An Important Message From Lori Bakker

Message from Lori Bakker:

As a family and staff, we continue to fight the good fight of faith and take a stand against the evil forces and hatred that has come against our ministry.

In Jim’s words, this has been the most vicious attack that he has ever experienced.

For many years now, Jim has been working non-stop, working hard to bring incredible prophets and guests to our show, discovering and developing new products to share, building at Morningside, and bringing forth the message for the days that we are living in. All of these projects, and the vigorous warfare that we have experienced in the last several weeks, have taken a huge toll on Jim’s health.

I wanted to share with you, our loving and caring partners, that Jim recently experienced a stroke. We are thankful that Jim is okay, and that he is now at home with our family. Under the guidance of medical professionals and our Board of Directors, Jim will be taking a sabbatical from the show. Jim will be back! He is still dreaming and hearing from the Lord, and he already has a powerful word to deliver when he returns to the air.

In the meantime, the show will continue. Jim is a Watchman on the Wall, and we as a family are committed to carrying his mantle by bringing more prophets, news, updates, and more in the coming weeks on The Jim Bakker Show.

We ask that you continue to pray for Jim, and pray for our ministry, during these challenging times. As Jim always says, God loves you, He really does! And so do we!

Love,
Lori

Why I believe Jim Bakker is being unfairly attacked online (by Stephen Strang)

Steve Strang

“Our good friend Stephen Strang of Charisma News wrote this excellent article. We are reposting it here with his permission.”

“The Strang report” is also an incredible podcast.  Click here to listen to Steve discuss this article. You can read the original article with this link.

Why I believe Jim Bakker is being unfairly attacked online
By Steve Strang

Jim Bakker is no stranger to controversy. He went to prison in the late 1980s and received a 45-year sentence. He could have spent the rest of his life there if it weren’t for what I consider a miracle. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom I highly respect, did something unexpected. He defended Jim pro bono (free) because he believed Jim’s sentence by a biased judge was an injustice, and the courts agreed. Jim was released for time served in 1994 after spending almost five years in prison. After losing everything, including his wife and ministry, he has started over and built a successful ministry in Missouri.

Now, Bakker is in the news again. As I’ll explain in more detail, he offered a “Silver Solution” supplement on his The Jim Bakker Show. The silver solution is known to help fight some viruses. Dr. Sherrill Sellman, a board-certified integrative naturopathic doctor, appeared on his show Feb. 12 and clearly said it had not been tested for COVID-19, but it might help your immune system fight viruses. The show was taped Feb. 5, less than a week after President Donald Trump issued the travel ban from China and long before we really knew much about this strange new coronavirus.

In hindsight, Jim was unwise to even mention COVID-19 with any product. But his enemies twisted his message to say he was “selling a cure.” He wasn’t. But the spin in the fake news media’s coverage that followed is that Bakker went to jail for bilking people, and now he’s at it again. In my opinion, that’s a lie, and I want to do my part to set the record straight. In fact, you can watch the clip for yourself here (the conversation about the Silver Solution Starter Kit starts at the 42-minute mark).

I was trained as a secular journalist at the University of Florida and I began my career at the Orlando Sentinel. But I’ve spent most of my career covering the charismatic Christian community. I remember covering Jim when he was just coming into prominence in the late 1970s. I watched him build Heritage USA, and I visited there several times—once in 1983 to do an in-depth interview for Charisma magazine on Jim and his huge vision. He was controversial back then—mostly due to his flamboyant style and partly over how fast he was growing. As a result, some people considered him somewhat arrogant. I remember observing back then that there was a “childlike” purity in his love for the Lord and for people. But there was also a certain “childishness” (self-centeredness, naivety) that seemed to make some people not like him.

I was also at Heritage USA with my family not long before the Charlotte Observer broke a big “expose” that Bakker had a fling with a secretary. In Christian circles, that’s scandalous. The backlash was enormous and Bakker resigned.

