The 2005 Form 990 for Ligonier Ministries has finally appeared online. I gathered this information from the Economic Research Institute’s website.
Now, for my calculations, I did not include contributions to employee benefit plans, to keep it inline with my previous calculations.
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Last night around 10:18 p.m. CST I received the following threat from “Marco Hansen” via the contact form on my website supposedly somewhere in Malaysia:
Hey Brandon:
Are you really sure you want to take exception with Matt’s analysis of LG? I have it from the horses mouth that the reason why Harry took down LG was because he was afraid of losing his job. Notice that Matt’s article mentioned his place of business? Read the rest of this entry »
My husband has had a blog for a while now. He posts articles on research he has done into various topics concerning the Christian faith, Christian ministries, current trends within Christianity and the like. He often shares topics with me and keeps me apprised of what new things the purpose-drivens are doing.
Brandon has a strong desire for the truth. It is this quest to shed light on darkness that has driven him to blog about Doug Phillips and Ligonier. In doing so, he has been diligent to be factual, accurate and loving. Love is forgiving, but does not excuse or overlook sins. Read the rest of this entry »
Simply-Christian note: I want to make it completely clear that I do not in any way support or endorse any of the racist or inflammatory content of Little Geneva. This post is specifically dealing with flawed information provided by Matt Chancey and his “team members.”
“Independent investigator” Matt Chancey needs to be corrected. In his “analysis” of the alleged hack of Little Geneva he asserts the following:
Now, it’s important to note that Little Geneva is powered by WordPress, a popular blogging software package. The content of Little Geneva consists of a long blog post, with comments at the end. On WordPress sites, these posts are not stored as HTML pages to be edited, but as entries in a separate MySQL database. Read the rest of this entry »
updated 12/9/2008 #5
The 2007 Form 990 for Persecution Project Foundation shows Matt Chancey being paid $70,325, an increase of $7,500 from the previous year.
updated 9/9/2007 #4
The 2006 Form 990 for Persecution Project Foundation shows Matt Chancey being paid $62,500, an increase of $20,000 from the previous year.
updated on 1/19/2007 #3
I found the following quote from a Matt Chancey from Bridgewater, VA on 1/17/2004. I think the comment speaks for itself. How many Matt Chancey’s do we know that are good friends with Doug Phillips? Once again, he is not an “independent investigator” as claimed by Vision Forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Please pray for Joel who desperately needs our prayers. He is currently in a coma caused by seizures which were triggered by chemotherapy. The doctors want to refuse him nutrition and fluids. Pleas pray for a miracle.
I think Matt Chancey got the wrong Jen Epstein…
P.S. Yes, this is a joke.
Lin has a great article on ministry compensation:
Please visit my updated article for the latest information.
Justice Prima’s comment today over at Ministry Watchman:
Ligonier isn’t a business. It’s a nonprofit ministry which is funded by donations.
The very basic facts covered in that statement seem to be completely eluding LIgonier supporters.
I really do not know what to think of their confusion. If it is because Ligonier supporters are simply unable to understand the difference between a for-profit business and a nonprofit ministry, they are thus to be pitied.If it is because they simply won’t, then I suppose they merit the sort of pity given to Simon the Magus.
We are called to be stewards, and I am trying to envision somebody before God explaining why they thought it more important to support a ‘ministry’ paying its officers quarter of a million dollar salaries and housing them in gated communities, rather than to use such funds as they have to visit the sick, to care for orphans and widows, to support missionaries living on the razor’s edge of poverty and danger, to support the elders of their local congregation, and to supply Bibles to those who do not have them.
Can you see Paul taking in a quarter of a million dollars and using it to buy a mansion in a gated community and then asking for more donations? Do you see Peter living like this? Can you imagine Joseph of Arimethea asking his fellow believers for donations to help pay for the tomb he provided and all the associated expenses for that?
Ligonier is, IMO, a symptom of something very wrong with American Christendom.