The People's Preachers

From booty shaking youth groups, to secular love song singing shepherds. From old school concerts to homosexual Gospel performers, where has our church gone?

What happened to church being a house of prayer? What happened to church being a place where people came to change? Our churches are going south and it's the fault of secularized, insecure, affirmation seeking pastors.

Remember when divorce took off in the 1960's and the American family was challenged by the hippie movement, baby boomers, and feminist agenda? Homosexuality, infidelity, promiscuity, and drug use swept across America and began to undo the moral fabric that held our marriages together. The divorce and wedlock child bearing rates soared and an insecure nation of young people began to emerge. What began to happen was that the children of the broken home began to grow up with deficits.

The lack of strong fathers in the home birthed children that needed constant affirmation from their peers and social groups to replace the validation they lacked in their homes. They needed constant approval and validation because they felt that at least 1 of their parents didn't want them. Drugs, porn, gay lifestyles, etc. began to plague that generation of youth that sought to plug the missing parent hole in their hearts with the approval of their peers. And if their peers were gang members, then so be it. If their peers where alcoholics, drug users, promiscuous, you name it, they had to do it to fit in and get the approval that was missing in their homes.

Whether we want to face the fact or not, children deal with the death of a parent better than the divorce of a parent. You see, divorce usually leads the child to believe that they are not wanted by the parent that doesn't get full custody of them. No matter how you slice it, it gets sliced, and that has a negative affect on the child either way. This is a proven fact and yet homes are breaking up like never before. Ok, back to my original point. What happens when these young people, the children in need of validation at any cost, grow up? Well, they became our pastors and leaders, and, unless God fixes them, that hole that they have always sought to plug will continue to get bigger because the older they get, the more they will need attention and approval.

What happens when an insecure man is put in position to lead? He uses that position to get security and validation. He uses that platform to be a "star" in the eyes of the people so they can feed his need for validation. What happens when a homosexual man, which is the highest form of insecurity, is put before people? He will use the people's applause and accolades to validate his lifestyle and existence since God and nature will not. This is where we are people of God. We have full grown insecure men leading our churches and they are using their platforms to promote themselves so they can overcome their insecurities and lack of validation. They surround themselves with armor bearers and male cheerleaders. They fill their pews with people that deem them human gods and follow their every word. They lift themselves up and lord over their audiences. They do what they feel and want, not regarding the spiritual ramifications of it.

They do not lead, but instead, they appease and give the people what their flesh is desiring in order to be loved and adored by their congregations. These pastors are full of it and they make a mockery of God and his standard of holiness that he is calling for. They mix secular music into their gospel music. They mix secular themes and worldly fun into their preaching and teaching. They basically put the stamp of Jesus on the ghetto club mentality and promote the very lifestyles that are destroying God's people. Yet, for the sake of fame, notoriety, accolades, and validation by applause, they sell God out and do whatever the people desire. All of this has happened before, and Christ dealt with it all in his messages to the 7 churches of Asia. We have been covering these churches on our radio program and you can download these sermons for free here.

These same, insecure pastors build large buildings and live lavish lifestyles that require them to keep the people coming so they can pay the bills. They live like this to overcome the opinions of those that said they would fail or they wouldn't amount to anything. So, instead of taking small steps and establishing themselves gradually, they live to prove people wrong and build, buy, and floss, without establishing foundation and following God's leading. When you raise your standard of living and the churches financial responsibility up high, then you must keep the people coming to sustain it. This is a trap that the modern day, ambitious pastor, falls into. He sees what other men have and desires to grow to that status. But it comes with a price because if the people stop giving or coming, you are stuck with bills you cannot pay. So, the focus of the ministry has to be tithes and offerings and you have to keep entertaining the people so they will keep coming. Truth cannot be preached for fear of losing people, so, compromise becomes the spirit that resides in that house. And the people take on that same spirit and begin to live sinfully and in a spiritual state of compromise all because the pastor was overly ambitious and has selfish motives.

Then, they go for hollywood and get some movie stars, athletes, and money makers to attend services so they can help pay the large notes on these properties. This means that you have to accept the agenda of these people and not preach against them in order to keep them coming and giving. Now, our churches are coming apart at the seams because these carnal idolatrous pastors are leading them straight to HELL. They won't preach against sin and they accept any trend that is popular and will draw a crowd.



They welcome garbage into the house of God at any cost just to keep driving the cars, living in the big houses, and paying the bills of these lavish sanctuaries. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying there is anything wrong with having a large sanctuary and audience, but if you build it around your personality, then you my friend will have to sustain it with your ideas and concepts. If God builds it, then that would mean that the truth will sustain it. But if you have to resort to entertainment, lies, and extortion to keep the bills paid, then it wasn't God to begin with.

We are at a crisis people of God. Our singers and performers have sold out. Our pastors are selling out. The church as a whole is in trouble and the home church is fast becoming the norm because people do not want to subject their families and children to the foolishness of these insecure pastors. Only insecure, un-affirmed men would use the house of God to show themselves and gain approval of people. These products from the broken homes of the 60's are grown up and running our churches into the ground because of their own private agendas. Only God can deliver us and set us free from our own agendas and heal us from our deficits. Whether it was divorce, molestation, abandonment, abuse, or being born out of wedlock, we must be healed by God before we can ever truly deny our plight to get the approval of men! And God forbid we put ourselves in a church where the leader is struggling with validation issues himself.

