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It’s easy to forget the human cost of false gospels. Not only in eternity – though even one lost soul is immeasurably tragic – but also in this life. Thabiti Anyabwile, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman, has posted the first-hand account of Sean, a man whose life was nearly destroyed by … Continue reading The human cost of T.D. Jakes’ false prosperity gospel
James White, director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, author of over 20 books, professor, accomplished debater and apologist, has weighed-in on the controversy concerning T.D. Jakes’ orthodoxy. As covered by Apprising Ministries, White revealed his initial thoughts in a series of acerbic tweets:
James MacDonald’s invitation to T.D. Jakes to participate in The Elephant Room 2 has been nothing if not controversial, as I outlined in my previous post. MacDonald’s invitation to Jakes was no doubt well intentioned, and part of the motivation was surely to help break down the racial divide still all too evident in the … Continue reading Elephant Room 2: may we now regard T.D. Jakes as Trinitarian and orthodox?
This article is a review of T.D. Jakes’ Code Orange Revival sermon, preached on 20 January 2012 at Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. T.D. Jakes is the leader of The Potter’s House, a 30,000 member congregation located in southern Dallas, Texas. I had never heard a T.D. Jakes sermon before, though I knew of … Continue reading A review of T.D. Jakes’ Code Orange Revival sermon
On 13 January 2015, Alex Malarkey, subject of the book The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, definitively repudiated the book’s claims. In response to a subsequent enquiry by Dr. Warren Throckmorton, Martin King – the Director of Communications at LifeWay – issued a statement saying that LifeWay stores are returning remaining copies of the … Continue reading LifeWay returns ‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ books to publisher. Why, though, was it ever selling them?
Update: On 15 January 2015, LifeWay announced it was returning copies of Alex’s book. The publisher, Tyndale House, also decided to take the book out of print. For more information, see our continuing coverage. The plague of books by those who claim to have visited heaven has been undermining confidence in the sufficiency of Scripture … Continue reading ‘Boy who came back from heaven’ repudiates story, rebukes LifeWay and other buyers/sellers of ‘heaven tourism’
The Trinity Broadcasting Network – purveyor of false prosperity gospel pedlars such as T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer and Benny Hinn – is to launch its UK-wide terrestrial broadcast channel on 5 January 2015. According to TBN’s announcement, the new channel will be available to ‘95 percent of the television households across England, Scotland, … Continue reading TBN to launch free-to-air terrestrial broadcast channel in UK
As the fallout from The Elephant Room 2 (ER2) continues to spread, Dr. James White, director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, has interviewed Dr. Voddie Baucham on White’s The Dividing Line programme. Baucham is a black pastor of Southern Baptist Grace Family Baptist Church in the Houston area of Texas. He declined an invitation to … Continue reading Voddie Baucham accuses ER2 defenders of cult-like ‘Ethnic Gnosticism’
When an ideologue has run out of real arguments, his final desperate resort is to underhand tactics. James MacDonald, lead Elephant Room 2 agitator, has posted this video, in which the race card is again played: Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… gives an excellent overview: James MacDonald interviews three African-American pastors in an … Continue reading Elephant Room 2: playing the race card, again
This article is adapted from a longer piece, Thinking about orthodoxy: defining terms and asking questions. If we are to understand one another and avoid talking at cross purposes, it is necessary to define our terminology. Unless we do this, we risk erroneously assuming that we have understood what someone else means when they use … Continue reading Orthodoxy, heresy and aberrancy
James White, director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, author of over 20 books, professor, accomplished debater and apologist, has posted another pertinent article, this time addressing how the defenders of the Elephant Room fiasco are ‘showing a lack of passion for God’s honor and glory’. White writes: Reading the commentary on the Elephant Room 2 … Continue reading James White on the discernment gap
Chad Vegas, lead pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Bakersfield, has spoken out about why he left Acts 29, a church-planting network founded by Mark Driscoll: I knew Mark was the primary voice for Acts 29 and that I was not comfortable with how some of his comments represented the network. I also knew Mark … Continue reading Elephant Room 2 claims first Acts 29 casualty
Voddie Baucham, pastor of Grace Family Baptist Church, has explained why he declined to participate in the Elephant Room 2, and why he did not speak as expected at James MacDonald’s Harvest Men’s Conference. Buacham offers a thoughtful and intelligent analysis of the problem with T.D. Jakes’ invitation to the Elephant Room, showing how it … Continue reading Voddie Baucham names the elephant in the room
‘Modalism is considered heresy because it necessarily means that Christ did not really become incarnate. The Word did not really become flesh, and thus Jesus did not die with a real physical body, or shed His real blood. In other words, modalism necessarily invalidates the central doctrine of the entire Christian faith: that Jesus died … Continue reading Why modalism is deadly
This compilation, courtesy of Wretched Radio, shows Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald rebuking the false prosperity gospel preached by T.D. Jakes. What changed, guys? My thanks to Apprising Ministries for bringing this to my attention. Further reading: Elephant Room 2: May we now regard T.D. Jakes as Trinitarian and Orthodox? A review of T.D. Jakes’ … Continue reading Elephant Room 2: Uh, this is embarrassing…
In a piece entitled, ‘Reformed Crowd Asked to Repent for Attacking TD Jakes’, the Christian Post reports that Elephant Room attendee, Bryan Crawford Loritts, is ‘asking the Reformed community to “repent” of their harsh criticism and one-sided attacks on Bishop T.D. Jakes in regards to his beliefs about the Godhead’. The Post reports: To the … Continue reading Elephant Room 2: Bryan Crawford Loritts and the emergence of pachydermism
James MacDonald of The Elephant Room has already taken more than one hit this week, having been pushed to resign from The Gospel Coalition for being unwilling to rescind his invitation to alleged modalist T.D. Jakes. Dan Phillips of the Pyromaniacs immediately weighed-in with his article, Even better than The Race Card™. Phillips called out … Continue reading Running scared: why is The Elephant Room afraid of scrutiny?
