Things I Think…
1. Just for the sake of argument…let’s say that the pandemic and all the assorted trials besetting us were sent by God to bring us (the church) to repentance. How are we doing with...
Category: Church Issues
Observations: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Observations The last time I read Justo Gonzalez’s two volume Church History was decades ago. As he revised and updated the set in the last ten years, I thought they would be worth another...
Blindfolding The Bride: Demian Norvell
Demian Norvell spent many years on staff at Applegate Christian Fellowship. His account of life in the mega Calvary is one that mirrors so many similar stories about the real cost of serving personality...
Careful What You (Don’t) Say: Paul Coughlin
Careful What You (Don’t) Say Warnings have been given within the quickly growing Applegate Survivors Facebook group to be careful what you say. That God is watching, and you might be held accountable for...
A Critical Mass is Born: Paul Coughlin
A Critical Mass is Born A private Facebook group, Applegate Christian Survivors, had 40 or so members just a few weeks ago. Now, it’s close to 170. Members of the group are speaking out,...
Textbook Manipulation From The Pulpit By Jon Courson
How do megachurches and celebrity pastors deal with being exposed? They ignore it…except for messages meant to make those who have done the exposing the real sinners. Neither Ben or Jon Courson have answered...
She Threw Her Bible Across the Church Office: Paul Coughlin
She Threw Her Bible Across the Church Office I produced and co-hosted a talk show in southern Oregon. More than 20 years ago, I lined up an author named Ron Enroth who wrote, “Churches...
Applegate Under Seige
After exposing Ben Courson, journalist Rebecca Hopkins has now exposed his father, Jon, on the Julie Roys website. This is a story forty some years in the making and one I never thought would...
Things I Think…
1. I think this is the strangest exposition of Romans I’ve ever heard… 2. I do a sports show with Phil Naessens every week…I don’t include any of that content in my weekly...
Priorities: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Priorities It was always the same. Whenever I taught a course on Early Church History, I began the first lecture with the following paragraph: “From the time of the apostles until the time of...
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