Pastor Antonio Rocquemore of Power House International Ministries in Chicago, Illinois, landed in hot water after publicly reprimanding a male church member who attended Sunday night’s church service dressed as a woman. 

A video of Rocquemore’s public display of disapproval was brought to the attention of many by Christian James Lhuillier, who claimed that the pastor was wrong in shaming the church member. 

“Some of y’all are going to have to excuse my language but I am tired of this sh*t. In a place that is supposed to be a place of change, a place of deliverance, whatever you want to call it why would you destroy someone in front of a room full of people?” Lhuillier asked.

“This is the kind of bullsh*t that causes people to go home and commit suicide. Sh*t like this is the reason that the church has no power in 2018 because they are so worried about the wrong things. I know drag queens and transsexuals that can pray you out of sickness faster and some of these preachers that collect your love offerings every Sunday,” he continued.

“I would have turned that church clean out do you hear me!!!!!!!!! It’s time for us to stand up for what we believe and stand in our truth and walk away from these ministries that bash who we are. Too many illegitimate relationships have been created trying to conform to a mold you were never meant to fit. I have a great…

Christian music writer Kurt Kaiser, whose six-decade career of songwriting included popular spiritual songs like “Pass It On” and “Oh How He Loves You And Me,” has passed away after a lengthy illness. He was 83 years old.

Kaiser died Monday at his home in Waco, Texas, according to an announcement published by local media outlet the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Kaiser is survived by his wife Pat, four children and their spouses, ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister, and three brothers.

Terry York, professor of Christian ministry and church music in Baylor University’s Truett Seminary, said on Monday that Kaiser had a powerful impact on many through his music.

“He was a remarkable combination of musical excellence that could not be challenged, and heart and an ear for what the youth of American churches wanted to say,” stated York, as quoted by the Tribune-Herald. “Kids would hear a song, have tears in their eyes and then whistle it for the rest of their lives.”

The Department of Health and Human Services is considering the cancellation of more than $100 million in medical research contracts involving fetal tissue.    

The fetal tissue is obtained from miscarriages and legal abortions and is necessary for developing cures and vaccines, supporters say. Opponents, though, say the research is unethical. They also believe there are ethical alternatives. 

“HHS is holding multiple listening sessions with various stakeholders [like] scientists, pro-life groups, ethicists, on this topic,” a spokesperson told Politico.

HHS Assistant Secretary Brett Giroir is reviewing the research and will release a recommendation, Politico reported. 

An HHS invitation sent to experts in the field reads: “HHS leadership is inviting a select group of experts from diverse backgrounds to obtain their individual views on the use of fetal tissue in biomedical research and development.” The experts were asked to defend the use of fetal tissue or suggest alternatives, the outlet said. 

HHS earlier this year ended a contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources, a company that provided fetal tissue to researchers. Pro-life groups applauded the move. 

“So long as HHS trades taxpayer dollars for freshly-aborted baby body parts, the U.S. government is setting its own abortion quotas and sending the message that these children are worth…

Congregations should practice church discipline for staff and members, says a theology professor who believes the practice is “meant to produce joy.”

Jeremy Kimble, assistant professor of theology at Cedarville University and elder at Grace Baptist Church in Cedarville, Ohio, was recently interviewed by Dallas Theological Seminary professor Darrell Bock on the podcast “The Table.”

In an episode posted online on Tuesday, Bock asked Kimble about the concerns some have with the concept of church discipline, namely that it can create “a pretty grim congregation.”

“Everyone’s keeping an eye on everyone to make sure that they’re dotting all their i’s and crossing all their t’s. And there’s the danger of almost a kind of legalism setting in the atmosphere, and almost an oppressive kind of environment,” said Bock.

Kimble responded that he felt it’s important for church discipline to be done with a proper recognition of “what sin actually is,” noting that with sin “we reject what is life giving and pure and good, for what is going to produce death and destruction.”

“If we can get back to that doctrine of sin, we can then start saying something like, ‘Discipline is done for progress and joy in the faith.’ It’s not meant to produce a, as you said, a grim, austere kind of environment….

A caravan of nine buses carrying migrants arrived at the southern border this week.

About 350 migrants are the first group to reach the U.S. border after weeks of travel through Central America and Mexico. The caravan members will rest and then line up to request asylum.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it is closing lanes at crossings near Tijuana so military can install barbed wire and barricades.

“CBP has been and will continue to prepare for the potential arrival of thousands of people migrating in a caravan heading toward the border of the United States,” said Pete Flores, the agency’s director of field operations in San Diego, said in a statement.

As the groups have traveled, President Donald Trump said he would deploy military to the border and sign a presidential proclamation that would suspend asylum. He called the caravans an “invasion.”

According to the Department of Defense, there are 2,800 troops stationed in Texas, 1,500 in Arizona and 1,500 in California.

At U.S. ports of entry, migrants are able to walk up to the port and request asylum in person. According to USA Today, only 100 asylum seekers can be processed per day.

In April, a caravan of about 400 migrants presented themselves at a port of entry to request asylum. Of that, 122 tired of waiting and entered the country illegally.

In total, some 5,000…

A 99-year-old man living in a Communist country where some have no conceptions of the Gospel of any kind has said he wants to follow Jesus, a pastor and missionary revealed.

Jordan Standridge, pastor of evangelism at Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Virginia, wrote in The Cripplegate website on Tuesday that he met the man in question during a mission trip to a communist country last week, which he didn’t name.

Standridge explained that the trip took him to a remote part of the country, where people were largely isolated from the outside world.

“As I entered the first house and sat in the chair to begin, we were told by the father and daughter that they had never spoken to anyone about the Gospel before. The daughter was in her seventies and the father was 99,” the pastor shared.

“As we talked, it seemed as if the scales were falling from his eyes as the realization of his own sin, filled his eyes with tears. It was like talking to the thief on the cross. He simply asked God to forgive him of his sin and give him a new heart,” he continued.

“At the end of our time together, when I was writing some verses in his new Bible and writing down his name, the translator asked his daughter if she would read it to him, she said, ‘He reads better than I do! He’ll be…

Harvest Bible Chapel recently informed their congregation that the church’s Chief Information Officer defrauded the church. While the email to the congregation did not reveal the amount, the police report filed with the Elgin Police Department alleges that he stole more than $270,000 from the church. 

In the October 23^rd email, the church told their members that they “discovered evidence that a non-ministry member of our staff who worked in operations defrauded the church of an amount of money. If the evidence proves true, this would lead to a criminal charge being filed, and a preliminary report was filed today with the Elgin police department. 

The police report identifies the staff member as “Jeffrey Parkham,” the church’s Chief Information Officer. However, The Christian Post looked over the church’s previous social media postings and found that the former staff member’s name listed as “Jeff Parham.” When contacted about the discrepancy, the church replied there would be “no further updates or comments on anything due to ongoing investigation.”

The church told the congregation that “the amount of money in question appears to be less than 1% of our annual budget and the time period appears to be less than a year.” The police report said the staff member’s actions began in July 2017. The church also reported that “We are looking to lay…