The Long for Truth Show

Bill Weis claims to have been tormented by demons in hell for 23 minutes.

Here is a very good example of a celebrity pastor taking a few isolated verses of Scripture out of their context in order to make them fit his man-centered, law-filled, non-gospel sermon. Here's the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92n8WsJg6c

False prophet, Chuck Pierce (who rarely ever makes any sense) says that for some reason or another, Christians need to step into a double portion this election season.Here's the YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EGkzdhFibY

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the most gruesome crimes ever committed on U. S. soil. This horrible massacre was committed by high ranking leaders of the Mormon Church. This is the story of that gruesome crime. Here is the link to John D. Lee's book:https://ia800106.us.archive.org/17/items/GR_2441/GR_2441.pdfHere is the link to the article from Newspapers.com:https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57472294/mormonism-john-d-lee-full-confession/Here's the YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLWQVJCGoU

Shaktipat transmission and Charismatic impartation are very similar. In Shaktipat the Guru transmits spiritual energy (Kundalini) to an individual. In Charismatic impartation, the pastor or Christian leader (in this case Randy Clark) is supposedly imparting the Holy Spirit or some spiritual gift to an individual. In both Shaktipat and Charismatic impartation very similar manifestations occur, violent shaking, rolling on the floor, strange noises, and even animal sounds. In this episode, I compare what takes place during Shaktipat to what took place in Toronto, and what takes place in many Charismatic churches.Here is the link to the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVQJieSdHac

This is the first installment of a series on modalism. After making this video I realized that much more needed to be said about modalism and the doctrine of the Trinity. In the next installment, we will take a more in-depth look at these topics and explain why modalism is a dangerous and damning heresy. We start, however, with Furtick and Jakes playing a sermon game where Furtick gets Jakes to preach three one-minute sermons on the musical Hamilton. In one of his one minute- sermons Jakes makes a subtle, yet dangerous statement regarding the Incarnation, insinuating that Christ is part human and part divine. Orthodox theology makes it clear that Christ is fully human and fully divine.

In this episode, we look at a video from Georgian and Winnie Banov as they peddle Winnie's new book claiming that she has the right interpretation of Romans 7. My apologies up front for the echo in the Banov portion of the video. I hope it's not too distracting!

Jeremiah 29:11 is probably the most taken out of context verse in the entire Bible. Most Christians who quote that verse remove it from it's intended meaning, and make it all about them. In this video, I am joined by my brother Steven Long to help me put this verse back into its context and talk about a new blog he created called “Rightly Dividing.” You can find his new site here, https://rightlydividing.net/. Here is another good post that talks about this verse from Steve Kozar over at “The Messed Up Church,” https://www.themessedupchurch.com/blog/a-thank-you-note-from-the-evangelical-industrial-complex-3l2xe?rq=Evangelical%20industrial.

In this video, I talk about an early 20th-century faith healer that many may have never heard of. While he wasn't very influential in the early Pentecostal movement, he was influenced by some of its early leaders, especially Charles Fox Parham. His name was Finis E, Yoakum. The feature article that I discuss is a 1909 article from the Los Angeles Times called "No Miracles Without Cash." Here is the YouTube video so you can see the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN_oFPOPK4A

This is part 3, and the final part of my interview on Gnostic Evangelicalism by the author of "Gnostic America," Pastor Peter Burfeind.

This is part 2 of my interview with Pastor Peter Burfeind, author of the book "Gnostic America."

This is part 1 of an interview with Pastor Peter Burfeind, author of "Gnostic America."

Cal Pierce of the "Healing Rooms Ministries" said that he received direct revelation from God to re-open the John G Lake Healing rooms. He received this revelation while praying at Lake's gravesite, ie, grave sucking. While moving into what he thought was the exact same building that Lake used for his healing rooms, the Holy Spirit told Cal that an angel had been waiting for 80 years for him to come and re-open the rooms. This is the story that Cal tells. However, Cal Pierce made a huge blunder when telling this story on his web site, and on television. I discuss that blunder in this video.

