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==PERRY NOBLE======
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July 8, 2021: Crosswalk: Why Are Christian Leaders Falling?
But it’s not worth it just because of that one situation. It’s worth it because of so many other demises of late: Bill Hybels, Ravi Zacharias, James MacDonald, Darren Patrick, Tullian Tchividjian, Perry Noble, Ted Haggard, Carl Lentz… the list is gut-wrenching Jan 30, 2015: Christian Daily: Super Bowl Sunday: SC Megachurch Moves Evening Services to Saturday; Says It's Not Sinful Megachurch pastor Perry Noble doesn't want to impede on his churchgoers' Super Bowl plans, so NewSpring Church will again be moving its Sunday evening services to Saturday this weekend. |
November 1, 2017: Noble released a statement on Faithwire announcing his divorce from Lucretia Noble after 17 years of marriage. He stated that, “After being married for 17 years I have found myself in a place I never imagined I would be — as no one who has ever been married ever dreams in a million years that their marriage will one day end in divorce.”
July 10, 2016: NewSpring Church announced that Perry Noble had been removed as Senior Pastor, due to alcohol abuse and neglect of his family duties. |
Jan 25, 2015: Huffington Post: Baptist Megachurch Minister In Hot Water Over Comments On Ten Commandments
In his Christmas Eve message, Senior Pastor Perry Noble of NewSpring Church, which regularly has more than 32,000 worshippers at 11 campuses across South Carolina, told congregants that no word for “commandment” exists in Hebrew, the Old Testament’s original language.
In his Christmas Eve message, Senior Pastor Perry Noble of NewSpring Church, which regularly has more than 32,000 worshippers at 11 campuses across South Carolina, told congregants that no word for “commandment” exists in Hebrew, the Old Testament’s original language.
Sept 16, 2014: FBC Jax Watchdogs: Perry Noble and NewSpring Kick-Off the Tithing Season with Parody of Themselves!!
Below is a parody video that NewSpring Church has posted on their website to introduce Perry Noble's new sermon series entitled "The Church Just Wants Your Money". Some of the "best" (i.e. worst) teachings on money in mega churches come in September/October, so we are glad to see Perry is kicking things off with a bang! (The all time best/worst was Ed Young's tithing long bomb back in 2010 here and here.)
Below is a parody video that NewSpring Church has posted on their website to introduce Perry Noble's new sermon series entitled "The Church Just Wants Your Money". Some of the "best" (i.e. worst) teachings on money in mega churches come in September/October, so we are glad to see Perry is kicking things off with a bang! (The all time best/worst was Ed Young's tithing long bomb back in 2010 here and here.)
==kristi noem======
The Silence of Kristi Noem’s Church
“My relationship with the Lord is my foundation in all things. As a result, the values I hold according to biblical principles impact my decisions: we are called to love, but we’re also instructed to stand for truth. I’m hopeful my leadership reflects that.” That’s what Kristi Noem told South Dakota Public Radio in 2018 as she ran for governor. She added in her interview that she was active in the Foursquare Family Worship Center in her hometown of Watertown, her grandparents helped start the church, and she and her husband “were children’s pastors there and we still teach kids church on Sunday mornings.” The Foursquare Church is a Pentecostal denomination that grew out of the movement started in 1923 by controversial, media-savvy evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. According to the U.S. Religion Census in 2020, the denomination today has more than 1,600 congregations with more than 360,000 members. Even if most people don’t know Noem’s decades-long membership, she’s perhaps the most high-profile member today
(Public Witness; 1.29.26) READMORE>>>>>
“My relationship with the Lord is my foundation in all things. As a result, the values I hold according to biblical principles impact my decisions: we are called to love, but we’re also instructed to stand for truth. I’m hopeful my leadership reflects that.” That’s what Kristi Noem told South Dakota Public Radio in 2018 as she ran for governor. She added in her interview that she was active in the Foursquare Family Worship Center in her hometown of Watertown, her grandparents helped start the church, and she and her husband “were children’s pastors there and we still teach kids church on Sunday mornings.” The Foursquare Church is a Pentecostal denomination that grew out of the movement started in 1923 by controversial, media-savvy evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. According to the U.S. Religion Census in 2020, the denomination today has more than 1,600 congregations with more than 360,000 members. Even if most people don’t know Noem’s decades-long membership, she’s perhaps the most high-profile member today
(Public Witness; 1.29.26) READMORE>>>>>
MAGA evangelicals’ 'religious freedom' claims are falling apart
Roughly two and one-half weeks after the fatal January 7 shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agent, yet another Minneapolis resident was fatally shot during a protest in the city: 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, who worked in an internal care unit in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Stephen Miller are claiming that Pretti was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in self-defense, noting that he was carrying a concealed weapon. But critics of President Donald Trump's ICE raids in Minneapolis are countering Pretti never pointed the gun at Border Patrol agents and that he was shot after being forced onto the ground and disarmed.
