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varun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 06:11 PM
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Disgraced pastor returns — as businessman
Source: MSNBC

Ted Haggard is back at the pulpit after 2006 drug and sex scandal

updated 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

The former superstar pastor, disgraced two years ago in a sex-and-drugs scandal, had returned — this time as a Christian businessman preaching a message that was equal parts contrition and defiance. Haggard linked his fall to being molested in second grade and apologized again.

His two sermons were posted, fleetingly, on Haggard's Web site under one word: "Alive!"
While his exact plans remain unclear, Haggard is unmistakably making himself a public figure again, nine months after his former church said he walked away from an oversight process meant to restore him...


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27873931/



might as well be a snake oil salesman...
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 06:13 PM
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1. Why would a good christian need insurance?
I mean it is all about the after life, right?
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 06:18 PM
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2. The kind of Christians
Edited on Sun Nov-23-08 06:18 PM by Turbineguy
who leave their money to Haggard.
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 09:05 PM
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4. Haggard appears to have never heard of the part of the bible...
Haggard appears to have never heard of the parts of the bible that said complaining about the specks in the eyes of others while ignoring the f--king 2x4 in your own eye is not really a good idea. (Matt 7/Luke 6)
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