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Robert & Aimee Semple via Wikipedia

This story was sent to me as part of today’s devotional from Charisma OnLine:
A Story & Message from Aimee Semple McPherson:
I remember when Jesus called me to go and preach the gospel, my darling little mother has always stood back of me, God bless her. When I was going out [...]

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From Charisma OnLine, a great devotional to start out the new week, particularly with so many afraid of what the economy might do:
 
Today’s message is from Smith Wigglesworth.
The importance of that chorus is the word only right in the midst of the chorus. If I can get you to see that when you [...]

I have literally found at least a dozen references in articles to the ‘Prosperity Gospel’ as actually one of the factors in the economic downturn, particularly the mortgage crisis. The main article that everyone is quoting is from Time Magizine online: "Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess", by David Van Biema. [...]

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Lately, the economic news in America and Europe has been rather frightening as one bank and financial institution after another closes or faces bankruptcy with hopes of some kind of bailout.
Recently,there have been reports that the churches near Wall Street have seen lots of financial folks lately on [...]

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, is seeking his 3rd wife on the web. The good Bishop is going to document his effort in 10 streaming video “Web Episodes” of his reality show “WHO WILL BE THE NEXT MRS. WEEKS” on his website.
Thomas is the ex-husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum.
Response: I really did think that [...]

Here is a great devotional I received from Charisma OnLine:

Two Kinds of Faith
Today’s message is from Smith Wigglesworth.
There are two kinds of faith that God wants us to see. There is a natural faith and there is a saving faith. All people are born with the natural faith. Natural faith has limitations.
Saving faith is [...]

A state appellate court ruled Friday that parents in California could continue to legally home-school their children even if they don’t have teaching credentials.
The ruling reverses an earlier court decision in February by the 2nd District Court of Appeal which had ruled that those teaching in home-schools needed to be credentialed. This earlier ruling [...]

There is only one Lord and that is Jesus Christ and there is only one real church and that is the Church of Jesus Christ. At this point you’re all wondering where I’m going with this and what I’m going to say next?
Every since I started reading Christian blogs and websites three year ago, [...]

J. Lee Grady recalls an interesting event from the past this week in his Fire in My  Bones article for March 7, 2008.
Apparently in 1999, Kenneth Hagin Sr. called many of the leaders of the prosperity movement’ together to read some of them the riot act. He warned them that some were distorting his teachings [...]

                  (approx.8 minutes) A New Man Magazine interview.
 
You may love Tony or maybe not, but he always has something to say! In this case, he is right about Evangelicals being too closely associated with right-wing Republican politics, and myself, I am guilty of all those things.
So you can imagine that I find myself at [...]