. (MSN; 1.26.26) READMORE>>>>>
Roughly two and one-half weeks after the fatal January 7 shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agent, yet another Minneapolis resident was fatally shot during a protest in the city: 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, who worked in an internal care unit in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Stephen Miller are claiming that Pretti was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in self-defense, noting that he was carrying a concealed weapon. But critics of President Donald Trump's ICE raids in Minneapolis are countering Pretti never pointed the gun at Border Patrol agents and that he was shot after being forced onto the ground and disarmed.
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==jeff noffsinger======
2023 REWIND: Ky. Baptists remained faithful to the Bible, made disciples, baptized believers
More than one thousand messengers and guests gathered for the Kentucky Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at Somerset First Baptist Church in November. Messengers elected Associational Mission Strategist and evangelist Randy McPheron as KBC president, Dripping Springs Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Noffsinger as First Vice President and First Baptist Taylorsville Pastor Chance McConnell and Second Vice President.
(Mark Maynard/Kentucky Today 1/4/24)
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More than one thousand messengers and guests gathered for the Kentucky Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at Somerset First Baptist Church in November. Messengers elected Associational Mission Strategist and evangelist Randy McPheron as KBC president, Dripping Springs Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Noffsinger as First Vice President and First Baptist Taylorsville Pastor Chance McConnell and Second Vice President.
(Mark Maynard/Kentucky Today 1/4/24)
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==mark noll======
Mark Allan Noll (born 1946) is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Research Professor of History at Regent College, having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Noll is a Reformed evangelical Christian and in 2005 was named by Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.
The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
American evangelicals have long been proficient at introspective assessments of our own movement. Since the mid-1980s, sociologists like James Davison Hunter have diagnosed evangelicalism’s contemporary virtues and pathologies, while thinkers like Mark Noll and David Bebbington have sought to interpret the movement through a historical lens. Such diagnoses have often taken on an urgent tone that, rather than undermining the movement, has been one of the keys to its endurance and vitality. In 1967, Carl Henry wrote Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis, warning that evangelicals were in danger of being culturally marginalized. In 1976, he penned a similarly anxious missive, Evangelicals in Search of an Identity. If evangelicalism is anything at all, it is probably a movement preoccupied with such a search and with the social alienation that demands it.
(Matthew Lee Anderson/Public Discourse 11/13/23)
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American evangelicals have long been proficient at introspective assessments of our own movement. Since the mid-1980s, sociologists like James Davison Hunter have diagnosed evangelicalism’s contemporary virtues and pathologies, while thinkers like Mark Noll and David Bebbington have sought to interpret the movement through a historical lens. Such diagnoses have often taken on an urgent tone that, rather than undermining the movement, has been one of the keys to its endurance and vitality. In 1967, Carl Henry wrote Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis, warning that evangelicals were in danger of being culturally marginalized. In 1976, he penned a similarly anxious missive, Evangelicals in Search of an Identity. If evangelicalism is anything at all, it is probably a movement preoccupied with such a search and with the social alienation that demands it.
(Matthew Lee Anderson/Public Discourse 11/13/23)
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==Marvin Norman======
April 3, 2023: CBN: 'Praise the Lord, We're Alive!' Victims of 52 Tornadoes Survey the Damage; 32 Dead
In devastated Wynne, Arkansas where four people died, Pastor Marvin Norman described driving his wife through what was left of their community. "She said, 'Turn around, take me home, I can't stand it.' She said, 'Take me home.'"
