In 2014, Justin Peters stood up at a service in Tulsa, Oklahoma and confronted Todd Bentley in front of everyone, quoting Matthew 7:21-23 to his face. Now he is pleading with Bentley again, and this time he believes the clock may be ticking fast.

The message was prompted by a recent clip in which Bentley rocks back and forth while turning Ezekiel 47 into a promise of "supernatural financial supply." Peters speaks to Bentley directly. He says Bentley looks gaunt and unwell, and he asks anyone who knows him to send him this message.

Peters doesn't soften anything. He calls Bentley one of the most dangerous false teachers out there and says he believes Bentley is demon-possessed. He points to an unbroken, unrepentant pattern of alcohol abuse and sexual immorality. He recalls the undocumented claims he heard firsthand at the 2008 Lakeland "revival," including 32 people supposedly raised from the dead. He adds that Bill Johnson, Rick Joyner and Patricia King, who restored Bentley to ministry, were never his friends.

Then Justin preaches the gospel plainly: sin against a God of infinite worth, the reality of hell, Christ as truly God and truly man, His perfect life, His death on the cross and His bodily resurrection. True repentance, he says, would mean public confession, leaving the pulpit for good and sitting under biblically qualified elders.

This episode matters because it shows what love for a false teacher really looks like. It is not silence but the truth, told urgently while there is still time to repent.

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Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher in designer clothes, is "the opposite of nice" by God's standard, and Justin Peters and his guest Todd Friel explain why. Working from 2 Peter 2, they show how false teachers use "plastic words" to make merchandise of souls, driven by money, fame or power, and sex. Peters points out that 26 of the 27 New Testament books contain direct warnings about false doctrine or false teachers.

The conversation covers a lot of ground. They talk about why some are crossing the Tiber to Rome, and why Roman Catholicism, with Mary as co-redemptrix, purgatory and the mass, is a different gospel. Peters defends eternal security from Romans 11. They also discuss Benny Hinn and Bryce Crawford's interview with Kenneth Copeland, which Peters warns gave one of the darkest, most evil false teachers a platform.

Friel also talks about his book, Go Serve Your King: The Key to Extraordinary Purpose in Everyday Life. Borrowing Heidegger's term unheimlichkeit, he takes on the sacred-secular divide. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 10:31, he argues that a believer in Christ lives all of life as a royal priest of the King, and that God's commands are always best. Peters adds Hebrews 1:3 and the doctrine of simplicity.

This episode matters because it refuses to treat false teaching as a secondary issue. It also reclaims biblical purpose, joy and the beauty of Christ from the teachers who have twisted them.

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When her doctor pointed to the cancer on her CT scan, Frankie Preston smiled. Her reason was simple: her life is hidden in Christ.

Frankie, a longtime friend of Justin Peters and his wife Kathy, was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in February 2024. Days before this recording, she learned it has returned, this time in her liver. Nearly ten years after Peters filmed her baptism, she sits down with him to talk about facing that news as a believer.

She speaks plainly about the sovereignty of God, about being bought with a price, and about why she isn't afraid. The ones who should fear, she says, are those outside of Christ. Peters asks what she wants preached at her funeral, and her answer is the unadulterated gospel, in the hope that even one sinner repents. When she describes heaven, she isn't longing to be free of cancer. She wants to be free of sin and to see Christ face to face. Peters calls that a mark of spiritual maturity.

Justin closes with a clear presentation of the gospel: sin, the reality of hell, the imputed righteousness of Christ, and the call to repent and believe, citing Isaiah 64 and Romans 6:23.

This conversation shows what true faith looks like when it is put to the test, and it is a sober reminder that none of us is promised tomorrow.

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A teenage girl healed of deafness at an 80,000-person revival? When Philip Anthony Mitchell, pastor of 2819 Church in Atlanta, announced that she had removed her hearing aids at the Access event in Arlington, Texas, the claim spread fast, picked up by Malachi O'Brien and Charisma Magazine.

Justin Peters has questions, starting with the wording of the post itself. Anyone helped by a hearing aid, he points out, was not completely deaf. He explains the difference between a psychosomatic healing, a temporary relief driven by adrenaline, expectation and emotion, and an organic healing that has no medical explanation. Peters credits Mitchell for preaching sin and repentance, but shows how his promise that every sick body could be healed puts him squarely in the charismatic camp.

Along the way, Peters revisits John G. Lake's supposed healing of a deaf teenage girl, which the Spokane Press debunked. He also plays 1990s documentary clips of Benny Hinn showing how easily people are convinced they've been healed. Then he turns to Acts 3 and 4, where a man lame from birth walked, leaped and praised God, and even the Sanhedrin admitted they could not deny it.

As a cessationist, Peters believes God still heals when it is his sovereign will. He also believes no one possesses the gift of healing today. This episode matters because it equips believers to test sensational miracle claims against Scripture rather than headlines.

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You can tell a lot about a preacher by who he endorses. So what does it mean when Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest Southern Baptist churches in America, records a video congratulating Benny Hinn on 50 years of ministry and praying that God will "continue to use you in a great way"?