Then a tragic set of circumstances created a downward spiral. Bakker’s PTL ministry began to unravel and he ended up going to jail. History will show there were people out to get him. There were all the elements of a scandal that the press loved—lots of money in the ministry, an extramarital fling, a flamboyant religious experience and loyal followers (who some of the “elites” of the day looked down on as deplorables long before Hillary Clinton made the word popular).

So what did Bakker do that landed him in prison? As an incentive to donate, he told his partners they could stay free in the magnificent hotel his ministry built at Heritage USA. Some prosecutors said that if the partners all came at one time, PTL couldn’t fulfill its promise, and somehow that was fraud! Well, airlines routinely overbook, and furthermore, PTL didn’t turn away partners for being overbooked because they never all showed up at the same time. That was his offense. He did not bilk millions of dollars as some people online are saying.

Bakker did raise millions of dollars, but it was to spread the gospel via television and to build a huge media center and a facility near Charlotte, North Carolina, for his partners to gather for camp meetings, concerts, religious services and other events. (As a child I used to attend Pentecostal camp meetings with my parents in cheap, rundown facilities. Bakker provided a really nice setting to gather to hear preaching, sing and enjoy fellowship with other believers.)

With the millions he raised, Bakker also paid salaries, bought air time and, over the years, gave millions of dollars to missions. I know this to be true. He was generous with my late father-in-law, who was a missionary to the Philippines.

I believe Bakker was targeted by people who didn’t like what he was doing, and when he resigned over his “fling,” they found some things they felt they could prosecute. When I reported on it at the time, I found Bakker to have done things I felt were wrong yet pretty trivial—but not bad enough to send him to prison! The courts freed him for time served. Since then, Bakker has owned up to whatever he did wrong, a lot of which was a lack of wisdom on decisions he made. He even wrote a book, I Was Wrong. (I read every word, and you can’t read it without believing that Jim Bakker, for all his mistakes, is sincere and his repentance was heart-felt.)

What Jim Bakker went through would have destroyed most people. Yet he did something I admire: He started over and has built a new ministry called Morningside in Missouri with his wife, Lori Bakker. He has learned from his mistakes and, instead of relying just on donations to fund his ministry, he supports it by selling products—mostly books and products he believes in, including health supplements. I wrote about his restoration in a cover story for Charisma, which you can read here.

One such product is the “Silver Solution,” which he has offered for the past 10 years. I’ve used it myself, because I use products I believe will help my immune system. It was this product (which had not been controversial until now) that stirred up this new media firestorm. You can see the video for yourself. Bakker and his guest, Dr. Sherrill Sellman, talked about the health benefits, but clearly said it had not been tested for COVID-19.

The implication was if you didn’t know what to do to guard yourself from this dangerous new virus (and no one at the time knew), this solution might help. That’s all. He never said it was a cure. But the attorney general of Missouri, responding to complaints, issued a cease-and-desist order with which Bakker has complied. He even refunded money to those who bought the product.

When I heard about this, I looked up the tape (I missed that program) and saw he was being unfairly criticized. I also saw the distortions in the media of his past wrongdoings when reporting this newest controversy. Some even said he went to prison for rape. He did not. It was a one-time extramarital fling—there was never a charge of rape. But see how things spin out of control, especially when people don’t seem to care to know the truth? I believe the truth needs to be told. Jim Bakker is a good man who has spent a lifetime trying to help people and preach the gospel and support his ministry.

When this story broke, I kept expecting Bakker’s ministry to issue a press release to tell his side—especially after I saw the actual program. I knew from years ago what really happened and that Jim is not the ogre his critics portray him as. So I finally called him because of the years I’ve come to consider him a friend. He told me in hindsight he shouldn’t have mentioned COVID-19. He obeyed the cease-and-desist order, and you can’t even buy the product from him now. He’s offered to refund money to any partners who ask for it. But he’s basically a humble man and doesn’t want to defend himself. So I decided to speak up on his behalf.

