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Pastor Paula White-Cain speaks on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration ceremony of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White has slammed the American Christian establishment for mischaracterizing her and her ministry, singling out the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission head Russell Moore for branding her a “heretic.”
White, who called on angels from Africa to help deliver victory to Trump in his failed reelection bid last November, lamented the politicization of her life during a Jan. 17 sermon at her City of Destiny Church in Florida.
Having reached the vice president’s chair in the U.S. Senate, the self-proclaimed QAnon shaman, UFO expert and metaphysical healer removed his coyote-skin and buffalo horns headdress and announced, with a
David Platt, pastor of McLean Bible Church near Washington, D.C., and founder of Radical, a resource ministry that serves churches. | Baptist Press/Adam Covington
Pastor and author David Platt has urged Christians to fight consumerism this Christmas by enjoying God and proclaiming His name and glory to a lost world.
In a recent video for The Gospel Coalition website, Platt, pastor of McLean Bible Church in Virginia, stressed that all humans are “prone in our sinful hearts to exalt gifts over the giver, to enjoy gifts more than we enjoy the giver.”
“This is, in a sense, the essence of idolatry in our hearts, to exalt good things over God,” he said. “If we re not careful, that s exactly what consumerism can do, especially when it comes to Christmas and we re just immersed in thinking about gifts and receiving gifts and giving gifts. If we re not careful, if we re not guarding our hearts, every step of the way, we can begin to focus a lot more on gifts and a lot less on t