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	Jim Bakker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Orson Bakker (born January 2, 1939 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, former Assemblies of God preacher, and evangelist beset by scandal, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL being an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker.
		The Bakkers greatly contributed to the growth of the network, but their success with a variety show format (including interviews and puppets) sparked controversy, and they were eventually forced out by Robertson in the early 1970s.
		Jerry Falwell called Bakker a liar, embezzler, sexual deviant, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in two thousand years of church history." Falwell, controversial in his own right, was rumored to be using the situation to gain control of a leading broadcast competitor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Bakker (1599 words)

	Jim Bakker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jim Bakker (born January 2, 1939, Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL is an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker.
		Most people are aware of Jim Bakker's $265,000 payoff to Jessica Hahn to keep her sexual services to him a secret, his longtime homosexual relationship with his right hand man David Taggart, his prison sentence, his close relationship to Billy Graham, and his lust for the public spotlight.
		Neither Jim Bakker nor the Assembly of God with whom he was ordained have ever publicly discussed or dealt with the fact that Jim Bakker was bisexual.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ji/jim_bakker.html (1245 words)

	Jim Bakker
		Bakker's rival and business competitor Jerry Falwell was called in to rescue the PTL ministry along with its Heritage USA theme park, but Falwell had a much different goal.
		Jim Bakker goes on Nightline and announces that it had been a "terrible mistake" to relinquish control of his PTL ministry to Jerry Falwell.
		Jim Bakker convicted of 23 counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy for stealing donations from the PTL ministry.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/televangelists/jim-bakker (910 words)

	PTL Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bakker, once affiliated with the Assemblies of God, began his career in religious television in 1966 working with Pat Robertson.
		The Bakker empire endured several run-ins with tax authorities, but when a sex scandal involving Bakker erupted in 1986 and 1987, he resigned in disgrace.
		Bakker turned over the PTL Club and Heritage USA to Jerry Falwell, who remained at the helm only briefly.
	www.scencyclopedia.com /ptlclub.htm (280 words)

	Jim Bakker -- Circus Theology to Christianity
		What a walking miracle Jim Bakker is -- to be able to admit he was wrong, after spreading his delusions for years and begging money from his fans, after millions of lives have been scarred and Christianity itself has taken perhaps the worst fl eye.
		Jim Bakker was a false teacher, and false prophet.
		I don't think Jim Bakker is a false prophet any longer, nor a false teacher -- true, he needs to be on his guard, because it would be very simple for him to return to his wicked, wicked ways.
	www.homestead.com /dclwolf/bakker.html (1776 words)

	Jim Bakker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jim Bakker (born January 2, 1939, Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, Assembly of God preacher and Evangelist, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL is an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker.
		From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his associates in PTL sold "lifetime memberships" for a $1,000 or more, which entitled buyers to a 3-night stay annually at a luxury hotel in "Heritage USA," a Christian holiday and activity center in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
		Bakker's actions and convictions not only affected the reputation of other televangelists such as Jimmy Swaggart, but also resulted in a dirty fight for the control of PTL among several other prominent televangelists.
	www.wikiverse.org /jim-bakker (1058 words)

	Jim Bakker is Back
		Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for his crimes, even though some of the counts against him were later reversed and in 1994 he was released after only five years behind bars.
		When the new Jim Bakker Show hit the airwaves in January, it was 16 years to the day since his last PTL appearance.
		Bakker was defrocked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, for "conduct unbecoming of a minister", and all of America, and his fellow television evangelists, turned against him.
	www.cephas-library.com /bakker/bakker_is_back.html (1838 words)

	Christian News Today Jim Bakker
		Jim Bakker was founder and former president of the PTL Ministries.
		Jim Bakker is an evangelical fundamentalist who began his television career co-hosting a children's puppet show with his wife Tammy Faye on Pat Robertson's 700 Club television show.
		Jim Bakker claimed that the PTL sent "a large monthly contribution to Mark Buntain whose overseas ministry feeds 12,000 children a day." However, the Charlotte Observer reported in 1979 that the PTL raised thousands of dollars for foreign missions that never went to the missions.
	cnt10.tripod.com /bakker.htm (6614 words)

