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Beth Moore Says Fighting Donald Trump is A Fight for the Faith

Beth Moore, who is a wildly popular female Bible teacher heavily promoted in evangelical circles and aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources, has steadily been opposing President Donald Trump since his presidential primary. She is not on record ever having opposed President Barack Obama. Moore, who claims to hear audibly from God … Read more

The Gospel Coalition Calls Roman Catholicism “Full-Blooded Version of Christianity”

Frankly, I don’t know why The ‘Gospel’ Coalition lets women write for their blog who don’t seem qualified to operate from behind the curtain in a children church’s puppet ministry. I assume it has something to do with their bleeding-heart, kinder, gentler, limp-wristed form of “sophisticated” Christianity that probably insists on a gender inclusion quota. … Read more

Three Facts About the Clayton Jennings Crusade!

Today  (March 12th 2018) is a big day for Clayton Jennings and his many followers.  For months Jennings has been planning and promoting the launch of his 2018 revival crusade.  The 30-year-old evangelist, author, poet, husband and father has scheduled  52 dates.  The first of which will be in Nashville, TN.  Thousands have waited with … Read more

On Mahaney’s Withdraw from TFG Conference and SGM Abuse Allegations

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

Benchmark Church and the Sunk Costs of Supporting Greg Locke

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

Peter S. Ruckman Murders Self, After Killing His Two Sons

Peter Ruckman was the founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute, an ardent Independent Fundamental Baptist and KJV-onliest. Ruckman passed away in April of 2016. Charisma Mag claimed today that Ruckman was an “anti-charismatic,” but in reality Ruckman was a Continuationist, believing that the King James Bible was a more sure and more perfect revelation than … Read more

Pope Says Capitalists and Doctrinal Purists Are “Neo-Pelagians”

Pelagianism began as a fourth-century heresy named after its founder, Pelagius. Chiefly, Pelagianism teaches that grace is not necessary in salvation and that even without God’s direct intervention, people may be saved. As we explain Pelagianism on our sister site, Polemics Report: Pelagius argued that Original Sin (the Fall of Mankind in Adam) did not … Read more

Greg Locke: American Pastor

Note: This article contains disturbing content and profane language. Reader discretion is advised.  Assertions about Greg Locke’s behavior are based upon the testimony of those interviewed. Last week, CNN featured Pastor Greg Locke and his church, Global Vision Bible Church, (GVBC) in a nationally televised segment about Donald Trump and his evangelical supporters in the … Read more

Voddie Baucham on the 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Be Nice

In this short clip, Voddie Baucham discusses the presumed 11th Commandment of evangelicalism, “Thou Shalt Be Nice.” On-topic, he laments culture’s unhealthy preoccupation of tone, especially in social media. “Christians today hold firmly to the 11th Commandment, and the 11th Commandment is, “Thou Shalt Be Nice,” and we don’t hold to the other ten.” “This … Read more

Post-Modernity And Accusations of Lying

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

Ed Stetzer Attacks National Rifle Association (NRA)

Ed Stetzer is the former Lifeway Vice President who was warned by Justin Peters that they were selling a Heaven Tourism book whose author had recanted it, and chose to continue profiting from the book anyway. When the story of Alex Malarkey’s Open Letter to Lifeway (his now-famous repudiation of the book written about him … Read more

Christian Joy Best for Charismatics and Not Cessationists, Says John Piper

Although once a popular figure among all stripes of Calvinist believers, John Piper’s increasing social justice activism and increasing charismaticism have largely reduced his popularity to that of The New Calvinists and, oddly enough, evangelicalism at large. Those who hold to the tenets of classical Reformed theology, however, have grown increasingly cautious of John Piper. … Read more

Billy Graham, America’s Pastor – Dead at age 99

ADDRESS CONDOLENCES TO: BILLY GRAHAM, AMERICA One of the world’s most well-known evangelists, Billy Graham died today at the age of 99.  He was so prominent and well known as an evangelist and servant of Christ Jesus that it seems superfluous to try to describe his notoriety by listing his accomplishments or citing facts about … Read more