In devastated Wynne, Arkansas where four people died, Pastor Marvin Norman described driving his wife through what was left of their community. "She said, 'Turn around, take me home, I can't stand it.' She said, 'Take me home.'"
==rd norman======
RD Norman
In the middle of his heavy-weight theological epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul wrote, “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers” (Rom 8:29). As Christians, we are predestined to be conformed to Christ. That is an unchangeable reality. If you are in Christ, you have partaken in the fruit of this predestined grace.
Does that mean we enter a state of perfection as soon as we are converted? Not at all. What it means is that we have Christ’s righteousness, secured by His cleansing blood (Heb 9:14). He has taken our sin, paid the price, and transferred His righteousness to our accounts (2 Cor 5:21). We are no longer condemned, because we wear His robes of righteousness. There is still, however, indwelling sin within us. As we live out the Christian life, we are expected to deal with that sin. As the Lord shines more light on our hearts, we are to kill off that sin --RD Norman; G3
Does that mean we enter a state of perfection as soon as we are converted? Not at all. What it means is that we have Christ’s righteousness, secured by His cleansing blood (Heb 9:14). He has taken our sin, paid the price, and transferred His righteousness to our accounts (2 Cor 5:21). We are no longer condemned, because we wear His robes of righteousness. There is still, however, indwelling sin within us. As we live out the Christian life, we are expected to deal with that sin. As the Lord shines more light on our hearts, we are to kill off that sin --RD Norman; G3
==gini Norris-lane======
A faithful way for progressive Christians to do evangelism
Is there a faithful way for progressive Christians to do evangelism? That was the topic for the Rev. Dr. Gini Norris-Lane, executive director of UKirk Collegiate Ministries, during last week’s Annual Event of the Association of Partners in Christian Education, held online and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Norris-Lane led a workshop that held space for participants to both listen and weigh in on a topic many Presbyterians find increasingly important, if a little uncomfortable.(PC USA; 1.28.26) READMORE>>>>>
Is there a faithful way for progressive Christians to do evangelism? That was the topic for the Rev. Dr. Gini Norris-Lane, executive director of UKirk Collegiate Ministries, during last week’s Annual Event of the Association of Partners in Christian Education, held online and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Norris-Lane led a workshop that held space for participants to both listen and weigh in on a topic many Presbyterians find increasingly important, if a little uncomfortable.(PC USA; 1.28.26) READMORE>>>>>
==Luke norsworthy======
Luke Norsworthy is the founding pastor of the Venture Community, an inter-denominational church in the Dallas suburb of Corinth, TX. Luke hosts the Newsworthy with Norsworthy Podcast a weekly podcast discussing Spirituality, Christianity, and anything else that seems news worthy.
May 30, 2014: Collin Packer: Meet Luke Norsworthy: A Church Planter's Take on the E Word
Luke Norsworthy is the founding pastor of the Venture Community, an inter-denominational church in the Dallas suburb of Corinth, TX. Luke hosts the Newsworthy with Norsworthy Podcast, a weekly podcast discussing spirituality, Christianity, and anything else that seems Newsworthy. I am a weekly listener of the show and would highly recommend that you subscribe to his podcast on iTunes.
Luke Norsworthy is the founding pastor of the Venture Community, an inter-denominational church in the Dallas suburb of Corinth, TX. Luke hosts the Newsworthy with Norsworthy Podcast, a weekly podcast discussing spirituality, Christianity, and anything else that seems Newsworthy. I am a weekly listener of the show and would highly recommend that you subscribe to his podcast on iTunes.
Aug 31, 2015: Luke Norsworthy: August Wrapup: Jonathan Storment
Jonathan Storment returns to the show to discuss how we understand sin, God’s Wrath, Church and Family vs. Gospel, the Church of Christ Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, St. Kent, entitlement, gratitude, and all things August from the podcast.
Jonathan Storment returns to the show to discuss how we understand sin, God’s Wrath, Church and Family vs. Gospel, the Church of Christ Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, St. Kent, entitlement, gratitude, and all things August from the podcast.
