This is such an easy job! The fish practically jump in the boat! And I don’t have to go looking under every rock for these creepy critters. They come to me and let me know what they are doing. In fact they often brag about it

Take T. Dexter for example. He had his “Back2Bible” conference coming up in about a week. And they’re going to have some dynamite teachers/preachers covering some dynamite topics. In fact, according to the flyer on T. Dexter’s site, they promise that “(F)undamental philosophies such as redemption, salvation, prayer, the blood covenant and the resurrection will all be discussed during this three-day event.”

Hold on there cowboy!! Philosophies? Since when are the central teachings of Christianity simply philosophies? Philosophies are systems of principles for guidance in practical affairs. Redemption is not a principal. It’s not a philosophy. God’s covenant with man is not a principle. It’s certainly not a philosophy. And certainly the resurrection is not a philosophy. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (or in the case of the Pimps – do unto others before they do unto you) is a philosophy.

T. Dexter Jakes – the next Billy Graham. Right.

In Back2 Bible, T. Dexter is presenting such luminaries as Ken Ulmer and Tommy Tenney. And notice they are described as great orators. So this means what? That we’ll be impressed with their speaking skills while they feed us lies and errors? Apparently so.

Here’s a mug shot of the perpetrators. And as usual, they are regular founts of screwed up doctrine and pimpological expertise extraordinaire.

As an example, Tommy Tenney is the author of “The God Chasers” and “God’s Dream Team”. Here’s a quote from “The God Chasers”:

My life changed forever on the October weekend in Houston, Texas, when God’s presence invaded the atmosphere like a thunderbolt and split the podium at the Sunday service.
Chapter 6, page 83.

In “God’s Dream Team” he says:

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions … Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word.” The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as “Word,” is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, “In the beginning was the dream
God’s Dream Team, page 22

Did you catch that? One of the featured speakers at T. Dexter’s conference says Jesus was a dreamer. In fact, at the end he says that Jesus is the dream.

By the way, though he doesn’t exactly advertise it, Mr. Tenney is a Oneness proponent as well. Shouldn’t be surprised though. After all, T. Dexter is a Oneness preacher too. But neither of these guys has ‘nads to say so. After all, people aren’t quite stupid enough to completely ignore the fact that he denies one of the central tenets of Christianity. They’re getting there, but they’re not there just yet.. And as you would expect, Tenney’s theology is just as screwed up as T. Dexter’s.

Then there’s the woman preacher, Bishop Dr. Cynthia James. I can just see it now. T. Dexter has been busy feminizing men for the last ten years. Now he brings in a woman to ramp up the feminization efforts even more. And of course, she has ties, through folks like Dave Copeland (an up and coming Word of Faith fellow out of Texas [of course], to Fred Price, the Apostate Apostle of Word of Faith poison.

Ken Ulmer runs a church out of an old coliseum in Los Angeles. And during the week, to pay for the place, he rents it out to various rock groups and other performers of…uh…questionable character. He’s also the guy who, several years ago, came up with the book “A New Thing,” in which he proposes that many of the unbiblical practices and teachings he and his ilk are promoting are not wrong. They are simply new. Thus the non-stop screeching and hollering during that which they call worship are something new, not something stupid. Of course you wouldn’t expect an associate of T. Dexter to be any better at understanding God than the man the world is trying to give us to be the next great theologian of the church.

But enough of these clowns. Let’s take a look at one of my favorite pimps – Fast Eddie Long.

Fast Eddie is working a slightly new angle now. Here’s a shot from Fast Eddie’s web page What’s one of the first things you notice about it? Time’s up!!

That’s right! As usual, the entire site content focuses on Fast Eddie. There is a mention of God in Fast Eddie’s note to you. But that’s it. The rest of the stuff is Fast Eddie’s name, Fast Eddie’s picture, information about conferences featuring Fast Eddie or his wife, Mrs. Fast Eddie.

I’ve been watching some of Fast Eddie’s “sermons” lately. And though I have to fight the urge to whisper “Watch this! Watch this!” when I give a briefing at work, I’m going start on summarizing some of the poisoned pabulum and heresies he has been developing over the last year.

The man isn’t simply a pimp. He is a pimp’s pimp. In fact, I think he should get rid of the remodeled Benz he drives and start tooling around in this car. It fits his character and his scams much better. And yes, you’re right, that’s Ron O’Neal’s car from Super Fly (a movie that was out back when I had hair on the top of my head).

Stay away from these pimps. Stay away from anyone associated with these pimps. Any pastor who would associate with these men and women are either too stupid to understand that they are hurting you or they are too greedy to care about your spiritual health. And either of those possibilities says you need to find another church before you are dragged down into heresy, futility, and foolishness. If you want a sign indicating wether or not you should leave a church, look at the events schedule in your church program or the bulletin board and see who your elders are associating with. And if any of these pimps’ names appear there, run, don’t walk, to the nearest exit.