Justin Peters plays that endorsement alongside a who's who of charismatic leaders praising Hinn, including Andrew Womack, Bill Johnson and Joseph Prince. He then shows why Graham cannot plead ignorance. Documentaries from the 1990s and early 2000s show people declared healed of cancer who died within months, a planted polio "healing" nobody checked, hospital-issue wheelchairs brought in for the stage, and prayer requests left on the floor once the money was removed. Clips from 2023 show Hinn, despite repeated public repentance, again calling for $1,000 and $10,000 seeds and telling people not to let their minds rule their giving.

Peters, who wrote his master's thesis on Hinn, explains psychosomatic healings and why it is charismatics, not cessationists, who hold a low view of the Holy Spirit. Working through Romans 16:17-18, 2 John 9-11, Titus 1 and 1 Timothy 5:22, he argues that a pastor must refute false teachers, not bless them, and that Graham, who has also endorsed Paula White, has disqualified himself.

One of a pastor's most solemn duties is protecting the flock from wolves. This episode is a sobering reminder to be careful who you trust with the shepherding of your eternal soul.

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Randy Clark once invited Benny Hinn to speak and pray for impartation, despite Hinn's decades of problematic teaching on healing, because Clark wanted the anointing. Afterward, Clark had to privately correct Hinn's theology for his own people. Brandon Kimber shares that story publicly for the first time here.

Justin Peters sits down with Kimber, producer of the American Gospel docuseries, to talk about American Gospel 3: Spirit and Fire. It's an 18-episode project, six years in the making, on the Holy Spirit, the New Apostolic Reformation and Bethel Redding. Kimber grew up in a church swept up in the Toronto Blessing, and Peters came out of word-faith prosperity teaching himself.

They go through the errors underneath the recent scandals. These include Bill Johnson's mandate to do greater miracles than Jesus, physical healing guaranteed in the atonement, and a "charismatic deism" that makes man responsible for answered prayer. They also cover Matthew 3:11 pulled out of context, prophetic packages sold to businesses, and guided trips to heaven that Kimber calls necromancy. Jesse Westwood's story shows what dead-raising theology does to grieving people.

Against all of it, Peters and Kimber point to the sovereignty of God. They draw on Job, Isaiah 53, Nabeel Qureshi's story and the death of Kimber's own father from Alzheimer's. Sometimes God is most glorified in us when things are not going well.

This isn't cessationists attacking charismatics. It shouldn't take clergy sexual abuse or a cover-up culture to expose these red flags. Bad doctrine hurts people, and this conversation shows how to recognize it.

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While secretly carrying on an adulterous affair that lasted five years, Steve Lawson stood before a room of students and warned them that sexual immorality would cost them their ministry, their marriage, their family and the respect of everyone they loved. Two years after that sin came to light, he has written a book about it: Mercy in the Wilderness: How I Fell and What I Found.

Justin Peters is joined by pastors Jim Osman of Kootenai Community Church in Sandpoint, Idaho, and Steve LeBlanc of Sherman Bible Church in Sherman, Texas, to ask whether this book should ever have been written. They play the clip of Lawson's purity warning, and Peters asks plainly how it is not Titus 1:16: they profess to know Him, but by their deeds they deny Him.

The three men explain why adultery permanently disqualifies a man from the office of pastor and elder, drawing on Proverbs 6:32-33, 1 Corinthians 6:18 and the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. They answer the usual appeals to David and Peter, challenge Lawson's comparison of his wilderness to that of Moses, Elijah and Jesus, weigh whether he could ever teach a Sunday school class or a men's Bible study, and question the motive of selling the book.

This is not personal hostility. It is a loving warning to the sheep that giftedness never entitles a man to a platform, and that true repentance looks like quiet faithfulness, not a comeback.

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When a country music legend dies, roughly 99.5% of conservative evangelicals become practical universalists in a day. That line, from pastor friend Mike Stone, frames Justin Peters' response to the death of Dolly Parton at 80 and the many — pastors included — who have ushered her straight into heaven.

Peters lets Dolly speak for herself, playing clips from a 2016 Larry King interview where she affirms the LGBTQ movement and says "if you're gay, you're gay." Then he goes to the text: Romans 1:26-27 and what he calls the wrath of God's abandonment, when God gives people over to depraved minds; and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, where Paul lists the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers and swindlers among those who will not inherit the kingdom of God. Romans 14:22 lands too — blessed is the man not condemned by what he approves.

He also addresses Parton's Playboy appearance and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the difference between stumbling into sin and swimming in it, and why singing "He's Alive" settles nothing when Satan believes Jesus is alive too. A Jesus who does not say what the Bible says, Justin warns, is an idol.

It does not end in condemnation. Verse 11 — "such were some of you," washed, sanctified, justified — is where Peters preaches the gospel and calls homosexual and heterosexual alike to repent and trust Christ. This matters because eternity is not decided by a hymn well sung, and loving people means telling them the truth.

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