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from A Little Leaven:
What could be more relevant than performing a song from Grease that glorifies pre-marital sex?
Here is ‘Summer Nights’ as performed by Granger Community Church.
“She Was Good. You know What I mean.”
What is Granger Church teaching folks with a performance like this?
Apparently Granger forgot a few passages of scripture that are relevant to [...]

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from CBS News:
As the Televangelist Kenneth Copeland continues to defy a Senate Finance investigation, internal ministry documents shed new light on how Copeland runs his $100 million church.
Church bylaws obtained exclusively by CBS News say Copeland is “empowered to veto any resolution of the Board” concentrating all key decision-making power in the televangelist.
The bylaws indicate [...]

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from The Christian Post:
One of America’s largest Christian events is returning this year on a bigger scale after taking a one year hiatus.
Bishop T.D. Jakes and his Dallas-based megachurch, The Potter’s House, recently announced the return dates of MegaFest – the two-day, family-oriented fellowship event – that will for the first time be held overseas.
MegaFest [...]

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Not that I considered John McCain anything to vote for previously, but now that it looks as though he has drank the poison koolaid of Rod Parsley I think even less of him now!
from the Times Online:
John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been called upon to renounce a church leader he considers his [...]

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from DesMoinesRegister.com:
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said today he has sent a new round of letters to televangelists asking questions about spending in their tax-exempt ministries.
Grassley told Iowa reporters in a conference call that the letters went out on Tuesday and will be publicly released later today. He said that two televangelists that have [...]

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It is a measure of the American Churches blindness that it cannot discern what is going here with Paula White and Rick Hawkins.  Having successfully dodged a storm over her “amicable” divorce from Randy White, with no loss of following from her “fans”.  Still able to appear on TBN as if she has not done [...]

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from OneNewsNow:
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has thrown his support behind an investigation of allegations of lavish spending and lax oversight at a half-dozen “prosperity gospel” Christian ministries.
Sen. Max Baucus of Montana joined with Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley in urging cooperation from four ministries. According to a statement from Grassley’s office [...]

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 Looks like the Prosperity Gospel has hit a recession!
From Tampa Bay Online:
TAMPA Without Walls International Church, which faces a U.S. senator’s scrutiny for possible abuse of its tax-exempt status, has put its Tampa sanctuary up for sale.
CNL Specialty Real Estate Services and Cushman & Wakefield of Florida were hired to sell the 13.3-acre campus, near [...]

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from the Star Tribune:

Is the “Prosperity Gospel” facing a recession? With donations dwindling, Mac Hammond, the high-flying pastor of Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, says his private jet is for sale.
This comes amid an investigation by the U.S. Senate into some of Hammond’s contemporaries — including one who leads a church where Hammond [...]

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From The Denver Post:
The relationship between Ted Haggard the Colorado Springs mega-church he founded is over, according to a statement from New Life Church this evening.
Haggard was fired from the church in November 2006 after he admitted to “sexual immorality,” presumably the allegations made by a gay Denver escort who said Haggard paid him for [...]

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