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It’s almost Oprah Day.

If you do devotion in the morning, pray for her.

If you have Bible study, have the group pray for her.

If you are meeting for prayer - purposely bring up her name to God in the group.

If you’re sitting around idle with nothing much to do, pray for her.

Pray that she would come to a saving knowledge of God’s Son and the eternal life He promises to those who trust in Him.

Consider praying that God would do in her life whatever it takes to bring her attention to Him.

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Most of the time I look at the things these pimps do, and listen to the things they spout, I’m conflicted between laughing hysterically crying uncontrollably. I mean, take a look at Prophet Woody Martin in his prayer shawl, also known as a cheap piece of cheese cloth with badly printed scriptures and pictures plastered across it. I’d be as willing to take a picture wearing this thing as I would be willing to take a picture of the red crushed velvet tuxedo (with the black platforms) I wore to my girl friend’s prom. I destroyed all the pictures so forget about it! They’re not going to see the light of day.

I’m amazed that he can stand there, microphone in hand, and keep a straight face. On the other hand, if he can convince people to buy one he gets a hundred dollars for each sale. Let’s see. The thing can’t be worth more than a buck twenty (that’s $1.20 for you WoFers out there). And he likely gets a hundred of them shipped to his facilities at a time ($30.00 for shipping). That means the total cost of the shawl is about $1.50 each. And that means he’s clearing $98.50 for each shawl.

If he can convince just a hundred people to lay down a C note, he can clear $9850.00. Sweeet!! I take it back. If someone offered to pay me almost $10,000 to pose in that red crushed velvet tuxedo, I’d do it. But I do draw the line at the pair of Lederhosen I used to own.

Woody rightly says that the shawl has no mystical powers. In fact he says:

The prayer shawl in itself does not have any mystical healing power. It is a point of FAITH to to have your mind renewed and placed upon THE HEALER - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, the LIVING WORD of Jehovah God through whose STRIPES we are HEALED!

Hmm. I thought the Bible did the renewing. Try as I might, I can’t see anything in Romans 12:1-2 that exhorts us to buy a piece of cheese cloth from Woody. If it’s the Word of God that heals, why not offer us a “Woody the Prophet” Bible or something?

But it gets better. Not only does he offer a Woody the Prophet prayer shawl, we can get a real live vial of “Blood of Jesus Anointing Oil” for free. Again, he rightly says there are no magical powers to it. However, he does quote a bunch of scriptures about Jesus’ blood and then goes on to say:

The oil alone had no power, but when saturated by prayer, it became the Holy Spirit’s point of power for bringing deliverance to people

Okay…then instead of having us order a vial of olive oil and food coloring, why not remind us of James 5:16? While it’s a lot less sexy than a bottle of oil, it seems more appropriate. It says:

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

Where in this verse is there a need for a point of faith (or point of contact if we are a little more honest about what he’s saying)?

But I guess the biggest reason to avoid this pimp is to avoid making yourself look like an idiot. The brother in the following photograph is well dressed. Nice shirt, nice tie. It even appears that he visits the gym on the regular. But what’s up with the hanky on the head?

That’s right!! Just like Paul’s handkerchiefs, Woody the Prophet apparently also sells a prayer hanky. You know the drill – put it on the part that hurts and the anointed prayer cloth will deliver you from the pain, swelling, or what ever. Or you can pretend you’re an idiot and wear it on your head.

It looks as though we have another pimp trying to break out into national prominence. I’d stay away from him if only because of the $100 cheesy shawl. But besides that, he looks like Uncle Joe from “Petticoat Junction.”

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I promise this is the last posting I will publish on Willow Boy for a while - unless he comes up with some other outrageously idiotic comment.

Within the last couple of days, several of you have asked: Why “Willow Boy.” I figure this is probably as good a time to review as any, since WB is on our minds.

The name goes back to one of the first times I addressed Joel and his “ministry.” I complained that unlike the men and women who stood firmly for the faith in the past, men who defied the Catholic Church despite that fact that it literally held the power of life and death in its hands, Willow Boy is unwilling to stand against much of anything.

Luther, Calvin and a host of others were like oaks, standing for the truth, for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.

Joel, on the other hand, has stood like a willow tree, not able to stand against much of anything, swaying in the wind every time a challenge approaches.

Luther and company had roots that went deep into the truth of the Word. They couldn’t be bent, only broken. And they didn’t break. Joel, on the other hand, has shown a willingness to bend as far as he needs to - as long has he doesn’t have to break.

One set of men and women are oaks. The other set (and this set includes Osteen) are nothing more than willows, being moved by every wind that comes through the field.

Willow Boy.

