List of the 10 Wealthiest Pastors
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nah, just a reminder that simplicity of spirit is the way and keep your money to yourself and you and god will do just fine.
If only I had it in my nature to rip off rubes...........
Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service served a search warrant Wednesday at the Grapevine offices of televangelist Benny Hinn.
A large number of agents walked in and out of the offices with boxes, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported, but officials wouldn't confirm to the TV station what they're investigating or whether they're looking into Hinn.
Hinn was the subject of a 2007 U.S. Senate inquiry that looked into the spending of six televangelists. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned the personal use of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and credit cards by pastors and their families, but there was no definitive finding of wrongdoing when the investigation ended in 2011.
At the time, Hinn's ministry said it complied with tax regulations for religious nonprofits. But it told Grassley that it had made changes in how it governs its ministry and sets compensation.
Hinn, a well-known pastor from Israel who claims that God uses him to miraculously heal people who are sick. He calls it "the anointing."
He told the news program at the time that his salary was more than $500,000, but he wouldn't give an exact figure.
https://www.dallasnews.com/life/fai...h-televangelist-benny-hinns-offices-grapevine
Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service served a search warrant Wednesday at the Grapevine offices of televangelist Benny Hinn.
A large number of agents walked in and out of the offices with boxes, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported, but officials wouldn't confirm to the TV station what they're investigating or whether they're looking into Hinn.
Hinn was the subject of a 2007 U.S. Senate inquiry that looked into the spending of six televangelists. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned the personal use of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and credit cards by pastors and their families, but there was no definitive finding of wrongdoing when the investigation ended in 2011.
At the time, Hinn's ministry said it complied with tax regulations for religious nonprofits. But it told Grassley that it had made changes in how it governs its ministry and sets compensation.
Hinn, a well-known pastor from Israel who claims that God uses him to miraculously heal people who are sick. He calls it "the anointing."
He told the news program at the time that his salary was more than $500,000, but he wouldn't give an exact figure.
https://www.dallasnews.com/life/fai...h-televangelist-benny-hinns-offices-grapevine
Here's a new guy, to me anyways.......
In his livestreamed sermons, the Rev. David E. Taylor often compares himself to Moses. But this charismatic minister based in north St. Louis County says he does not need to leave his followers in the desert to talk to God.
God comes to him. He gives Taylor visions of the future, even football scores. When Taylor is on stage in a Louis Vuitton suit asking his followers to write checks or swipe their credit cards for his ministry, he often says Jesus is there next to him in the same body that emerged from the tomb.
Last month, in Toronto, Taylor told churchgoers he had been face to face with Jesus more than 1,000 times. And at a ministry event in Michigan in January, he said Jesus told him “his father would be coming down as well” at an event this summer.
The audience seemed stunned. He made sure they understood: “You’re talking about the creator of the universe in this room — physically!”
Touting his unprecedented access to the Almighty, Taylor has been seeking a world headquarters for his ministry, Joshua Media Ministries International.
At an event in December 2015 in Michigan, Taylor implored his followers to open their wallets to help him fulfill God’s will by buying the moribund mall.
“God promised me in a dream, ‘I’m going to give you a global base,’” Taylor told his followers. “‘I want you to build an arena.’ And this has the space for the arena.”
Taylor says he has been in the St. Louis area for 20 years. For at least three years, the ministry managed to keep a low profile in town despite its members living in a sports agent’s 6,200-square-foot mansion in Chesterfield, worth about $3 million.
Taylor does not have a church. He hosts “miracle crusades” at locations around the country and the world, and they are livestreamed on his website. Many of them are in suburban Detroit.
Minister says buying Jamestown Mall would fulfill God's will for global headquarters | Political Fix | stltoday.com
In his livestreamed sermons, the Rev. David E. Taylor often compares himself to Moses. But this charismatic minister based in north St. Louis County says he does not need to leave his followers in the desert to talk to God.
God comes to him. He gives Taylor visions of the future, even football scores. When Taylor is on stage in a Louis Vuitton suit asking his followers to write checks or swipe their credit cards for his ministry, he often says Jesus is there next to him in the same body that emerged from the tomb.
Last month, in Toronto, Taylor told churchgoers he had been face to face with Jesus more than 1,000 times. And at a ministry event in Michigan in January, he said Jesus told him “his father would be coming down as well” at an event this summer.
The audience seemed stunned. He made sure they understood: “You’re talking about the creator of the universe in this room — physically!”
Touting his unprecedented access to the Almighty, Taylor has been seeking a world headquarters for his ministry, Joshua Media Ministries International.
At an event in December 2015 in Michigan, Taylor implored his followers to open their wallets to help him fulfill God’s will by buying the moribund mall.
“God promised me in a dream, ‘I’m going to give you a global base,’” Taylor told his followers. “‘I want you to build an arena.’ And this has the space for the arena.”
Taylor says he has been in the St. Louis area for 20 years. For at least three years, the ministry managed to keep a low profile in town despite its members living in a sports agent’s 6,200-square-foot mansion in Chesterfield, worth about $3 million.
Taylor does not have a church. He hosts “miracle crusades” at locations around the country and the world, and they are livestreamed on his website. Many of them are in suburban Detroit.
Minister says buying Jamestown Mall would fulfill God's will for global headquarters | Political Fix | stltoday.com
Once, while on shrooms, I figured out the whole reason, meaning, point behind the use of the hieroglyphics.
