Today, Jack Graham will speak at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a group of students plan a Baptist-style soft protest to demonstrate how entitled they think they are to his church’s money. Graham is pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas-area megachurch that recently voted to escrow funds ordinarily designated to the Cooperative Program (CP), which … Read more
To My Fellow Students, I hope you can agree with me on something – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is the best seminary in the world. I’ve been a student there since 2009, slowing working towards my MDiv in Christian Apologetics. As a distance learning student, most of my classes have been at the Johnson … Read more
Kenneth Copeland is 80 years old. Only the Lord knows the number of his days or where he’ll spend eternity but it’s safe to say that Copeland will be on the home stretch sometime in the next 20 or so years. In this post, we’ll evaluate the living legacy that Copeland has compiled thus far. From Flat … Read more
“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” Luke 16:13 Have you ever noticed that Little Debbie snack cakes are always on the end of the aisle at … Read more
The Shack has been widely repudiated as heretical by a whole host of evangelical scholarship. Many if not most serious minded church leaders have marked the book as sub-Christian, from Albert Mohler (link) to Tim Challies (link). From providing gratuitous violations of the 2nd Commandment to promoting the heresy of Modalism to the heresy of Theopassianism, it … Read more
Phil Johnson posted perhaps the most appropriate response to it. His one-word reaction evokes a sort of slack-jawed, eye-rolling, bang head on desk, “Father forgive them” chiding. (Phil Johnson is the Executive Director of Grace To You. According to the GTY.org website, “He has been closely associated with John MacArthur since 1981 and edits most … Read more
Polemics Ministries United, which includes both Polemics Report and the flagship polemics ministry, Pulpit & Pen, is going to Latin America. Both sites are setting up Spanish “mirror sites” so that people can log-in and see our articles in their native tongues. We will also be promoting Spanish-speaking podcasts, similar to Polemics Report. Right now, over … Read more
Polemics Ministries United, which includes both Polemics Report and the flagship polemics ministry, Pulpit & Pen, is going to Latin America. Both sites are setting up Spanish “mirror sites” so that people can log-in and see our articles in their native tongues. We will also be promoting Spanish-speaking podcasts, similar to Polemics Report. Right now, over … Read more
Imagine the scandal. A former Democratic staffer who has been called “an open border zealot” by the press, who moonlights for a George Soros-funded pro-illegal immigration think tank, and who has repeatedly attacked border security as inherently unchristian, signs a brief on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention to help get a Mosque built in New … Read more
I have a prickly feeling in my neck right now. It came from the double facepalm I gave myself when I found out what FBC Woodstock is up to. Just when you think Johnny Hunt is trying to do things right, you find out he’s up to some other shenanigans. Hunt, who recently apparently denounced … Read more
There are two primary engines driving the popularity of Social Justice into the heart of quasi-conservative evangelicalism. Once bulwarks for a solid Biblical worldview and stalwart defenders of the Gospel, both organizations have experienced serious mission drift in recent years. Both organizations have developed a penchant for terminology from the social progressive lexicon, like “racial … Read more
One hundred “evangelical leaders” have taken out a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post. While paying for space to complain about the Commander-in-Chief doesn’t seem to be the most practical way to voice their lisping convictions, it makes sense, as most of the signers aren’t leaders in local churches, which would seem to be the … Read more
Russell Moore and his partner in immigration policy, George Soros, have teamed up to take on the Trump Administration. THE MOORE-SOROS PARTNERSHIP Russell Moore’s partnership with George Soros has been well-documented. Moore, who was called an “open border zealot” by Breitbart, is exposed by National Review editor, Mark Krikorian, as “one of the leaders of the Evangelical … Read more
Notable former pastor and founder of Newspring church in Anderson, SC gave his tacit approval of alcohol consumption in 2013. Three years later, he was fired by his church for “falling into sin” with alcoholism. The elders of his church made the decision to terminate him from the pastorate. Less than two months later, after … Read more
Jim Bakker, who once was imprisoned for a real estate scam and used charitable dollars to pay off a woman who accused him of rape (link), now has his own show (and real estate scheme) in Branson, Missouri. The self-titled Jim Bakker Show regularly features the Montanist prophet providing various doomsday scenarios with some of … Read more
