Article found on Moriel Ministries.

“Troublemaker!” Over the years, many readers will have been called this sort of thing by fellow believers they were simply trying to protect. For a very long time now, Christians who have been warning churches against compromising on the Bible have been branded as troublemakers. The opposite is the case, but this truth has now been made as plain as a pikestaff. It is those who have ignored these warnings and have allowed the world’s ways into their fellowships who have been causing the real trouble – and their own children are paying the price, because a large number of these unscriptural trends are facilitating paedophile attacks.

One website alone lists hundreds of reported cases of paedophile activity within ‘evangelicalism’ – and many of the cases cited there have been confessed to or have resulted in criminal convictions. (Only a fraction of child sex abuse cases get uncovered, which means that these hundreds of reports are almost certainly just the tip of the iceberg.) No denomination is immune from the problem. Congregationalist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Charismatic; all are affected. An entire website is dedicated to exposing instances within the Baptist denomination alone. (I am not getting at Baptists here. I would describe myself as Baptist.) Wherever it appears on the spectrum, a church is in danger if it has a tendency to follow man’s ways rather than God’s.

The founder of a ministry specializing in warning the evangelical church about societal issues that plague it has said, “One of the major problems that Christians need to address is the presence of juvenile and adult pedophiles within the church. … During one of my recent visits to a major city I heard reports about pedophiles in four prominent churches I visited. … The stories I hear like this are too numerous to remember”.

This problem is not well known yet, and there are several reasons for this. One difficulty is that fellowships are understandably less than eager to advertise the fact that they have allowed a child-molester to operate in their midst. We will see other reasons later. Below is just a tiny handful of instances of abuse to show that this problem exists across the denominations:

(Important Note: Such is the dreadful topic of this article that I have felt obliged to accompany it with a disclaimer. You are invited to read it before continuing. Please see this footnote.) Read more…

If you haven’t visited Slaughter of the Sheep, please take a moment to, you’ll be blessed. The following is another gem I found on their site.

FIRST-PERSON: Faith & healing — Where’s the evidence?

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Todd Bentley’s healing ministry has gained national attention. His daily meetings for the past three months in Lakeland, Fla., have attracted hundreds of thousands from all over the world. The press has begun to question Bentley’s legitimacy — Is his financial accounting above board? Are miracles really happening? I want to raise some more personal concerns.

On July 3, my wife, three children and I attended Bentley’s “impartation service” in Denton, Texas, north of Dallas. Why? We have twin 7-year-old boys, one of whom is autistic (largely nonverbal, still not fully toilet trained, serious developmental delays). Friends urged that we attend the meeting for his miraculous healing.

Call us stubborn, but my wife and I are unimpressed with doctors who see our son’s condition as hopeless. We believe that God still heals and that His means of healing include conventional medicine, alternative medicine, prayer, fasting, love and, yes, miracles. In any case, we haven’t given up on our son’s recovery (we still remember the day when he was developmentally on track). So if God wanted to use Todd Bentley, we were open to it.

As faith healers go, Bentley is unconventional. Exhibiting black shirt, baggy jeans, tattoos and piercings, he prefers grunge to Gucci. But his appearance wasn’t a problem for my wife or me. God in the Bible used many unconventional people. The problem for us was the manipulation, hype and agenda that seemed to pervade the meeting.

It was a 130-mile drive for my family to get to the meeting. When we called the organizers, they urged us to get there by 3 p.m. even though the meeting didn’t start till 7 p.m. The venue (a basketball arena) seated 8,500 people, yet the organizers told us to expect 14,000 people to show up. So the only way to be sure of getting a seat was to get there early.

We therefore piled the kids into the minivan early afternoon, arriving around 4:30. At 6:30, after sitting for two hours, the arena was about three-quarters full. One of the organizers then announced that traffic was backed up for miles around Denton and that several thousand were trying to get into the meeting, most of whom would have to be turned away. This was sheer hype. A significant block of seats (at least 20 percent) were cordoned off and never used throughout the whole night. We could have arrived anytime and still gotten seats. Read more…

The following came from Slaughter of the Sheep. I’m posting just a portion.