The Jim Bakker I know loves people. He has spent a long time helping people, spreading the gospel, and ministering to those who need to know Jesus and the power of His love. Some of his critics don’t understand his Pentecostal fervor. They believe our theology of speaking in tongues or believing God still speaks is wrong. That’s their right as Americans. (I believe they are wrong too.) Maybe they don’t like the Pentecostal worship style of raising hands or speaking in tongues. But is that any reason to destroy Bakker or other ministries that believe like him?

Like the coronavirus pandemic, this controversy will be over someday. When people know the facts, I believe Bakker’s name will be cleared. Then he can get back to preaching the gospel and doing what he believes God has called him to do. That may not satisfy his critics. They didn’t like him before—or other ministries like his—and they won’t like him after this pandemic is in the history books. But Jim doesn’t answer to his critics. They are not his jury or judge. There is a judge Jim will stand before one day—just as every person on earth will.

My brother Paul is a charismatic music minister in Kentucky. If someone attacked him, I’d stand with him because he’s my brother! Jim Bakker is my Christian brother, so how can I do less? I wrote this to share my perspective—and the facts—hoping it makes sense and people will see Jim and what happened as I do.

 

 

March comes in like a Lion on The Jim Bakker Show with powerful guests

By Kami Klein

March at Morningside will be coming in like a lion as we bring in prophets and teachers ready to discuss what is happening in our world during these times and sharing God’s plan with us.

Beginning on Tuesday, March 3rd, at 11 am Jim and Lori Bakker will welcome Robert Henderson to the stage. Pastor Henderson has been at the forefront of the apostolic reformation and is recognized for his passion to bring apostolic alignment to the church and the business world. Founder and leader of multiple apostolic networks including Global Apostolic Network as well as co-leadership of the United States Alliance for Reformation and Freedom Apostolic Alliance with Dutch Sheets, his passion is to empower people (pastors, leaders and the body of Christ as a whole) to reach their potential and to fulfill the purpose for which God created them. He is the author of several books including Operating in the Courts of Heaven and Unlocking Destinies from the Courts of Heaven. Robert will be on the show to discuss his new book, Father, Friend, and Judge.

Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm CT we are excited to bring you an inspirational evening service led by conference leader, evangelist, and Christian media icon, Carl Gallups. This special service at Morningside will be held on Grace Street and shown LIVE through the PTL Television Network.

We are thrilled that Carl Gallups will be joining Tom Horn on The Jim Bakker show Thursday, March 5th at 11 am to share information from their new books, Masquerade and Shadowland. This promises to be an incredible show filled with insights on end-time events and our place in them.

Derek & Sharon Gilbert are back on The Jim Bakker Show on Tuesday, March 10 at 11 am. Derek is the host and news anchor/analyst for SkyWatchTV, a Christian media ministry, host of the Internet radio show A View from the Bunker, and co-host of P.I.D. Radio, one of the earliest Internet-only programs on the web. Derek has added another popular program to his resume called SciFriday with his wife, author and analyst Sharon Gilbert. Together they wrote the book, Veneration.

Dr. Don Colbert, America’s #1 doctor for Faith and Medicine and his wife Mary Colbert, author of The Trump Prophecies, are returning to The Jim Bakker Show stage on Thursday, March 12, at 11 am. We look forward to their input on the coronavirus, COVID-19 and on our health, both spiritually and physically.

Tuesday, March 17th, at 11 am, we are blessed to have Matthew Barnett, co-founder of the Dream Center and senior pastor of the Angelus Temple, the central house of worship of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, return to the show to share his new book, One Small Step.

Frank Davis and Dr. Sherrill Sellman will be back with us on Thursday, March 19th at 11 am. There is so much they wish to share on the health crisis that is now facing us here in the United States. We are always better off hearing their advice and counsel.

If you can’t make it to Morningside for one of our free live tapings, most of our shows  will air about a week after taping so be sure to check on The Jim Bakker show website for airing days and times. You can watch The Jim Bakker Show on PTL Television Network from your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or ptlnetwork.com. Don’t forget, if you download the PTL network phone app you can watch us anywhere!

Stay tuned! We will be adding so many more amazing shows to our schedule!