God is not pleased people! Look around you. If you are at a church where the youth are hip hoppers, the young adults are club goers, and the seasoned saints are singing Franky Beverly and Maze at the church picnic, then you my friends are under a selfish, insecure, carnal leader and the spirit of compromise will rule your house and family. Don't believe me? Look at the state of your children and you will see, because this is where the compromise takes it's toll......on the next generation. What the adults do in moderation, the youth will do in excess!

Jeremiah 12:10-13 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Hear me church,
G. Craige Lewis

The Gay Agenda in the Church?

Straight men do not befriend homosexual men. It just doesn't happen. A man that is straight is in direct opposition to a man that desires men. I feel, we as real men need to stand up and fight for our rights. We have the right to be the creation God has established and we have the right to recognize the global agenda of homosexuals. We should preach the truth in love, but never tolerate the lifestyle. This is why:

Homosexuals have now created their own bible (click here to see it), and they are bending the rules in an attempt to make their lifestyle the norm, even though nature itself says that it's not. They are creeping into every venue and place that they can be recognized and they don't even have the backing of nature or God! Doctors will tell you that there is a danger to practicing a homosexual lifestyle. 10 to 20 partners a week, ingesting and handling disease infested fecal matter, as well as, polluting body cavities with foreign protein is no way to live for any man. These actions make the lifestyle very damaging to their health, even without the biblical mandate of God to not indulge in this sort of behavior. Honestly, anyone that endorses or approves of the damaging and roulette type lifestyle of a homosexual is uncaring, because they are not at all considering the safety of the persons involved, only the plight of man to pursue pleasure at any cost.

This is tragic people of God. It's tragic because the devil has set men up in our churches to condone this behavior as well as participate in it. These men rule over large amounts of people and they slowly but surely promote themselves to the forefront of ministry only to progressively gain the approval of their audiences before injecting them with their homosexual acceptance agenda. Yes, that's right, they were patient enough to get the folks full of them before they began launching their gay subliminal agendas and now, people are hooked on them and can't seem to shake free from them in spite of their heresy and homosexual advocacy. Who am I talking about? Let's go down the list and you will see that these guys can take born again believers and make them condone the gay agenda with little resistance.

Rick Warren - I was boarding a plane one day and I saw a lesbian couple sitting together on the plane. They joined hands and prayed, and then proceeded to open and read "The Purpose Driven Life" together. I knew then that the book was godless and had no power to change them from pursuing their lesbian lifestyle. Yet churches all over the world adopted this book as a manuscript to get the folks seeking God for "purpose" rather than seeking God for "GOD". This changed the world's perception of the church and made God famous because of his ability to give you things rather than saving your soul. The book basically challenges people to stamp God on their progress, and call all success, God's purpose! When Oprah read the book in her book club, it was over for me. I knew then that Ricky had some issues. Then, when the lady said that she escaped the kidnapping ordeal by reading the purpose driven life to her assailant, I knew something was weird about that. And just a few years later, the truth surfaced. The lady admitted that she gave the guy crystal meth, an illegal drug substance that she was hooked on, while being purpose driven of course,. This is crazy and yet, it didn't make too much news because the devil needs folks purpose driven! This makes people seek purpose rather than God and it distorts salvation and God's plan for us as believers. It's new age philosophy, yet it is embraced by even Holy Ghost believing pentecostals? Now, Slick Rick has come out and openly condoned the gay lifestyle and even admits that he has gay friends that he doesn't want to offend. Webster's defines friend as (• a person who is not an enemy or who is on the same side). Wanna know how many folks have left his church since his "coming out" declaration? Not many! The folks have already been indoctrinated and put to sleep. The most comfortable way to die is to die in your sleep and the purpose driven life is nothing but a spiritual lullaby.

TD Jakes - There has never been a doubt in my mind about this man and his agenda. He has always lisped his way into coercing believers to accept the gay agenda. He even said that he would "NEVER" allow a homosexual to work for him, yet his own son, who is an out of the closet homosexual, arrested for exposing himself to an undercover officer, was a paid staff member, over youth activities? TD Jakes has suggested that Naomi and Ruth's relationship bordered a lesbian affair and even mentioned Jonathan and David in the same declaration! He has said that men have monthly cycles, like women, and that they should tap into their feminine side? He has preached that women should be leading ladies and men should be he-motional? The opposite of what should be, yet his following is still great and no one speaks against him on a large platform because HE controls the platforms. We don't even want to mention the gay preachers he endorses, the earring he sports, the drag queen he is best friends with, and all the gay singers and performers he has promoted. If it was a poisonous snake, you would be dead from all the biting it has done down through the years. We all know what the obvious conclusion to this matter is, yet his church is still growing and his platform is still great. You think the folks at his church don't know this stuff? They know, they just simply could care less. They are in it for the wrong reasons, so wrong doesn't bother any of them. This was a master plan by the devil and has worked like a charm. Click here to read more.

Ted Haggard - My grandmother used to say, "if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck". Well, when I first saw this man, the duck quacked! His mannerisms were just like Paul Lynn from Hollywood Squares. His gestures were like Liberace and he just came across as homosexual to me. Isn't it funny how Homosexuals can have an eye for each other and spot the gestures of another and when they let it be known, there is no problem. But when heterosexuals spot homosexuals and see their mannerisms as being gay, we get dogged out like we are "judging". Now, we know that we should always give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it comes to preachers, we must hold them at a higher standard just because of the influence that they have. We cannot allow them to slip through the cracks because that crack will eventually open up and swallow us all up! This man is now profiting greatly from his coming out party. He has an HBO special that is making a mockery of the judgements that the church has passed on him. He is winning the battle of sympathy over sin and making the church look like a joke. All these Holy Ghost filled Evangelicals being led by a man that doesn't even know what flavor of sex he likes? I'm sorry, but this made us look really powerless as a church. Now, I am good friends with many Evangelical believers that knew of his lifestyle years before this ordeal, and many tried to stand up against it, but the people wanted TED and they fought to keep him there. I understand a person having issues and needing help, but I don't understand a person that takes their issues before the world and mocks the biblical healing process by selling their story for personal gain. This is a shame before God. Sure, the church may have missed this one, but the world is not missing it at all. They now see that the church is full of homosexuals that preach against the sin and enjoy it at the same time!

