"We don't do money asks, and it's something that I'm really proud of." That's Courtney Copeland, on camera with her grandfather Kenneth Copeland at the Southwest Believers Convention — and Justin Peters spends this episode proving, clip by clip, that it is a bald-faced lie.

Peters starts with Kenneth Copeland Ministries' own website and its article on the Seven Laws of Prosperity, which promises a hundredfold return no bank in the world can match. Then comes the convention footage: George Pearsons receiving the speakers' offering and rattling off every way to give — envelope, check, card tap, text, phone, mail — plus a "word from the Lord" delivered right as the buckets go around, assuring thousands of attendees that everything at home will be fine. Most egregious of all, Pearsons tells people to name their seed "my healing," and to sow on behalf of sick friends, relatives, spouses and children, all while admitting the meeting was already well over budget.

Along the way Peters answers John Copeland's claim that the Holy Spirit weaves the messages together, points out that these platforms never preach Philippians 1:29, and applies Jeremiah 5:30-31 and the warning about itching ears. He closes with Benny Hinn laying hands on Kenneth and Gloria Copeland — neither healed — and a direct, unsparing call for these teachers to repent and trust Christ.

It matters because real, sick, desperate people are being told their healing has a price tag.

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Bill Johnson told a crowd at the 2026 Southwest Believers Convention that he has personally watched people healed the way the sick were healed in Acts 5, when Peter's shadow passed over them. Justin Peters' answer is blunt: no he hasn't. Everyone carries a smartphone — where is the video? And where does the text even say the shadow healed anyone?

Working clip by clip through the Bethel Church pastor's message, Peters tests each claim against Scripture. Johnson's line that recognising "the actual presence of God" is the supreme value collapses under Psalm 139:7-10 and Jeremiah 23:23-24, where God fills heaven and earth. His claim that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer but does not rest upon every believer runs straight into Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 and Galatians 4:6 — and Peters argues it is charismatics, not cessationists, who hold the low view of the Spirit, since "spirit-filled Christian" is simply redundant.

He also takes on "your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you," the twisting of "seek first the kingdom," and Johnson's heaven-to-earth divine health teaching, which Peters names as an over-realised eschatology — noting, without joy, that Johnson's own wife died of cancer, and that the faith healer still wears eyeglasses.

This one matters because meaningless spiritual-sounding platitudes are how false doctrine gets past discerning ears. Acts 3:6 shows what a real miracle looked like.

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A preacher claims YouTube demonetized his channel because he was pulling more viewers than Jimmy Kimmel. It takes about two minutes with a public analytics site to prove that false — and Justin Peters does exactly that.

Jesse Duplantis is one of the fixtures at Kenneth Copeland's 2026 Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, alongside Bill Johnson, Jonathan Shuttlesworth, Mac Hammond, Creflo Dollar and Benny Hinn. In his first message of the week, Duplantis told the crowd YouTube had shut off his monetization for too many views and compared him to Jimmy Kimmel. Peters pulls the SocialBlade numbers on screen: Duplantis has 277,000 subscribers to Kimmel's 22,100,000, and 61 million lifetime views to Kimmel's 16 billion — a factor of 262. Average views per video: 13,000 against 2 million.

Beyond the numbers, Peters points to the pattern. Word-faith preachers spend almost no time in the text, filling roughly ninety percent of their time with stories about themselves. Scripture describes such men plainly: greedy, eyes full of adultery, many following their sensuality, caring only for themselves. And a man with no fear of putting words in the mouth of the God who spoke the universe into existence and upholds all things by the word of His power will have no hesitation about exploiting you either.

This one matters because it hands listeners a concrete, verifiable example of a celebrity preacher lying — and a reason to stop trusting him.

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At 89, Kenneth Copeland preached his own conference sitting down, wearing eyeglasses, losing his place between Romans 10, Romans 5 and Hebrews 11 — and he has a pacemaker in his chest, arthritis in his fingers, and back surgery ahead of him. This is the man who has taught for over 60 years that healing is always God's will and yours the moment you're ready for it.

Justin Peters walks through footage from this year's Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth, where Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn and Bethel's Bill Johnson all shared the platform. He notes Gloria Copeland's visible decline — Benny Hinn laid hands on her and prayed last year, and she is worse now — and recalls her own cruel words about the sick lacking faith.

