16 For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”–

18 and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

19 So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.

20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,

21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

A jazz piano plays soft music. A field of holiday chrysanthemums fills the screen. A husband lounges on a red couch to send a video love letter to his estranged wife.

This is not just any public apology – it’s from Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III to his wife, national evangelist JuanBynumynum.
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The book, “What Love Taught Me,” was coincidentally released by Global Destiny Publishing after Bynum dished about her stormy marriage to Weeks in a two-part interview in Essence magazine.
On Monday, Weeks, appeared on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to announce the debut of his book, which was selling for $13.95. It included pages detailing what Weeks said were the couple’s “weaknesses” in chapters with titles like “Opposites Attract, But Do They Last,” and “She Wanted To Be the Next Oprah at Any Cost,”
About 48 hours later, “What Love Taught Me” was yanked from distribution with this message on his website to his wife and his Global Destiny church family: “I want to speak to my wife,” Weeks pleads. “I haven’t been able to talk to her since Aug. 21, but I want to share something very personal and heartfelt. … I have wounded her emotionally in the last 48 hours. I want to say publicly, globally and privately from my heart, I’m sorry. I am pulling every book that would have been shipped.”
Weeks, an author and leader of a global ministry, promises a “full refund” to those who have ordered the book and says he will rerelease it at another date under a new title, “What Love Taught Me – Only.”
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However, in his video apology to his wife, Weeks thanks Bynum for sending him a “prayer shawl” and says he will be sending her a gift too ? a book his father gave him that helped his spiritual life.

“My love for you still stands. I still appreciate everything you have done for me and have done for this ministry,” Weeks says in the video message. “No matter where we go in life I will always pray for you.”
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Earlier this week, Bishop Weeks retracted the publishing of his memoir, What Love Taught Me. Weeks is, by no means, out to wound or defame his wife. He is simply emphasizing that he is torn between protecting his wife as well as protecting his Atlanta church and ministry at large.
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In response to the most recent outcry, a press release on behalf of Mrs. Bynum-Weeks was followed by a radio interview on the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. Bynum-Weeks’ brother made malicious statements against Weeks and his church. The Bishop says his silence cannot be contained for much longer. These continued deliberate and assassinating attacks against Bishop Weeks’ character have compromised his longstanding pastoral ministry of over 10 years. Weeks wishes to bring closure to this situation so that publicly, corporately and worldwide, members of the Global Destiny Ministries, as well as the body of Christ, can welcome in the New Year on a positive note.

In the interest of the church, if there is any further agitation by Mrs. Bynum-Weeks or her publicity team, Bishop Weeks’ public relations firm, Double XXposure will be releasing his highly anticipated memoir, What Love Taught Me. With this, the highest level of clarity and truth will be exposed with regard to this matter. At the very least, Bishop Weeks hopes to bring closure to all of the drama that has been stirred up through various media outlets.

16 There are six things which the LORD hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:
17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil,
19 A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.

Six weeks after Senator Charles E. Grassley asked six well-known evangelistic ministries to provide information on how they spent donors’ money, only two have complied.
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The leaders of two ministries contacted by Mr. Grassley’s office who have answered his queries are Kenneth and Gloria Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries of Newark, Tex., and Joyce Meyer, who with her husband, David, runs Joyce Meyer Ministries from Fenton, Mo.
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Lawyers for Randy and Paula White contacted Mr. Grassley’s office asking for more time, a spokeswoman for Mr. Grassley, Jill Gerber, said.
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In an e-mail response to a request for comment, a spokesman for Mr. Hinn said that the church had been in touch with the Senate office and “plans to facilitate a response to Senator Grassley’s inquiry by January 30th.”Bishop Eddie L. Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., and the Rev. Creflo A. Dollar Jr. of World Changers Church International in College Park, Ga., have indicated they will not cooperate with the inquiry.
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12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;
I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
13 “Surely My hand founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens;
When I call to them, they stand together.
14 “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
Who among them has declared these things?
The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15 “I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him,
I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.
16 “Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the first I have not spoken in secret,
From the time it took place, I was there
And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.

17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,

18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done.

13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

11 For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”

12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;

13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”

14 I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

13 “No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. 14″ As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

21 “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”