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The unclean spirit behind the goddess of The Shack, the novel written by Paul Young, is still at work. It seems more than coincidental that Bethesda NW, a Bethel Redding sister church, uses Young’s hellish interpretation of El Shaddai; and just like in the novel, the Holy Spirit has also been feminized, addressed in the service as “Mama Ghost.”
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Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry is a school operated by Bethel Church in Redding, CA. Under the leadership of...
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Kris Vallotton is an associate of the highly charismatic false teacher, Bill Johnson of Bethel Church. The church has...
I have always thought Bill Johnson of Bethel Church was a shady pastor with all the bizarre miracles happening at his...
There, I said it. In the title of this article. That isn’t hyperbole, it’s the only explanation left after watching...
I’ve always said a nation without borders isn’t a nation, it’s a yard sale. Anyone can stroll in, grab what they want,...
He was the last of a dying breed—a pastor who not only knew what he believed, but believed what he knew. John...
The lights dim. A soft purple haze spreads across the stage, a carefully manufactured mist rising from hidden fog...
Tony Campolo has breathed his last. On November 19, 2024, at the age of 89, the man who spent decades bending the...
Bethel Church in Redding, California, pastored by Bill Johnson and co-pastored by Kris Vallotton—men who arrogantly...
Walk into almost any modern Evangelical church today, and you might be forgiven for wondering whether you've...
I recall attending worship services where the worship leader and band members spent more time interacting with the...
Over the years, as I've covered Christian news and apologetics, I've seen a lot. I've seen so much that hardly...
You may remember last year at Bethel Church, Bill Johnson made an announcement with a bizarre claim of witnessing a...
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It’s the week after Christmas, and Christ is still too inconvenient for some churches. This time, again, it’s J.D. Greear’s Summit Church—canceling Sunday worship just three days after celebrating the incarnation. Apparently, gathering to exalt the risen King clashes...
Somewhere, John Stott is doing cartwheels in his grave—and not the zip-line kind. If the modern church had a mascot, it wouldn’t be a lamb—it’d be a caped crusader on a harness, suspended mid-air like a Party City reject, flailing across the rafters in some desperate...
Charles Spurgeon once warned that when the church abandons reverence and doctrine, it eventually trades the pulpit for a stage—clowns entertaining goats. He meant it metaphorically, of course. He was talking about spectacle replacing substance, amusement displacing...
Remember a few years ago when the former CEO of Chick-fil-A quite literally prostrated himself in public before the rapper Lecrae? Shoes off. Head bowed. Cameras rolling. What was sold as “humility” was, in reality, something far more revealing. It was a moment when...
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