(Screenshot: Psychologist Doug Weiss speaks frequently on the topic of sexual intimacy and operates Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Weiss also appears regularly on the Daystar Television Network TV program MinistryNow with his wife, Joni Lamb, president of Daystar.)

Over the weekend Daystar Television Co-Host Doug Weiss called Trinity Foundation, leaving a voicemail threatening to send a cease-and-desist letter if an article wasn’t taken down that Weiss claims is false.  However, Trinity Foundation stands by its reporting.

The article Daystar Television Co-Host Doug Weiss Filed Questionable 990, Runs Association for Sex Therapists as a Personal Business was published in December 2024.

In Texas, the statute of limitations for libel is one year. Therefore, Weiss doesn’t have legal standing to sue. Also, the facts are not on the side of Weiss.

Weiss runs the non-profit Healing Time Ministries which filed postcard 990s with the IRS for 2022 and 2023, indicating the ministry generated $50,000 or less in revenue both years.

(Screenshot: IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search reports that Healing Time Ministries filed postcard 990s for 2022 and 2023.)

However, the ministry’s revenue for those two years was significantly higher.

Veteran TV news producer Jene Nelson discovered and first reported that Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation gave a $400,000 grant to Healing Time Ministries in 2022 and a $150,000 grant in 2023. Therefore, Healing Time Ministries under-reported at least $450,000 in revenue. Where did this money go?

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(Photo: Greg Locke preaching about praise and thankfulness.)

Last week The Roys Report reported that pastor Greg Locke’s church doesn’t show up in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. So let’s explore this exemption in the tax code.

To become a non-profit in America, most organizations are required to file the Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Tax-Exemption. However, churches, synagogues and mosques–organizations that operate as places of worship–are exempt.

Following the Jim Bakker scandal, in 1987 Congress held a hearing to discuss oversight of religious organizations.

O. Donaldson Chapoton, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy, told the oversight committee, “Exempting churches from reporting requirements and placing restrictions on IRS audit activities reduce the ability of the IRS to administer and enforce the law.”

Congressman Charles Rangel later commented, “From what I understand from the testimony of this panel, any person or organization could declare themselves a church, enjoy tax exemption, and you would have no way of knowing.”

Chapoton responded, “That is correct.”

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(Photo: Pastor Paula White prays with Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services during National Faith Advisory Board Leadership Summit.)

Washington, D.C. operates like a magnet drawing people to the allure of political power.

This week American pastors met with White House staff during meetings coordinated by the National Faith Advisory Board (NFAB) as part of the organization’s Leadership Summit.

Also, this week pastors attended the Israel Allies Foundation Gala Awards Dinner to honor President Donald Trump.

Both events were coordinated with the White House Faith Office.

Attendees such as Jentezen Franklin, pastor of Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia, Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church, in Lebanon, Tennessee, and Mark Driscoll, pastor of Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, shared photos taken during the events.

By mixing religion and politics, religious leaders run the risk of moral compromise and being associated with causes and politicians opposed by a large number of voters. As a result, voters with differing political views are less likely to attend such churches.

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Technologies and cultural trends developed over the last 100 years have transformed church attendance and ministry giving, allowing religious organizations to collect donations from a global audience as Bible translations redefined tithing.

These changes, which are visible in televangelist broadcasts and numerous church live streams, have resulted in donors frequently supporting religious leaders that are strangers.

Until the 1970s, megachurches were quite rare. Most church members attended a neighborhood congregation. Church attendees and clergy knew each other.

Unfortunately, the private lives of some pastors are in conflict with the Bible they proclaim to preach. For this reason, donors should carefully check out religious organizations and their leaders.

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