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“Pastor” Greg Locke’s Home Targeted in Shooting Amid Heightened Political Climate
In a disturbing act of violence, the home of controversial Tennessee pastor Greg Locke was riddled with bullets on the night of September 3, 2024. Approximately 30-40 rounds were fired into Locke’s Mt. Juliet residence, which he shares with his family, including young...
Who Knew? Study Finds God’s Design for Family Structure is Best Fit for Children Afterall
The fabric of society, historically interwoven with the integrity of the family unit, has faced increasing threats. This erosion, particularly pronounced in the United States, can be traced back to a series of ideological shifts that have sought to redefine the very...
Popular Social Media False Teacher Twists the Parable of the Good Samaritan to Re-interpret the Gospel
Self-styled theologians, always cloaked in a facade of benevolence, are purveying a gospel that is a rude departure from the sound, uncompromising truths of Scripture. They twist the words of the Bible to advance a secular agenda, often under the guise of social...
Dallas Jenkins, Creator of The Chosen, Explains How He and Mormons Worship the Same “Jesus”
In a recent podcast episode with Saints Unscripted, a Mormon podcast, creator of the TV series The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins joined the show to explain how Evangelicals and Mormons worship the same Jesus. "We have a lot of theological differences," Jenkins said, "but we...
The Spiritual Crack Dealing of Little God Theology: “Apostle” Mary Banks Says She’s Part of the Godhead
A popular heresy among charismatic false teachers is little-god theology, or the belief that we as humans carry within us the potential to become God, or divine like God. This is not only a heresy found among charismatics, however, it is the underlying teaching of...
Logos Bible Software Apologizes for Selling Pornography On Its Bible Study Platforms
According to a report at Protestia, Logos Bible Software, a platform revered for its extensive theological resources, and its sister company, Faithlife Corporation, has been implicated in a controversy for selling books with explicit content. This revelation has...
Virgil Walker Discusses the Christian Response to the Legalization of Marijuana on OAN
Christians are now finding themselves at a cultural crossroads, grappling with questions of faith, obedience, and witness as the world spirals increasingly into moral chaos. What does the Bible say about substances that alter the mind, such as marijuana, now legal in...
The Ever-Increasing Seduction of False Teachers in Our Postmodern Fallen World
In the verdant beauty of Eden, where humanity first walked with God, the serpent’s whisper, “Did God really say…?” marked the inception of humanity's tragic fall. This ancient deception mirrors a modern crisis, as the world, and the vast majority of the professing...
Dusty Deevers Announces Intent to Nominate Jared Moore for SBC Presidency
In a world increasingly adrift in moral ambiguity, the Evangelical Church as a whole has severely lacked a leadership that is willing to take a stand for biblical integrity even at the expense of their own reputations and even their personal safety. This is especially...
TGC Author Who Wrote About Jesus “Penetrating” the Church Publishes Book on Conservatives and Democrats Uniting
You may remember last year, there was an uproar on social media involving an article published at The Gospel Coalition that described Jesus’s relationship with the Church in a graphically detailed comparison to how a man embraces and has intercourse with his wife. Not...
How to Spot a Self-Serving, Self-Promoting Pastor in Your Local Church
As the old, biblical adage goes, there is nothing new under the sun. And since the beginning of Creation, religious leaders have disguised themselves as shepherds of God's people but have done so for nothing more than self-seeking reasons. In the modern Evangelical...
Francis Chan Says God Wants Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox All at the Same Communion Table
Francis Chan, who has been moving decidedly ecumenical in recent years while abandoning the distinctions that differentiate biblical Christianity from other sects including Roman Catholicism, is once again preaching a gospel of superficial unity between various,...
TGC Podcaster Says “I think Christianity Makes a Case that to be Human is to Have (Gender) Dysphoria”
The Gospel Coalition (TGC) has been one of the leading organizations smuggling in aberrant theologies and vain philosophies into mainstream Evangelicalism that are either blatantly or subtly at odds with biblical Christianity. While TGC has been the primary conduit...
Jared Moore Throws Hat in the Ring for SBC Presidency
Every year, the Southern Baptist Convention holds an annual meeting where denominational business is conducted, resolutions are voted on, and the new convention leaders are chosen to lead for the next years. And every year, it seems, that dirty tricks are pulled to...
Labeling Extreme Movements as “Far Right” is Intellectually Dishonest and These Movements Have No Ties to Conservatism
In a recent tweet, Neil Shenvi, a self-described apologist who attends former SBC president, JD Greear's Summit Church in Raleigh, NC, raised an alarm about the "radicalization" of young, white men by the far-right, suggesting a toxic influence from Critical Race...
No, Jesus Was Not Born Again
I often hear charismatic Word of Faith preachers twist Genesis and the Creation narrative of God making man in His own image—and how man and animals were created in such a way that like kind begets like kind—to support their false "little gods" doctrine. It is a rank...
90-Year-Old Volunteer Gets Boot From National M.S. Society for Not Knowing What “Preferred Pronouns” Means
In the labyrinth of modern societal golden calves, there lies a thread, not so much golden as it is cunningly spun, weaving through the former sanity of traditional values towards a singular, covert objective: the dismantling of society itself. This thread, known...
John MacArthur Blasts The Gospel Coalition: “Woke,” “Useless Entity,” “Like Christianity Astray”
We at The Dissenter have been warning about The Gospel Coalition (TGC) and its clones like Together for the Gospel (T4G) for years and years upon years ago, we concluded that these organizations were compromised in such a way that they shouldn't even be called...
Robert Morris Epic Scripture Twisting to Support Unbiblical View of Legalistic New Testament Tithing
I certainly believe that it is the duty of all believers to give faithfully and sacrificially to their local churches. Yet, a myriad of voices, not least among them the prosperity charlatans, have twisted the Scriptures repeatedly to serve their ends, often leveraging...
The SBC Leftist Task Force’s Epic Power Grab: Creation of a New Sex Abuse Reform Non-Profit Bypassing Messengers
In the midst of the Southern Baptist Convention's endless witch hunt for accused sex abusers, a shadow has been cast over the denomination orchestrated by men and women cloaked in the guise of "reformers" but, upon closer examination, are mere agents of division....
Preston Sprinkle Promotes Heresies That Lead People Away From True Repentance and Faith, and Straight to Hell
Preston Sprinkle, one of the original advisory board members of Revoice, the “gay Christian” movement within Evangelical churches, has been instrumental in shifting the church’s doctrinal stance on homosexuality and other aberrant sexualities. It is through...