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Remember - May 1, 2008 Oprah Day

Thanks to Avishalom

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I don’t usually follow up a posting on one of the pimps with another posting on the same pimp. But, as I am want to do, I sat and listened to Joel (aka Willow Boy) a couple of days ago (Sunday, 6 April 2008) and I was absolutely blown away by the contents of his pep talk, or PT (surely you didn’t expect me to call it a sermon). I decided the PT needed to be addressed.

The title of the PT was “How to Have a God Kind of Faith.” And yes, this is going exactly where you think it is. Basically, Joel pointed out that it’s not good enough that we should just have faith. We have to have the same kind of faith God has.
Have you heard this before? Yeah, it’s the same thing Copeland and the newly minted Word of Faith Apostle Fred Price feed their victims.

Joel started off assuring us that God has great things in store for us, insuring us that the reason we come up against difficulties is because God wants us to exercise faith, His kind of faith.

Willow Boy went on to say that we have to let God’s faith operate through us. That’s right – God has faith and He wants to operate it through us. He wants to operate his faith through us. That’s how we can get past the barriers in our lives.

I don’t know where to start with this. It’s such a target rich environment.

Okay, let’s start with the fact that God doesn’t have faith. He doesn’t need faith. He is the creator of the universe, the source of life, the source of power. He doesn’t use faith for anything.

The phrase Willow Boy uses implies that faith is a substance of some kind. It implies that God can use me as a conduit through which His faith flows. And that, of course, is exactly what the rest of the WoF pimps will tell you.

As do the rest of the Word of Faith wolves, Willow Boy demotes God to our level. Instead of us exercising faith in God’s faithfulness, in His wisdom, and in His perfection, we force Him to operate the same way we do, through faith. According to Joel, He has the same needs that we have. God uses the same substance we can use. He has to use something outside of Himself (faith, a substance) to cause to happen what He wants to happen.

A question: If faith is a substance, did God create it? If He uses faith to create, how did He create BEFORE faith came to be? If He didn’t create it, how did it come to be? Has it always been? Wouldn’t that mean that there is a substance that has been around longer than God? Doesn’t that mean there is something that is “more eternal” than God?

Apparently God needs faith to create just like I need a saw, a hammer and a screw driver to build a house. So where did God’s celestial toolbox come from? Did He run down to the Celestial Hardware Store and buy it? Does He have a celestial carpenter’s belt as well?

I really have to feel sorry for the 48,000 sheeple who give attention to him every week. They are completely unarmed. We know they don’t read their Bibles. And watching the show, listening to Joel, we know he doesn’t read his Bible either. It really is a matter of the blind leading the blind. It really seems as though people like Joel are busy setting folks up to be susceptible to deceivers like Oprah and her cohort in crime Echart Tolle I mean, what’s the real difference between what Oprah natters on about and what the smiling preacher throws out there? Joel makes his listeners ripe for the picking.

Can you imagine how susceptible the 48,000 people who sit under him are? He has not taken them to Scripture. I doubt that he understands the importance, no, the absolute necessity of right doctrine. The people who follow him are like a troupe of starving people, dying because their leader has no clue as to what real food looks like. How many of them believe there is no substantive difference between Christianity and Mormonism or between Christianity and Jehovah’s Witness doctrine?

What do you suppose he thinks of Oprah and her New Age witchery? She says she loves the Lord so she’s probably a Christian too. Right?

The more I think about Joel, the more upset I get, and the more I suspect that it’s going to be men and women like him who will end up leading the persecution of the true church when the time is right.

Will he be able to change? I don’t know. I think it would be kind of embarrassing for him to admit at this point that he really is clueless. So I suspect that as long as he is comfortable doing what he does (pretending to have some great and godly wisdom) and people are willing to follow and fawn over him, he is not likely to change.

But can you imagine being him and his wife when they face Jesus Christ at his judgment seat? Man! I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes…or sandals…or whatever we’ll be wearing when we face him. But it sure would be interesting being a fly on the Lord’s throne, watching what happens.

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Believe it or not, I don’t go out of my way to uncover heretics and their heresies. Most of the time, I tend to mind my own business. At best I go out and look at these people’s sites and if I see something really good (bad?) I run and tell you about them. This story is kind of old. But since Willow Boy is one of my favorite whipping boys (it’s almost like drowning a sack of kittens in the river), I decided to go ahead and report on a fairly old event.

Several months ago, WB was on the Fox Channel talking politics and theology again. Mitt Romney was still in the race for the president and The Huckster hadn’t dropped out yet. Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday asked WB several questions – about the Huckster, Mitt, and Mormonism. Here is a brief excerpt from that sad interview:

WALLACE: So in that sense, what do you make of Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist pastor who’s doing so well and, in effect, using his faith as part of his platform?

OSTEEN: Well, you know what? I like Mike Huckabee. I’ve never met him. My brother’s from Little Rock and he knows him and says he’s a fine man. And so I like what he stands for.
From what I’ve seen, I don’t think he’s overdone it. I think he’s just — you know, he’s a Baptist pastor. That’s in him. And I think he’s just standing up for what he believes in.