“Whether Todd Bentley knows he’s giving people false hope only God and Todd Bentley knows at this point. But regardless of whether he knows it, that’s exactly what he’s doing. People who are suffering with every malady you can think of are flocking to Lakeland out of sheer desperation. Who is the core audience of a faith healer? The sick and despondent. Knowing this, the fleecing of these desperate people is beyond defense. Not only are they dying or suffering, but they’re being exploited as well.

Todd Bentley may think he’s being compassionate to these people, but he needs to rethink that vantage point. A doctor from Lakeland wrote in to The Ledger because she couldn’t be silent any more. One of her own patients was wounded by the false revival in Lakeland. Here is her letter in its entirety:

‘Healed’? Double-Check

Published: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 7:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 7:15 a.m.

After the June 22 front-page article on the Florida Outpouring Revival [”Signs and Warnings”], I simply have to speak up. I am a psychotherapist. Several weeks ago, the mother of a young adult patient of mine called for an appointment for her son.

He had been stable for quite some time on his medications for schizophrenia. He had recently decompensated, and was hospitalized in order to stabilize him and restart his medications.

He had attended one of Todd Bentley’s gatherings and was told by Mr. Bentley that he was “healed.” He stopped his medications, only to relapse into psychosis.

The outcome could have been worse. My client has very risky behaviors when psychotic. He might have died.” Read more…

I wrote about this story awhile back which you can read here.

From Telegraph.co.uk

A Christian registrar who refused to carry out gay weddings because they were “sinful” has won a landmark discrimination battle and hailed her triumph as a victory for religious liberty.

Lillian Ladele, 47, can expect a large payout from Islington Council after she was bullied and threatened with the sack for asking to avoid civil partnerships because of her deeply-held religious beliefs.

When she said she could not reconcile her faith with the union of gay men and women, she was treated like a “pariah” and the council showed no respect for her rights as a Christian, the tribunal found.

The ruling that employees should not be required to act against their consciences has implications for the 18,000 same-sex ceremonies conducted nationwide each year and could encourage other registrars with strong religious beliefs to take a similar stance.

Council officials had insisted it would send out the wrong message if Miss Ladele was exempted and her claim had outraged gay rights groups.

But the Central London Employment Tribunal upheld Miss Ladele’s claims of discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of religion or beliefs.

The panel said: “Islington Council rightly considered the importance of the right of the gay community not to be discriminated against but did not consider the right of Miss Ladele as a member of a religious group. Read more…

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Todd forcibly hitting a man with terminal colon cancer

Todd telling why he does not like the proceeding video

This is an interview on Way of The master Radio with Todd Friel interviewing an ex faith healer, Mark Haville, who, after reading the Bible, realized the unbiblical nature of it. He explains the tricks used to make people think they are healed and how they make people fall over

I’m still shaking my head over this one. I guess if the FLDS can dress their kids modestly while marrying them off to eager pre-geezers and geriatrics, with their help so can you!

“NBC News DALLAS – Just in time for back-to-school shopping: authentic polygamist prairie dresses.

Apparently, all the publicity surrounding the ongoing investigation into alleged underage marriage among members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) on a Texas ranch has created some serious demand for prairie dresses.

So much so that the FLDS has launched an online store where members of the general public can purchase the dresses, long underwear, and other ranch-wear “as seen on TV.”

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the Web site FLDSdress.com, was initially created to give Texas authorities a place to purchase the clothing, so children in state custody could maintain their traditional clothing.

The children have been reunited with their families, but the Web site now serves another purpose. The FLDS hopes to raise money through sale of the clothing to help support families from the Yearning For Zion ranch who now live in rental homes in cities like San Antonio and Austin. Some families have returned to the ranch, but many have not.

The Web site sells a wide array of clothing for children, from the “Teen Princess Dress” for $60.65 to the “Baby Dress With Bloomers” for $48.07. Both items, along with most others for girls, are available in a rainbow of pastels from pink to yellow or lavender. Items for boys include denim overalls for $65.93 and cotton-polyester shirts for $23.69″ Read more…

Read the comments on msnbc and post your own. Here are a few I found that express my opinion:

“Anyone who buys these is supporting a cult and encouraging polygamy, incest and the abuse of children. Hope that makes you feel good about yourself.”

