Jimmy Swaggart
Sept 17, 2021: Religion News Service: Tammy Faye, a double whammy of Christian love, wins in the end
What was clear was that the conservative white Protestants vying to rule the airwaves all understood that, on some level, they were in competition with one another when it came to “reaching souls.” In the movie’s telling, Baptists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and their Pentecostal colleagues Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker represent overlapping, sometimes conflicting visions of the gospel for the masses. Aug 26, 2021: MXWDN: The Beatles Announce Five-Disc Let It Be Reissue for October 2021 Release This album features “The Beatles Medley,” which is a mashup of Beatles songs with lyrics changed to reflect the sex scandal surrounding evangelist preacher Jimmy Swaggart. |
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal pastor, teacher, musician, author, and televangelist. He has preached to crowds around the world through his weekly telecast. According to the official website for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, his 1980s telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. Sexual scandals in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him, and to his temporarily stepping down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Swaggart's television ministry, which began in 1975, continues airing in the US and internationally. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the US and on 78 channels in 104 other countries, and over the Internet |
Mar 17, 2016: Talk 107.3: The Fall & Rise of Jimmy Swaggart
Editor of the Baton Rouge Business Report, Stephanie Riegel, joined Jim Engster to talk about the fall and rise of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
Apr 1, 2015: Annoyed Critic: Jimmy Swaggart is pure evil (if there is such a thing)
Jimmy Swaggart is the worst type of evil. He exploits people with religion while not even following his own lie-filled sermons. If God existed, this man would have been killed by a lightning bolt.
Sept 7, 2014: Youtube: It's over now - Jimmy Swaggart
Performed during the 9/7/14 A.M. service at Family Worship Center.
Editor of the Baton Rouge Business Report, Stephanie Riegel, joined Jim Engster to talk about the fall and rise of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
Apr 1, 2015: Annoyed Critic: Jimmy Swaggart is pure evil (if there is such a thing)
Jimmy Swaggart is the worst type of evil. He exploits people with religion while not even following his own lie-filled sermons. If God existed, this man would have been killed by a lightning bolt.
Sept 7, 2014: Youtube: It's over now - Jimmy Swaggart
Performed during the 9/7/14 A.M. service at Family Worship Center.
July 7, 2014: Politico: Evangelicals Are Changing Their Minds on Gay Marriage
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart drew widespread condemnation in 2004 when he told an audience, “I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m gonna be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.”
July 7, 2014: Asia-Pacific Economics Blog: Jimmy Swaggart Controversy
But his career fell down from its grace when an association to Debra Murphree a well known prostitute came out. The sexual scandal in the late 1980s then early 1990s led Assemblies of the God in defrocking him and temporary stepping down being the head of the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
May 13, 2014: Greene Publishing: Sauls Ordained With Jimmy Swaggart Ministries
Senior Pastor Richard B. Sauls, along with First Lady, Sharon Sauls, Rev. Charles Lasseter, and daughters, Victoria and Hannah, traveled to Baton Rouge, La. on April 18 to the Jimmy Swaggart Easter Camp Meeting.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart drew widespread condemnation in 2004 when he told an audience, “I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m gonna be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.”
July 7, 2014: Asia-Pacific Economics Blog: Jimmy Swaggart Controversy
But his career fell down from its grace when an association to Debra Murphree a well known prostitute came out. The sexual scandal in the late 1980s then early 1990s led Assemblies of the God in defrocking him and temporary stepping down being the head of the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
May 13, 2014: Greene Publishing: Sauls Ordained With Jimmy Swaggart Ministries
Senior Pastor Richard B. Sauls, along with First Lady, Sharon Sauls, Rev. Charles Lasseter, and daughters, Victoria and Hannah, traveled to Baton Rouge, La. on April 18 to the Jimmy Swaggart Easter Camp Meeting.
Apr 17, 2014: The Telegraph: Mickey Gilley wows crowd, 5As
He mentioned his cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart throughout the show as influences in his life, with Lewis being more so, especially in his musical career.
Feb 10, 2014: Advocate: Alabama man arrested in Swaggart Ministries bomb threat
Authorities in Alabama have arrested a man wanted in Baton Rouge on accusations that he called in a fake bomb threat in November to the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries campus on Bluebonnet Boulevard, putting hundreds of people on lockdown for several hours.
Jan 15, 2013: Deception Bytes: Jimmy Swaggart: Straying and Preying
The following video was brought to my attention by a former Jimmy Swaggart Ministries supporter. This originally appeared on CNN and was a special piece done by Investigative Reporter Art Harris. I was personally not aware until viewing this, that any video of Debra Murphrey even existed
Dec 7, 2012: Mike Seigel: JIMMY SWAGGART: DEVIL, NOT ANGEL
Mishel McCumber is a writer/researcher who worked as Webmaster for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries from 2008 to 2011. Her day to day dealings there brought her in close and frequent contact with the ministry’s major players and gave her rare, behind the scene glimpses of a ministry with far too many secrets. It was a ministry not only ravaged by greed, lust and hypocrisy but one driven to extremes to hide their dirty secrets from deceived donors at all costs.
May 7, 1988: People: The Fall of Jimmy Swaggart
In the days after the founder's fall, the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries center in Baton Rouge was swept by shock, anger and an unsettling sense of foreboding.
He mentioned his cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart throughout the show as influences in his life, with Lewis being more so, especially in his musical career.
Feb 10, 2014: Advocate: Alabama man arrested in Swaggart Ministries bomb threat
Authorities in Alabama have arrested a man wanted in Baton Rouge on accusations that he called in a fake bomb threat in November to the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries campus on Bluebonnet Boulevard, putting hundreds of people on lockdown for several hours.
Jan 15, 2013: Deception Bytes: Jimmy Swaggart: Straying and Preying
The following video was brought to my attention by a former Jimmy Swaggart Ministries supporter. This originally appeared on CNN and was a special piece done by Investigative Reporter Art Harris. I was personally not aware until viewing this, that any video of Debra Murphrey even existed
Dec 7, 2012: Mike Seigel: JIMMY SWAGGART: DEVIL, NOT ANGEL
Mishel McCumber is a writer/researcher who worked as Webmaster for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries from 2008 to 2011. Her day to day dealings there brought her in close and frequent contact with the ministry’s major players and gave her rare, behind the scene glimpses of a ministry with far too many secrets. It was a ministry not only ravaged by greed, lust and hypocrisy but one driven to extremes to hide their dirty secrets from deceived donors at all costs.
May 7, 1988: People: The Fall of Jimmy Swaggart
In the days after the founder's fall, the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries center in Baton Rouge was swept by shock, anger and an unsettling sense of foreboding.