A growing number of charismatic evangelicals believe that the office of the Apostolate continues today. These include New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leaders Michael Brown, Rick Joyner, Patricia King, Rodney Howard Browne and Bill Johnson. However, not all NAR leaders are selling “Apostleship” as boldly as the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders. Watch the video below. … Read more
[BTWN Network] Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS On today’s program for January 2, 2020, JD answers a sincere question with a biblical answer about the ‘gift of evangelism,’ then covers the topic of Todd Bentley’s investigation panel and Michael Brown claiming he was supernaturally gifted by … Read more
In my previous post on this subject, I entitled it A Brief Condescension to James White and explained that his defenses for Rosaria Butterfield are so embarrassingly bad the man is hardly worth responding to at all. White claimed that Butterfield’s positive referencing of heretics was merely part of a “bibliography.” When I pointed out … Read more
Sid Roth hosts It’s Supernatural. When he’s not there to tell fanciful stories of charismatic poppycock, Dr. Michael Brown takes his place as a guest host. Roth has told some pretty tall tales, but the one from December 20 might just take the cake. According to Roth and his guest, Andre Ashby, a kid, flew … Read more
con·de·scend (kŏn′dĭsĕnd′) intr.v. to lower oneself… James White’s “church,” Apologia, is reeling from a controversy revolving around its secret recording of clergy-penitent conversations and their anonymous release on YouTube against their critics. James White defended Apologia’s actions in a video late last week. Since then, dozens of Apologia church members, former members, former leaders, and … Read more
A leading Social Justice activist and Popularity Gospel preacher, Eric Mason, has implicitly accused Phoenix apologist, James White, of racism with an out-of-context snippet of an old Dividing Line episode in which White was addressing the Black Hebrew Israelite cult. Mason then sent his many fans to attack White as a bigoted white supremacist in … Read more
The mindset of fundamentalism (all of doctrine is definitional: there is no hierarchy of truth, no defining doctrines, and most importantly, no adiaphora) turns Reformed theology into a mirror image of Phariseeism, a graceless, loveless, hard, stony, cutting weapon fit only for online warfare but never for living life in the body of Christ. It … Read more
This conversation is between JD Hall and the new editor at Pulpit & Pen, Theodore Zachariades. The two discuss Dr. Zachariades’ move to Montana, his new pastorate, and how P&P patrons are helping a church out west. Dr. Zachariades and JD also discuss his debates with Dr. Michael Brown and Leighton Flowers. This audio is … Read more
Pulpit & Pen ran an article from Pastor Dane Johannsson on the superiority of the Textus Receptus. Although P&P does not take have an official position on the subject and uses the ESV in our Scriptural citations, we believed the conversation was worth having, especially as so many shrill, angry voices are on both sides. … Read more
The idea of a news publication going back into its archives and editing its articles whenever their contents are reported as controversial is disconcerting. Such a thing is more fit for the Orwellian Ministry of Truth than for Christian news sources. Charisma Mag has repeatedly edited away heretical comments from the more notorious prophets of … Read more
So, Tom Ascol wrote that Matthew Hall told him on the phone that he didn’t believe in or affirm Critical Race Theory. And then you had all the cultural marxists, the critical race theorists, the closet socialists, the Frankfurt School folks at The Gospel Coalition, and all of the acolytes go: “See, he explicitly denies … Read more
Influential Word-Faith and New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Apostle, Rick Joyner of Morningstar Ministries, has claimed that Todd Bentley’s sexual accusers “have the spirit of witchcraft.” Joyner was named by Bentley as having known all along about his continued sexual immorality but chose instead to cover it up. Todd Bentley – who was restored to the … Read more
Theodore Zachariades has been added to Pulpit & Pen as the full-time Theological Director and a part-time relief editor of our news site. Zachariades will be moving to Sidney, Montana to work at the publication’s headquarters. We pray that Zachariades’ addition to Pulpit & Pen will allow our publisher, JD Hall, to have more time … Read more
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; (Revelation 18:4) It is not uncommon for people, poorly catechized in the concept of Biblical holiness, to claim that one cannot be held accountable for their associations. The … Read more
Discernment ministries often (but not always) have an unhealthy desire to castigate other discernment ministries out of jealousy or envy. It’s a pretty stupid thing to be jealous about, and such unhealthy competition makes us all look petty and ridiculous. Yesterday I saw an aspiring discernment minister critique Tim Hurd and I over a controversy … Read more