	Jim Bakker Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jim Bakker is a testimony to Gods restorative power and eternal love for all of us sinners.....ray in St..
		I, like Lori Bakker and Jim Bakker, Lori your testimony of being healed from abortions has helped me and I not longer blame myself because of the guys who abused me, Please pray for Sajan who is from Bangladesh and for James Nalchawee (Thai decent) Pray God, will help me forgive them and myself.
		Jim is general in the army of Christ.
	www.bransonchristiantours.com /JimBakkerShow.htm (889 words)

	Jim Bakker and the Eternal Revenue Service
		Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry, by Charles E. Shepard.
		Bakker’s repeated sexual indiscretions with men, as well as his now-notorious "encounter" with Jessica Hahn, were of course part of the story.
		Bakker knew how to milk the assumptions of his Pentecostal constituency for all they were worth -- and then some.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=912 (1521 words)

	Jim Bakker: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jim Bakker (born January 2, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Bakker's absence resulted in a fierce fight for control of The PTL Network among several other prominent televangelists, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Jimmy swaggart (born march 15, 1935 in ferriday, louisiana) was a popular televangelist in the 1980s and a pioneer in that medium....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jim_bakker.htm (2510 words)

	Bilked believers forgiving of Jim Bakker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And Bakker already is backed by the cash of entrepreneurs and the sweat of individual members of the Assemblies of God, the denomination that denounced and dismissed him.
		Bakker and his wife are picking out colors for the walls of what will be a coffee bar, restaurant and tea room.
		Lori met Jim Bakker in an alley behind the Los Angeles Dream Center where she was ministering to troubled youth when he showed up after being released from prison.
	www.rickross.com /reference/bakker/bakker3.html (2035 words)

	JIM BAKKER HAS NEW MINISTRY IN CHARLOTTE
		Bakker served five years of a 45-year prison sentence and was paroled in 1994, after a federal appeals court reduced his sentence.
		Bakker’s wife and PTL ministry partner, Tammy Faye Messner, divorced him while he was in prison and married Roe Messner, a former close friend of Bakker’s who helped him build the Heritage USA complex in South Carolina.
		Bakker was remarried to Lori Beth Graham in 1998.
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/jimbakker.htm (866 words)

	Bakkers' son has a ministry of his own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bakker, who at 23 is a shade younger than many of his charges.
		During his father's fall from grace, reporters cast the first stones: Jim Bakker admitted to an extramarital tryst with church secretary Jessica Hahn only after The Charlotte Observer reported it in 1987; two years later he was convicted on 24 counts of fraud for bilking PTL supporters of $158 million.
		Bakker, who is wearing baggy dress slacks with a chain attached to his wallet and belt loop, dark T-shirt, canvas Converse shoes, long sideburns.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/10/26/loc_bakkers_son_has.html (1170 words)

	Quiet Revolution Of The Punk Priest Son Of Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker Winning Converts To Christianity
		But Bakker is attracting headlines not just for his message, but also for who he is. Jay Bakker is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, America's most famous evangelical Christians, whom many see as giving birth to modern evangelism with its glamour, unbridled wealth and huge political influence.
		Jim Bakker pioneered the use of television in US Christianity with his Praise The Lord show.
		Bakker is brutally blunt about megachurches and their celebrity pastors whose political influence is often only matched by their capacity to raises millions of dollars.
	www.rense.com /general63/quiet.htm (859 words)

	Son of PTL
		Jim and Tammy Faye's son is a tattooed punk rock preacher in Atlanta.
		Jim Bakker was convicted of defrauding followers of millions of dollars, he and Tammy Faye divorced, and their ministry became a symbol of evangelism gone awry.
		Jay Bakker is a 25-year-old licensed minister in Atlanta, but he's a vastly different kind of Southern Evangelist: he's a tattoo-covered punk rocker who rejects his parents' emphasis on prosperity, preferring a much more humble environment for his work.
	www.acfnewsource.org /religion/son_of_ptl.html (675 words)

