Joyce Meyer Ministries has joined the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, releasing some financial data.
Her St. Louis-area ministry generated more than $129 million in contributions and other revenues in 2007.
Meyers has been praised by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley for joining the ECFA.
Joyce Meyer Ministries is one of six ministries under investigation by Grassley, a Baptist who has questioned their spending practices.
Todd Bentley, the tattooed evangelist who recently dumped the mother of his kids for a trophy wife, is undergoing a “restoration process” and would appreciate it if you’d send him a charitable “contribution.”
Bentley
Does church attendance climb when the economy plummets? The Pew Forum has the answer if you click here.
The Gospel according to the Episcopal bishop-elect of Northern Michigan:
“Sin has little, if anything, to do with being bad. It has everything to do, as far as I can tell, with being blind to our own goodness.” — Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester.
The Gospel According to Saturday Night Live’s Stuart Smalley:
In 2004, Episcopal clergyman Kevin Thew Forrester began publicly referring to himself as Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester and said his “soul-work” had led him to receive lay ordination as a Buddhist and to “walk the path of Christianity and Zen Buddhism.” Genpo would be his Buddhist name, he said. Genpo was a Japanese word, he explained, that meant “way of universal wisdom.”
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The Episcopal News Service has released a story denying that syncretic Episcopal bishop-elect Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester is a Buddhist.
Chalk up another first for the Episcopal Church USA. They’ve now elected the first openly-Buddhist bishop in the Anglican Communion.
It’s unclear how many Episco-Buddhists currently serve as priests in the U.S.
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GodTube now has a Godless, religion-free name. The popular once-Christian website is now calling itself Tangle.com. It’s got a new CEO. And it’s hyping a suggestive video game.
The new chief, Jason Illian,told the Dallas Morning News that the name change occurred because “The old name ‘GodTube’ was a little polarizing. We wanted a name that was more encompassing.”
Translation: less evangelicalism, more “faith-based community.”
Less Jesus, more “faith traditions.”
In a press release (see below), the company describes itself as a “safe haven for faith and family-friendly content.”
But some evangelical Christians will undoubtedly question whether Tangle.com still shares their “faith and values.”
The new website features a large advertisement for a “massively multi-player, online, role-playing game” called World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft (rated T for blood, suggestive themes, use of alcohol and violence) isn’t exactly “Chronicles of Narnia.” Players can “cleanse the undead” and they can heal the sick. But this isn’t faith healing as described in James 5:13-16.
World of Warcraft’s “healing classes include Druids, Shaman, Priests and Paladins.”
Undoubtedly, some evangelicals will wonder whether Druids, Shaman, Priests, Paladins and blood-thirsty, scantily-clad creatures are truly “faith and family friendly.”
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A Southern Baptist pastor was gunned down while preaching Sunday morning in Illinois, the St. Louis Post-Dispatchreports.
Pastor Fred Winters would’ve forgiven the man who killed him, friends say.
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The American Atheist Association is suing to prevent the posting of crosses on public land. The crosses mark the spot where law enforcement officials were killed in the line of duty. (Here’s a picture of one of the monuments…)
For more on the lawsuit against the Utah crosses, click here.
The monuments feature a cross and a beehive. The atheists are up in arms about the cross — not the beehive. (This is somewhat ironic because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Utah’s majority religion — does not display crosses on its religious buildings. On the other hand, the
beehive is a longtime Mormon symbol…This example is from a June 8, 1889 edition of the church-owned Deseret Weekly.)
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The headline on WorldNetDaily.com says: “Famed Pastor Predicts Imminent Catastrophe.”
My immediate reaction, before I read a word of the story, wasn’t “how much food and water should I stockpile?” It was: “Who spiked Mr. Pat’s energy drink?”
But this prophecy isn’t from a televangelist. It’s from Times Square Church founder David Wilkerson.
To read the complete prophecy, click here.
Among other things, it states: “AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE – EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.” (caps are Wilkerson’s, not mine…)
Wilkerson’s warning gets more specific as it goes along. I won’t give away the ending, but suffice it to say, it’s probably a good thing my career path never took me to Manhattan.
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Wilkerson, so let me add a few details. He wrote a bestseller called “The Cross and the Switchblade” (the movie starred Pat Boone and Eric Estrada.) He founded a group called “Teen Challenge” that has helped thousands of drug addicts kick the habit.
Wilkerson is a Pentecostal, but he comes from the movement’s holiness branch, not the air-conditioned doghouse wing.
Wilkerson’s sermon, The Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, is probably the most eloquent and passionate denunciation of Pentecostal “Prosperity Gospel” theology that I’ve ever encountered.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) will be using unpaid furloughs to cope with the ongoing recession, the 2.2-million member denomination announced today.
h/t: Caleb Powers
By NICOLE WINFIELD
and ROHAN SULLIVAN
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is considering welcoming into the Roman Catholic Church a group of traditional Anglicans who broke away from the global Anglican Communion nearly two decades ago over women’s ordination and other issues, officials say.
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Yes, Democrats are rising up at Regent University. Is there a Young Democrats’ club at Liberty University, too?
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