The Church of Laodicea
Click on thumbnails for larger images. Founded 50 years ago by Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral is the home base for the international Crystal Cathedral Ministries, including a congregation of more than 10,000 members and the internationally-televised series, Hour of Power . There is ostentatious, and there's THIS!
You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. (Revelation 3:17)
Outrage after US Catholic Church files for bankruptcy and delays sexual abuse claims
Posted 10/21/09Baptist Church To Celebrate Halloween By Burning Bibles, Music And Books
The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible. According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, soul (and) oldies. “We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning (and) William Young.
Posted 10/20/09Pastor Benny Hinn: Charlatan Or Man Of God?
Pastor Benny Hinn is being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee and was recently denied entry into the United Kingdom. The press has been bad, he says, because the media doesn't understand him. But the Texas-based faith healer, whose "Holy Spirit Miracle Crusades" pack sports arenas across the United States, is fielding questions about his controversies nonetheless. He says he needs to voice his concerns over the land of his birth, Israel, and the threat to it posed by a nuclear Iran — which he talks about in his new book “Blood in the Sand.” “[The media] are never going to paint me as I want to be painted," Hinn said in an exclusive interview. "But, really, it doesn’t matter as long as people give me the chance to talk.”
Posted 10/13/09Blair Explains Conversion to Catholicism
He told the Communion and Liberation meeting in the Italian resort of Rimini yesterday: "Ever since I began preparations to become a Catholic, I felt I was coming home..this is now where my heart is, where I know I belong."-Blair reportedly received a standing ovation for his wide-ranging speech, which also included references to past political summits. Blair said, "In seeking this path of truth, lit by God's love and paved by God's grace, the (Christian)church can be the insistent spiritual voice that makes globalisation our servant, not our master."
Posted 8/28/09Glory Hallelujah & Praise The Lord! Prosperity Preachers Rake It In By The Millions During Hard Times. Exploiting Families Struggling With Finances Pays BIG Cash Rewards Via Doctrines Of Demons
Onstage before thousands of believers weighed down by debt and economic insecurity, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and their all-star lineup of “prosperity gospel” preachers delighted the crowd with anecdotes about the luxurious lives they had attained by following the Word of God. Private airplanes and boats. A motorcycle sent by an anonymous supporter. Vacations in Hawaii and cruises in Alaska. Designer handbags. A ring of emeralds and diamonds. “God knows where the money is, and he knows how to get the money to you,” preached Mrs. Copeland, dressed in a crisp pants ensemble like those worn by C.E.O.’s. Even in an economic downturn, preachers in the “prosperity gospel” movement are drawing sizable, adoring audiences. Their message — that if you have sufficient faith in God and the Bible and donate generously, God will multiply your offerings a hundredfold — is reassuring to many in hard times.
Posted 8/19/09Catholic church-funded marriage agency backs gay and unmaried parents
Homosexuals and unmarried couples could be just as good parents as husbands and wives, according to the head of a marriage support agency that is partly funded by the Roman Catholic Church.
Posted 7/24/09Episcopal Church - no clear gospel to proclaim <- FEATURE!!!
A conservative Anglican theologian says the Episcopal Church is experiencing a large membership decline because it's espousing neither a biblical gospel nor a New Testament understanding of evangelism.
Posted 7/16/09Episcopal Church to affirm 'gay' clergy <- This is insanity!!!
Episcopal bishops voted at a national meeting yesterday for a statement that says "God has called and may call" homosexual men and women to ministry. Delegates to the meeting already approved a nearly identical statement. This latest version is likely to be approved by Friday.
Posted 7/15/09Schism closer as US Anglicans vote to overturn ban on gay ordinations
Posted 7/14/09The Wisdom of the World <- Amen, brother!!!
I recently attended a funeral at a small country church. “Sister” Joyce had gone on to be with the Lord, and incredibly, her husband, “Brother Bill,” preached her funeral.
Posted 7/9/09Warren speaking to Islamic group with terror ties
The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry is questioning the decision of mega-church pastor Rick Warren to address a Muslim group, which has terrorist connections, during its annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend.
Posted 7/2/09Fanning the flames of church controversy
A decision to allow a lesbian couple to testify during the annual meeting of Mississippi United Methodists has caused widespread controversy.
Posted 6/29/09Methodist Members Say Gay is Okay
Check out the video below from the Mississippi United Methodist Annual Conference.
Posted 6/29/09Catholic diocese -- set to partner with abortion services?
"They've hired a third-party company that will do the abortion referrals for them, as if that would somehow diminish their responsibility for it," she argues.
Posted 6/15/09Darwin-loving museum shooter hates Bible, Christians
Suspect in death of security guard defies easy stereotyping
Posted 6/15/09Putting political correctness above scripture
A Christian college in India allows applicants to indicate whether they are male, female, or transgender when they enroll.Matt Barber, cultural affairs director at Liberty Counsel, says Madras Christian College administrators must have misread the book of Genesis, believing God created male, female, and transgender. Posted 6/15/09
Another successful school-choice program in jeopardy
Lawmakers recently voted to cut payments to private schools by over $150 per student and increase public school funding by $400 per student. The Wall Street Journal also reports that taxpayer funding for the low-income minority students that attend private school through the voucher program is less than half the cost taxpayers spend on public school.
