Mancow: Speaking my truth to Harvest Bible Chapel's Pastor James

Harvest Bible Chapel Pastor James MacDonald, 

left, and Mancow Muller at a men's retreat in 

Michigan.courtesy of Mancow Muller

I've listened to conservative pundit Mancow Muller on and off for years, he's funny, entertaining and always dead on point. Besides an awesome Van Dyke beard Mancow and I have something else in common; our past contains a pastor who in public preached a very good gospel. However behind closed doors our pastors were very different animals. 

The lawsuit Mancow mentions in this op-ed is a defamation lawsuit James MacDonald filed against Julie Roys, a reporter for the bi-weekly Christian World magazine,  who investigated Harvest and the blog  “The Elephant’s Debt,” begun by former church members Ryan Mahoney and Scott Bryant, who questioned the financial stability of the church and accused MacDonald of putting Harvest Bible $44 million in debt. Mancow is now considering a class action lawsuit against Harvest and MacDonald

Mancow: Speaking my truth to Harvest Bible Chapel's Pastor James By Mancow Muller

"Do you worship Jesus Christ or James MacDonald?" I asked someone yelling at me over the phone this past Sunday after I dared go to Harvest church again.

Dumbstruck to silence. Nothing. "Exactly," I said, "you can't answer me." The phone went dead. 

Last time I checked, the Bible says Jesus is the "author and finisher of our faith" and that should be our focus -- not Pastor James MacDonald.

"For it is time for Judgment to begin with God's household ..." 1 Peter 4:17

MacDonald's books line my shelves. His CDs are scattered about my car. I have only one Bible, but so much James MacDonald.

Two of my recent vacations have been with him, including one halcyon day where he baptized me in the Jordan River in the Holy Land of Israel.

At Harvest Bible Chapel, with its network of seven Chicago-area campuses run by MacDonald, I was but one of the many thousands seeking Christ. I wanted my twin daughters and my formerly Catholic wife to have a real, living and current relationship with Jesus Christ just as I have.

Dressed in a weathered black leather jacket covering his hulking frame, snow-white Van Dyke beard and gleaming bald dome, MacDonald makes for a striking figure at the pulpit. His Bible-based sermons are some of the most entertaining you'll hear. You leave one of his services on a Sunday jazzed and revved up for the week ahead.

His preaching is good for the soul and good for the community.

Big questions are asked and answered at Harvest. Is there a God? Do I matter? What happens after we die? Everyone says the same thing when they witness his command of the altar. "What a gift he has!" But gifts are easy to abuse, easy to take for granted.

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Abbie Johnson worked for Planned Parenthood for eight years. Through those years she rose to be a clinical director, but what she saw started to disturb her. Rather than making abortion safe and rare, Planned Parenthood saw (sees) it as a product that must be sold as often as possible. They started pushing quotas and raising those quotas while Abby and her co-workers were required to convince young women to have an abortion, and to hell with the alternatives. 

Then on September 26,2009 Abby was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. What she saw was the horror of a 13 week old baby for it's life against the doctors instruments until in horror she watched that little child killed and chopped to pieces in it's mother womb.

Desperate and confused, Abby sought help from a local pro-life group. She swore that she would begin to advocate for life in the womb and expose abortion for what it truly is. Planned Parenthood did not take Abby’s departure sitting down. The organization is fully aware the workers who leave are their greatest threat. They took immediate action to silence Abby with a gag order and brought her to court. The lawsuit was quickly seen as the sham it was and it was ultimately thrown out of court. The story of Abby's fight comes out March 29th: Unplanned 

On the day that Pope Francis’ sex abuse summit is due to start, “In the Closet of the Vatican” will be published claiming to lift the lid on gay priests in the Vatican and the double lives of senior officials.

Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay living double lives having casual sex with gay partners and using male prostitutes

Former Cardinal and Full Time Pervert Theodore McCarrick is going to be defrocked (that's telling him  Mr. Pope! Good thing you didn't have to break out the brass ruler!) {Survivors of Catholic schools know what the Brass Ruler means}

NJ Catholic dioceses release the names of 188 priests and deacons accused of sexual abuse of children 

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

I was going to open with a commentary poking fun at "Glowarms" those folks that are addicted to the fanciful notion that people are causing Global Climate Change. Glowarms should show us that a cooler earth is a kinder earth by walking a paper route in Hettinger, North Dakota for the month of January.

But I was dissuaded from exploring the obvious by the words of our president:

“There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the governor of Virginia where he stated that he would ‘execute a baby after birth.’ To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb... Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children—born and unborn—are made in the holy image of God.”

I can say no more.

The Democrats not only love slaughtering babies in the womb, they want to kill them after they're born. Again - a mother (Senator Patty Murray) prevents the murder of children after they' are born

Once is bad enough, but the Democrats have twice blocked a bill that would protect babies born alive due to an abortion

If you thought New York's Murder Abortion On Demand law was disgusting? Wait until you see the blood stained copy of Vermont's new proposed new law calls for the unrestricted slaughter of babies from conception to the moment of birth and if the baby somehow survives it has no rights to live so it can be tossed in the garbage while fully alive. Oh, and this bill was introduced by Ann Pugh, a mother of one, and Maxine Grad, mother of 3

A Nation Of Monsters

Not only did we elect him, we RE-ELECTED him.

When I was younger, before the Holy Spirit convicted me of the sins I was committing, I believed The Lie. There were many lies we we were told, but Lie Number 1 was "Abortion is ok" followed by "Roe v Wade is the law of the land"

How can anything be ok if the outcome is always a dead baby?

And Roe v Wade is not a law, so how can it be the law of the land? Roe v Wade is merely an interpretation of the constitution by the supreme court,  there was no follow up action by the legislative branch of the government. It was not codified by any bill which was passed by congress and signed into law by the President. (If you don't understand how the process works, here's some help.) Thanks to Roe v Wade the states can pass laws to either allow or restrict abortions which means that in those states if Roe v Wade is heard again by the SCOTUS, abortion would still be legal in those states if the Supreme Court came to a different conclusion.

WWUTT Wednesday - Is Lady Gaga A Christian

Lady Gaga's Suggested Super Bowl LIII Costume

Lady Gaga, a Madonna wannabe that can actually sing, outted herself as a Christian recently, and she did it in a way that soothed the jangled nerves of the hate filled left - she wrapped her outting with a vile insult aimed at the Trump administration. Namely to a private citizen, Karen Pence, who's sin in the eyes of Gaga, was teaching children at a Christian school.

Now, as anyone knows, you can proudly stand and admit you are a child rapist and a Nazi war criminal with a taste for human flesh washed down with puppy blood to the applause and adoration of the left if you use that admission to insult Donald Trump. The Washington Post (a former news paper) has written an article that calls Gaga music, which inspires her listeners to sin without repentance, "a call to prayer and seek the Lord on Top 40 radio". The author of this theological masterpiece ignores the fact that she NEVER calls her followers to accept Jesus as their savior. The "WaPo" calls the bi-sexual with a dress fetish "both a practicing Christian and a passionate advocate for progressive values" without looking to see if  those "progressive values" are the "Christian Values" taught by Christ.