RZIM ministries will be live-streaming a global memorial service to honor the life of Christian evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias, who died on May 19 after a brief battle with cancer. The celebration of Ravi’s life and legacy will be streamed on their official social media pages, YouTube and on Facebook, on May 29th at 11:00 a.m. … Read more
Instead of using his platform to promote unity and reconciliation, Tony Evans has capitalized on the color of his skin to sow seeds of discord in American evangelicalism. He is now encouraging the racist, divisive protests against the Dove Awards by Social Gospel proponents, Lecrae and Kirk Franklin. As reported at Reformation Charlotte, Lecrae and … Read more
Twitter has basically been handed over to Mr. and Mrs. Erin Harding and total reprobates. But I repeat myself. In all seriousness, Twitter’s platform is geared toward limited expression, which seems an ideal platform that’s just large enough for people to get out dumb ideas. It seems that smart thoughts require more than a few … Read more
Pulpit & Pen told you in 2017 that ‘Snoop Dogg’ would be producing a Gospel album, and then reported to you last year that Mr. Dogg’s album was topping the ‘Christian and Gospel’ section on iTunes. Now, the pot-smoking, rhyme-slinging rapper has won the BET Gospel Music Award. Fo real, yo. On Sunday, Snoop Dogg … Read more
[Reformation Charlotte] Every day, we hear something about a celebrity Christian pop artist “doing something good,” or topping some kind of chart. That’s the problem. We hear about the artist. We hear about what the artist is doing, how many followers on social media they have, what kind of good deeds they’ve been up to. … Read more
Lauren Daigle writhes seductively with her midriff exposed in her Christian music videos, while singing about Jesus in tones that make you wonder if he’s her boyfriend. The Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) industry and its fans love it, as they look for a genre as close to godlessness as possible while still occasionally alluding to … Read more
Johnny Hunt Endorses Jesus Calling, Dismantles Legacy Johnny Hunt Drinks Your Milkshake Puttin’ on the Ritz for Johnny Hunt Cruise with a Cause: Eddie Long, John Hagee, Ergun Caner, LeCrae, and Johnny Hunt Milk the Gospel Like a Cow of Bashaan Beyond Johnny-Dome: Taking a Right Turn off of the Johnny Hunt Highway Full Video … Read more
When I first saw the tweet from Russell Moore that he had invited Beth Moore to the 2018 Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC) conference, I, along with my colleagues, thought it was a joke. Seriously, we thought he was just trying to be funny. But then I thought, “he invited Andy Stanley to his … Read more
“Lord, kill me if I don’t preach the Gospel” – Lerae, “Go Hard” Shai Linne has been absent from the music scene since 2014 in order to focus on his Church. His rapping was known for its deep lyrical content, teaching about topics such as false teachers, the judgement of God, the hypostatic union, and … Read more
Facutly at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary posed for the above photo, and Twitter has had a collective heart attack. Audible gasps could be heard around the world, as these faculty members apparently didn’t see the outrage as a predictable inevitability, and it was unwisely posted without an, ahem, trigger warning. In all seriousness, I’m sure … Read more
Published in 2014, clearly I am late to the party, but I wanted to give a brief review of this book because I found it a valuable and helpful primer on the problems of the so-called New Calvinism. Written by Dr. E.S. Williams, a medical physician and layman in the church of Charles Spurgeon – … Read more
“ … in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 2 Peter 2:2 In Revelation 2:20, Christ chided the church of Thyatira in no uncertain terms. “I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls … Read more
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt and his friend Tony Nolan are consistently featured speakers at the annual Winter Xtreme Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This December, both men were scheduled to speak alongside Nolan’s (former) mentee Clayton Jennings. This did not happen. As frequent readers of the Pulpit and Pen are by now aware, Clayton … Read more
Who cares what a guy named “Sho Baraka” thinks…or smokes? Well, a little explanation as to why the concern is in order. “Sho Baraka” is a Christian Hip-Hop artist who spits his rhymes for the Hip-Hop label, Humble Beast. Humble Beast is a “collective” of who they call “creatives;” pastors, writers, theologians and musicians who … Read more
In January 2013 I was informed of a conference that simply everyone who’s anyone was going to. I was even invited to bring our youth along with a local church to the conference. My own children were informed by their friends that all the local church youth groups were going to this conference. … Read more