Posted 6/11/09Court: Ten Commandments monument endorses religion
The latest ruling prompted Haskell County Commissioner Mitch Worsham to say, "Whoever was the judge in this, I feel sorry for him on Judgment Day."
Posted 6/11/09Megachurch-goers younger, wealthier -- and stingier
Posted 6/11/09Christians in name only
The "victim" is biblical Christianity, and the operatives of this fraud are millions of Americans, both clergy and laity, who are walking around using that identity with no right to do so. The consequences are a nation without the spiritual, moral, social and political anchor that held us firm through over 400 years of tempests and storms.
Posted 4/22/09Most U.S. Christians Don't Believe Satan, Holy Spirit Exist
The majority of American Christians do not believe that Satan is a real being or that the Holy Spirit is a living entity, the latest Barna survey found. Nearly six out of ten Christians either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that Satan "is not a living being but is a symbol of evil," the survey found.
Posted 4/17/09"Christianity in Europe Coming to an End": Vienna Cardinal
Posted 4/16/09Perspective: Rick Warren - another Easter denial
"On moral issues I come out very clear," declared Warren when speaking in the safety of his church last October. But when confronted by homosexual friends and by CNN's Larry King, he folded like Peter.
Posted 4/15/09Warren's 'backsliding' on marriage damages church
Washington, DC, pastor and outspoken opponent of same-sex "marriage" says California mega-church pastor Rick Warren has done "tremendous damage" by apologizing for his support last fall of California's marriage protection amendment.
Posted 4/10/09The End of Christian America
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
Posted 4/7/09Lutheran leaders ease voting on homosexual pastors <- Good GOD, like that should even be in question!!!
The Church Council is essentially the board of directors of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination. It voted 21-10 with two abstentions over the weekend to put the issue of homosexual clergy to a simple majority vote at the Churchwide Assembly Aug. 17-23 in Minneapolis. The recommendation would permit homosexual clergy in the church, but leave it up to individual synods and congregations whether to appoint homosexual pastors.
Posted 4/3/09Condom distribution at church - UCC likes the idea
Posted 4/2/09The Flourishing Laodicean Church (by Ron Graham)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ also tells of His church and its condition through the ages. In chapters two and three Jesus addresses seven different Churches and sends them a report card of sorts. These churches existed at the time John received the Revelation; these letters give the condition of each church. They also give a prophecy of what Christ’s Church would go through.
Posted 3/30/09Israeli pagans prayed to their gods during Gaza war
University researcher reveals small, secretive, but unified group of practicing pagans living in Israel
Posted 3/20/09Harvard's humanist chaplain leads godless congregation
Posted 3/20/09Pope tells Muslims that religion rejects violence
Posted 3/20/091 in 3 'Christians' say 'Jesus sinned'
Emergent church leader: 'Gay' OK biblical lifestyle
One of the key leaders of today's most cutting-edge church movement has opened an Internet discussion on the issue of same-sex marriage with the bold proclamation that he believes "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and queer" individuals can and should live out their sexuality in – and blessed by – the Christian church.
Posted 11/24/08Let us pray in Latin: priests take on Catholics’ magic mystic circle
The last time Merton chapel regularly witnessed this sort of complex liturgy was in the 1540s, before the Protestant reformers pulled out much of the stained glass and toppled the statues of saints. The organi-sers of the summer school are reformers, too, but their aim is precisely the opposite: to restore Latin services and rich furnishings to their own Catholic parish churches, many of which were stripped bare by modernisers after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Posted 8/18/08The Emerging Church Loves to Drink
The book Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives, for example, contains probably a dozen references to the joys of drinking. The contributors are Karen Ward, Mark Driscoll, John Burke, Dan Kimball, and Doug Pagitt. They meet in bars and taverns for theological discussions. They exchange beer-making techniques.
Posted 8/15/08Episcopal Gay Bishop, Partner Joined in Civil Union
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson was legally joined to Mark Andrew, his partner of 20 years, in a civil ceremony Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced.
Posted 6/16/08Blood on the Pulpits
In March of this year, Joel Osteen had former president Bill Clinton at his Lakewood Church. Osteen said he was "honored" to have Clinton there while his congregation applauded wildly. That's right, he said he was "honored" to have someone who upholds murder, perversion, immorality, and infidelity, and then thanked Clinton for his "service to our country."
Posted 4/14/08Revealing Letter from a former Catholic
Posted 1/4/08Anglican Church fears lawsuits over gay rights
Posted 9/10/07Catholic Priest jailed for murdering son
A Catholic priest in Mexico who killed his son so the Church would not know he had broken vows of celibacy has been jailed for 55 years in Mexico City.