Oct 4, 2018: Eternity News: PODCASTING IS THE NEW BLACK
With so many podcasts on offer, Eternity turned to veteran Christian podcaster Luke Norsworthy, of Newsworthy with Norsworthy, who has more than three hundred episodes under his belt. He has interviewed most of the well-known names in Christianity today, including N.T. Wright, Rob Bell, Walter Brueggemann, Greg Boyd, Sarah Bessey, Bob Goff, Miroslav Volf, Rachel Held Evans, Richard Rohr, Scot McKnight and Barbara Brown Taylor.
With so many podcasts on offer, Eternity turned to veteran Christian podcaster Luke Norsworthy, of Newsworthy with Norsworthy, who has more than three hundred episodes under his belt. He has interviewed most of the well-known names in Christianity today, including N.T. Wright, Rob Bell, Walter Brueggemann, Greg Boyd, Sarah Bessey, Bob Goff, Miroslav Volf, Rachel Held Evans, Richard Rohr, Scot McKnight and Barbara Brown Taylor.
==Julie Norwood==================
Julie Norwood is Christian Lakota woman and an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Home of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, or Burnt Thigh Nation. She was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota. She served the Rapid City community as a Lead Pastor and through Christian radio. She now lives ub Southern California continuing to be in full-time ministry.
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March 31, 2019: His Air: Julie Norwood Interview 3-31-19
In 2006 I left radio completely to serve as a Lead Pastor of a church; where I still pastor (biglifechurchrc). I was offered to come back to help during Fundraising and fill in on air as needed. When an opening came up for mornings, I agreed to do the Morning Show in addition to my pastoring. In 2015, there was a station format change to a new, 100% Worship format. I was offered to be the PD and bring the station on. I had little idea of what that entailed, but I was willing, and so I said, “Sure, I can pray.” Nov 27, 2018: Newscenter1: Hope for the Homeless Outreach
Morning host and event coordinator, Julie Norwood, created the outreach program, now in its third year. Last year, they gave out over 400 cards. Feb 18, 2015: Julie Norwood: I'm Glad Youre Here: You're Worth It
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Sep 14, 2014
Jehovah Rapha - The God that heals
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==robert nosanchuk======
Faith communities navigate political division in 2025: How religious leaders respond
The task of religious leaders is to strike a delicate balance between some congregants’ need for a “haven from a world on fire,” and others who want their place of worship to be “the site of fostering a rebellion against that world,” said Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk of Congregation Mishkan Or, a Reform Jewish Synagogue in Beachwood.
“In a synagogue, we have a long history, and in Judaism, we have an incredibly rich set of commandments, that instruct us to be both,” he said. That means comforting people when they need it but also encouraging people to be informed and express their views, he said. (Cleveland.com 11/2/25) READMORE>>>>
The task of religious leaders is to strike a delicate balance between some congregants’ need for a “haven from a world on fire,” and others who want their place of worship to be “the site of fostering a rebellion against that world,” said Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk of Congregation Mishkan Or, a Reform Jewish Synagogue in Beachwood.
“In a synagogue, we have a long history, and in Judaism, we have an incredibly rich set of commandments, that instruct us to be both,” he said. That means comforting people when they need it but also encouraging people to be informed and express their views, he said. (Cleveland.com 11/2/25) READMORE>>>>
==moss ntlha======
What Another Trump Presidency Means To Evangelicals Around the World
Moss Ntlha, general secretary, Evangelical Alliance of South Africa
Trump’s win is a sad day for evangelicalism around the world. Prominent evangelicals in the US came out in full support of Trump, making it appear that to be Bible believing is to be Trump supporting. Their endorsement gives the impression that theological conservatism requires and leads to a right-wing political view that is dictatorial, opposes climate justice, sanctions genocide in the Holy Land, and approves what took place on January 6. Many in South Africa who know the horrors of apartheid recognize how easily a populist politics that holds to a narrow vision of public morality can harm those on the margins. Trump already declared in his first term that African countries are “s—hole countries.” Lately, he has made it clear that when restored to the presidency, he would make sure that Israel has all it needs to “finish the job,” which many understand as the erasure of Palestinian existence. We worry that having Trump in the White House will make it difficult to proclaim the gospel that “God so loved the world” that he sent Jesus to die for all, especially our Muslim neighbors. We worry that he will use the immense power of the US government to punish those who pursue foreign policies contrary to his own, such as South Africa for appealing to the International Court of Justice to adjudicate whether what we are witnessing in the Israel–Palestine conflict is genocide.