WALLACE: And what about Mitt Romney? And I’ve got to ask you the question, because it is a question whether it should be or not in this campaign, is a Mormon a true Christian?

OSTEEN: Well, in my mind they are. Mitt Romney has said that he believes in Christ as his savior, and that’s what I believe, so, you know, I’m not the one to judge the little details of it. So I believe they are.

And so, you know, Mitt Romney seems like a man of character and integrity to me, and I don’t think he would — anything would stop me from voting for him if that’s what I felt like.

WALLACE: So, for instance, when people start talking about Joseph Smith, the founder of the church, and the golden tablets in upstate New York, and God assumes the shape of a man, do you not get hung up in those theological issues?

OSTEEN: I probably don’t get hung up in them because I haven’t really studied them or thought about them. And you know, I just try to let God be the judge of that. I mean, I don’t know.

I certainly can’t say that I agree with everything that I’ve heard about it, but from what I’ve heard from Mitt, when he says that Christ is his savior, to me that’s a common bond.

You can read the full transcript here.

I have to admit that as I read the transcript I was actually embarrassed for Willow Boy. He is making it so incredibly obvious that he hasn’t a clue. He demonstrated yet again that he is a mile wide and less than a millimeter deep.

The pastor of the largest church in the United States says: “…Mitt Romney said that he believes in Christ as his savior, and that’s what I believe, so, you know, I’m not the one to judge the little details of it. So I believe they are.”

The little details?!?! You mean the little details like Jesus being the half-brother of Satan? Or perhaps you mean the fact that Jesus’ father is actually Adam, their God. Or maybe you’re talking abou the minor difference where they say we can become gods just like Adam did.

Then WB rubs salt in the already gaping wound by asking “Who am I to judge?”

I had to take a time out while I was typing this. I started hitting the keys so hard that I thought I might break the keyboard.

Okay, I’ve settled down.

Who are you to judge? I would expect this kind of foolishness from the average person on the street who has absolutely no doctrinal/theological training and has no idea of just what is in the Bible. I would expect this from someone who just didn’t pay attention to the details of Christianity, who didn’t bother to promote Jesus Christ at his every opportunity to speak. I would expect this from…wait a minute. Didn’t I just describe Joel Osteen?

Joel’s stuff is so weak the Mormons sell his book through their online book stores. Could you imagine them selling John MacArthur’s works?

I suspect Joel Osteen is leading millions of people straight into hell. He’s smiling in their faces while he drugs them with a fatal feel good gospel. In effect, he telling them to have their best life now because they are going to burn forever in hell once they die.

As I watch Willow Boy, I have come to the conclusion that he is actually worse than the pimps. The pimps produce nothing and practically blackmail the sheeple into giving them money the sheeple can ill afford to part with. Joel doesn’t ask for money. He doesn’t try to throw you into any kind of guilt trip, justified or otherwise. Instead, he tells the unsaved what they want to hear in a way they want to hear it.

He tells them to strive to be a better you rather than telling them to put on the new man. He tells them that God wants them to succeed rather than telling them that God wants them to repent and die to self. He tells them God has blessing in store for them rather than warning them that if they become Christians they should expect to be persecuted. He says the opposite of what Christ says. So in a manner of speaking, you could say that Joel Osteen is actually an anti-Christ.

He doesn’t present the Gospel. At the end of each message he presents a sanitized and emasculated Jesus for the people to follow; a Jesus that isn’t Jesus at all and who will only lead them into the depths of hell.

Run away from this guy as fast as you can. Warn others away from him even faster. Make sure those around you know that this man is an empty suit with a smile and a nice hairdo, that he does not have even a rank layman’s grasp on the Gospel. Warn folks that when he stands before them or comes through the television, he has absolutely nothing of eternal value to say.

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Click on the thumbnail image to get a look at the new book, “Pulpit Pimping for Dummies” [Fifth edition] from P.I.M.P Temple Press.

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You want to be worshiped as if you are the Christ? The Dummies guide teaches you how to walk, talk, and threaten so that even the most stubborn (though stupid) sheeple will be willing to quote you rather than the Bible.

Are there people in your congregation who regularly disagree with you and base that disagreement on an accurate understanding of Scripture? The Dummies guide gives you foolproof instructions on how get them out of your congregation and how to make the sheeple believe they are being obedient to God when they turn their backs on the rebel.

Once you begin to read the book and practice the techniques it promotes, you should see an almost immediate increase in your income. Tip toeing around you should increase by at least twenty percent - from the first week of practicing what the book preaches.

How do you intimidate without appearing to be doing so? It’s in there.

How do you get the congregation to buy you a house bigger than the apartment buildings most of your congregants live in? It’s in there.

Maybe you want to be the top earner in your state? Just like the rest of the stuff you want to do - it’s in there.

