Anyone paying attention to wider evangelicalism – and especially that represented in the Southern Baptist Convention – is well aware of a dramatic shift in focus and tone on social issues. When Albert Mohler repented of the notion of reparative therapy (the idea that through Biblical counseling a homosexual could break their addiction to unnatural … Read more
Here are the facts regarding the endless virtue signaling of evangelicals in relationship to the current (and manufactured) immigration “crisis” regarding children being separated from parents. First, people who invade our country illegally should be detained until they can be tried and dealt with according to the law. Second, we do not want to incarcerate … Read more
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has been at the forefront of the Social Justice Wars of the SBC in recent months and years. A promoter of Critical Race Theory and Marxist Intersectionality, president Danny Akin has installed an Affirmative Action wing for the seminary – called the Department of Kingdom Diversity – and has promoted the … Read more
Sovereign Grace Ministries is an evangelical mega-church comprised of numerous campuses and churches throughout the United States, with branches in Australia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Germany, and Mexico. Once known as “People of Destiny International,” the group began to call itself “Sovereign Grace Ministries” in 2003. Started by a “Charismatic Catholic,” Larry Tomczak, the organization … Read more
I hung up the phone with Benjamin Blankenship on Sunday night agitated. Blankenship is the pastor of Benchmark Church in Oliver Springs, TN. This Thursday he is to feature the disgraced preacher Greg Locke as a headline speaker at the revival services at his church. I informed Blankenship that Locke was divorcing his wife against … Read more
The world is shocked upon hearing that there is a seedy world of priests at the Vatican who pay for sex with other males. But given the history of the Roman Catholic Church and its tragic celibacy policy, homosexuality, pedophilia and even bestiality are all-too-common among the priesthood. Forbidding to marry or to engage in … Read more
I’ve been doing polemics since about 2010. Every time I think I’ve seen it all, I’m corrected by checking my news feed. As I’ve said since at least 2012, quoting Spurgeon, our Modern Day Downgrade has us “going downhill at breakneck speed.” Part of what Pulpit & Pen does (in fact, most of what Pulpit … Read more
“I wouldn’t give Greg Locke dung if he was a blind tumble bug.“ Jimmy Hayden It was January 8th and Alabama was losing 13-0 to Georgia at the half of the CFB National Championship game. I had kind of, and quite foolishly, given up on the game. Normally, I wouldn’t make a Pulpit & Pen related phone call (really any phone call) … Read more
Greg Locke is founder and pastor of Global Vision Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He’s best known for his Facebook presence, and has over one million ‘likes’ on Facebook and it is not uncommon for him to have hundreds of thousands – or even millions – of views on his Facebook videos. Locke is a … Read more
Legalism, in theological parlance, is either (A) making up laws where they do not already exist in the Bible or (B) believing one is saved by following Biblical laws. For example, demanding that cullotes be the Biblical standard of modesty (when other garments are also modest) is legalism. Calling adultery a sin, on the other … Read more
Well, the financial solicitation letter newsletter for Worldview Weekend has made its way out to their supporters, and to a few people who are not supporters, which is why we have it. It has all the doom and gloom, Elijah-complex sensationalism that one would expect from any ministry selling survival supplies. You may not know … Read more
Where did all the effeminate sissy men come from? Part of the answer is “The Birth Control Pill.” First, a warning. AN OBLIGATORY WARNING ABOUT THE ABORTIFACIENT NATURE OF “THE PILL” The pharmaceutical drug called the “Birth Control Pill” shouldn’t be taken by Christian women, or any women who don’t want to inadvertently kill their … Read more
Perry Noble is the (formerly?) drunken pastor who played Highway to Hell on Easter Sunday, cussed at his church members for wanting discipleship, was rebuked by his denomination for butchering the Ten Commandments, and who was released from his megachurch ministry position for unrepentance regarding alcohol and what appears to be marital indiscretions. Recently, we … Read more
Clayton Jennings again defends his ministry and accuses his victims of “throwing stones.” He calls them “Satan’s lies.” He complains about the gossip about “his past” (read that: having sex with his fans in between revival services recently). Jennings claims other men aren’t manly enough. He says that “somebody needs to stand up and … Read more
…providing amusement is in direct antagonism to the teaching and life of Christ and all his apostles. What was the attitude of the church to the world? Ye are the salt” (Matt. 5:13), not the sugar candy—something the world will spit out not swallow. Short and sharp was the utterance, “Let the dead bury their … Read more
