Dec 13 2008

Palin's Alaska Church Damaged in Suspicious Fire

Category: Joel's Army, Religion and Politics, Religious NewsPolycarp @ 8:43 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska AP — Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church has been badly damaged in a suspicious fire.

Larry Kroon, pastor of the Wasilla Bible Church, estimates damages at more than $1 million to the church.

Kroon declined to say if the blaze was politically based or directed at Palin, the failed Republican vice presidential candidate.

Kroon says the fire broke out Friday night while a small group of women were working on crafts. They were alerted to the blaze by a fire alarm.

Kroon says he was called and by the time he got to the church, smoke was pouring out of the building. Sprinklers kept the fire from spreading beyond offices and classrooms.

Authorities are not immediately commenting, but Kroon says he’s been told the fire is being investigated as a crime.

via Palin’s Alaska Church Damaged in Suspicious Fire – FOXNews.com Transition Tracker.

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Nov 01 2008

Sarah Palin and the New Apostolic Reformation – Guilt by Association

Category: Religious NewsPolycarp @ 10:24 am

Remember Todd Bentley…Remember Lakeland

via The Free Press — Independent News Media – Election Issues

Sarah Palin has been associated all her adult life with churches and political groups that are way out of the theological and political mainstream. Her extreme policy views as Governor reflect this background and raise questions about what kind of vice president John McCain seeks to have voters endorse.

It has been widely reported that McCain barely knew Palin and his team never fully evaluated her to determine her fitness to be vice president.

A recent report in The Anchorage Daily News stated that evangelist Franklin Graham made the Palin connection to McCain, not Republican professionals. Graham, the once-estranged son of Billy Graham, has strong ties to the various strands of the religious rightwing. He met with McCain on June 30 at his headquarters in Boone, North Carolina, after which Graham issued a statement praising McCain’s “personal faith” and prayed for “God’s will to be done in this upcoming election.”

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Sep 19 2008

Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter

Category: Joel's Army, Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 8:41 pm

Friends, don’t be fooled by her supposed baptism or her supposed stances. If you are going to vote for her based on religious reasons, then you need to understand fully what that means. Tell me, would you vote for Todd Bentley?

US Elections – Times Online – WBLG: Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter.

The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

Muthee_400156gAt a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.

In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way.”

“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”

She then adds: “So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,” before the presiding pastor comments on the “prophetic power” of the event.

An African evangelist, Pastor Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.

Pastor Muthee founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya after “God spoke” to him and his late wife Margaret and called him to the country, according to the church’s website.

The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video “Transformations”, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.

“We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place,” Pastor Muthee says.

After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and there was “explosive church growth” while almost every bar in the town closed down, the video says.

The full Transformations video featuring Pastor Muthee’s story has recently been removed from YouTube but the rest of the story is detailed in a 1999 article in the Christian Science Monitor, as well as on numerous evangelical websites.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

Says the Monitor, “Muthee held a crusade that “brought about 200 people to Christ”.” They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor “the demonic influence – the ‘principality’ over Kiambu –was broken”, and Mama Jane fled the town.

According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.

After Mama Jane was questioned by police – and released – she decided it was time to leave town, the account says.

Pastor Muthee has frequently referred to this witchhunt in his sermons as an example of the power of “spiritual warfare”. In October 2005, he delivered ten sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of which was available on the church’s website until it was removed around the time Mrs Palin’s candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.

It was during that these sermons that Mrs Palin, who was then preparing for her gubernatorial run, was anointed by Pastor Muthee. His intercession, she says, was “awesome”.

Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming “End of Days”. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters’ Commission diploma.

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Sep 17 2008

Joel's Army: Politics and Religion, creating strange bedfellows

Category: Joel's Army, Religious News, Todd BentleyPolycarp @ 9:34 pm

Christian Fundamentalism Permeates the Republican Party: Sarah Palin’s links to the Christian Right.

For thought and discussion, my friends. Do you believe that their is some conspiracy to use sincere believers to move a political agenda? Is this what you get when you allow you believe system to be co-opted into a political party? Do we not loose the ability to witness and carry the gospel message to people if the first identifier is our political party. I have seen people dismiss good, sincere, honest, and believing Christians because they were Democrat.

My question, my concern really, is that Christians as a whole – right and left – have allowed the cross to become a political symbol along side the donkey and the elephant which opens Christianity as a whole to political opinions.

There is more, of course, in this article. I have made it a small point of this blog to bring to attention false prophets – cannot get them all. I have a growing interest in Joel’s Army and Dominionism, a movement which has spawned many of the false prophets, such as Todd Bentley, Bob Jones, Stacey Campbell, etc… and it seems that people are going out of their way to connect Sarah Palin and this movement.

It is my opinion that Christians must be diligent not let the Faith be used in any political fashion – left or right. The old saying is correct – politics makes strange bedfellows.

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