Annually, TBN hosts the Dove Awards, which is the Christian-themed version of the Pagan celebrity culture’s Grammy Awards. Like the Grammy Awards, the Dove Awards spotlights popular Christian artists and platforms them to receive all the glory and honor for their contribution to the music industry.

Yet, you will be hard-pressed to find a single recipient of a Dove Award to be a biblically sound, passionate Christian voice in the Church. I can’t think of a single one. Dove Awards are generally given to those who approve of homosexuality–or are at least very soft on it, like Lauren Daigle who told Ellen she didn’t know if homosexuality was a sin or not. They’ve also been given to pro-abortion cursing rappers like Kirk Franklin and far-left Bible-mockers like LeCrae.

Why do people like this get these awards? Because they are people-pleasers, not God-pleasers. The Scriptures are clear, the people who love and obey God–who love the things God loves and hate what God hates–are in the minority and the world hates us because they hate Jesus. Yet, these celebrities rise to fame not only among the professing Christian world but also in the secular world.

You may remember the “Christian” rock band from the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, Caedmon’s Call, which featured popular singers such as Doug Elmore, Cari Harris Moore, and Derek Webb. Webb was the recipient of three GMA Dove awards, 10 nominations for the award, and six number-one songs on Christian radio.

Webb later apostatized and left the band only to return a short time later to record an album in 2007.

But now, Webb is back again, and he’s recording a “Christian” album with a drag queen who goes by the name Flamy Grant. Also,

Last year, The Dissenter reported last year that Grace Semler Baldridge–who goes by the stage name, Semler–had topped Lauren Daigle for the number one spot on the Christian music charts on iTunes. Baldridge was also nominated by GLAAD for the 2020 Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism for her documentary series, State Of Grace, and push against “gay conversion therapy.”

And in 2022, the queer “gospel” artist is still topping the charts as she makes the number one spot on Now Entertainment’s new songs list with her song, Don’t Tell Anyone, which features swear words and really, absolutely nothing about God.

These are the people that Webb, your popular Christian worship leader from your youth, is now teaming up with. It’s sad that what Christians have held up as “Christianity” in the past has led to such flagrant deconstruction and apostasy, and they’re on their way to the “Christian” Dove Awards.

So if you’re looking for some good, family-oriented Christ-centered entertainment, well, don’t bother with the Dove Awards. You’ll have better luck finding something on Netflix.