The heart of the episode is an interview Copeland's granddaughter Courtney did with him, where she openly admits she is struggling to understand why her grandfather is still in pain. Peters traces the 2004 back injury that cancelled four crusades, the ruptured appendix, the sciatic nerve, and Copeland's admission that the Lord led him to a born-again neurosurgeon.

He also answers Courtney's framing of karma, the law of attraction and manifestation as biblical, correcting the misuse of Proverbs 23:7 and Proverbs 18:21, and names these as New Age techniques welcomed into Word Faith theology.

Peters closes with a clear gospel appeal — Christ satisfied God's wrath on the cross, not in hell — and Exodus 4:11, Psalm 119:71, 2 Kings 13, Galatians 4:13-14 and Philippians 1:29. It matters because this bankrupt gospel has exploited the poor and sick for decades, and souls are at stake.

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A man on X asked prosperity preacher Jonathan Shuttlesworth a simple question — "How's that private jet treating you?" — and Shuttlesworth publicly replied, "Not as well as your mom." A full day later it was still posted, unretracted. The man's answer? "Thanks, my mom's dead. What a great representation of Christ you are."

Justin Peters takes that exchange straight to Scripture. He walks through Ephesians 4:29 and Ephesians 5:3-4, where Paul places filthiness and coarse jesting alongside actual sexual immorality — not as a lesser offence, but as evidence of a heart already given over to it. He then measures Shuttlesworth against the qualifications for an overseer in 1 Timothy 3:1-4 and Titus 1, showing what "above reproach" and "husband of one wife" actually require of a man who calls himself pastor.

From 2 Peter 2 and Jude, Peters lays out the two consistent marks of false teachers: greed and sensuality — hearts trained in greed, eyes full of adultery, exploiting people they do not love. Because false teachers are unregenerate, he argues, there is no indwelling Holy Spirit to restrain the flesh.

Shuttlesworth is scheduled to preach at Kenneth Copeland's Southwest Believers Convention alongside Bill Johnson, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar and Benny Hinn. Justin closes with a direct gospel appeal to Shuttlesworth himself and a plain call to those following him: flee.

This episode matters because God's standards for the pulpit are high, and Scripture tells us exactly how to recognise a wolf.

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Bobby Conner says he has seen Satan twice in 49 years of preaching — and that when the devil showed up, he came "winsome and handsome," a brilliant, stunningly beautiful figure who looked like a chiseled Spanish prince, offering all the kingdoms of the world if Conner would abandon his message of sonship.

Justin Peters brings on his friend Jim Osman, author of Truth or Territory: A Biblical Approach to Spiritual Warfare, to work through the clip line by line. Together they ask the question the charismatic movement never asks: does Scripture anywhere lead a believer to expect a personal appearance from Satan? Osman shows that the New Testament gives no example, no instruction and no warning about such an encounter — and that the arrogance of claiming to be tempted exactly as Christ was in Matthew 4 is itself a mark of a false teacher.

They handle 2 Corinthians 11:14 and the angel of light, Michael the archangel refusing to pronounce a railing accusation against Satan in Jude, and Peter's description of men with seared consciences who revile angelic authorities. Peters recounts Conner's other claims — speaking a squirrel into existence, fishing with Jesus, time-travelling to the crucifixion, God telling him to suck a hickey on a man's neck — and notes Bethel Church's embrace of him.

The practical takeaway is blunt: Christians have no business talking to Satan at all.

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Phil Johnson, just weeks into retirement after 43 years alongside John MacArthur at Grace to You, stood up in a small Montana church and warned that some of the loudest voices claiming to do discernment ministry have disqualified themselves from eldership altogether.

This episode is a recording of the installation service of Justin Peters as pastor of Grace and Truth Community Church, which meets at The Front Porch in Laurel, Montana. Peters opens with a few minutes on how a congregation of around 25 people came to prevail upon him to take the pastorate himself, then hands the pulpit to Johnson and Jim Osman.

Johnson preaches 2 Timothy 2:14-26 on Paul's charge to guard the good deposit, laying out three duties: be an approved workman and guard your teaching, be a sanctified vessel and guard your heart, be a humble slave and guard your attitude. He works through Hymenaeus and Philetus — whose claim that the resurrection had already happened he compares to today's hyper-preterism — and shows why Paul names heretics plainly yet refuses to quarrel with them. False teaching from inside the visible church, Johnson insists, is a far greater threat than all the hostility outside it, and 1 Timothy 3:3's ban on the pugnacious man applies squarely to caustic online discernment podcasters.

