These are two great clips from the recent Joel Osteen interview on 60 minutes. The interviewer asks some challenging questions that Christians should be asking!

Thanks to Josh from the Blood Tipped Spears blog for this unbelievable video.

With the release of his latest self-help manual, I’ve decided to repost this previous entry:

Joel Osteen’s back with a new book and it’s still all about YOU! Kind of reminds me of this video.

The 7 steps in Osteen’s new book are:

* Keep pressing forward.
* Be positive towards yourself.
* Develop better relationships.
* Form better habits.
* Embrace the place where you are.
* Develop your inner life.
* Stay passionate about life.

Blogger Loretta Heiden added her idea on what those seven steps should be if Osteen wasn’t just wearing sheep’s clothing:

*Die to yourself
*Pick up your cross daily
*Follow Me
*Love not the world
*Trust in the Lord
*Love one another
*Go make disciples

For more on Joel Osteen, click here.

Welcome to Temple 420, and the new age of full-blown apostasy.

“If your [sic] just a Rat lookin’ for the real cheese, you’ll find it at the Salvation Saloon.”

Apparently nothing is sacred anymore, including God’s holy and inspired Word. The Hip Hop Mass website is offering the new Hip Hop Prayer Book. You might be asking yourself “why do we need the Hip Hop Prayer Book?”

Well, as the retired reverend Catherine Roskam explains, “If Jesus walked the earth today, he would be a rapper.”

Here’s an excerpt from this “Prayer Book” from Psalm 23:
The Lord is all that, I need for nothing. He allows me to chill. He keeps me from being heated and allows me to breathe easy. He guides my life so that I can represent and give shouts out in his Name. And even though I walk through the Hood of death, I don’t back down for you have my back. The fact that you have me covered allows me to chill. He provides me with back-up in front of my player-haters and I know that I am a baller and life will be phat. I fall back in the Lord’s crib for the rest of my life.

I imagine that this would be the best book to bring with you when you “chill” at the New Generation Hip Hop Church located in Moreno Valley California.

Hot Rod Church for Sinners is where you can mesh your idolization adoration of hot rod cars and “church.”

Mesa Baptist Church is apparently trying to keep up with all the other cool, hip, and relevant churches by going the way of apostasy. MBC has recently offered The Gospel According to the Beatles. Click on the picture to enlarge the church sign. (Thanks to Robert from Street Fishing for this one).

See this related link: The Beatles and Church: Mixing darkness with light.

Thanks to the blog Bloodtipped Spears for this video.

See also 10 Ways to Commit Spiritual Suicide.

Here’s yet another perfect example of the dumbing down of holiness to “Christian” youth, and the blurring of the lines between right and wrong. This church produced this childish and even crude video to advertise a summer event for the youth where one of the actors acts like a homosexual.

And if you thought that video was done in bad taste, you should (if you can bare it) see the following video this same church produced. In this particular video they somehow thought flatulence, diarreah, and other bowel movement issues was just what a lost and dying world–going to Hell–needs to hear. The name of the video alone should be enough “fruit” for you to “judge” that there is NOTHING Christian about this. (That’s right, I said judge. And inevitably there will be some people more upset about that, than the content of these videos).

The title of this awful video is: “G-Lax: God’s Laxative.“ If you’re one of those who actually needs to taste the “fruit” before making a judgment, then watch the video.

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See my response to a disgruntled commenter in this follow-up.

Remember the church that brought you the God Sex abomination? Their four-week sermon series this past summer had such sermon titles as:

July 08 – Seven Minutes in Heaven [**Sex Party**]

July 15 – Stripped Bare

July 22 – Leather, Whips, and Whipped Cream.

July 29 – What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas

Well, they’re back once again to prove that the very idea of sacredness, reverence and holiness is still non-existent in their social club. This Sunday pastor David Trotter will be teaching about the disciples.

But for those in his “church” that would be bored to tears (I mean really, teaching from the Bible is so archaic) fear not, because pastor Trotter has decided to spice it up a bit. Judging by the picture on his blog advertising the upcoming teaching, it is sure to be a hoot:

I mean who wouldn’t want to learn about the disciples when you superimpose the heads of Bart Simpson, Drew Carrey, Mr. T, Jim Carrey and Dr. Phil on their cartoon bodies?

I (still) urge you pastor Trotter, please consider what you are doing. Quit trying to gain the approval of men. I truly fear for you. Please consider that the very God and His things that you show so little respect for is the very God who holds your life in His hands. The very One who has power to destroy both body and soul in hell. Please repent of this and return to the teaching of the Bible without all this adolescent silliness. God will not be mocked. Your very soul hangs in the balance. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God that you treat so flippantly and irreverently.