It's claimed by Cal Pierce, Roberts Liardon, and others that between 1915 and 1920, John G Lake performed over 100,000 healings and that during this time, Spokane was the healthiest city in the world. In this video, I do some real-time investigation to see if these claims are true.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO1pu7I2pik

This is the first installment of a new series called "Death By a Faith Healer." We start with the death of 9-year-old Nettie Smith. Her parents refused her medical care and instead relied on the poisonous doctrines of a faith healer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLkbuTBGM

John Alexander Dowie was a popular faith healer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He claimed to have miraculous powers to heal, and yet when his daughter was involved in a tragic accident his powers of healing were nowhere to be found.Here's the link to the YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdpjU1MxvBk

The apostle Paul makes it very clear that to add anything to the Gospel of Christ is a damnable offense. Galatians 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. By making divine healing a part of the Gospel, men like A. B. Simpson and Charles Fox Parham did just that. However, Parham seemed to take the subject much further than Simpson, teaching that unless one preaches healing along with the forgiveness of sins, they weren't preaching the full Gospel.Here's the YouTube link!https://youtu.be/HMYtddh4ySI

We continue our series on "Tounges Before Parham. This time we take a look at the tongue-speaking Mormons.

Charles Fox Parham was born on June 4, 1873. He is typically referred to as “the father of Pentecostalism,” particularly teaching that the evidence that one received the baptism of the Holy Spirit was speaking in tongues. But if this is the case, it would mean that other groups before Parham who spoke in tongues had also received the baptism of the Spirit, even heretical groups. And yes, there were plenty of heretical groups who called themselves true Christians who spoke in tongues. In this episode we will take a look at one of those groups called the “Shakers.”

We are going to be looking at another news article. This one is from "The Nebraska State Journal," October 9, 1887. In it, the reporter covers a Woodworth healing/revival meeting where he makes this not so surprising statement, "the frenzy and excitement were almost indescribable.”Here is the YouTube link!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMU67LigN2g

Maria Woodworth Etter (1844-1924) was a popular evangelist/faith healer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She became popular because of the strange occurrences that took place at her evangelistic meetings. People would go into trances and report seeing strange visions, fall on the floor and lay there for hours, shake violently, cry, weep, and do many other similar things you see in modern charismatic churches. In his book God's Generals, Roberts Liardon says “There hasn't been a greater demonstrator of God's spirit since the book of Acts in Pentecostal history than Mariah Woodworth Etter.But Etter was no demonstrator of the Holy Spirit. She was a demonstrator of the demonic. In this episode, I'm going to show you, through newspaper articles from the late 19th century what was going on in her meetings. After that, we're going to compare Hindu Kundalini, a demonic spirit, with what took place in those meetings, along with what is taking place in modern charismatic churches today. Here is the YouTube video link!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85TrNGjLJck

Here is the YouTube video for this episode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Z-W30myJ4&t=2860s

Charles Fox Parham, "the father of Pentecostalism," came to Zion City Illinois in 1906 right after the fall of John Alexander Dowie. He took advantage of the vulnerable followers of Dowie and won them over. Within just 10 days of his arrival, he had over 300 followers. After leaving Zion, some of his followers, named "the Paramites" by the newspapers, were involved in several brutal killings. Here is the link to the YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7rfXyF_p0o&t=181s

Carol Goodenough was the teenage daughter of the Goodenough's who provided a cottage for Lake and his family to live in after they arrived in South Africa as missionaries from 1908- 1913. In 1909 Lake returned to the States in order to raise funds for his mission work there. On the ship was 17 year old Carol Goodenough. She was returning to the States by the direction of her brother to go to school. Lake's late wife Jennie and Carol were friends. Jennie died only 6 months after arriving in South Africa. After Jennie's death in December of 1908, Lake became engaged to Ada White. Ada died from malaria that same year. Shortly after Ada's death, Lake became engaged to Carol Goodenough. He was 38, she was 17. These early newspaper articles from 1909 tell the story of an affair that Lake's biographers didn't want anyone to know about. Here is the link to the full article and the Youtube Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3TVgeM9z4&t=5shttps://www.themessedupchurch.com/blog/john-g-lakes-clandestine-affair

John Graham Lake is held up by popular Charismatic leaders to be a great man of God, who performed over 100,000 healings in his time. Yet all one has to do is a little digging to find out that this isn't the case at all. John G. Lake was actually a liar, a con, and a fraud. This is audio from our YouTube video. You can watch the video here:https://youtu.be/ZDcmpkhbekc

This week we spend a few minutes looking at the Lauren Daigle controversy and then dive into false prophet Charlie Shamp's personal prophecy for you and for Boston.