Posted 8/13/07Catholic Priest nabbed while running nude at school
Posted 8/13/07Many Pastors Today Leading Congregations To The Antichrist
That today's Christians appear to be among the most gullible people on the planet seems to be a gigantic understatement. For example, it was just a couple or three decades ago when the largest and most influential churches in America were pastored by strong Bible men: men who preached hard against sin; men who didn't try to tickle ears and didn't mind stepping on toes; men who were not afraid to call civil and business leaders to account; men who called a spade a spade. Those days are gone.
Posted 8/10/07Many Evangelical Leaders Boldly Abandon Israel
These are times of great deception. We need to gird ourselves against the deception that is all around. Look to the L-rd for guidance, not man. Be involved in those things that the L-rd is doing. He is redeeming the earth, not trying to appease terrorist-driven Muslims who want to wipe His people off the face of the earth.
Posted 8/8/07150 clergymen 'linked to child sex abuse'
Posted 5/3/07Anger over Anglican Church Sex Abuse cover-up
Campaigners have called the Church of England's failure to tell police about an ex-choirmaster who sexually abused children "totally irresponsible".
Posted 4/27/07Anglican/Episcopalian church turmoil over gay issues deepens
Posted 5/10/07Anglican/Episcopalian Parish Splits From Church
Posted 6/4/07Anglican Church in a 'mess' over gay bishop row
Posted 5/30/07Anglican Priest drawn to Islam loses her collar for year <- Only a YEAR???
Posted 7/9/07Anglican Vicar guilty of child sex abuse
Posted 5/4/07Catholic church sells off properties after sex abuse payouts
Posted 5/25/07Catholics detail Irish sex abuses
Posted 5/4/07Catholic Priest on trial for dictatorship killings, torture
Posted 7/9/07Charismatic Pastor's wife jailed over so-called 'miracle babies'
A KENYAN court sentenced the wife of a British-based charismatic preacher to two years in jail for stealing a child in an ongoing saga of missing infants said to be 'miracle babies' produced by prayer.
Posted 6/1/07Christian TV head resigns over affair
Founder of Lethbridge's Miracle Channel admits to 'extramarital relationship'
Posted 5/25/07Church apologises over priest in Kluk murder
Posted 5/7/07Church Plans Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Worship service
To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Clause and about 20 other local musicians will perform the entire record in the 128-year-old church.
Posted 6/1/07Delirium at a hip-hop New Age Church
With traditional churches seeking ways to revitalize interest in worship — particularly among the young — the distance between hip-hop and religion is closing.
Posted 4/4/07Evangelicals Turning to Catholic "Spirituality"
Many Evangelicals and Catholics are turning to Roman Catholic styles of spirituality (which in many cases they have borrowed from pagan sources), such as ritualistic, rote prayers, chanting, meditation, centering prayer, and "the daily office."
Posted 5/21/07Gay Anglican/Episcopalian bishop to make union official <- How sick is THIS???
The Rev. V. Gene Robinson became the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop. Now, he and his partner want to be among the first gay couples in New Hampshire to officially unite under a soon-to-be-signed civil unions law.
Posted 5/1/07LA diocese to sell churches to fund sex abuse claims
Posted 5/17/07...the leading light of the New Age generation of TV evangelists in the US comes to Britain
It is safe to say that the name of Joel Osteen rings few bells in Britain. But he's big - very big - in the US as the leader of the New Age generation of television evangelists, successor to men like Billy Graham, which explains why tonight on his first tour of the UK he is hiring the Wembley Arena for a gathering of the faithful. He was at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast on Wednesday and tomorrow he will be at the NEC in Birmingham.
Posted 7/9/07Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Martin told me that he had solid information that Boston’s prelate, Cardinal Bernard Law, was complicit in the operation of a ring of pedophile priests, some of whom were practicing Satanists.
Posted 5/9/07New Marketing tools need to Boost Church attendance
UK Churchgoing may be declining, but nearly three million lapsed worshippers say they would return the pews with the right inducements, such as more entertainment and less preaching, new research has found.
Posted 4/4/07Polygamists move into Texas town
Cabinet maker Samuel Fischer moves to small town on Texas panhandle; Fischer is a follower of polygamist "prophet" Warren Jeffs; Jeffs' base is in Hilldale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona; 150 of Jeffs' followers already have moved to Texas as he awaits trial
Posted 5/25/07Pope to authorise Roman Latin mass in coming days
Posted 6/29/07Pope wants Disillusioned Brazilians back in the Catholic fold
Posted 5/7/07Rock Music As Religion
Posted 5/14/07Southern Baptist split over politics
"The worst thing that can happen is for people of faith to say, 'You know, that's really not our arena, we're just going to abandon it to the secularists,'" said the Rev. Jerry Sutton of Nashville, Tenn., whose church hosted the second Justice Sunday assembly.
Posted 6/18/07United Church of Christ backs same-sex marriage
Posted 7/9/07Vatican evicts tenants to make hotels
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