Eddie Long - When women come in church wearing very tight blouses and showing cleavage, they are looked upon as being flirty or loose right? Well, what happens when a man wears shirts as tight as a leotard? Is that not considered sensual or sexual? Well, what if that same preacher constantly makes passages in the Word of God sexual? Making statements like "God's word is his sperm and he is trying to impregnate you?" That is just nasty. This man also makes very homosexual and gay friendly statements like "God did not take the rib from Adam to make woman, he took the uterus from Adam?" So, according to him, Adam was a hermaphrodite? GROSS! And last but not least, he said "It's natural for a man to have affections for another man because when God made man, woman was inside of him?" That's the opposite of scripture and heresy. The bible calls men that have affections for other men "unnatural", so what is this man trying to accomplish? You guessed it. It may be wrapped up in muscles and look like Almighty Thor minus the hammer, but it's still the gay agenda. Yet, his church stays full of folks and the money keeps pouring in because the people are asleep. Click here to listen for yourself if you can stomach this heresy.

I am naming these men because they have done what the devil wanted them to do. They have gathered the people of God together and turned their affections from the truth to a lie. Yes, that's right. A LIE! Many of you that are reading this are upset because I'm talking about your heroes, yet, you have no basis for your anger. All that I have stated in this blog is truthful and it's a shame that the body of Christ is not in position to even see the heresies and agendas of these men. The general church still looks at these men as prominent, but they are heretics and should be stopped. The bible said this would happen and it's no surprise to me that Rick Warren will continue to flourish as a minister to his audience and Jakes will continue to flourish with his audience. Ted Haggard will be back and Eddie Long will buy more tight shirts. They were selected to do this because they can do it well but the bottom line is, who are you gonna believe?

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

2Tim. 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2Th. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

With God's Authority,
G. Craige Lewis

Holy Hip Hop: Bad Idea

"Don't judge a book by it's cover" is an old saying that we have heard all of our lives and to back it up, the bible says that "God judges the heart" of man. We read this in the account of David being anointed King and how he didn't appear as good as Saul did for the job. But There are many instances in our lives where the outer appearance of a person is vital!

One can judge a lot about what is really going on inside of a person by what the outside is looking like. Homosexuals and Lesbians have used outer signals to relay messages to each other for years. 2 earrings on a man has always been a sign of bisexuality. One earring on a man has always meant "player" or "stud". A nose piercing on a man means gay as well as lip or tongue piercing. An eyebrow piercing on a woman means lesbian, and so forth. Outer appearances can signify behaviors as well. Gang members wear rags to show allegiance. Prisoners wear cornrows and sag their pants to show homosexual behaviors.
Prostitutes show their body parts in an explicit manner to flag Johns for potential tricks. It's all over. People respond to the appearance of others when they are signaling through their outer appearances.

God has ALWAYS been concerned about his people's outer appearances because men have to interact with other men and must represent God to others to get his will accomplished. If we read the old testament of the scriptures we will see that the outer appearance of God's people was very important to him and he had rules and laws that governed their style and appearance. God was very particular about the garments and even the mixing and matching of certain materials that made up the garments because he wanted strict differences between his people and the false god worshippers. He wanted explicit differences between the men and the women so their appearances could aid in their identity. God wanted differences in his people's behaviors, rituals, and even music, so that a person could never be confused as to what was sacred and what was profane! These things cannot be ignored today and we must understand that God wants there to be a noticeable difference between men and women, and between the church and the world!

The Hip Hop subculture says that people can look, act, and feel anyway they want. And because this demonic movement has bled over into our churches, the general flavor of most youth ministries nowadays is to "come as you are" and wear what you feel. And many take this to mean that they should be able to look and appear any way they want in church. This is not the case. There are a few things I would like to explain to you so you can see why it is not a good idea to have an "anything goes" type ministry just to welcome all people in.

1st, this is not a real world approach to the real world. In the real world, people are judged based on appearance and they are selected for things based on first impressions. With this stickler in place, we must prepare our young people to succeed and have success in life by first guiding their appearances and have them conform to the images that we deem positive. We must keep our young boys, first, looking like MALES! I cannot tell you how many young boys I see in our churches that you cannot tell are boys. They come to the alter and in some cases, I have to ask the Holy Spirit what gender they are! They have long braids, sometimes with beads or just plain old cornrows and because their voices have not changed and they have a soft demeanor, you will be inclined to believe that they are girls. This is sad because when I approach young boys that have had these issues, they usually are saddened by people receiving them as the opposite sex. In many cases, they will accept the label of being a girl and begin to respond with girl like tendencies. This leads to a life of not knowing who they are and experimenting with both sexes. This is what the scripture in Deuteronomy was explaining. It was an abomination for a women to wear men's garments and men to put on women's garment. This is not necessarily talking about women wearing pants because women didn't wear pants in this time, both men and women were draped with garments. But the material and the positioning of the garments were different to denote male or female. God did not want the wrong label put on the wrong gender. He wanted a difference made that was definite and everyone could see by their outer garments who they were.

