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The Rise and Fall of the Religious Empire of Jim and Tammy Bakker

Posted on June 16, 2024July 26, 2024 by Dennis Robbins

The 1980s was a decade of excess in America, and nowhere was this more evident than in the world of televangelism. Amidst the glitz and glamor of this burgeoning industry, one couple stood out: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the charismatic duo behind the PTL Club, a Christian ministry that grew into a multi-million dollar…

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The devil is not fighting religion. He’s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed ‘ear-tickling’ into a fine art.

~Vance Havner

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