right out and say this: Seacoast Church is a problem. You need to get yourself and your family out of there immediately. After being saved four years ago you claim to be a sinner, not a saint. I write to tell you that Greg Surratt and Seacoast Church … 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
Rick Warren has issued an apology to Christian women. The retired pastor of Saddleback Church is in the midst of an ideological crusade against the complimentarian theology of the Southern Baptist Convention. After it last met, the SBC kicked out Warren’s church for appointing a female pastor (over and against the Convention’s statement of faith). … Read more
On May 26th 2023, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law The Anti-Homosexual Act. This law not only criminalizes homosexual acts but the promotion of homosexuality itself. The act has overwhelming support in Uganada’s government, having been passed by its parliament by a vote of 348-1. Outside of Uganda, however, the law has been severely … Read more
Last week here at Pulpit & Pen I published a post entitled “Elevation Worship: Manslaughter or Murder” questioning the motivations of music ministers who include Elevation music (and music from other unbiblical organizations) in the worship services at their churches. I concluded that those ministers were in error regardless of their intent and level of … Read more
Do you know the difference between first degree murder and second degree murder? Premediation. In other words, it’s a more serious crime to plan to kill someone and carry through with that plan than to deliberately kill someone in the heat of the moment. Do you know the difference between murder and manslaughter? Intent. It’s … Read more
This Sunday morning, hundreds, if not thousands, of teenage boys and girls will attend services at a North Point Ministries church. These young people are the next generation of the visible church in America. They are the mothers, fathers, Sunday School teachers, and voters of tomorrow. They are being shaped in their Christian worldviews by … Read more
Every business has a busy season. In order to be successful, corporate marketing departments prepare for these busy-seasons long in advance. Advertising space is purchased and sale flyers are printed long before the first sleepy shoppers roll out of bed on Black Friday to do their Christmas shopping. Somewhere along the way, the Evangelical Industrial … Read more