We now have grown men with female hairstyles and effeminate appearances. Earrings, cornrows, and the like are all things that were once considered no no's in our churches and communities. Only pimps, homosexuals, and prisoners used to look this way but now, it's popular for preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to pierce their ears, wear braids, and even cornrows in the pulpit. Gospel recording artists now exemplify the worlds styles by men wearing piercing and long braids, even ponytails and buns with the braids? This is something that real men should stand against, but because we have so many flaming homosexuals in the pulpits and the Gospel Music industry, these men are now welcomed to come in our churches and show our kids how to fashion themselves after the world and still serve the living God. This is sending the wrong message, but who cares, it's the way it is, right? WRONG! If a person is not concerned about how they are perceived by others when it comes to their appearance, then this person is not concerned about the people! They are more concerned about how they look than how IT looks, and these are not true men of God because God was concerned about the perception of his Gospel to the point where he laid down rules for his representatives to follow when it came to fashion. Sure we have liberty, but come on people, there is line, and we must make it visible or we will have no proper way of appearing!

2nd - In Hip Hop, everything can be questioned! I cannot tell you how many folks I get emails and comments from that want to take the time to tell me "I disagree with you!" My answer? SO WHAT!!!! (I had one HHH rapper that I said so what to, get so upset that he called all the pastors of my engagement itinerary to try to get them cancelled.) I cannot believe that this new culture of youth feel that their opinion of what God has given me really matters. But the major problem in our churches today is the positions that people take against the pastors and leaders. You see, in the myspace era, people create identities that they feel are unique and important. They feel that their personal wants and desires are so important that the whole world needs to hear about them. Their zodiac sign, their favorite song, their pictures and images, their thoughts and ideas are all so important to them, that they will put it up on a space and try to connect with others so they can be received and made to feel validated. They want the validation of the world to replace what they didn't get from mom and dad. Well, what this does is promote people that feel their opinion and personal feelings dictate what is right and what is wrong. This makes it hard for them to receive discipline or rebuke! So, it makes it almost impossible for them to read or receive the bible because they may or may not agree with what it says. And because of this, we have tons of religious organizations that take parts of the bible and reject the parts they don't want.


This has created a generation of those that heap upon themselves teachers that will teach the parts they want to hear. The bible is now being picked apart by people's opinions and personal feelings rather than being preached in season and out of season. It is now "radical" to preach the whole bible and because people can pick and choose, they now can decide what is right or wrong based on their own ideology rather than the absoluteness of the world of God. It's hard to do youth ministry these days because Hip Hop has infused our youth with the idea that their opinion matters and their personal feelings are more important than truth. This means that if we allow them to be validated by their opinions then their opinions will be their guide! Because of Holy Hip Hoppers pushing their agenda and opinions in the church, It has really created youth that were once receptive young people desiring to be changed but are now opinionated youth that desire to be seen.

3rd - Hip Hop has created hybrid Christians that looks like thugs but serve God? You see, my grandmother taught me, that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's a DUCK. How can you look like a gang member, talk like one, act like one, carry a swagger like one, and be a Christian? Well, the world says it can't be done. Hip Hop is about realness and real hip hoppers say that there can be no Holy version of Hip Hop. The founders of Hip Hop say that it is already Holy the way it is. So, why are the Holy Hip Hoppers saying they are a redeemed version? That's simple. They don't believe in Holy Hip Hop themselves and I will prove it to you. When Ambassador, Da Truth, and others Holy Hip Hoppers refer to what they are doing in their music, they don't refer to it as Holy, they just call it Hip Hop. The reason is that they know Holy Hip Hop is a counterfeit of Hip Hop and they don't want to be representatives of it. They know if they go to the ghettos and in the streets saying "Holy Hip Hop", they will be ridiculed and laughed at.
They know if Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc heard them say "Christian" Hip Hop, they would get ejected from the sub culture and labeled foolish because there is only 1 kind of Hip Hop and that's Hip Hop. This is why in all their music, they say Hip Hop and not Holy Hip Hop. So, if this is true, then why are churches and pastors buying into something that the rappers themselves don't promote? Easy answer here folks: If they look gangster, swagger like a gangster, promote gangster music, then what are they? We have a set of DVD's that will help you answer that question! Get them here.

We have a problem in the church and this problem is that we don't consider the cost until it's time to pay! If we let our youth dress and look any way they want, then we can't train them to look good and presentable. If we let our youth listen to any kind of music they want, then we can't teach them that some music is corrupt. If we allow our youth to express themselves and walk with swagger, then we cannot teach them self denial and walking by the Spirit. If we allow our youth to accept Holy Hip Hop, then we cannot teach them the evils of Hip Hop itself because it's all the same thing. Holy Hip Hop is Hip Hop!

