“It was reductionism dressed up in religious finery, offering a shortcut through the wilderness of Christian life. And the result was what you’d expect from any spiritual vending machine… a faith devoid of repentance, maturity, or true accountability.”
(The Dissenter) Jimmy Swaggart, the once-celebrated televangelist whose legacy is as stained by scandal as it is by airwaves, has died at the age of 90. According to multiple reports, Swaggart passed away on July 1, 2025, following complications from cardiac arrest he suffered two weeks earlier. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his sprawling media empire and church, Family Worship Center, have operated for decades.
Swaggart rose to fame in the 1980s as one of the most recognizable faces in charismatic televangelism—a pioneer of the genre, a household name, and, eventually, an object lesson in self-promoting false teaching.
Research: Cults & Heretical Teaching – On Solid Rock Resources
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18.