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  • Kirk Cameron Talks Celebrities and ‘Mercy Rule’

    Kirk Cameron, former Growing Pains star and evangelist, spoke recently about Hollywood celebrities and how they should be held to a higher standard. The brother of Full House star Candace Cameron Bure, Cameron is no stranger to the Hollywood scene, and these days uses his talent, notoriety, and his connections to make films that are quite a bit different from the current Hollywood standard.

    “The films that I make…are really about themes that I think resonate in people’s heart, at least they do in my own family. So I’m always going to make movies that I believe in, that I can give 100 percent to, that I think are going to be offering people something good,” he said.

    Kirk Cameron has recently seen one of his new films come to fruition. Mercy Rule was made for home viewing and became available at Walmart just a couple of weeks ago.

    “My wife and I are always looking for a great new movie to watch on movie night and it’s hard to find films that are fun and inspiring and that are going to build up our faith in God and our strength as a family,” Cameron said. “So we decided we would make one and we made it right here in our own backyard with a local little league team and it’s a movie where family learn the lessons of mercy, patience, sacrifice and trusting God.”

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    Kirk Cameron strongly urges celebrities to adhere to a higher standard.

    “With the privilege of a platform comes great responsibility … [We’ve] got to be careful with what we say and how we say it and everything should be seasoned with grace and while I certainly I don’t do that perfectly, I strive to do it increasingly,” he explains.

    Making Mercy Rule is just one of the ways he appears to be adhering to that higher standard himself. Kirk Cameron won’t produce or appear in a film that isn’t suitable for viewing by the whole family.

    Do you expect other Hollywood celebrities will step up and adhere to the higher standard that the former Growing Pains star believes is so important? Do you feel that celebrities should use the privilege of their platform for way more good than simply that of the current Hollywood standard?

  • Joel Osteen Doesn’t Want Anti-Gay Stance To Define His Ministry

    Pastor Joel Osteen is open about his disapproval of gay marriage, but he does not want his opinion to define his whole ministry. During a talk with Osteen and his wife Victoria, HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill asked him if gay marriage goes against the rules of Christianity.

    Osteen told Hill, “It would be, but I don’t really focus on a lot of those things, I try to stay in my lane of what I feel called to do. [Gay marriage] does come up in interviews and things, but that’s not my core message.”

    The pastor said that his message for his congregation involves letting go of the past, how to raise their children to be good, and how they can attain their goals. However, he did admit that the sexuality of gays and lesbians often comes up as an issue for some members of his church.

    The tenth anniversary of Osteen’s “A Night of Hope” is fast approaching, and will be held on June 7th at Yankee stadium in New York. Hill pointed out that at least a handful of the 45,000 people expected to attend will be gay.

    Osteen added, “Everybody’s welcome, but my take on it is it’s easy to make one issue — to become known for that or to let it sidetrack your message, if you look at our congregation … including myself, we all have issues. Everybody’s on a journey.”

    Osteen once called being gay as “not God’s best work” and he still remains strongly against gay marriage, which is currently legal in 19 states in the US, including the District of Columbia.

    Joel Osteen on gay marriage

    Osteen is the senior pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas — the largest church in the United States. Osteen is also a televangelist and an author, and will soon have his own show on SiriusXM radio.

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  • Paul Crouch Televangelist, Dies at 79

    Paul Crouch Televangelist, Dies at 79

    Paul Crouch, the televangelist and founder of Trinity Broadcasting, the largest Christian broadcasting network, has died at age 79.

    Crouch died in his Orange County, California home Saturday. He had been suffering from degenerative heart disease for over 10 years, which was the cause of his death.

    Trinity Broadcast Network reported in October that Crouch had become sick and was taken to a Dallas hospital while visiting the network’s facility in Colleyville, Texas. He later returned to California for continued treatment of “heart and related health issues.”

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    He and his wife Janice Wendell Bethany “Jan” Crouch started the evangelical giant on the heels of the “Assemblies of God” with Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker.

    Since its inception, there have been financial scandals of huge proportions.

    Former employees, who also happen to be relatives of the company’s founders, blew the whistle on this organizations embezzlement charges among other donation fraud. Brittany Koper, granddaughter of TBN founder Paul Crouch, claims that hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations have been spent on luxury homes and just general luxurious living.

    Koper sued for wrongful termination over being fired for her spilling the beans on the financial wrongdoing.

    Some of the allegations included misappropriation of funds, claiming “unlawful and unreported income distributions to Trinity Broadcasting’s directors” with “multiple jet aircrafts, including a $50m Global Express luxury jet purchased for the personal use of the Crouches through a sham loan … as well as an $8m Hawker jet aircraft purchased by Trinity Broadcasting for the personal use of director Janice Crouch.”

    It also describes the purchase of “multiple motor vehicles, including a $100,000 motor home purchased by Trinity Broadcasting as a mobile residence for Janice Crouch’s dogs.”

    In an interview with the Orange County Register Koper said, “I don’t want to sound nuts, but God uses people to different ends, and he’s using me to expose this. He doesn’t want the money-changers in his house anymore. God is using me to clean house and get TBN into the hands of someone who will make sure it’s run properly.”

    Koper and her husband were also accused of taking money that didn’t belong to them.

    The Crouches dismissed the allegations, and their attorney said the network’s spending was in line with its mission to spread the gospel throughout the world.

    He was survived by his wife and their two sons, Matthew and Paul Jr. TBN continues strong.

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