By Marsha West
In 2008 I penned the attached article analyzing the Lakeland Revival and its leader evangelist/healer/prophet Todd Bentley. The so-called revival lasted several months and included “supernatural manifestations” and experiences. At that time many of us were hopeful that NAR/Bethel’s goose was cooked when the abusive Bentley was brought down for far worse offenses than the recent wrong doings Shawn Bolz, Todd White and several other charismatic hustlers are accused of committing.
In 2008, when news broke of Todd Bentley’s adultery, Charismatic Church leadership removed him from ministry causing the event to be abruptly shut down. Thereafter, Bentley spent a short time undergoing “restoration and repentance” under NAR leaders Rick Joyner, Bill Johnson and Ché Ahn. Knowing Bentley was convicted of sexual assault at the age of 15, knowing that during the “revival” there were creditable accusations that he was responsible for financial mismanagement, knowing about his excessive drinking…exaggerated healings…unsubstantiated claims that people were raised from the dead…and finally, knowing the adultery with a woman on his staff led to him abandoning his wife and children, the men responsible for his restoration quickly returned him to ministry. In doing so, they showed they were completely bereft of good judgement. Hebrews 5:14 reminds us “…solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”
So – with this backdrop in place, read the article. What you’re about to learn will shock you. Examine the moral depravity, lies and cover-up that charismatic leaders permitted at the event that was sold to the public as a “revival” and then ask yourself this question: Will the recent videos produced by Christian apologist and Bible teacher Mike Winger to enlighten the charismatic community about Bethel Church, Shawn Bolz and Todd White’s treachery become the catalyst that will give rise to the much needed “reform” in the chaotic Charismatic Church Mike is praying for? Or will it turn out to be another slap on the wrist and a return to business as usual, just like what happened in 2008?
There is no question that a spiritual battle is going on between the unseen forces of good and evil. And Mike Winger’s in the thick of it. Pray for divine guidance as he endeavors to discern what is good and what is evil. (Ephesians 6:10-20) Continue reading
(Wake up and Smell the Heresy – Facebook page) Please let’s pray for those who are/were followers of Bethel, Bolz and Todd White and for the first time are truly seeing how deceived they were. Mike Winger is doing a great service – but there are so many who are traumatized by truth. It is a good thing. It is a hard thing. Everything they have believed has been called into question because they put their trust in false leaders and a false movement.
(John Carpenter) Most serious American Christians are accustomed to engaging groups like the Mormons, with their sexually immoral con-man who wrote bad fiction full of provable absurdities, or Jehovah’s Witnesses, repackaging ancient Arianism, or even Roman Catholicism, which claims to be the Church the Lord Jesus established while encouraging prayer to the dead and bowing before statues that Scripture forbids and the early church opposed. But Eastern Orthodoxy catches them by surprise. Its weapons are unfamiliar, its jargon sounds ancient, and its strategy is sneaky. As a result, many sincere believers are caught flat-footed. Our blindside to the Eastern Orthodox ruse is made worse by polemically adverse evangelicals who want us to believe that the wolves stalking our sheep mean well. 
5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, 6 namely, if any man is beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, who are not accused of dissipation, or rebellious. 7 For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of dishonest gain, 8 but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled, 9 holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to reprove those who contradict. Titus 1:5-9 (LSB) 
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(Breitbart) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s alleged phone call to the Palm Beach police chief in 2006, wherein Trump allegedly told him, “Thank goodness you’ re stopping [Epstein],” dismantles establishment narratives.
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(Emmy Griffin – The Patriot Post) The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, officially got underway on Friday, February 6. Unfortunately, this time-honored tradition of the world’s best athletes competing against one another has already been marred by a few American athletes.
“Think about this… the Joint Chiefs is spying, the FBI is spying, and the CIA is embedded. And all of this is connected to a sitting US president.”
By Marsha West
This very clear and firm stance against the brutal and barbaric practice of “gender-affirming care” for children won the praise of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We commend the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for standing up to the overmedicalization lobby and defending sound science. By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm.”
“At its core, fundamentalism asserted something remarkably simple: the fundamentals of the faith matter, and Scripture—not culture—defines them. There was no political platform. No culture‑war strategy. Just the conviction that God has spoken and that His Word is not ours to revise.”
(Protestia) Christian apologist and Bible teacher Mike Winger has offered to 
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“Cameron’s journey from Revival’s Golden Key to “Hellgate” thus illustrates a larger pattern: seeker-sensitive culture does not stop at responding to worship style preferences — it continues its submission to fleshly preferences until it’s telling lost people the “good news” that hell isn’t as bad as the church has always taught.”
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