“Pulpit Pimping for Dummies” provides you all the information, and all the guidance you need to apply the information to get to where you want to be, to get what you want out of life, to rake in as much money, cars and other stuff as you want.

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What are the five characteristics of a worship leader that will make sure your offering always grow? They’re in there.

How do you pick the right men as deacons or elders to make sure you can take the church in whatever direction you want? Yep. It’s in there.

Want to know how to talk your way around the clear teaching against co-pastors, female pastors and bishops, or female elders? You guessed it. It’s in there.

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Here are some unsolicited testimonies from folks who have followed the advice in my book:

“I was having trouble getting the congregation to just buy me a new suit. But once I started following the advice of “P-P for Dummies” they not only buy me suits now, they even buy me cars. I had to build a new garage to handle all the overflow.” - Bishop Gary Hawkins

“I thought Pastor Melvin was crazy the first time I read his book. But after growing the church from eight people who wanted to follow Christ to 5,600 people willing to follow me any where, and give me anything, I recommend the book. Sure Melvin’s crazy - crazy like a fox.” - Bishop Eddie Long

“I went from a traditional Baptist church with two hundred families housed in a dinky little building in the center of Glenarden Maryland, to more than 7,000 members housed in mega church structure costing more than $55 million dollars. And I convinced everyone to build it in the middle of nowhere. Thanks “P-P for Dummies!” John K. Jenkins

“It’s hard to believe that people can be manipulated so easily. The stuff Melvin shared in the book works on television and over the internet just as well as it does in a church building. I would never have been able to get that second jet, the Citation, without his advice.” Ken Copeland

“Melvin helped me to understand that it doesn’t matter what you preach, whether you deny the diety of Jesus or the effectiveness of His death on the cross. He showed me how to get a really great business jet, residences in several cities, including New York City, and a load of cash like you wouldn’t believe. If you want to be the best Pulpit Pimp you can be, buy Melvin’s book. It will pay for itself the first time you take up an offering using his advice.” Creflo Dollar

These are just some of the testimonies people have written in, proving that “Pulpit Pimping for Dummies” is a valuable tool for you to add to your preaching toolbox. With the added income practically guaranteed, you’ll be able to buy all those other book (commentaries, bible dictionaries and crap) so you can impress the one or two sheeple you occasionally allow into your house.

Order it now. Get your break through. Be the best pimp you can be with no more effort than it takes to go out to dinner.

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It’s been kind of hectic around the Jones household. Though it’s been over six months, I still haven’t quite adjusted to working five days a week instead of three. Add to that, the fact that I’ve gotten involved with a church that insists we actually develop as Christians, the fact that I re-initiated daily devotion with my wife (and yes, she did come into it kicking and screaming), and the fact that I’m a television addict and a lazy pig, and getting stuff done becomes something of an challenge. However, I’m buckling down and writing this article about R. A. Vernon and his little princess.

You’ve likely heard of R. A. Vernon. He’s a Mand of Gawd out of Cleveland. And the good pastor has a daughter who apparently turned sixteen in the last year. Being the good father he is, the good pastor agreed to give his daughter a Sweet Sixteen birthday party. And being what appears to be the typical pimp pastor, her sweet sixteen party was something to watch.

Here is a video of the preparation for and execution of the party. When you finish, come back here and let’s talk. Click on that hyper link that says “This video only available on MTV.com” and you will be taken to the video of interest. Then you have to come back here. To be fair, I’m not sure how much of the dialog was for the filming and how much was a view into their hearts.

Did you notice the interior of the house that Chanae lives in? Here’s an outside shot.

I suspect that if I was careful enough, I could land a small plane on the property. And I’m not that good at short field landings.

Are we starting to recognize the pattern? The Passah has a house the size of Buckingham Palace. And the daughter, bless her spoiled little heart, gets everything she wants.

If you noticed, she flew to the Museum of Rock and Roll in “my dad’s plane.”

I’m not going to run down a list of observations about the daughter. She is what she is. In all probability (just in all probability) the child is not saved. While she shouldn’t necessarily want to play “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” at her birthday party, should she really have to be told not to play any “get down” music and not to have any wild dancing? Should she be thinking in terms of “show them that a religious person can have a good time”? Why should you have to show the unsaved anything except your character, your compassion, and your…well…your character?

I believe the total for the party was $25,000 – that’s twenty five thousand dollars, just so you can see it in words. The car I bought (on credit and I’m still paying for) cost $21,000. And it was a Saturn SUV. A Saturn SUV!

Of course my thing on this site is to warn you about the pimps, their lavish lifestyles – at your expense - and the generally bad doctrine most of them spew to convince you to support their lifestyles. But in this case, I’m only looking at the lifestyle and giving you an opportunity to see one of the lemmings who posted her own video to demonstrate that she is more than willing to help the man continue to indulge himself, his poor daughter, and the rest of his family.

