Tag Archives: Jesus

The Christian Post reports: On Tuesday, the Southern Baptist polling research firm released results from a phone survey, conducted between Jan. 24 and Feb. 11, of 1,000 senior pastors or ministers who were randomly called from a list of evangelical churches. “While Christians prepare to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, many pastors believe they see signs His return may be close,” LifeWay …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: I’m gonna need a Christian to explain this one to me. Preacher Perry Stone of Omega Center International in Tennessee was leading people in prayer on Thursday — even speaking in tongues — when he stopped to check his phone. Multiple times. It’s kind of hilarious. Now we know that you can be …

Faithwire reports: Right before she hit “rock bottom” Billboard-topping country singer Jo Dee Messina said that Jesus visited her on her front porch. In 2017, Messina was diagnosed with cancer. She found herself uncertain of her future as medical bills mounted, and her career crumbled in front of her. The artist, who has six No. 1 country singles, not only …

Mediaite reports: “How can his word be trusted when he has said so many things that are not true?” ABC’s Jon Karl asked. “How can the American people trust the president when he says this is a crisis, when he says things over and over again that aren’t true?” “The American people aren’t as concerned about the political debate as …

The Christian Post reports: Stovall Weems, senior pastor of the 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, told his congregation Sunday that he met Jesus Christ in his home on Good Friday and was surprised by His personality. “I want to talk to you about the experience I had Friday night where I met and I saw our risen Savior,” Weems …

The Palm Beach Post reports: People gathered outside Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach just before service started. Many showed up to attend the 11 a.m. service in hopes to see Donald Trump. The first lady wore a sleeveless, red print dress. Tiffany wore a light rise color shift. Th.e president wore his customary suit, white shirt and red tie. The altar …

The Guardian reports: Jamaica has banned a Holocaust-denying pastor from Arizona who has called for gay people to be stoned death, after outcry from activists on the island. Steven Anderson, from the Faithful World Baptist Church in Tempe, said he was about to board a flight to Kingston when he was informed he would not be allowed into Jamaica. Anderson, …

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports: This Saturday, January 27, the League of the South (LOS), a neo-confederate organization that seeks to establish a white, Christian ethnostate in the southeastern U.S., will hold its first rally of the new year on the steps of Florida’s capitol building in Tallahassee. In a post on the League’s website titled “Off and Running,” …

The Chronicle Of Philanthropy reports: GuideStar, the charity-information site, scored a major victory as a federal court ruled it was in legal bounds to put a hate label on a nonprofit’s profile. A federal judge in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit against GuideStar pursued by the conservative Christian legal-defense group Liberty Counsel. Judge Raymond Jackson of the Federal District Court in …

DeadState reports: In 2016, DeadState published a story featuring evangelical ministers Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis having a discussion about how they talk to God regularly while on private jets — conversations that would be impossible while riding in coach. The two sat at table when at one point Copeland declared that private jets “are sanctuary that protect the anointed,” …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker said on his television program today that the attacks on President Trump are a sign that the White Horse of the Apocalypse is galloping across America and that the wildfires and Hollywood sexual assault scandals are God’s judgment on California. “This is that white horse today, this …

This is the guy whose own son was convicted of possessing child porn. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his “Pass The Salt Live” webcast this morning, Religious Right activist Dave Daubenmire approvingly quoted radical right-wing preacher James David Manning as he proclaimed that “God killed those people” who died in the mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his radio program today, extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson and his co-host Bill Jack declared that “sexualized public schools that violate God’s law with high levels of flagrancy” should be burned to the ground. Swanson and Jack were outraged by the fact that Washington state public schools teach students about gender identity …

Charisma News, your internet one-stop for anti-witchcraft tutorials, is ever so furious at the latest Funny Or Die clip. Most of their diatribe gives away the jokes, so lets just cut to the finish: Not only does the video mock Jesus and Christians in its attempt to attack Republicans, but it’s woefully short on facts, providing a nearly literal depiction …

The Christian site Charisma News has produced a helpful 35-minute instructional video on how to stop witches from casting spells against you. They write: The devil’s trick witch witchcraft is to make it seem all innocent and fun. “Witchcraft can be very deceptive, and it can manifest in many ways in our lives,” former witch Beth Eckert says. “A lot …

ABC News reports: President Trump offered up a prayer to Arnold Schwarzenegger as he addressed the audience at this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast. “They hired a big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place, and we know how that turned out,” Trump said at the top of his remarks. He continued, “The ratings went right down the tubes. It’s …

Just in via email: TV Land continues to air the vile program “Teachers” on Tuesday evenings at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT with a TV-14 rating, but the previews air much earlier in the evening when children are likely watching TV. The vulgar advertisements for “Teachers” are airing during shows such as the “Andy Griffith Show” and other family-friendly programs. …

Hail Mary, full of kale. Hemant Mehta writes at Friendly Atheist: With Thanksgiving coming up, it’s not too late to start thinking about the Nativity scene you’ll put outside your home. For the atheists out there, may I suggest this one featuring what the birth of Jesus would look like in 2016? I kind of want one just for the …

According to several dozen YouTube clips that cumulatively have millions of views, the Anti-Christ will reveal himself to the world today. The clips breathlessly report that today’s date has been confirmed by end times Pastor John Hagee, Pope Francis, Fox News, and other extremely reliable sources. The far-right Charisma News, however, reassures its readers that today can’t be the actual …

“I believe I have a moral obligation to vote for the lesser evil. Otherwise, I become morally culpable for the greater evil prevailing. Some Evangelicals have said, ‘If I voted for Donald Trump, I would have to apologize to Bill Clinton.’ Frankly, I feel that if I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, I would …