1Sam. 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Deut. 22:5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Ex. 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

2Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Titus 2:15 AMP Tell [them all] these things. Urge (advise, encourage, warn) and rebuke with full authority. Let no one despise or disregard or think little of you [conduct yourself and your teaching so as to command respect]. Titus 3:1 REMIND PEOPLE to be submissive to [their] magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be prepared and willing to do any upright and honorable work,

With God's Authority,
G. Craige Lewis

Back to basics

1 Thessolonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

We know by the change in the spiritual climate of America that our time here is growing short and the Lord's return is drawing near. So, why then are so many Sunday sermons more about Barack than THE ROCK? Why are preachers more concerned about the black cause than the sin clause? Well, it's the sign of the times people. Wake up and smell the coffee! The devil has planted selfish, compromising, wolves over the sheep in many of our churches and now, because we are in a time of financial crisis, their empires are threatened, so they must turn to tricks and gimmicks to keep the doors open. You see, when you build big monumental buildings based on attendance and not on God's plan, then when money gets tight, these churches have to conjure up ways to keep people coming and paying. Instead of our churches keeping things in God's perspective, they have followed the leading of men with selfish motives that led them to build when they should not have, and have so called "faith" that God would fill the buildings up. Well, church attendance is down all over the country and millions are now skipping church services because they are just not getting answers from the pulpit that they are seeking. Folks are tired of hearing from pastors that cannot control their own houses and children. Folks are tired of giving to a spiritual money pit that only prospers the leader. People are tired of hearing about Obama and giving so much so, that church attendance is down to it's lowest point in history! Sure there are many preachers still preaching the true Gospel of Jesus, but there are many that have become jokers in their own sanctuaries. Though Black America is excited to have a black president, to use his popularity to appease people and coax them into coming and giving to your services makes a mockery of God's power and Spirit. It's hard to even turn on a black preacher's television or radio broadcast without hearing them use the president as a tool for gain. What a shame!

Why are their so many churches and still so many sinners? The church buildings have gone up but the call for righteous living has decreased. There are churches on every street corner in most cities, yet we have the highest immoral statistics our nation has ever seen. And with the bad economy, people are looking for answers but many pastors are looking for members and money to sustain the monuments they constructed! Instead of storing up money and keeping things modest for bad economic times, they have lived lavishly, employing too many people and overspending to appear grand, while all along, people under their own noses were failing in life and getting corrupted. Now, we have the big buildings, the grand production services, the fancy cars and homes, but in our own homes, pastors marriages are failing, their children are corrupt, and their Sunday morning services are selfish and self centered. Instead of Jesus and the End Times being preached, money and Obama is the subject of choice. Even preachers that fought against the democratic agenda and those that totally opposed Obama's policies have shifted gears to keep folks coming and giving. They have weaved Obama into their own plan and are using it to make a name for themselves rather than preaching the Word! We have lost focus in these trying times and we all must go back and seek the face of God. We are experiencing God's hand, his judgement, and his anger right now. America has turned their back on Him and he is seeking justice. The only way out of this is justification, but that only comes with a true acceptance of Jesus and his Word.

You see, we can talk all day about salvation and what it means, but until we pull the plug on these gimmicks and Sunday morning schemes to get members and money, we will not experience God in our midst. Aren't you tired of wishy washy sermons about sex and money every weekend? Aren't you tired of preachers and pastors following the mood of the people instead of the voice of God? Barack Obama is our president, but he is not our savior. Jesus is and should be the focus of every service and every sermon! God is not pleased that we have made worldly politics and church politics our focus. We need to refocus! We cannot allow tough times to bring fear into our minds and hearts. And we definitely cannot allow the large buildings and high dollar payrolls of the mega churches to dictate what will be preached from the pulpit.

In tough economic times like these there should be one focus in the body of Christ and that is PLEASING GOD! Sure we should pray for the president, give tithes and offerings, and we should definitely go to church somewhere. But the bottom line in this time is to please God. When God is pleased, he will bless. I know you have heard the popular preachers continue to tell you that PRAISE is the answer, but they are lying. Praise has not even helped them in their own marriages, with their own children, or with the mortgages on these monuments they built. Praise is good, but does not move God. He said if you "WAYS" please him, not "Praise" please him! He said he would give you all that you need if your ways please him. This does not mean you will not make mistakes. It means that your focus is Christ centered and your objective in this life is to be on track with him. To be right-aligned with his plan for you is righteousness! And this is where your job, finances, family, etc. is. It's in his plan for you but you must line up with him to get it. You can't compromise, you can't do your own thing, and you can't seek to please your flesh, and be aligned with him.

People of God, hear G. Craige Lewis right now! We must please God! We must not seek our own anymore. We must seek him in this last hour. Pastors, preachers, ministers, leaders, parents, it's time to make God happy! He is angry and this offering driven mentality is not making a difference. Stop preaching about Barack Obama and the miracle of him winning the election. Pray for him and let's give the man time to prove himself and then we will know if he is the man for the job. Stop seeking offerings and tithes and allow God to fill the storehouse. Stop chasing gimmicks and ways to prosper and seek to please God. If what you have came from God, he will take care of it. But if it was a mistake, let your congregation know, downsize, suck it up and repent! Don't play games with God's people and never try to make something that was not God's plan look right. We all get caught up at times, make a bad judgement call, or do things that we shouldn't have done. We have regrets and feel ashamed, but we must remember that ministry is God's not ours. What he does through us, only he can get the glory for. That's why we strive to be good people in this life and allow God to be the anointing on us. You see, we can have success in ministry, but God does not measure us on that scale and neither should people. We should be measured in this life by how we treat others, take care of our families and those that we are responsible for, as well as the success of those we mentor. These are things that can measure true success in this life. Money does not equal success or blessings. God wants us all focused on being perfect in his sight and upstanding with his ministry. That basically means, do what is right and deny your own flesh. If we do these things we will please him and if God is pleased with us, he will bless us and take care of us.