The following clip allows you to hear what a mind numbed robot (MNR) sounds like. If I could get a couple of hundred of these MNRs to subscribe to my site, I would have my SR22 in no time. I could probably even convince them to pay for the maintenance and insurance.

Give a listen.

Notice that the member went through every one of the MNR defenses you have read on this site. And if you notice, she said them without hesitation. R. A. has done an excellent job of training her.

Accoring to her, hat he did was okay because:

1. He does a lot of good things
2. At least he didn’t buy her a $50,000 car that she can’t use until next year
3. He makes money on his own
4. God has blessed him and he is just blessing his family
5. Don’t be hating
6. You should not touch God’s anointed

Then she condemns us because according to her, people just don’t read their Bibles any more.

You gotta wonder how a woman who worked and thought her way to a Masters degree would decide to switch her brain off when it comes to Christianity and the issues of life and death. But these are the people who keep the pimps and wolves in business. These are the people who make the R. A. Vernons, the John Jenkins, and the T. Dexters possible.

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Just thought I’d mention that I will be doing the Bible Study tonight at Stand Up Ministries. The study starts at 8 pm. I should have notes here shortly. Standup will also send them out to folks on their mailing list.

Make sure you have downloaded PalTalk and are all set up. This is your chance to tell me in person that I’m going to hell for touching God’s anointed Mend of Gawd.

If you don’t already have Paltalk, click on the Download button on the right side of the web page and follow the instructions. You must be able to play sound to hear the presentation.

10:25 am Local
The Outline/Notes for this PM.

The Pimps and Our Responsibility

1. The Overview
a. What’s out there
b. What the pimps do to the people
c. The responsibility of the pastors/elders
d. The responsibility of the believers

2. What’s out there
a. The truth (accurate and balanced presentation of the Gospel)
b. Straight up false teaching (cults, false religions, etc)
c. Truth with big dose of error (prosperity preaching, social gospel, wealthy apostles, bless to be blessed, ten-fold increase, faith as a substance, etc)
d. False teaching with the intent to fleece the sheeple

3. What the pimps do to the sheeple – Why not let God take care of it?
a. Shipwreck faith
b. Deceive the sheeple
c. Take advantage of people
d. Keep the sheeple poor –spiritually and financially

4. The responsibility of the pastors/elders
a. To encourage
b. To protect
c. To teach the truth
d. To discipline

5. The responsibility of the believer/layman
a. To study
b. To hide the Word in our hearts
c. To put the Word first – always
d. To be on the watch and to be alert

6. The Results of meeting our responsibilities
a. Maturing Christians
b. An effective witness to the community
c. The ability to share the Gospel
d. The ability to help those around us
e. The ability to stand up under persecution

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Oprah is giving a ten part class via the internet. If you want to (and you log on early enough), you can get the live stream every Monday at 9:00 pm for the next eight weeks. I sat through a podcast of the first one. I’ve downloaded the second one and am working up the energy to watch it.

At first, as I was listening to it, I thought of what I was going to say in a posting as I railed against her. But as I watched it, as I listened to Oprah’s excitement over the nonsense words coming out of Eckhart Tolle’s (toe-lee) mouth, I finally had to recognize and state unambiguously that Oprah is unsaved. And as a result of being unsaved, she is totally blind to the truth of the Gospel and blind to the absolute poverty of New Age intellectual and spiritual crap being presented by Eckhart.

Oprah asked him about the motivation for writing the book. Here is the answer he gave. Note that Oprah is more than willing to follow along.

ECKHART: And I, intellectually I couldn’t have answered, why am I writing another book? And it happened.

OPRAH WINFREY: And it happened. Were you asking life, universal energy? I don’t know. What do you call that? As a word do you – I call it “God.” What do you, what word do you use for that?

ECKHART TOLLE: Consciousness…

OPRAH WINFREY: Were you asking consciousness, were you saying, what do you want from me?

Oprah calls some mysterious consciousness “God.”

Then they start talking about the spiritual nature of flowers.

ECKHART TOLLE: Yes, like messengers. A flower is very much more fragile than a plant. It is more fleeting; ethereal, I think is the word; more ethereal. So it has less density to it than most other things. And because of the lack of density, it’s almost as if spirit could flow through it more freely.

So when you contemplate a flower without too much interference of the thinking mind; to actually truly look. This is what Jesus said, by the way. I mean in churches you’ll hear; will hear Jesus saying, “Look at the lilies of the field.”

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.

ECKHART TOLLE And so when he said that, he wasn’t just saying, “Look at the lilies of the field.” He said, “look.”

OPRAH WINFREY: Aren’t they pretty? Yes.

ECKHART TOLLE: He said, look, you really have to look because there is something that they embody something that you also have. But because of all your anxiety about tomorrow and you’re thinking, I’m translating very freely now, what Jesus said.

OPRAH WINFREY: Yes.

