Kingdom Life fell off my radar a while back; the RSS feed went dry and I deleted it from my podcatcher.   But while updating my church list (see the link at the top of this site) I noticed that things started hopping again so I downloaded all of the sermons I missed and began catching up.

Now I’m a little sorry that I did. This is very ugly stuff.

In the first link, Brandon Burden announces that all of the local candidates and ballot issues that were  promoted(?) by the Kingdom Life were successful in the last election.  I doubt that this is an intentional snub to the IRS; he probably doesn’t realize that promoting a candidate can jeopardize the church’s 501c3 status.  If I find any specific endorsements in a sermon, I’ll definitely post them.  A twitter endorsement probably does not cross the line but, for what it’s worth, I added one that I found to the bottom of this post.

Brandon seems to be hoping to build a reputation as a straight-shooter — he clearly doesn’t know how ugly it makes him look.  Here he works in a dig at President Obama – a particularly ugly attempt at humor.

I’m working through the sermons now.  And I’m not looking forward to it. If anyone needs links to the entire sermons, please holler.