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I am a polemicist. This means that I study fraudulent, sub-christian groups that disguise themselves as Orthodox churches or Biblical movements. This also means that I go to places other people would ordinarily not go and sometimes do things that people in other fields of theological study don’t have to do. My library on the … Read more

“Violence in the streets, ladies and gentlemen. Why is it happening? You know what I’d like to give you is, the fact that we have disrespect for authority. There is profound disrespect of our president, all across this nation they say terrible things about him. It’s in the news, it’s in other places. Robertson continued, … Read more

WARNING: This post contains citations of both coarse language and blasphemy.   Pulpit & Pen wrote about SBC trained-and-ordained minister, Jeff Hood, in June of 2014. In that post, we explained that the Southern Seminary graduate spoke at a pro-gay event and delivered the message, “Embracing the Power of Queer.” In fact, in that message, … Read more

Evangelicals are brave…when they’re in a caravan of circled bandwagons. Several weeks ago, the Nashville Statement was promoted by a group plagued with a troublesome Christology. Nonetheless, it garnered widespread support in a wide breadth of evangelicalism, from fairly liberal to fairly conservative. The document affirmed the sinfulness of homosexual action, but fell short of … Read more

“Preach the Gospel, Die Forgotten.” – Nicolaus Zinzendorf Clayton Jennings, the disgraced hipster “evangelist” whose preaching license was revoked after multiple accusations of sexual predation on vulnerable young girls through his seductive talk and big blue eyes doesn’t seem to understand that being a minister is about exalting Christ and not ourselves. Of course, this is … Read more

This is part 2 of my review of the JD Hall – Ante Pavkovic debate. For part 1, click here. At 1:04 –  In his cross-examination of Ante, Jordan used a Mormon website that affirms the charismata. However, Ante missed Jordon’s point completely in his rebuttal because he attempted to casually dismiss the problem by … Read more

Debate Proposition: The Charismatics Gifts (to include Tongues & Prophecy) have ceased to operate in the Church. Affirmative: J.D. Hall Negative: Ante Pavkovic In case you were unaware, another debate on the issue of the Charismatic Gifts has just taken place in Cleveland, OH. This debate took place between J.D. Hall and Ante Pavkovic. The … Read more

I have often wondered about the use of Matt. 5:13-16 by some Christians who seem to think that Jesus had social or political causes in mind when he uttered the words, “you are the salt of the earth.” For some reason, we have concluded that Jesus was talking about salt as a preservative and that … Read more

You may have heard by now that Eugene Peterson, the author, and creator of the popular book, The Message, recently came out in support of homosexual marriage. In an interview with Religion News, he was asked that if he were pastoring today would he perform a same-sex wedding ceremony, he responded “yes.” I wouldn’t have … Read more

I am a tad bit late to the game on the Matt Slick, JD Hall debate on the charismatic gifts. To be honest, I had no idea that Matt Slick believed that the gifts were still in operation in the church today. At any rate, during the debate Matt had with JD, Matt seemed to … Read more