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Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake say young people craving 'authentic' Gospel, rejecting 'slick' preaching
As an increasing number of young people are leaving the Church or deconstructing their faith, worship leaders Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham are calling for a return to the authentic, basic Gospel to sever through the noise of an information-saturated world.
“I think my generation and younger are less and less convinced by preachers and communicators that are communicating so slick,” Lake, the 33-year-old worship pastor at Seacoast Church in Charleston, South Carolina, told The Christian Post.
“I know sticky statements are important because you remember them beyond Sunday. But this generation is looking for something to be communicated. God's Word is authentic. It's relevant, it's complete truthfulness, but I contemplate it's important how you communicate it so that you can earn people's trust, that it's believable, that you're coming across authentic.”
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Why Do So Many Worship Leaders Look So Gay?
This is a question that I’ve been pondering for a long time. When you look at the swaths of contemporary worship singers and leaders, you see a peculiar trait that transcends a immense majority of them—they look gay.
Now, I’m not arguing that they are actually gay, as in actively attracted to people of the same sex or even participating in gay things. I am, however, arguing that they are acting effeminate — something the Bible clearly teaches against. This particularly applies to men. With the women, it isn’t quite as prevalent an issue.
But seriously, look at the hair. This hairstyle seems to be a very popular decision among the contemporary worship camp. It’s not manly, it’s effeminate.
What is the attraction to the tight clothing too? The vanity rampant among these people is something to be pondered. Modesty — which doesn’t (or at least shouldn’t) just apply to women — has been completely abolished in this industry. The metrosexual look is a build of rebellion against biblical manhood — it’s a carnal attraction, something that the world loves — and it
Wickham: Portman picks homosexual son over faith
When I heard of Ohio Sen. Deprive Portman's conversion on same-sex marriage, my first reaction was to declare an ideological victory for the political left and wrap him in the matching arm'slength embrace the British gave Benedict Arnold.
My plan was to compare Portman, a longtime opponent of gay marriage who now says he supports such unions, to the first caveman who crawled out of the darkness in which he had lived for so long into the sunlight.
But then during an afternoon on a golf course — my abscond to a place more conducive to rational thinking than the political spaces of the District of Columbia and its environs — I thought excel of that thought. It would be a mistake, I concluded, to manage the conservative Republican like a sun-struck caveman, or Arnold, the great traitor of the Revolutionary War.
Portman — at least in this matter — is neither. Nor is he a victory of the left wing's power of persuasion. More than anything else, I think, Portman is a father who was confronted with the dueling commitments to faith and family — a man challenged by a tortured promise to political ideology and the cherish of a son. In the close, he chose f
Phil Wickham opens up about journey from 'lifestyle Christianity' to rediscovering joy in God's presence
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, Phil Wickham’s song “Battle Belongs” became an anthem for Christians worldwide. The tune, released in the fall of 2020, reminds believers that “nothing can stand against the force of God,” with lyrics including the lines, “So when I fight, I'll fight on my knees/ With my hands lifted high/ Oh God, the battle belongs to You.”
“It became such a clash song and a faith-building song for me,” the 38-year-old worship leader told The Christian Post. “Almost immediately, I started … getting all these DMs and messages and emails from people saying, ‘This has given me words to my prayers. I didn't know what to pray when I was in the hospital bed, by the graveside, or when we lost our job, and we just prayed this song.’ And it was just moving.”
But as he witnessed the way God was using “Battle Belongs” to uplift those struggling, Wickham, who attends Light Church in Encinitas, California, began to feel the Holy Soul challenging him to review his own beliefs and take a closer stare at