December 7th, 2011 → 4:01 pm @ R. Renee
SOME PREACHERS ARE using mafia-style extortion tactics when they’re trying to get their congregations to tithe. Their gangster gospel makes God look like a Mafia boss. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT In the movie clip you just saw two representatives of a mafia boss are demanding payments from a local business in order to “protect” the [...]
December 2nd, 2011 → 12:01 pm @ R. Renee
SCRIPTURE TELLS US that God is no longer winking at our ignorance (Acts 17:30). And ignorance comes with a high price. Just ask Evander Holyfield. He “tithed” $20 million to his church and his mansion ended up in foreclosure. During an ESPN expose on the relationship between professional athletes and prosperity gospel preachers Holyfield was [...]
November 25th, 2011 → 4:01 pm @ R. Renee
JOYCE MEYER, PAULA White, Benny Hinn, Bishop Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar and Kenneth Copeland were/are under a congressional investigation for alleged misuse of church funds ( YOUR tithes and offerings). One thing that each of these preachers have in common is that they teach tithing and/or the Prosperity Gospel to one extent or the [...]
November 18th, 2011 → 12:01 pm @ R. Renee
Let’s face it, Wall Street big wigs aren’t the only ones responsible for the sub-prime lending scandal and the home foreclosure crisis. The Prosperity Gospel played a role too. During the height of the real estate boom, the Prosperity Gospel was also in an upswing. Some preachers were encouraging their congregations to “step out [...]
November 16th, 2011 → 4:01 pm @ R. Renee
SOME PREACHERS USE fear tactics as a means of coercing their congregations into paying so-called tithes or sowing financial seeds. Using fear to manipulate and/or control people’s behavior is actually a form of fear-based mind control. In the video I explore the influence of fear-based mind control in the Christian church. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Fear-based [...]
November 11th, 2011 → 4:01 am @ R. Renee
The issue of whether Christians should tithe is not just some theological debate in which scholar or wannabe scholar squabble over biblical scripture. The Tithing Doctrine (and the Prosperity Gospel) affect real people in a real way. There’s a serious downside to these doctrines that is rarely talked about in the Christian church. In [...]
November 9th, 2011 → 4:01 pm @ R. Renee
THE RISE OF Mega churches in recent years has spawned what I call the Church Growth Movement (or CGM). The CGM refers to the businesses/services geared toward helping pastors grow their churches. With all this emphasis on growing larger congregations and building bigger churches is the growth of the people in the churches being [...]
November 4th, 2011 → 12:01 pm @ R. Renee
Nowadays the tithing doctrine is like a religion unto itself. In other cases tithing is treated like a new deity on the scene. Some Christians are overzealous about tithing. If you tell them you don’t believe in tithing they act as if you just told them you don’t believe in God. Anyway, since writing [...]
October 28th, 2011 → 12:01 pm @ R. Renee
ONE OF THE biggest misconceptions about tithing is that tithing is the same as giving. From a biblical standpoint, tithing and giving are two entirely different concepts. It seems that many Christians are unaware that under the New Testament giving replaced tithing. In the video I give a biblical breakdown on how to give [...]
October 23rd, 2011 → 4:01 pm @ R. Renee
THE 3RD PROSPERITY Principle is Serving God. We read that King Hezekiah served in the house of God (2 Chronicles 31:21, KJV). Service is one of the key differences between the Prosperity Gospel and Biblical Prosperity. Unlike Biblical Prosperity, the Prosperity Gospel is a selfish, ego-centered theology. The Prosperity Gospel asks the question: What [...]
