The prosperity gospel impoverishes the people it promises to prosper. It kills the people it promises to heal. The prosperity gospel is not the gospel—though millions of vulnerable people across the world believe it is. But for many of us, the prosperity gospel isn’t relevant anymore. We don’t seem nearly as concerned about it like…
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Yesterday, I shared the first part of my interview with Justin Peters. This is the remainder of the interview. Have you received opportunities to talk to prominent Word-Faith teachers? How do they react to your ministry? A couple. I have contacted several of their ministries to try to get an interview but I’ve always been…
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Ten years ago in the summer of 2008, my friends and I watched a DVD called Clouds Without Water by Justin Peters . The DVD prompted me to leave my prosperity gospel church a few months later—and within three years—every single person in the room left our prosperity gospel church to become members at local churches…
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500 years ago today, Martin Luther hammered the Catholic Church when he nailed The 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Germany—igniting the Reformation. The 95 Theses was Martin Luther’s pastoral reaction to the Catholic Church’s indulgence preachers, who sold certificates promising buyers or their loved ones reduced suffering in purgatory. In other…
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The morning after I became a Christian, I walked into a bookstore and purchased A Divine Revelation Of Hell by Mary K. Baxter, a new Bible, and The MacArthur Bible Commentary. That night, A Divine Revelation of Hell became my favourite book. I read it well into the wee hours of the night. I was actually halfway…
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When Job received news that he had lost all his riches and children, the Bible says: “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord…
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