This post is from July 13, 2021: In 2011, Dudley Rutherford, the pastor of the Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch, California, sat down in front of a camera and told the inspiring story behind the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”...
Jack Hibbs
CURRENT Mailbag: “My daughter has fallen into the hands of a sect with a cult of personality surrounding its authoritarian pastor”
We have posted about Jack Hibbs and Calvary Chapel–Chino Hills before. I have heard from area pastors who are concerned about his church and people who are worried about attending the Christian nationalist, pro-Trump, anti-mask, and anti-vaccine mandate congregation. Today...
If you want to get a sense of how many white evangelicals understand American history, check out megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs’s Facebook page
We have written about Hibbs before. He is the vaccine mandate-hating, Larry Elder-loving, pro-Trumper who pastors Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California. Over the last several years, Hibbs seems to have become a bit of a history buff. In a...
What California’s conservative evangelicals think about Larry Elder
Here is Jack Hibbs, pastor of Calvary Chapel–Chino Hills, coming just short of telling his congregation to pray that talk radio host Larry Elder replace California governor Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election. As is often the case with...
“Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their opinions.” The latest from megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs
If you want to see just about everything that is wrong with American evangelicalism today watch this clip (below) from Jack Hibbs‘s Sunday sermon at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills. Hibbs is not leading a Sunday morning worship service here, he is...
When celebrity megachurch pastors get too close to politicians.
Some California evangelicals love GOP gubernatorial candidate and conservative talk show host Larry Elder. None more than Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel–Chino Hills. Today Elder’s former fiancée and radio producer is accusing him of waving a gun at her while...
Jack Hibbs dabbles in American history and it is a disaster. We need another Dudley Rutherford moment!
In 2011, Dudley Rutherford, the pastor of the Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch, California, sat down in front of a camera and told the inspiring story behind the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (The video has been removed from...
Virtually every thing Jack Hibbs says in this video about Washington at Valley Forge is wrong
In the winter of 1777-1778 the Continental Army faced one of its lowest points in the Revolutionary War. British troops under the direction of General William Howe were in control of Philadelphia. George Washington’s soldiers were coming off major defeats...
“Election Integrity” conference at Regent University
MAGA Republican and former congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is now the dean of the Robertson School of Government at Pat Robertson’s Regent University. On March 23, 2021, the Robertson School is hosting a virtual conference on election integrity. Here is the...
Jack Hibbs offers an “exclusive teaching” about the coming “Civil War,” the “God-given right” to own guns, the “great blessing” of COVID-19, the diseased immigrants coming “from the Middle East and Africa,” and why mask-wearers lack faith
This weekend the American Conservative Union is hosting its annual Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC. Learn more about the line-up here. Donald Trump will speak on Sunday. Let’s see what some of his favorite evangelicals are up to these...
A Sunday morning check-in with the MAGA evangelicals:
Their rage has turned to Biden, Limbaugh haters, Timothy Keller, Twitter, Ted Cruz haters, and those controlling the seven mountains of influence. Here we go: David Brody on Trump’s “traditional biblical values.” Tweets like this explain why so many evangelicals...
Trump’s evangelicals respond to the death of Rush Limbaugh
“There was a generation of Christians who used to listen to Moody or Family Life radio all day, and sometime around 1990 they decided to listen to Rush five times a week instead. And here we are.”–TWOILH reader. Limbaugh seldom...
No one is taking away Eric Metaxas’s freedom of speech. People just don’t want to give their platforms to conspiracy theorists.
If you are a Trump evangelical looking to promote your book, your platform, or the latest conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential election, COVID-19, or the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, then Calvary Church-Chino Hills (CA) is the place for...
Mike Lindell thought his documentary would be a “miracle” that would “get us back to being one nation under God.” (Eric Metaxas nods his head in agreement).
The Trump impeachment trial begins today. I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know what holds-up in a court of law, but how can anybody disagree with the idea that Trump is responsible for the insurrection? The impeachment trial will...
Lost cause evangelical Charlie Kirk wants to ban Christian rapper Lecrae from churches. Lecrae responds: “it’s like bro, who are you?”
As many of you know, Lecrae is a good buddy of mine. 🙂 Some of you may also recall the Jack Hibbs-Charlie Kirk conversation at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills in which Kirk said Lecrae “should never be allowed to perform at...
It’s time for another look into what is happening in the world of evangelical Trumpism
It seems like some of the election fraud and insurrection talk has died down a bit. Trump’s evangelicals are starting to settle-in to the reality that Joe Biden is president. This means that they are returning to more traditional talking...
The evangelical lost cause is alive and well in Chino Hills, California
Evangelical pro-Trumpers were roundly defeated in November. They hitched their hope–both politically and ethically–to one of the most corrupt and immoral presidents in American history. Most of Trump’s diehard evangelical supporters believe that evil forces stole the election. preventing four...
On the day of Biden’s inauguration, Trump evangelical John MacArthur tweets that the U.S. is officially “one nation in rebellion to God”
The Biden administration is here. What are the last president’s most loyal evangelicals saying about the inauguration? John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, fired the first shot: I will just let this one sit for...
The last night of Trump court evangelicalism
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land once boasted that evangelicals had “unprecedented access” to the Donald Trump presidency. I hope he and the rest of the evangelicals enjoyed it. The court evangelicals got their Supreme Court justices and some executive orders...
Franklin Graham asks, “Where does this hate [in America] come from?” (And other court evangelical news).
Eric Metaxas, radio host and fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, is encouraging everyone to trust God in midst of this intense period of persecution for the church. The persecution, he claims, is coming from Marxists who removed him from...