ECKHART TOLLE: Why are you – these flowers are not anxious, they have no – they are not concerned about tomorrow and see how beautiful they are. How god clothes them in such beauty. And you can live like that also. So he used this natural realm and flowers to get people in touch with the dimension of depth within men.

Did you catch that? Flowers aren’t plants. They are more ethereal, less dense. And Oprah just ate it up.

Kelly called in from Illinois. Here’s a segment of the discussion:

KELLY (ILLINOIS): I had a Catholic upbringing, I married a Catholic, and we’re raising our children this way. In reading books such as Tolle’s, I’ve really, it’s really opened my eyes up to a new way of thinking; a new form of spirituality that doesn’t always align with the teachings of Christianity. So my question is to you, Oprah, how have you reconciled these spiritual teachings with your Christian beliefs?

OPRAH WINFREY: Oh, the question’s to me. I was resting knowing it was going to about – I’ve reconciled it because I was able to open my mind about the absolute indescribable hugeness of that which we call “God.” I took God out of the box because I grew up in the Baptist church and there were, you know, rules and, you know, belief systems indoctrinated.

And I happened to be sitting in church in my late 20’s and I was going to this church where you had to get there at 8:00 in the morning or you couldn’t get a seat. And a very charismatic minister, and everybody was just, you know, into the sermon. And this great minister was preaching about how great God was and how omniscient and omnipresent, and God is everything.

And then he said, and the lord thy god is a jealous god. And I was, you know, caught up in the rapture of that moment until he said “jealous.” And something struck me. And I was like, I think about 27 or 28. I was thinking God is all, God is omnipresent, God is – and God’s also jealous? God is jealous of me?

And something about that didn’t feel right in my spirit because I believe that God is love and that god is in all things. And so that’s when the search for something more than doctrine started to stir within me. And I love this quote that Eckhart has, this is one of my favorite quotes in chapter one where he says, “Man made god in his own image, the eternal, the infinite, and unnamable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as my god or our god.”

She has rejected the God of the Bible because she thinks He is jealous of her. And she has substituted a harmless and impotent consciousness. Talk about being completely blind.

While I was watching the pod cast, I was wondering how an intelligent and wildly successful business woman can be so foolish as to accept the blatant drivel produced by this man.

Then I had to remind myself that Oprah can do no less than exactly what she is doing. She is unsaved. She is, according to the Bible, an enemy of God. She has been blinded by the god of this world. The Gospel is foolishness. She can’t obey the law of God and doesn’t want to obey it. She…well, you get the idea.

Watching her was actually heart breaking. It was like watching a naïve child being lied to and being too innocent to understand that the man is lying to her so he could molest her. Tolle would say such things as:

And for each a place within yourself that is unconditioned, that is what I sometimes call the formless consciousness, spirit expressed beautifully in the Old Testament in the little saying, be still and know that I am god. (Psalm 46:10) That is, and that’s in the Old Testament. It contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words. Be still, meaning go to that place where the mind is no longer operating. You are just conscious without thinking. And that is the level where the eternal resides. So the eternal, the formless, the spirit is the essence of every human being.

So why didn’t he pick John 14:6, in which Jesus says “I am the way and the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father (not a consciousness) but through me”? That pretty well sums up Christianity.

In all seriousness, I suggest we pray for this woman. More than that, I would like to get a “Day of Prayer and Fasting for Oprah” going. She really can’t help herself. And at the rate she’s going, when she dies, she will spend an eternity in hell. That is, after a million years have gone by, she will still be in torment.

I suggest we make May 1, May Day, “Pray for Oprah Day.” It could only benefit her. And hey, she just might turn that huge financial and executive power into a force of Godliness. I’ll be a guest on “The Pastor’s Corner” this out of Sacramento this Friday night. The feedback I got from them so far was very positive. We will likely talk it up and see what develops around the web and around the Christian community.

As you know, I normally don’t even try to suggest that this or that person be prayed for. Most of the people who appear on this site, in these posts, are active and aggressive leeches, sucking the life from foolish and ignorant Christians. Most of them know what they are doing is wrong. Oprah, on the other hand, really doesn’t have a clue. She is indeed like a kid, eager to believe a lie. Wouldn’t it be an amazing sight if the Big O came on her show and announced that she had been wrong all these years? Hey, it happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. Why not Queen Oprah?

And if you’re feeling especially generous, you might even toss up a prayer or two for Eckhart.

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I’ve seen men faint during the wedding ceremony. I’ve seen a couple of men cry. I’ve even seen men stop the whole thing and walk/run away. But I have to say I have not seen a guy get so…uh…so…carried away during the ceremony. You think maybe he began to understand and marvel at the true gift that God gives us in our wives?

You gotta wonder what the first night was like though.

A tip of the hat for the reminder from Jahnea, by the way.