Like the prodigal son returned after his folly, so should we all, in this time, return to God on bended knees, asking for forgiveness, and turning from our wicked ways. Only then will we begin to see a difference. Let's get it right people of God. Leaders, let's lead with God's authority. Parents, let's strive to be examples and mentors to our children. Ministers, let's put our personal agendas away and do what needs to be done according to God's plan. Let's get it together before He returns and please him at all costs. We will then see the true heart of God and be blessed as a people.

Prov. 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Rom. 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Gal. 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Until He returns,
G. Craige Lewis

No Compromise in 2009!

There is a blessing that comes from God that is not preached about enough in our pulpits. This message of blessings and prosperity is almost ignored and shunned in many of our mega churches. It's a prosperity message indeed and it has to do with your finances, but this message is not popular because so many have gone the other way and desire to take what you have without this principle being established. I'm talking about the blessing in not compromising!

What is compromise? Well, we called it in the world, selling out! It's when you do not take a stand for convenience sake. It's when you desire to get something or somewhere so badly that you hide your stand and put your conviction on the back burner until you get what you want or where you want to be! Compromise is leading many of our church leaders nowadays. The mega church pastors and superstar Gospel singers and performers have filled their choirs, groups, pews, and lives with people that compromise daily and don't really stand for anything righteous. The singers will sing anywhere for anyone, with anyone. Preachers are preaching feel good and get your blessing messages, but embracing people that promote sinfulness and welcoming it into the house of God.

It started with the Megafest conferences where Pastors decided to defy the very bible that we believe, and mix secular, sinful performers with Gospel preachers and teachers. It was the dawning of a new era in the black church and many young pastors have followed suit. Now, on any given Sunday you will hear preachers bragging about their earthly gain, promoting secular sinful actors and Hollywood, as well as promoting folks that don't even follow after the truth of the Word. It's not strange to turn on the television and see a Gospel recording musician dancing the latest club dances, singing the latest club songs, and mimicking the latest pop cultural fads. It's not weird anymore to pick up a Gospel music CD and see a picture of a seductive whore on the front or read the credits and find names of artists that promote Satan and sinfulness in their performances. It's nothing to see a Bishop in a movie that promotes sin, seduction, or other worldly images for the sake of popularity and gain. What has happened to our churches and where is the power of God? Well, I have news for you. God's presence does not flow in compromise so his presence is not with this stuff.

This is an epidemic in the black church. It's about entertainment and fun vs. the consequences of sin and compromise. People are now more concerned about their feelings rather than God's feelings. It's about how a person can feel better vs. God feeling better about us! The general consensus now is for the adults to find their blessing and breakthrough in church while the youth find hope in their sub-cultural identity and peer inspired philosophies. God is now a novelty to many and salvation has become all inclusive. How many New Year's Eve services consisted of entertainment rather than end times sermons? How did we as a church prepare for 09? Are we looking to evangelize and win souls and reverse curses or are we focused on our finances and how to beat the bad economy? What is going on?

The saddest part about people that compromise is that most of them have earthly successes financially and they get their egos stroked by accolades, but their homes are in turmoil as a result of keeping their desires their main focus. Their children's lives are wrecks and their marriages are parses. You see, the penalty for compromise is the compromising of your own home. Your home will suffer for your selling out. That's right. That's the part we never hear about from the celebrities, but it's evident in their public disgraces and reputations. When you go your way and get the fame, money, and power, you lose God's peace and a curse will follow you. You may get the goods you desire, but your children, marriage, and legacy will be a wreck. You don't get away with anything in this life, and you will pay and suffer grave consequences when you compromise.

But there is a great blessing in not compromising. Let me tell you first hand, that when you do it the way God wants and you don't sell out, you will be blessed. God will bless your marriage, your children, and your finances. God will take the little money you make and stretch it farther than you can imagine when you stand for him. Sure, folks aren't gonna like you and they will fight against you because when you do not compromise and you get blessed and favored by God for it, you make the sell outs looks bad. How would you feel if you gave up your convictions and sold out to make it, only to find out that God's true blessing is on those that held their ground and stood for him at all cost? You would be upset about that and that's why Jesus said that the world hates him.The world doesn't know Jesus well enough to truly hate him, they just hate the fact that his goodness makes their sinfulness look bad! That's why they fight his truth.

I watch the earthly success of these people that are famed and revered by many for being stars, actors, performers, and celebrities. They have limousines and big houses, they have their name in lights and sign autographs everywhere they go. But in their private lives, they are wrecks. They have multiple divorces or open marriages. Their children are gay, on drugs, or both! Their homes are full of despair and no peace whatsoever. Sure, in public, they look the part, but in reality, they themselves are drug addicts, drunkards, etc. to escape the pain they feel for selling out their own principles and convictions for the sake of fame and self glorification. I'm not talking about Hollywood, I'm talking about the CHURCH!

The church as a whole is in this same predicament that Hollywood stars have been in for years. We have gone after the gold and the fame. The church has embraced actors and performers from Hollywood's method of stardom and has turned the church of God into an arena of entertainment. The true Gospel is being lost and the false doctrine of men is being forwarded. This has caused the personal lives of our preachers and singers to be plagued with sin and unrighteousness. This has cause our youth departments and youth as a whole in the church to be lost. More teen pregnancies, aids, STD's, you name it, it's in our churches! All of this because we decided that we needed to compromise the Gospel to reach this generation when it was just the fame, money, and power, that our church leaders and recording artists desired. They pretended to desire to reach the world when it was really their desire to be of the world that drove them. And now, look at where we are. Folks have stopped giving and lost confidence in the church process. Mega churches are falling and mega church pastors homes are dividing.