(Christianity Today 11/7/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Moss Ntlha, general secretary, Evangelical Alliance of South Africa
Trump’s win is a sad day for evangelicalism around the world. Prominent evangelicals in the US came out in full support of Trump, making it appear that to be Bible believing is to be Trump supporting. Their endorsement gives the impression that theological conservatism requires and leads to a right-wing political view that is dictatorial, opposes climate justice, sanctions genocide in the Holy Land, and approves what took place on January 6. Many in South Africa who know the horrors of apartheid recognize how easily a populist politics that holds to a narrow vision of public morality can harm those on the margins. Trump already declared in his first term that African countries are “s—hole countries.” Lately, he has made it clear that when restored to the presidency, he would make sure that Israel has all it needs to “finish the job,” which many understand as the erasure of Palestinian existence. We worry that having Trump in the White House will make it difficult to proclaim the gospel that “God so loved the world” that he sent Jesus to die for all, especially our Muslim neighbors. We worry that he will use the immense power of the US government to punish those who pursue foreign policies contrary to his own, such as South Africa for appealing to the International Court of Justice to adjudicate whether what we are witnessing in the Israel–Palestine conflict is genocide.
(Christianity Today 11/7/24) READ MORE>>>>>
==Raphael Nyarkotey============
Raphael Nyarkotey
We believe that pastors, and the church in entirety, should start preaching and advocating for Nature cure. They should not look down on natural medicine. It is the deal now. We must not form little cliques within the healthcare industry that shut out people from accessing natural medicines or with people who have different view-points on healthcare.
We must not think of one group as being set free while this group over here is very narrow and we have nothing to do with them. This is wrong, and Paul clearly says so. In fact, he implies that if any of the so-called strong exclude weaker brothers, look down on them, treat them as though they are second-class Christians, they have simply proved that they are just as weak in the faith as the ones they have denied. Strength in the faith means more than understanding truth.
It means living in a loving way with those who are weak: The truly strong in the faith will never put down those who are still struggling. On the other hand, the apostle goes on:
The man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has ac-cepted him. (Romans 14:3b NIV). Here is the other side of it. Those who believe in mainstream medi-cine must not look down on those who believe in natural medicine. Those who believe in Traditional Naturopathy or what others also refer to as original medicine should not be at loggerheads with pro-ponent of modern Naturopathic Medicine which employs modern scientific methods in handling pa-tient as described in the dictionary of occupational titles, USA.
Those who think it is morally wrong for a Christian to drink wine or beer must not look down on those who feel free to do so. They must not judge them. The word "condemn" means "to sit in judgment" on them and it involves several things. --Raphael Nyarkotey; Ghana: Not Everyone Can Be Vegan or Vegetarian 12.5.21
We must not think of one group as being set free while this group over here is very narrow and we have nothing to do with them. This is wrong, and Paul clearly says so. In fact, he implies that if any of the so-called strong exclude weaker brothers, look down on them, treat them as though they are second-class Christians, they have simply proved that they are just as weak in the faith as the ones they have denied. Strength in the faith means more than understanding truth.
It means living in a loving way with those who are weak: The truly strong in the faith will never put down those who are still struggling. On the other hand, the apostle goes on:
The man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has ac-cepted him. (Romans 14:3b NIV). Here is the other side of it. Those who believe in mainstream medi-cine must not look down on those who believe in natural medicine. Those who believe in Traditional Naturopathy or what others also refer to as original medicine should not be at loggerheads with pro-ponent of modern Naturopathic Medicine which employs modern scientific methods in handling pa-tient as described in the dictionary of occupational titles, USA.
Those who think it is morally wrong for a Christian to drink wine or beer must not look down on those who feel free to do so. They must not judge them. The word "condemn" means "to sit in judgment" on them and it involves several things. --Raphael Nyarkotey; Ghana: Not Everyone Can Be Vegan or Vegetarian 12.5.21