Warning, humorous story after the jump.
Jul 30 2009
Reverend Ike goes to the Bank in the Sky
The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, the flamboyant minister better known as the Reverend Ike, who preached the blessings of material prosperity to a large congregation in New York and to television and radio audiences nationwide, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 2007. He was 74.
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Youtube is filled with the videos the good Reverend. After the jump are a few quotes from the article. I love the ‘close your eyes and see green.’
Jul 28 2009
Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million
Richard Leroy Walters gets a bit more shocking -
An article in the online newsletter of a Catholic mission in Phoenix revealed that Walters died two years ago at the age of 76. He left an estate worth about $4 million. Along with the money he left for NPR, Walters also left money for the mission.
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Apr 06 2009
Jim Bakker is on the money about the Prosperity Preachers
The first few minutes is s take on the corruption that is TBN – the false doctrine, the lies, the general spirit of the antichrist as promoted by the likes 0f Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland, but then they give you a full on diatribe from Mr. Prosperity Gospel himself, Jim Bakker. This time, however, he tells you to fell from this idolatry.
Oct 30 2008
The Golden Calf – Taking the Prosperity Gospel to new lows, Wall Street 'Christians' made a God.
Is it too funny or too sad? As everyone should, read Exodus 32…And look who pops up, but Dr. Sharon ‘Sarah Palin is the Second Coming’ Stone.
via Markets turn to prayer on Great Crash anniversary | Editor’s Choice | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Plunging world stock markets have produced reactions from bewilderment to terror among traders, but one group believes the financial crisis requires an altogether different response — prayer.
On the anniversary of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, a cross-denominational 100-strong group of Christians united in City Temple Church in London’s financial district on Wednesday to pray for an end to market instability and ask God that economies should not enter a 1930s-style Great Depression.
Carrying a banner depicting a huge lion — symbolising the biblical Lion of Judah, or Jesus — with one paw on a bull and other on a bear, the group then headed to the London Stock Exchange, epicentre of the UK’s quaking financial system.
In tandem with teams in New York, Dublin and Amsterdam, Christians stood in small groups or marched round the Stock Exchange’s premises in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, asking God to intervene in the turmoil of recent months and praying for those affected by the credit crisis.
“I’m not a doomsday prophet, I’m not speaking judgement,” said American Sharon Stone, founder of Christian International Europe and co-ordinator of the group.
“We believe God is God of the economy also. We’re praying for mercy that there won’t be losses of jobs, that there won’t be losses of homes and that any greater crisis will be averted.”
The group, which had come from all over the UK and included workers from the London Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund, comprised Anglicans, Catholics, Pentecostals and other Christian denominations.
This demonstrates an increased willingness amongst believers to work together and to roll up their sleeves as the crisis bites, said 54 year-old Stone, a church pastor since the age of 19.
“This is the easiest prayer gathering I’ve had in 35 years,” she said.
