Jim and Lori Bakker BACK at Morningside and The Jim Bakker Show!

Jim and Lori Bakker at Morningside

By Kami Klein

Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker will return to Morningside this Tuesday, February 13th for another amazing Jim Bakker Show taping!  Jim and Lori have been missed and we are happy to welcome them back from their sabbatical!!  Pastor Jim has a fresh word from the Lord and can’t wait to share it with you! In the past few weeks while Jim and Lori took a much needed rest, Morningside has been kept busy with the new PTL Shop network and booking guests for a remarkable 2018!  Mondo, John, Tammy Sue, Ricky and the rest of the Bakker family have kept the fires burning on The Jim Bakker Show, watching world and biblical events as they unfold and interviewing many incredible guests!

This year we are starting off with some of the greatest Christian leaders in America!  With guests like Jentezen Franklin, Perry Stone, Charisma’s Steve Strang, Evangelist Alveda King, Dr. Irvin Baxter, Lt. General William Boykin, Don and Mary Colbert, Rick Joyner, Mark and Cindy Jacobs, and many more every day you will discover more about prophecy, the world we live in today and your Biblical place in God’s plan.

It all starts on Tuesday, February 13th at noon for a brand new season of The Jim Bakker Show with Jim and Lori Bakker. Check out our schedule on jimbakkershow.com for upcoming tapings of our television program. While you’re at it, plan a trip to Morningside to see all that is happening live and in person!  

 

We hope to see you soon!  

 

Charisma’s Steve Strang and Dr. Steve Greene on Grace Street October 19th!

By Kami Klein

The Jim Bakker Show is thrilled to welcome back to Grace Street, Charisma’s founder and publisher, Steve Strang. Steve is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, businessman and author who understands that the Word of God is the key toward a deeper relationship with Him. We are eager to discuss his new book “God and Donald Trump” that will be released this November!

Christian leaders prophesied before the election that God had raised up Donald Trump to lead the nation through a time of crisis. But could this billionaire reality-TV star actually convince the voters he was for real? If so, what is God doing now in Donald’s Trump’s life and our nation? This book is written as a powerful first-person account of one of the most combative elections the United States has ever seen and is told with exclusive details from the men and women who were there.

Steve will be bringing fellow author and publisher Dr. Steve Greene to visit with us as well! Dr. Greene is the publisher of Charisma, Ministry Today, SpiritLed Woman, and Christian Retailing magazines. He received his doctorate degree in marketing from Memphis State University and has served as the dean of the College of Business and a Professor of Marketing at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. Greene will be here to discuss his highly recommended book on leadership, “Love Leads”. This book will help you see that love and leadership are not mutually exclusive and learn that without love, you cannot be an effective leader.

Please join us on Thursday, October 19th, beginning at noon, for this very special live show taping. We would love to see you in the audience!

How will you respond when the pain comes? ~ Steve Strang

Jim and Lori Bakker and Steve Strang, founder of Charisma magazine

 

By Steve Strang

Pain is a part of life. The infilling of the Holy Spirit helps us deal with pain but is no guarantee Christians will be immune to our share of it. The question is not whether you will experience pain, but how you will respond when the pain comes.

It’s been said the heat that melts the butter hardens the clay. Too many Christians, I’ve observed in my six decades on Earth, melt at the slightest problem. They’ve been led to believe following Christ means a life of joy and fulfillment. That’s absolutely true, but the way that message has been preached, at least in America, has left some with an unhealthy expectation that the Lord only allows smooth sailing in our lives.

On top of this, an overemphasis on the so-called prosperity gospel based on a mistranslation of 1 John 3 that God wants you to prosper has caused many a shipwreck for Christians who bought into it without understanding being a Christian is more than living like you won the lottery.

Jim Bakker should know. He told me he got off base partly because of an overemphasis on the prosperity gospel. And he has experienced far more pain in his life than almost anyone I know. In this month’s cover story of Charisma magazine, I tell how Jim Bakker lost everything—his ministry, his reputation and his wife, and even his home burned to the ground. In addition, he lost his freedom and was in prison for almost five years. Despite it all, he has come back—in some ways stronger than ever.

Sometimes I will write an editorial about our cover story in Charisma. You can click here to read the digital version of that issue about Bakker, who I have covered since before the infamous “fall” in 1987. Here I share my own thoughts and conclusions on his life and I ask how you’ll respond when the inevitable crises in life cause you to despair.