Course, upon sobriety turns out I was wrong. However, I did also master the pointlessness of being embarrassed and have found I don't get embarrassed anymore.
Aztecs had some awesome head rolling ceremonies I understand. lol
Umm. . . is anybody here but me aware that we have substantially deciphered Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphics?
Pish posh, what do historians or scientists, for that matter, know about anything? We're in a new age! Facts don't matter.
I thought the wealthiest Paster is the one leader your country..
Fukking Trump supports thinking Trump has been sent by God.
Fukking Trump supports thinking Trump has been sent by God.
well on this side of the globe it's not as new as it should be. But trumps made it official.
As all the scientists who haven't been purchased by large corps leave the US for Europe we'll all get to see what kind of effect that has on every day life.
North Carolina televangelist Todd Coontz – author of numerous books on faith and finances – has been indicted on charges of tax fraud spanning more than a decade.
"As a minister, Coontz preached about receiving and managing wealth, yet he failed to keep his own finances in order," Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said as she announced the charges. "Coontz will now receive a first-hand lesson in 'rendering unto Caesar' that which is due."
The charges include three counts of failure to pay tax, each carrying a maximum federal prison term of one year, and four counts of aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns, each carrying a maximum term of three years.
Coontz, 50, is described on his website as a "pastor, evangelist, television host, author, humanitarian, philanthropist, businessman."
He currently lives in Florida and the books he's written include Breaking the Spirit Debt and Please Don't Repo My Car.
The televangelist "promised financial miracles for people who sent money to his ministry,"
" 'You need to plant the $273 recovery seed. I'm only going to give you two to three minutes to respond,' Coontz once told his viewers.
"Coontz posted videos on Twitter as recently as Wednesday, promising financial blessings to the faithful.
" 'Suddenly miracles are happening. I want to work with your faith for quick things, swift things,' Coontz said in the video."
He also allegedly purchased the following vehicles through his corporations or ministry: "a 2011 BMW, a 2011 Regal 2500 boat, a 2012 BMW convertible, a 2011 Lexus, a 2011 Land Rover, a 2006 Ferrari, a 2012 Maserati, a 2013 BMW, a 2013 Land Rover, and a 2012 Ferrari."
"All payments associated with these vehicles were treated as business expenses on corporate and ministry accounting records even though COONTZ's family members drove some of the vehicles and no records were kept about the supposed business use of the vehicles," the indictment states.
It adds that his ministry purchased a $1.5 million condominium. His corporations also deducted as business expenses more than $200,000 for clothing purchases and tens of thousands of dollars for meals and entertainment.
Additionally, Coontz allegedly perpetrated a check-cashing scheme by filing false tax returns from 2010-13. Ministries would often pay Coontz for traveling to speak to them. According to the indictment, he "hid income from the IRS by claiming the travel as a business expense while simultaneously receiving travel reimbursement that he kept as personal income."
That includes billing the churches for first-class airfare that he did not actually purchase, the indictment alleges.
In other cases, he would allegedly cash checks he received for speeches and book sales, so that they did not appear on his accounting records.
North Carolina Televangelist Indicted On Charges Of Tax Crimes : The Two-Way : NPR?
"As a minister, Coontz preached about receiving and managing wealth, yet he failed to keep his own finances in order," Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said as she announced the charges. "Coontz will now receive a first-hand lesson in 'rendering unto Caesar' that which is due."
The charges include three counts of failure to pay tax, each carrying a maximum federal prison term of one year, and four counts of aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns, each carrying a maximum term of three years.
Coontz, 50, is described on his website as a "pastor, evangelist, television host, author, humanitarian, philanthropist, businessman."
He currently lives in Florida and the books he's written include Breaking the Spirit Debt and Please Don't Repo My Car.
The televangelist "promised financial miracles for people who sent money to his ministry,"
" 'You need to plant the $273 recovery seed. I'm only going to give you two to three minutes to respond,' Coontz once told his viewers.
"Coontz posted videos on Twitter as recently as Wednesday, promising financial blessings to the faithful.
" 'Suddenly miracles are happening. I want to work with your faith for quick things, swift things,' Coontz said in the video."
He also allegedly purchased the following vehicles through his corporations or ministry: "a 2011 BMW, a 2011 Regal 2500 boat, a 2012 BMW convertible, a 2011 Lexus, a 2011 Land Rover, a 2006 Ferrari, a 2012 Maserati, a 2013 BMW, a 2013 Land Rover, and a 2012 Ferrari."
"All payments associated with these vehicles were treated as business expenses on corporate and ministry accounting records even though COONTZ's family members drove some of the vehicles and no records were kept about the supposed business use of the vehicles," the indictment states.
It adds that his ministry purchased a $1.5 million condominium. His corporations also deducted as business expenses more than $200,000 for clothing purchases and tens of thousands of dollars for meals and entertainment.
Additionally, Coontz allegedly perpetrated a check-cashing scheme by filing false tax returns from 2010-13. Ministries would often pay Coontz for traveling to speak to them. According to the indictment, he "hid income from the IRS by claiming the travel as a business expense while simultaneously receiving travel reimbursement that he kept as personal income."
That includes billing the churches for first-class airfare that he did not actually purchase, the indictment alleges.
In other cases, he would allegedly cash checks he received for speeches and book sales, so that they did not appear on his accounting records.
North Carolina Televangelist Indicted On Charges Of Tax Crimes : The Two-Way : NPR?
All 10 are cons, the degree is the only difference.. How about the 10 most honest members of the Clergy, it would be a blank list IMO.