Tag: New Life Church
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New Life Church purges Ted Haggard, moves forward ‘doing amazing things:’ Pastor Boyd
Sixteen years have passed since a sex scandal led overseers of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to fire Ted Haggard as senior pastor from the church he founded in 1984 and led for 22 years. It’s a legacy that Pastor Brady Boyd, Haggard’s successor at New Life, wishes would fade into history. But Boyd…
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Powerhouse preacher Ted Haggard faces new allegations of illicit behavior
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National evangelical Christian powerhouse Ted Haggard, who founded New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 1984, grew it to 14,000 worshippers and was excommunicated in 2006 amid accusations that he paid a male escort for sex and was using methamphetamine, is facing new allegations from another congregation he started in 2010, Saint James Church. Some…
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Easter, Passover, Ramadan messages speak of peace, unity, charity, prayer
Springtime religious holidays speak of rebirth, renewal and restoration. This year, with the world emerging from the coronavirus pandemic, with economic uncertainty and a war in Ukraine and other global strife, spiritual leaders say the messages of redemption are cloaked in an urgency and the need for collective prayer among people of all faiths is…
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Jeanne Assam, who stopped Colorado Springs shooting, praises Lakewood officer
Jeanne Assam of Denver is one of the very few women who know what Lakewood police officer Ashley Ferris is going through. Ferris on Monday stopped a shooting rampage that left five people dead in Denver and Lakewood. Assam, a former police officer, stopped a gunman from killing more parishioners at New Life Church in…
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As Christmas services near, Colorado Springs churches grapple with crowd size, mask wearing
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Christmas Eve usually ranks as the second-largest service at New Life Church, drawing some 15,000 people to the massive evangelical Christian campus in northern Colorado Springs. This year, a remote-only broadcast that’s been recorded and…