Reunion, Restoration and Believing God for More, Tommy Barnett on The Jim Bakker Show, Tuesday, Jan. 21st

By Kami Klein

When God sets out to restore your life he will create an intricate pattern impossible to see until the pieces fall together. God uses special people he places in your path to guide and encourage, helping to weave your way on the path to His blessings. There is no doubt that Tommy Barnett, co-founder of the Dream Center in L.A., Pastor of Phoenix First Assembly (now the Dream Center Church), was powerfully used in the restoration of Jim Bakker’s life and a very special piece of the miraculous story of bringing Jim and Lori Bakker together.

On Tuesday, January 21st at 11 a.m Pastor Tommy Barnett will be our guest on a very special show taping of The Jim Bakker Show. For Jim and Lori, it will be a reunion with a truly beloved friend. We encourage you to be here on Grace Street as they share with you the incredible ways in which Pastor Barnett brought healing, joy, forgiveness, purpose, and promise into their lives through his amazing obedience to our loving God. You will be so encouraged by the Power of Faith, seeing the blessings the Lord wished for Jim and Lori and for the promise that our God IS a God of restoration.

Pastor Barnett includes the incredible restoration of Jim Bakker in his new book, What If?: My Story of Believing God for More… Always More. In this book, he looks back over a lifetime of walking with God, being directed by the Spirit, and boldly taking risks to reach more people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Along the way, he has built great churches and organizations to meet the crushing needs of broken people and restore those who have strayed far from God.

We hope you can be here on Tuesday, January 21st at 11 am to meet Tommy Barnett on The Jim Bakker Show! If you are unable to attend, The Jim Bakker shows usually are aired about a week after taping, check here for air dates so you don’t miss it!

You will be blessed!

Get Comfy and get ready to ring in 2020 with Praise, Prayer, and Prophecy!

Tonight from 7 pm ct to midnight, Morningside will be sparkling with a Prophetic New Year Celebration and you can watch it live! What better way to begin 2020 than with an incredible evening spent worshipping God and hearing from Pastor Jim Bakker and Dr. Lance Wallnau, two leading prophets of the day! We want you to join us tonight from wherever you are to ring in this New Year and Decade giving God all the glory by watching us on the PTL Television Network!

Beginning at 7 pm ct Mondo will begin the celebration on Grace Street followed by Tammy Sue Bakker and the PTL Band and Singers who will fill your hearts and home with joyful music! From 8 pm to 10 pm God has a special word to be shared by Pastor Jim for the New Year followed by Lance Wallnau who will be giving his prophetic message. When the time is right, we will be Praising Jesus into the New Year with Jenny Weaver!

The New Year’s Eve festivities begin at 7 pm ct on the PTL Television Network from your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or ptlnetwork.com. Don’t forget, if you download the PTL network phone app you can watch us anywhere! Get on your comfy pj’s, and celebrate with us!

God Bless you and keep you in 2020! We hope you will join us and begin this decade in a renewed friendship and trust in Jesus! We are in exciting times and YOU are a part of it!

Morningside USA invites you to a Prophecy Filled New Year’s Eve and a Special Invitation to Jim Bakker’s 80th Birthday!

By Kami Klein

On Tuesday, December 31st from 8 pm to midnight, Morningside will be sparkling with a Prophetic New Year Celebration! What better way to begin 2020 than with an incredible evening spent worshipping God and hearing from two leading prophets of the day, Pastor Jim Bakker and Lance Wallnau! Pastor has a very special message that God has for us for the New Year so you don’t want to miss it! Tammy Sue Bakker and the PTL Band and Singers will fill your hearts with joyful music and when the time is right, we will be Praising Jesus into the New Year with Jenny Weaver!

Prayer Mountain Chapel will be open for those that want to go up and pray into the New Year with Larry Sparks.

Come ring in the New Year at Morningside! We would love to see you here! Please make plans and follow this link to RSVP!

Pastor Jim will be turning 80 this year and we want YOU at his birthday party! On Thursday, January 2nd at 11 a.m please join us at Morningside to reminisce and show the love to Pastor Jim Bakker on this milestone of a Birthday! We want to fill Grace Street with well-wishers, friends, supporters, and family! Please be our guest and enjoy this historic show filled with amazing memories!