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Every time I lay out the blatant violations of one of the pimps, I can be guaranteed that one or more of you, even if it’s a drive by commenter, is going to bleat “Touch No-o-o-o-t God’s Anoooiiiinted!” The result of that bleating can, quite literally, be a beating or humiliation at the Mand of Gawd, and worse.

Before I go any further, I want you to understand something: Sherman Allen is a low life. As I have said, yes, we all fall short of the glory of God. But that doesn’t keep us from identifying and warning people about men who are obviously in the pastor thing for money, or sex, or both.

We’ve covered two sex pimps previously. There was your boy Terry Hornbuckle, now biding his time in prison and trying to avoid becoming some bad man’s girlfriend, and Earl Paulk, the man who finally admitted to being his nephew’s father…or his son’s uncle, or something; and who managed to convince several foolish women at the Holy Spirit Cathedral near Atlanta that God had ordained that they were to satisfy his sexual needs. Funny, I thought that was one of his wife’s privileges. I wish I could talk that smoothly to the mortgage company and convince them that God wants them to give me my house for free. But I digress.

Mr. Allen, Mr. Sherman Allen is pretty much Hornbuckle on steroids. According to the papers out of Dallas (do you think maybe it’s something in the water out there?). Sherman Allen, a pastor of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and been laying hands, paddles, and a host of other paraphernalia on a variety of women for quite some time.

While I will link you to the Dallas article, here , a sense of propriety prohibits me from describing some of the stuff this guy has been credibly accused of. When you finish, use the Melvinite Temple eye wash you bought after you read the Tonex posting.

The first question: What do we learn about the importance of right doctrinal understanding? Answer? It’s critical. Right doctrine protects the sheeple. It protect the pastor and the rest of the elders. It protects the name of Jesus Christ.

While I don’t by any stretch of the imagination, wish to imply that these women were at fault, I will maintain that a rightly taught congregation of men and women who are truly seeking God are not likely to fall into the kind of trap set by Mr. Allen. They are even less likely to have been misguided enought to hang around a church such as his.

Here’s what one of his victims said:

Kelly, the daughter of a Church of God in Christ pastor from California, says she accepted the beatings from Allen because he persuaded her that they were necessary for her spiritual growth. She trusted Allen, who calls himself a prophet and is known throughout black Pentecostal circles for his popular prophetic conferences, and deferred to his pastoral judgment because she was in awe of his knowledge and reputation as a man of God

Did you catch that? Spanky was able to convince her to take the whippings because she was in awe of his knowledge and reputation as a man of God. She accepted him as a prophet. He held lots of prophetic conferences. I’m willing to bet he’s held in such high regard because could quote a few Bible verses and tell a couple of stories from the Bible by memory. He could not possibly have been teaching them very much if she thought that getting whacked by a board was going to help her grow spiritually.

And you have be at least a little curious about what he said to convince her that a whack or two to the bum was the way to holiness? What he do, quote a couple of verses from the Gospel According to St. Paddy?

This guy is, in my view, an especially low sort of predator, half a step above child molesters. He apparently took serious advantage of these women’s (there are twentyof them standing in line to point the finger) ignorance, gullibility, and naiveté. He was willing to twist scripture and deceive these women just to engage in some really twisted…activities. I won’t call it sex. I hold sex in way too high a regard to besmirch it like that.

But again, the primary lesson out of this is not that perpetrators are in the church (obviously they are), but rather, we should study the Word for ourselves so we can spot them and see when leadership is failing to do its job.

The second question is: Why in the world did the COGIC ordain this bozo to begin with? According to the article, he was a warlock, a practitioner of Voodoo and was the pastor of a Spiritualist church. These are all things COGIC is very much opposed to.

I gotta wonder though, just what verses did he have her memorizing?

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Folks, this evening at 6:00 pm eastern time, we’re having another teleconference Bible Study.

The topics are as follows:

#1: What happens to babies & the mentally disabled when they die?

#2: Does the NT Christian still need Pastors to teach them in the church?

Give the number a call and join in or, if you just aren’t that comfortable with the whole thing, lurk and listen.

To get in on the conference:

Telephone Number To Call: (605) 475-4333

Participant’s Access Code: 339865#

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His voice thunders in the ears of his sheep,

“Give god your money! It’s not yours to keep!”

They listen, they write, they pass god the check.

Tears glisten on cheeks, but he’s not finished yet.

“Why are you robbing god?” He asks with contempt.

“All should pay! And you’re not exempt!”

He’s the little “g” god, the pimp, you know

Selflessness he will never show.

But what of the sheep with his tear stained face?

The one who in him his trust did place?

What of the ones who simply believed,

All the lies that he conceived?

And what of those who truly thought

That God could not possibly be bought?

You know, the ones who prayed the prayer,

And really accepted Christ while there.

And those who truly had no clue

What the earthly god was trying to do.

(MN: This poem was contributed by Illuminated1.)

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