Osman then preaches Hebrews 13:17 on the congregation's duty to obey and submit to leaders who keep watch over their souls.

It matters because guarding the truth without guarding your own heart and tone forfeits credibility in everything else you say.

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A man claims he once spoke a squirrel into existence in the East Texas woods. That man is Bobby Conner, and Justin Peters returns to him here with a clip that goes far beyond squirrels — Conner telling audiences he was sucked up out of his office, thrown back 2,000 years in history, and landed on the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem, where he watched Christ carry His cross and "his eyes met my eyes."

Peters calls that what it is: blasphemy, made up out of whole cloth to exploit people. He notes how closely Conner's story echoes Jesse Duplantis being sucked out of his room, flags the "what?" shouted mid-story as a technique to keep listeners believing he is more spiritual than they are, and identifies the whole thing as a modern version of Gnosticism.

He also shows why Conner's judgment will be more severe: the man can quote 2 Corinthians 5:21 and knows the gospel intellectually, yet lies about Christ without any prick of conscience — evidence, Justin argues, of a heart that is darkened and unregenerate, without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. He takes aim at the Assemblies of God and Bethel platforms that host him, the churches that handed out his book by the tens of thousands, and the followers with the same Bible who hear this and sound no alarm.

Peters closes not with hatred but with trembling, and a direct call to Conner to repent — because false teachers are themselves part of God's judgment, and discernment here is a matter of the soul.

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When a Word Faith prosperity preacher publicly loses his temper over a cessationist being invited to preach at an Assembly of God church, it says something about what's actually at stake. Justin Peters is bringing his seminar, Clouds Without Water — a biblical refutation of the Word of Faith, New Apostolic Reformation, and Prosperity Gospel movements — to Faith Assembly Church in Lisbon, North Dakota, and Jonathan Shuttlesworth is, in Justin's words, "fit to be tied."

Peters lays out who Shuttlesworth is: a friend of Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, and Bill Johnson, a private-jet preacher, and an upcoming speaker at Copeland's Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth alongside Jesse Duplantis. He also addresses Shuttlesworth's appeal to 1906 — the Azusa Street Revival — which, Justin says, was no revival at all once you look at its history.

The heart of the episode is a plain test of the Holy Spirit's true work. The Spirit does not produce unintelligible ecstatic gibberish, false prophecies, words put in God's mouth that He never said, manufactured signs and wonders, or preachers exploiting the poor, the sick, and widows to fund private jets, Bentleys, and Rolexes. That, Justin says, is the work of a demonic spirit. The Spirit brings people out of deception into truth, out of darkness into light — which is exactly what He is doing in pastor Jeff Williams and his congregation.

This matters because discernment isn't tribal loyalty. We have an audience of One, and one day each of us gives an account to Christ — not to a board, a committee, or a denomination.

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• My Reply to Jonathan Shuttlesworth
• History of the charismatic movement
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Ask almost any evangelical pastor whether Scripture is authoritative, inspired, and inerrant, and you'll get a yes on all three. Ask about its sufficiency, and the confidence tends to evaporate — and that, Justin Peters argues, is exactly where the battle is being fought and lost today.

Peters welcomes back Dr. Abner Chou, president of The Master's University, to discuss the Sufficiency Summit, coming November 6–7 at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, where a statement modeled on the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy is being prepared. Chou lays out how sufficiency differs from inspiration and inerrancy: Scripture is the final word on everything it touches, everything for life and godliness, as 2 Peter 1 puts it.

From there they name the fronts where sufficiency is under attack — the charismatic movement, which Justin says is a de facto rejection of sufficiency by elevating experience alongside Scripture; Roman Catholicism and the magisterium; seeker-sensitive, market-driven churches (Craig Groeschel's Life.church movie sermon series gets shown on screen); psychology dressed up as biblical counseling; and the deliberate omission of sufficiency from the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message.

The pattern is always a loophole — something else gets to speak, or a category is declared off-limits to Scripture. This episode matters because closing that loophole is how a generation keeps the truth instead of losing it.

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