But there is a blessing for you if you decide to stand for truth no matter what. Let me assure you, that if you stand up for God and not bow down to the idols of men, you will be blessed. IF you want a financial blessing from God, then you better do what he says! If you want peace in your home, your children saved and set free, your marriage saved and strengthened, then you better do what God says. He is the answer and the only way of having true success in the this life! God is the way and his truth endures forever, so don't compromise for anything! Don't sell out and don't sit under or look up to sell outs. This is the year of no tolerance and no compromise. When it's not God, say it's not. When it's of God, follow it. When it doesn't line up with scripture, don't be silent about it, but let it be known. We must call it like it is this year and warn those that are mixing God's truth with lies. It doesn't matter who it is, whether it's a Bishop, pastor, performer, or actor, the same rules apply. If they are not lining up with scripture we must not be silent. Many times for respect purposes, you don't have to say anything, but your actions will be your voice. Don't follow what is not of God.

No compromise in 2009. There is a blessing from God that comes when you stand for him. I am a living witness and I'm typing from a debt free home right now! The true blessing of God comes from doing things his way. Sure, no one is perfect and we all make mistakes. I'm not talking about being perfect in the sense of doing everything right and never missing the mark, but I'm saying that when it comes to compromising the Gospel, we must not tolerate it on any level. You must stand for what is right regardless of the circumstance. What will our children have if we mix up the message and merge the world with the church? They are watching us and what we do, they will do. If we stand, they will stand. If we compromise, they will take compromise to another level! Come on people of God, make this the year that you tell compromise good bye. Stand up, declare your God, and walk in his ways, and you will be blessed and your home will have peace.

Deut. 28:7 ¶ “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
Deut. 28:8 “The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deut. 28:9 “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Deut. 28:10 “So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
Deut. 28:11 “The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Deut. 28:12 “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Deut. 28:13 “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,
Deut. 28:14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

In Love,
G. Craige Lewis

Don't Forget Jesus

This holiday season, please do not forget Jesus. He is not like Santa and he is not like Rudolph! He is not a figment of one's imagination and he is not a swear word. He is the son of the most High God. He is the name that gives clarity to the God you serve. There are so many that say they have God or claim to have accepted God, but without Jesus, we have no reference to which god it is that they are talking about. Keep Jesus in everything you do, whether you are praying, shopping, or just witnessing it needs to be understood who you are doing it for. Jesus is the reason, not just for this season, but for salvation period.

Throughout history, pagans have tried to discredit the birth of Jesus. Each form of paganism from the Mayans to Egyptians, from the Incas to the Zodiac predicted a child born of a virgin in their own culture. They ran a christ-like theory parallel with God's word to make it look like Jesus' birth was just another son of a god born of a virgin. But we that believe in the true God know that the devil may counterfeit the birth be he cannot counterfeit the power of the life and death! We know that by faith we believe in the son of God, Jesus. He is the only way and even though many pagans selected Jesus birth to celebrate their false gods, we celebrate the birth of our savior regardless. It's not a commandment of God but a privilege of those of us that love him.

I love my family and though they do not command me to celebrate them on their birthdays, I do it because I believe that they should be honored on that day in my eyes. I want to celebrate the fact that they are here. I feel the same way about Jesus. And though there are a lot of pagan themes used in our cultures celebration of Jesus' birth, the fact still remains that HE WAS BORN! And with that fact, I choose to celebrate him and my family. But pagans would rather we associate this day with their gods and find reason to ignore the day. I choose to take the stand that I will celebrate Jesus birth with my family and celebrate my love for them by giving gifts to them in honor of Christ. I know this doesn't sit well with many because they have pulled up the history of pagans but the pagans targeted the birth of Jesus to stop all future celebrations of him. This is the day that the world would call his name and recognize his coming. But pagans knew that if they could counter the date, they could make even some Christians choose to fight the celebrating of Christ's birth.

The wise men brought gifts to celebrate Jesus and that is a fact. Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding celebration, that is a fact. So, though many feel that celebrating events and dates is wrong, my bible shows me different. So, I will continue to celebrate birthdays including the birth of my savior without conviction. And though we should forsake the pagan gods we should never deny the fact that a real savior was born and the date we select to celebrate it is our choice.

Don't let the pagans, the astrologers, and the Wiccans discredit the obvious. Jesus was born, and he is worthy of recognition on the day we choose. And though December 25th may not be the exact date, on a linear calendar it's impossible to celebrate an exact date for anything. Come on folks, don't lose Christ this season and don't let the pagans erase a day that did occur and that warrants our celebrating and remembering.

Sure the world wants Christ out of Christmas. Sure they want to allow every other god and religion to freely express themselves, except for Christians and those that believe in Christ. Sure department stores are taking Merry Christmas off their ads and just saying "Happy Holidays". This world hates JESUS and if you love him, they will hate you. We must stop being politically correct and trying to fit in with the in-crowd by not saying his name or claiming him in public. We must stand up for Jesus if we love Jesus. Say his name if he is who you are talking about!