You may never experience the depth of what Jim Bakker experienced. But all of us will experience loss, whether it’s the loss of a dream or a job or one’s health. Maybe it will be the loss of a marriage. And even if it’s not the loss of any other of these things, each of us will experience the loss of a loved one because no one can escape the inevitability of death.

We can all learn valuable life lessons from how Jim Bakker fell and how the Lord raised him up in this hour:

If Jim Bakker was haughty before the fall, he is humble today. What happened to him was unjust in my opinion. Maybe he couldn’t help being humiliated as he lost everything as the world press covered every twist and turn. Read how low he was when he came out of prison. Yet I’ve known others who were humiliated by lesser “scandals,” and they tried to justify themselves and remained prideful. Whatever your pain is, embrace humility and ask God what He is trying to teach you.

Learn something new. While Jim was in prison cleaning toilets, he took time to get a doctorate degree by correspondence. But more than that, he did an in-depth study of the words of Jesus and also the book of Revelation. It was unplanned and unwanted, but it was like a five-year sabbatical, and he took advantage of every moment to study Scripture. So if you are bedridden due to your health or out of work, what creative way can you spend the time learning something new or growing spiritually?

Realize the Lord may be preparing you for something you can’t anticipate. Most of us don’t change unless we go through a difficult time. If this is happening to you, realize God has a bigger plan and allow your trial to shape your character. In Jim Bakker’s case, it was becoming an expert on end times so he could help ready the body of Christ for whatever difficulties may be ahead. If PTL had continued to go and grow, would he have learned that? No. But look at the people he has been able to help. What is the equivalent of this in your life?

Finally, never give up. As long as there’s life, there’s hope. Nothing will continue as it is now—either very good or very bad. So you may feel overwhelmed, but that doesn’t mean the sun won’t rise tomorrow. Meanwhile, remember the words of Winston Churchill: “Never give up.”

One of the things I admire about Jim Bakker is that he didn’t give up. Instead, he started over, built a great organization and a great legacy, and served as an example for us all.

You can read my article on Jim and the entire November issue of Charisma by clicking here for the digital edition.

A few months ago, I interviewed Jim while I was on a visit to Morningside. I made it into a podcast which had the most downloads up to that time. Plus, I wrote about it in my newsletter which you can read here if you missed it. Take time to listen to the podcast again and to share it with others.

Charisma’s Steve Strang Returning to The Jim Bakker Show

Steve Strang at the Jim Bakker show

Please join us here at Morningside on Tuesday, June 21st as hosts Jim and Lori Bakker welcome Charisma’s Steve Strang and author of the book The Rapture Verdict, Michael Snyder, to the Jim Bakker Show!  

Every generation has got to connect with God’s Word. Not just for religious reasons or superstitious reasons, but so the Word of God can become alive in our spirits and we can follow it. -Steve Strang

Steve Strang understands that the Word of God is the key towards a deeper relationship with Him.  Steve’s mission through Charisma’s books, magazines and Bibles are to empower people through Spirit inspired resources. Steve Strang wants us to be passionate about God! His insights are powerful and his guidance actively sought.

Michael Snyder is best known for his work as the publisher of  The Economic Collapse Blog and is our go-to expert on today’s economic signs and signals.   Snyder has just released a new book called The Rapture Verdict.  He and his wife  Meranda host The Watch: a half hour program on the PTL Television Network that is absolutely packed with news, information and teaching.    

We hope you can join us as a member of our studio audience on Tuesday, June 21st at noon on Grace Street!  As always, admission is free!  This taping will not be live streamed, however, you can view it before it airs on TV on Roku and the Video On Demand section of our website.

 

 

Charisma Founder Steve Strang To be Guest on the Jim Bakker Show!

Morningside and The Jim Bakker Show are excited to announce that publisher and founder of Charisma magazine, Steve Strang, will be joining us on Grace Street, Thursday, October 8th, 2015 at 11:30 am CT.

Charisma, is now celebrating it’s 40th anniversary and has been a trusted source of news, teaching and inspiration to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Steve is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, businessman and author. He is also founder and president of Charisma Media, which in addition to Charisma, publishes Ministry Today, the Spanish magazine Vida Cristiana and many other respected publications.  His many businesses and other innovative products have earned a reputation as the world’s leading charismatic publisher!

This will be an amazing visit with a truly charismatic man of God.  We hope you can join us!