“Financial independence. LOL! All you have to do is read Carolyn Jessup’s book Escape - women in the FLDS are required to work and hand over every single cent to their husbands. That’s how they are kept under control, having no means of their own to leave that cult.”

“I find it interesting the FLDS says our governments are evil and teach their people to separate themselves, and yet they are happy to setup commercialism and a market to sell their wares to those same people. Double-standard!” Read more comments…

The following article was found on World Net Daily this morning. I wasn’t quite awake as I sat down to check my computer when I came across it. What struck me in my pre-coffee state was the faces of the accused, they look like everyday people. While sweet appearing faces hiding gross darkness is not new to me, I wondered about my brothers and sisters. Do you know the voice of the Lord so clearly you’d recognize evil in your midst? After watching a great portion of the church enthusiastically embrace Lakeland Florida I would have to say it appears not.

I’ve heard many Christians state they’d spot evil or the demonic in a heartbeat when asked if they could be deceived going on to explain they have the Holy Spirit in them so they will not get deceived. Most I asked didn’t believe they have or are currently walking in any deception.

So tell me after looking at the pictures of the faces of these two in this story, if you knew them would you have suspected their dark side? Would you have been able to discern the demonic at work in their lives?

What’s sad is in all my years of dealings with satanists and those deep in the occult, they can spot a christian instantly, their demons alert them and they have such a tight walk with their ’spirit guides, i.e. demons they know it’s voice. A christian cannot come into their camp unnoticed, yet most christians cannot spot a satanist or practitioner of the craft unless they dress or look obvious. Even then Christians have been conditioned by the church ‘not to judge’ so they silence that inner check, that nudge.

Did you know there’s satanists and witches planted in the church and they’re not there to learn about the Lord? Do you even know what they believe and how they practice? Do you know what ’signs’ they give to each other to declare who and what they are, much like when a Christian wears a cross? You come in contact with them daily in your every day life and don’t even have a clue. If Christians are promised discernment in the bible, then how is this so? God’s not a liar and the bible is true so why is few can discern evil in their midst?

Perhaps the voice of the Holy Spirit is being ignored, or perhaps you don’t recognize that still small voice. This is such a busy loud world and his voice is gentle, his cues all but discreet. I see people chasing signs and wonders looking for flashy in-your-face, shake the house down loud ‘miraculous’ displays and moves of the Lord and seek words from anyone calling themself a prophet that there’s little time to just sit alone with him and his word. Quiet time with the Lord seems to have gone out of style. Yet it’s that quiet time he speaks, reading his word it comes alive.

With the influx of occult practices being introduced into the body of Christ and becoming mainstream within our society, we’re becoming conditioned to accept darkness as light. Most Christians refuse to study up on the occult claiming they don’t want to glorify the devil, yet they’re ignorant of such practices and are embracing them as fast as they’re being introduced to the church. HIS PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, IT IS WRITTEN! If we don’t READ OUR BIBLES and grow close to the Lord and study up on what’s in our society culterally, we’ll truly not discern and that’s not the fault of anyone but ourselves. Food for thought Christians.

While I recognize I have a high level of discernment and discerning of spirits which goes with the deliverance ministry calling, I’m not special and God doesn’t play favorites. Scripture says he gives wisdom, knowledge and discernment. I believe you as a Christian have it, you just need to understand his voice and ways.

Do you really know his voice? You need to now more than ever. Now the story…

Democratic Party official accused in satanic rape, kidnap
Woman, husband said to shackle victims to beds, keep them in dog cages without food

A Democratic Party official and her husband are facing charges in connection with alleged satanic rituals involving the kidnap, rape and starvation of another couple in North Carolina.

Joy Johnson, 30, a vice-chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party and vice chairwoman of the Young Democrats, made an appearance in court yesterday after she and her spouse, Joseph Craig, were arrested Friday.” Read more…