A sharp WutBJU reader found something curious.
Around the same time that John Monroe resigned from Faith Baptist Church, he was expunged from Jim Berg's addiction ministry franchise, Freedom That Lasts®.
(FTL® is an official trademark, btw, since it's 2012 founding.)
Back to the founding of Freedom That Lasts®. When you google "Freedom that Lasts" and "John Monroe," it become pretty clear:
Pastor John Monroe founded Berg's ministry franchise.
You can look at BJU's statement, or FTL®'s own publicity, or FBFI's coverage, or even another BJU alumnus, Clinton Verley, for proof. Verley said:
FTL lists only three staff members: its Founder, FBC Taylors head pastor John Monroe, Director Larry Pierson, and Executive Director Jim Berg.
The proof is everywhere.
Here's how Jim Berg said it Proclaim and Defend:
But now? Now Jim Berg has erased any mention of John Monroe as a "founder."
Is that it? Did John Monroe and Jim Berg have a disagreement about something and so Jim decided to expunged him?
Well, Jim now has Marshall Franklin at his side. What could go wrong?
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The Christmas Special Day 10: The Fat Albert Christmas Special (1977)
The Christmas Special Day 10: The Fat Albert Christmas Special (1977)
Note: Revelations about Bill Cosby himself have obviously tainted perceptions of much of his work, this special included. However, I have chosen to keep this article in its entirety as a sort of archival piece. Regardless of who Cosby himself turned out to be, I stand by my thoughts on the work itself as being valid.
Director: Hal Sutherland
Writer: Bill Danch & Jim Ryan
Cast: Bill Cosby, Jan…
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Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Fillmore West in San Francisco (1971).
Photo by Jim Marshall.
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John Crawford
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If you were to choose four new Presidents to be put onto a second Mount Rushmore, who would they be? Alternatively, who are four non-Presidents that you might choose?
That's a tough one. For the Presidents on the second Mount Rushmore, I think FDR would be a no-brainer. I think I'd also add Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower -- not solely because of their Presidencies, but due to their overall importance to American history. The last spot is the hardest to decide upon. I don't think I'd choose anyone who was in office more recently than Eisenhower. Maybe John Adams or James Madison?
As for the four non-Presidents, I'd go with General George C. Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and either Alice Paul, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Clara Barton.
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Historical figures stuff from requests (thank u all for your service :3)
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Comfort character poll
Received an anon ask with for the Comfort Character Game with just 🧣and no character.
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Don't worry! Faith Baptist Church is in good hands . . . Well, in Jim Berg's hands.
What could go wrong?
It's okay, it's okay. Jim is just preaching his Freedom that Lasts® curriculum through his favorite book, James.
I mean, he's just talking about what people do "in a trial" and how "eroticism" is okay "in marriage." There are no clues there. . . .
Remember that on John Monroe's last sermon morning, May 8. 2022, Jim Berg prayed:
You will help us through every storm and every surprise.
They knew.
Whatever was up with John Monroe, Jim Berg et al, knew. They knew before his sabbatical.
Just spit it out already, gentlemen.
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Associate Dean Peter Balcziunas, Franklin & Marshall College, 1980.
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GUYS GUYS GUYS, you guys, who wants to share and discuss old obscure kids cartoon shows with me, huh huh huh??
Dino Babies. I am hyperfixated right now on old obscure cartoons and right now my brain is shouting "DINO BABIES. HEY YOU REMEMBER THAT SHOW. DO YOU LOT ALL REMEMBER """DINO BABIES?""" IF YOU DO NOT I HAD BETTER TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. BECAUSE WHATEVER ELSE HAVE YOU GOT TO DO?? PLAN FOR A WEDDING? PAY THE BILLS, FIND A NEW JOB?
PbffFt.
😃DINO BABIES!!!😃
While this was just another obvious Rugrats/Muppet Babies rip-off, for what it's worth, this show was HUGE to me and my baby sister. We played pretend more so as these guys than their better well known far more original predecessors yet even other kids during the 90s didn't much care about this show. It's too bad they lacked merch at least in the US cos if they had any I would have bought it all. I dunno why this mediocre cartoon was so big a deal but I guess we can chalk it up to us simply being into all things dinosaur across the board.
Overall the writing was neither amazing nor terrible, just average for a wholesome kids show, but the entire thing's appeal hinged around one tiny aspect:
This guy! ...LOOK at this guy! Such a cute lil bastard! He's PRECIOUS! ❤️He's gonna go cruelly concuss some little children with coconuts just for fun from high above, FOR NO REASON, yes he is, YETH HE IIIZ! 😘
This red eyed fiend was called Dak, who was the only antagonist ever on the show, and basically a male Angelica; constantly teasing and pulling tricks purely to get food he could already more easily reach and hoard, or just giggle over suffering. He played things like witches and vampires/ other villains in any retelling of fairy tales and I found him so cool cos pterosaurs were almost always among my favorite dinos, but they didn't quite as often show up. 99% of the time, at least in media up til this point, any evil/mischievous dino, even ones that were not feral just 'playground bullies' or 'rude neighbor' sort of guys, the species chosen for such was always a velociraptor or T-rex, usually portrayed as big, slovenly dumb and older brash teenagers or stupid adult stereotypes.
Sometimes you'd get fictional non-descript looking Bowsers or kaijus. Pterosaurs and pterodactyls meanwhile always got the shaft. You had that one segment of Fantasia, and Don Bluth's Petri, and that was it. Subconsciously even to this day it seems we still have relegated nearly ALL flying dinos to only cowardly sidekicks or filler roles, if not simply outright mindless mounts or 'birds' or five second 'sentient Flintstone-tool' gags. Which is crazy, because if we read up on them, these beasts were literal some of the top apex predators, *nightmare dragons* with private plane wingspan at their mightiest worst, the nastiest and shittiest of cassowary or Canada geese at the lowest end. Which is quite possibly lots worse for us humans to deal with if you dwell on it. Have you ever fucked around with angry swan or Canadian goose? Do NOT TRY.
Dak meanwhile, was not only a pterosaur, he wasn't even any bigger or older than the other babies on the show. He was cunning, mean and extremely agile and literally had the exact same personality and voice of a tamed Zorak from "Space Ghost Coast2Coast"...which is hilarious because nobody else in the show sounds like that. Can you imagine having a friend group like this, I mean in actual real life?...Everyone else has your typical 90's child voice, or at least voices attempting at sounding *kinda* like a child, and everyone else has fairly normal human names like Franklin and Marshall. ...All except this one weird guy who is only called DAK and is clearly AN ADULT and screeching like he was the unholy spawn between Mrs. Bighead and one of the Dark Crystal's Skeksis. You got for no reason this one crackhead or irl Invader Zim character hanging around and constantly harassing you and you can't make him go away so you begrudgingly accept him as your friend AND HE CAN FLY.
...Maybe it's just me? There's just something really kinda funny about having a bunch of normal kids standing around, and then there is THAT guy; the one guy who for no reason hangs out just to be a pest and has fucking bloodshot red eyes, and speaks like Gollum except he eats cigarette butts from the trash cans every day. I can't explain, I just... love it.
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Noah Fox (left)
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Marshall Harrows from The Dating Disaster is demisexual!
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