Make your plans today to join us at Morningside USA for a prophetic New Years’ Eve celebration and Jim Bakker’s 80th Birthday Party! We hope to see you here!

Skip the Mayhem! Join us for Morningside’s Cyber Monday event! December 2nd, at 9 am!

By Kami Klein

Wouldn’t you rather stay home on Black Friday? Skip the crowds and mayhem? How would you like some amazing deals that you can buy for everyone on your list while you stay snug and warm in your p.j.’s? On Monday, December 2nd beginning at 9 am ct please join Jim and Lori Bakker for our special Christmas Cyber Monday event!

Our Cyber events are always amazing and you won’t believe the deals! Household items, food buckets, Seychelle water products, jewelry, books, and toys will highlight this event where you can find something for everyone you love!

We are so blessed that you support our ministry and these events are our way of giving back. Plus, you have the chance to continue your support so we can produce our Christian programming, support Lori’s House and keep us on the air!

On Monday morning at 9 am ct, have your coffee mugs filled and your gift list ready, get comfortable and tune in to the PTL Television Network from your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or ptlnetwork.com

Fantastic Fall Lineup on The Jim Bakker Show

By Kami Klein

Something is in the air, a slight chill and a glimpse of green changing to beautiful shades of yellow, orange and red.  Here at Morningside, Fall is promising a fantastic lineup of prophetic leaders from all around the world ready to share what God is revealing to them on the shift that is rapidly changing our churches, neighborhoods, and lives.  Now is the time to be vigilant and listen with ears tuned in to what the Lord is eagerly telling us. This Fall of 2019 at Morningside will be filled with the Word of God and the chance to learn and grow in our relationship with Him and with each other.  

Our Fantastic Fall begins Tuesday, October 1st at 11 am in a timely discussion on the attempts in Washington to impeach President Trump.  Jim and Lori Bakker will welcome Dr. Peter Vincent Pry back on the set at Grace Street for a live taping.  Pry is the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards and served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. Dr. Pry’s expert opinions and advice are sought all over the world and we are thrilled to have him back at Morningside to hear the latest from the capital.  

Tuesday, Oct 8th at 11 am brings the supernatural to The Jim Bakker Show stage as Tom Horn, Carl Gallops, Derek Gilbert and Rabbi Zev Porat discuss prophecy and the signs of Revelation predicted in these end times. We hope you can join us for this live taping as all four of these prophetic leaders talk about spiritual warfare, the attacks on Christianity and recent events that most of us don’t hear about from the mainstream media. 

On Thursday, October 10th at 11 am, spiritual adviser to President Trump, celebrated author, popular TV personality, and spirit-led preacher of God’s Word,  Paul White-Cain is returning to The Jim Bakker Show studio.  We are thrilled to have her back and so excited about the release of her new book,  Something Greater: Finding Triumph over Trials.  We’d love to have you in our studio audience for this live taping. Every taping is free but remember to come early for a great seat!  

Is it time for you to have a Prophetic Encounter?  Join us October 14th-18th at Morningside for our “Prophetic Encounter” Conference! This conference will be unlike any we have had before at Morningside. All of our guests are world-renowned and emerging prophetic voices.  Every day will be filled seeking biblical truth and hearing the men and women who are on a mission to encourage all of us to have a life-changing encounter with the presence of God. Some of our guests for this conference will be Larry Sparks, Katherine Ruonala, Jenny Weaver, Ana Werner, Jeremiah Johnson, Anne Graham Lotz, Ryan Bruss, and Rick Joyner!  Click here for more information and the schedule for this amazing week of prophecy.  If you can’t be at Morningside in-person please stay tuned and join us for many live-streamed events we know you don’t want to miss. There is still time to register for this unique and enlightening Prophetic Encounter Conference but do it now before it’s too late! Click here for more information and to register!