It's time for those that really love him to defend his name and preach his gospel. It's time for those that really love him to sound the alarm and warn this wicked world that he is coming back! It's time for those that have denied their own flesh to promote him, and let the world know that he is the ONLY way to God! This holiday season, don't forget the reason we celebrate it. Don't forget Jesus

Is. 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

In Love,
G. Craige Lewis

Silent Screams

*Note* - Please pray for us. Those that support our efforts, pray for EX Ministries. Many have stopped supporting us and are taking stands to no longer financially back our ministry because of the information we are sharing concerning Barack Obama. This information is important and we feel very necessary for the future of our church and families, yet many have decided to no longer stand with us. If you are blessed by our ministry, we would like to ask that you pray for us and continue to stand in this last and evil day. Time is almost up and Jesus will return any day now. Stay prayerful. We are in it to win it all and will not back down because of lack of support, product sales, or speaking engagements. We trust God and he always takes care of us. Now, he that has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying through this particular blog. Let it convict, heal, and open your heart for the truth. In Jesus name. READ CAREFULLY:

Have you ever created something as a gift for someone only to have them tear it apart or express their unwillingness to keep it? After all your hard work, that gift is precious to you, especially when it comes from your heart and you put all that you are into it. When a person does not treasure it like you do, it upsets you. That's just human nature and that's how we are wired. We are wired to treasure our creations when we put everything we have into it, and we hope that those we give it to will understand all that it took to make it and how much it means to us right?

Well, this is how God feels about life. You see, life is God's creation and he treats every life as his own gift to us. When you are pregnant, it is a gift. A child is conceived and you have no idea what God has planned for that life because you didn't create it, you only came together with the opposite sex and God did the creating. Your body becomes a host for God's project and you could be carrying a person that could change life as we know it. I believe that when we as a people don't understand this process, we tend to take it for granted. When we aren't raised to see and know what the killing of the unborn really is, we take it lightly and we don't really consider the detriment of it.

The black community alone is responsible for over 1500 deaths a day through abortion. We are killing more than we are birthing and our numbers prove it. When the devil devised the plan of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, he understood that the only way to keep us unwanted black folks committing abortions is to make it something that is never discussed openly. And so, for the last 20 years, our black leaders as a whole have been silent on this issue. And because we see so many deaths by abortion in our communities, we are used to it and it just doesn't carry weight in our minds and hearts the way it should. This is why the black church could vote in a President in spite of his thrust to kill the unborn without giving it a second thought. "That's not important" or "Abortion is happening now under republicans so it doesn't matter!" This was the general consensus during the election and this is still the feelings of our people as a whole. What most do not know is that partial birth abortion was overturned by congress under Bush as well as various legislature implemented under Bush to slow down the onslaught of the unborn. All of this is about to be overturned by our new president elect in just a short while. But many of us didn't know this or we just don't know what abortion is all about, therefore we are in the dark about God's feelings toward it. But if you research the bible, you will see that God says he hates "hands that shed innocent blood" and it's much deeper than you can imagine.

I believe our new president elect is just like the majority of blacks in America on this issue. He doesn't understand human life and how precious it is to God. If he did, he would not be an advocate for Planned Parenthood and he would not be vowing to overturn EVERY law that is in place to slow down the slaughter of innocent lives. Yet his administration promised a few days ago that one of his first moves in office will be to overturn all the laws protecting the unborn. He even voted in favor of "infanticide" which is destroying a life after it survives an abortion. When asked by Rick Warren, "when does life begin" our president elect stated that he "did not know". Do you know what that means? That makes every advocation of this process even more murderous for him because he is voting to blindly kill without even knowing if it's a good idea or not! After all, if he doesn't know when life begins then why is he siding with death? People of God, wake up. Black folks open your eyes! We are being destroyed for the lack of our knowledge on this subject. The enemy has kept the black church and community in the dark about this process for so long that we don't even feel for it. We want it to be bad in our eyes, but when it's our own daughters and sons, we look the other way and pray for the best. God is not happy with us right now people and we can pray all we want, but when we chose leaders that carry out these policies, the blood of the innocent children are on our hands.

White evangelical churches and movements usually make abortion an issue. They protest and fight legislation that kills the unborn even as teenagers. They are taught when life begins at a very young age and are taught that it's precious. I know this because I started out in youth ministry in an all white church when I was in training for youth ministry. But in contrast, the black churches I have been employed by would say abortion is wrong, but would never really push the issue. And just as Margaret Sanger hired black pastors and leaders to silence the voice of reason on this issue, we as a people don't rally for the unborn. And it's hard for us to put things into perspective when it comes to this issue because it is not something that we have heard enough of or really been taught about. That's a part of the enemies plan for the black community and it's working. We have a very powerful video that will give you all the information you need on this subject. The truth behind Abortion is available by clicking here.

Why is it that almost every time a strong voice against abortion in the black community rises up, the enemy comes and silences it? This is why there are no major crusades against abortion in the black community or black church. There is no major push for the right to life in our sermons and conferences. Our youth are none the wiser and most of their parents are in the dark as well because there aren't major voices speaking out on this issue to our people! The devil has worked hard to keep black folks from thinking about abortion and now it has taken a toll on us for real. Now, we have voted without counting the lives. We voted without considering the blood on our hands. We have pushed and pushed until we now have an administration that will complete the task of killing us off as a people. Where is God's voice in this? Where are the people that will stand up for the rights of the unborn? Where is pastor that will not take death for an answer? Where is the preacher that will cry out for the cries of the maimed babies. Do we believe in killing the unborn for the black cause? Then why aren't we fighting for God's creation? We as a church have pushed the devils plan for the shedding of innocent blood right into office because we did not consider the creation of the creator and God is angry towards us. People, please, get educated on this issue and pray that God intervenes. He can work a miracle against the coming administration and tie up their hands, but only if we fight to make it happen. Please watch this video:


Deut. 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Deut. 19:9 if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and a bloodguiltiness be on you.


Sincerely,
G. Craige Lewis