On this episode of L4T we're going to be asking the question, does Beth Moore and Joyce Meyer have gnostic tendencies? Do they teach a form of Gnosticism? I believe the answer to the question is yes. I show the similarities between the Gnostic teaching on prayer, dreams, and visions, and what Moore and Myer have said about prayer, dreams, and visions in the past.

Mike Bickle says that if someone comes to him with a dream or a vision, unless it is in the written Word of God he will not accept it. But is that true? In this episode I talk, once again, with Tony-Allen. Tony and I discuss Mike Bickle's view of Scripture and examine the YouTube video- "Ask Mike Bickle: Are dreams and visitations higher than the Word of God?"

On this episode Steve, Eric Pedersen and I talk with Tony-Allen of the "Design of Providence" podcast about the dangers of Mike Bickle and IHOP KC. Tony has done extensive research on IHOP, has been to the "One Thing" conferences, talked with leaders within the movement, and has visited the 24/7 prayer rooms.

In a video called called "Refuse to Give Up," Joyce Meyer turns the passage in Luke 18 about the persistent widow into a prosperity passage. She also gets the story of Abraham and Sodom all mixed up. Benny Hinn says that if you study a passage of Scripture deep enough, you can experience a bodily disconnect.

On this episode we look at a Facebook Video by Jennifer LeClaire called "Christian Witches? Let Me Tell You What's Next..." Then we listen to a small part of another Facebook video by Georgian Banov about his "evangelistic meeting in Glasgow. Next, we look at a blog post by Doug Addison called "Why You Don't Need to Be Afraid of Angels." After listening to all this wacky heresy, we cleanse our minds with the Gospel.

Steve and I talked with the Outback Berean, Erik Pedersen, about his time in the Charismatic movement, how he was led out of it, how he came to embrace the Biblical Gospel, and other important issues concerning the modern Church. You can listen to the Outback Berean here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/theoutbackberean

On this episode we start a new series on the dangerous teachings of Mike Bickle. We show that the entire foundation of his IHOP "movement" is based on the false prophesies and lies of Bob Jones.

We do a recap of last week's podcast and show the connection between Bill Johnson & Bethel church in Redding, CA with the "Christian" witch group known as Christ Alignment. We then tackle Psalm 46:10 and put it back in its context.

Psychic readings, tarot cards, and divination are promoted by Bethel Church in Redding California. Listen, as Steve and I rant about this thing called the "encounter gospel."

We are talking about the book "Jesus Calling" again, and showing how this popular book is a Gnostic prayer book.

Today we look at the context of Jeremiah 29:11 and put it back in its God-honoring place. Then we take a brief look at Gnosticism and how it even affected the first century church.

In this episode, Dan and Steve Long share a conversation with Steve Kozar about his article on "The Messed Up Church" blog called "Defusing Demonic Dirty Bombs."

Dan and Steve Long review a sermon from Rick Warren of Saddleback Church called "What to Do When You've Had a Business Setback. Warren uses Luke 5:1-11 as his proof text saying "God will bless your business if you let Jesus in your boat.

On this episode we take a look at "Destiny Image," a publishing company started by Don Nori through the mandate of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself right down to the name.

Dan and Steven Long are back with a new episode comparing the teachings of the New Apostolic Reformation with Brian Houston of Hillsong.

Dan Long reviews Bryan Wolfmueller's book "Has America Christianity Failed." He also plays a clip from a sermon by Troy Gramling called "The Pit of discouragement," then compares it with a sermon preached by his own Pastor.

Steve and Dan discuss the book that inspired Sarah Young to write Jesus Calling.

Dan and Steve Long interview RJ Grunewald on the "doctrine of vocation."

Jesus Calling is a devotional book written by Sarah Young. It has gained much popularity since its original release in 2004. In this episode Dan Long discusses the danger of the book, comparing it to the dangerous practice of contemplative prayer.