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https://sharperiron.org/article/rise-and-fall-of-kenny-baldwin "The idea that any of us could have fallen into the same sin as Kenny has come under intense scrutiny. IFB Pastor Stacey Shiflett, a sexual abuse survivor, responded to the suggestion that anyone could have committed the same sin as...

It's the return of the "should we teach people to invite Jesus into their heart" debate, which we discussed in another thread last year. https://rootedthinking.com/2025/05/20/do-you-speak-churchese-ask-jesus-into-your-heart/...

I'm not sure if I would care for Smith Wigglesworth's bedside manner: "Wigglesworth’s real calling card was something that’s all but lost in the modern Pentacostal faith: healing, which, for him, was a combination of prayer and violence. Wigglesworth believed that any sickness was actually the...

I'm concerned. It is my understanding that A Flock of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score has lost almost all of his hair and gone bald. It's not the way you look It's not the way that you smile Although there's something to them It's not the way you have your hair It's not that certain style But...

John Wilkerson Tony Shirley John Francis Andy Gomez Jr. Abdel Judeh Eddie Lapina Jubal Perez Ricky Torres Linda Wilkerson Becca Shirley 8 speakers from Hammond, Indiana and 2 from Marion, North Carolina - not a particularly outstanding nation-wide line-up of talent. https://www.fbchammond.com/yc/

"Smith divorced his wife (with whom he has three kids) and married his mistress (who also divorced her husband) this past spring. According to the Chattanooga Press, he told them his marriage occurred 'with the full support of our board and our pastors and counselors and families' . . . "If...

Department of Good News - attendance at Greg Locke's church is down 90%, and he's hurting for money. Weirdos in the pulpit, like him, need to be defunded. "But the congregation in the warehouse off Interstate-40 in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, has dwindled to a tenth of its...

https://churchleaders.com/news/408339-steven-furtick-facebook-post-ignites-false-teacher-claims.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/steven-furtick.html https://protestia.com/2023/04/27/stven-furtick-engages-in-rank-heresy-what-god-is-you-are/...

Well, he's baaaack! Another adulterous preacher restored to the ministry. Only took him slightly more than 2 years. "Four years after an adulterous affair with a staffer at his foreclosed Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Pastor Tavner Smith is raising money to move his growing...

More on the Second Baptist mess: "And this line, shocking as it may sound to Baptist ears, comes straight from the court record: 'The right to elect the senior pastor belongs solely to the senior pastor; and the MLT’s ability to remove the senior pastor is circumscribed.' "In short, the...

You are wise to express doubt that Dave Hyles will close down his fallen preachers "recovery" racket. As of February 2025, he was still in the recovery "ministry."...

The landmark 1983 Supreme Court decision, stripping Bob Jones University of its tax-exempt status, revisited: "The leaders of Bob Jones University argued that its dispute with the Carter Administration was mainly about religion, not race, because the school’s ban on interracial dating was a...

More on the Second Baptist Houston court case: "Two important ideas came out of Dorfman’s ruling: Officers and directors of a nonprofit corporation owe their fiduciary responsibility to the corporation, not to individual members of the corporation; and churches as Texas nonprofits do not face...

I agree. Other things being equal, it is best for the church leadership to avoid publicizing the notions of known heretics or the gripes of perennial soreheads. Unfortunately, sometimes heretics and soreheads give themselves the platform and cannot be stopped from making their views known, in...

More commentary on the foolishness from crackpot Doug Wilson - he doesn't want Christian women to vote unless they are "heads of households." To the extent that his teaching is followed among Christians, it will depress the Republican/Christian Right vote and give the advantage in elections to...

I suppose the answer to this may yes, if the controversy cannot be handled and quelled in private discussions with that congregant. In the original article by Pastor Charles Dear, he used the example of the Acts 15 business meeting, at which the rather dangerous "notion" that "except ye be...

Another balanced view, from an IFB pastor, Charles Dear, Crescentville Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: "Baptists believe in democratic procedures that permit open discussion of problems and divergent views. This is right and Biblical. Please read Acts 15. Note that this is not a...

Gary Demar's take on the possibility of a literal Chinese invasion of Israel featuring 200,000,000 soldiers, all of them mounted on horses: "It’s being argued that the dried-up Euphrates is the marching route of a 200-million-man army from China on horseback (Rev. 9:13-21). The drying up of the...

For those who want to research the Second Baptist controversy further, there are these web sites from the plaintiffs: "The Senior Pastor, without a vote of the membership or a board of trustees elected by the members, now has ultimate control over the church and its $1 Billion in assets that...

It turns out that the American Center for Law and Justice (Jay Sekulow, director) was representing the church on this matter: "Second Baptist posted statements on their homepage in response to the ruling from Senior Pastor Ben Young and American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) Chief Counsel...