On Tuesday, October 29th at 11 am President, CEO, founder and innovator of the complete line of Seychelle water purification products, Carl Palmer and his beautiful wife, Rosemarie will be back with Lori and Jim Bakker on The Jim Bakker Show set. We have learned so much from the Palmers and of their fight to bring clean drinking water to the world. 

Stay tuned for more exciting news and programs coming this Fall!  We are living in the days of which the prophets revealed long before the birth of Jesus. God is still speaking to the prophets, still preparing the way and Morningside is blessed to be a platform for these great men and women of God

The Jim Bakker show website keeps you informed as to when our taped shows will air but if you miss them, we encourage you to tune in to PTL Network from your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or on jimbakkershow.com or ptlnetwork.com and watch when you can!  Thank you for your loving support and for your continuing support as we continue on this remarkable journey through these end times! 

 

A Christian View from Russia, Rick and Denise Renner on The Jim Bakker Show; join us for the Livestreamed evening service!

By Kami Klein

Tomorrow, Friday, September 27th at 11 am Jim and Lori Bakker will be hosting Rick and Denise Renner, senior pastors of the Moscow Good News Church in Russia on The Jim Bakker Show.  We are thrilled to also announce that the Renners will be on Grace Street for a very special evening service that will be live-streamed beginning at 7 pm. Denise, a classically trained vocalist will begin the service and Rick will be our guest speaker.    

It takes incredible faith to embrace what the Lord asks of us and a great deal of strength to follow our calling. For Rick and Denise Renner that calling began January, 1991, when the Renners and their sons — Paul (then 8), Philip (then 6), and Joel (then 2) — left behind all they knew to relocate their family to serve the region that only weeks earlier had become the former Soviet Union. The following year, Rick moved forward to launch and establish the first of its kind — and eventually the largest — Christian television network in that region of the world. 

 Over the years, Rick and Denise have pioneered three churches, a Bible school, and a ministerial association that serves thousands of Russian-speaking pastors throughout the former USSR as well as parts of the Middle East. They have had their hand in many outreach services specifically ministering to the needs of orphans, women prisoners, the homeless, and drug-and-alcohol addicts. 

Rick Renner is a highly respected teacher and author within the Christian community, both in the U.S. and abroad. His teaching ministry is widely acknowledged as extraordinarily insightful and clear as he lays a foundation of sound doctrine while drawing out rich meanings from the original Greek language. 

Rick has authored more than 30 books in English and Russian, many of which have also been translated into German, French, Ukrainian, and Portuguese. His best-selling titles include Sparkling Gems From the Greek, Volume 1 and Volume 2 and Dressed To Kill — A Biblical Approach to Spiritual Warfare and Armor, which have sold more than 3,000,000 copies combined.

Rick’s new book, How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy: Developing Discernment for These Last Days has recently been released. Within the pages of this timely book Pastor Jenner points out that we are living in a day when countless multitudes have lost their way both morally and spiritually. Like a ship without an anchor, this last-days generation is being tossed to and fro by a flood of deception and wrong influences that is tragically causing people to lose their moorings. What should we do to make sure we don’t get sucked into the chaotic swirl of moral and spiritual confusion sweeping the world today?  This book helps us look to God to find the answers. 

If you are unable to attend The Jim Bakker Show live taping with Rick and Denise Jenner please tune in when it airs. You won’t want to miss it.  Also please join us tomorrow evening for the Livestream service on Grace Street beginning at 7 pm on the PTL Network from your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or on jimbakkershow.com or ptlnetwork.com as well as on Facebook live located on The Jim Bakker Show facebook page.  

 

A 21st anniversary message from Lori Bakker to Jim…

Jim and Lori on their wedding day

Happy 21st wedding anniversary Jim Bakker! You are the love of my life ♥️!!! Thank you for your unconditional love, believing in me, and being the best husband a girl could ever ask for! Met and married in 7 weeks and they said it wouldn’t last, ha 😉!

Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker

Thank you Lord for entrusting me with this mighty man of God, I am eternally grateful and honored that you choose me to be Jim’s wife! We are more in love today than yesterday 💑

I love you, honey, more than earthly words can express !!!

Lori