	Bakker's Other Conspiracy
		Naturally, Bakker adds variations on these themes in his tell- all memoir, "I Was Wrong." But one of its most intriguing details is evidence of yet another conspiracy that he doesn't want to discuss.
		In other words, the first domino at PTL was a scheme that preceded Bakker's 1980 sexual liaison with Jessica Hahn, a conspiracy within his inner circle that preceded "Pearlygate." Yet Bakker has nothing new to say about these "friends and colleagues" and their scheme.
		On the homosexuality issue, Bakker does include a chapter saying that, as a teen, he was molested -- for several years -- by a young man he knew at church.
	tmatt.gospelcom.net /column/1996/12/04 (695 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: I Was Wrong
		His pride in bricks and mortar would ultimately be his undoing, Bakker tells us in his ultradetailed memoir of life at the PTL ministry and prison.
		It's a great way to thank the myriad people who helped him in one way or another (judging by all the warm thank-yous, he must have kept the bales of correspondence that came his way during the four and a half years he was in prison for wire and mail fraud convictions).
		There's high drama in the question of how Bakker will survive a stint in the big house, perhaps less mystery in the question of whether he will win an early reprieve (we all know he's out, after all).
	www.bookpage.com /9612bp/nonfiction/iwaswrong.html (350 words)

	Reflections on the Jim Bakker Affair
		I have no desire to attack or to pass judgment on Jim Bakker, but I believe there are some things to be learned from what has happened.
		Bakker's unfaithfulness has generated a media circus with no holds barred.
		His story is that he was concerned that his wife was spending too much time with another man. He poured out his heart to a minister in Florida who suggested an affair with another woman in order to make Tammy jealous and bring her back.
	www.brfwitness.org /Articles/1987v22n5b.htm (1215 words)

	Kellermann's Kollectionn of Jim Bakker (PTL Club) Trial Books
		Jim and Tammy Bakker Present the Ministries of Heritage Village Church.
		Bakker, Jim, the PTL Family, and Friends (edited by Anton Marco).
		Bakker, Jim, Bakker, Tammy, the PTL Family, and Friends.
	www.physics.unlv.edu /~farley/humor/K/bakker.htm (321 words)

	Spero News \| Would you buy a flashlight from Jim Bakker? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jim Bakker and his wife, Tammy, divorced in 1992.
		Jim does not have to answer to you, and his new show and new wife are wonderful.
		Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:46:31 AM Regarding your article on Jim Bakker, I must say that your sarcasm and exaggeration are childish and do not befit a mature person, Christian or otherwise.
	www.speroforum.com /site/article.asp?id=1787 (1752 words)

	CNN - Showbuzz - May 25, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		VENTURA, California (CNN) -- Former televangelist Jim Bakker says the much-discussed threat of the Y2K computer bug will be a "Sunday picnic" compared to the asteroid he envisions crashing into the Earth and blocking out the sun and moon.
		Bakker's "PTL Club" television ministry collapsed in the 1980s when it was learned that he'd had an affair with secretary Jessica Hahn and paid her with church money to conceal it.
		Now 59, Bakker spent close to five years in prison for swindling $158 million out of his followers.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/News/9905/25/showbuzz (727 words)

	Amazon.com: Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice?: Books: James A. Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He claims that Bakker was badly treated during his 1989 fraud trial and that he was never guilty of fraud in a legal sense.
		Since Paul and Jan were partners with the Bakker's, it seems that they may have learned most of their tactics from the old Bakker.
		Jim and Tammy credit God with their rise from an obscure ministry to heading a multibillion dollar ministry known as the PTL network, whose broadcasting power was such, that even presidential candidates sought the endorsement of PTL and its followers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812693701?v=glance (2102 words)

	Jim Bakker :: Bakker has new show, old theme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bakker and his second wife, Lori, have been taping the show from noon to 1 p.m.
		Charlotte, N.C., lawyer Harold Bender, who represented Bakker at his 1989 trial, said that as far as he knows, Bakker can go on TV and raise money - even after spending five years in prison for defrauding followers out of $158 million.
		On the air, Bakker promotes his autobiography, "I Was Wrong," and offers hardback copies free to those who make a pledge.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /html/4486-Bakker_has_new_show,_old_theme.html (701 words)

	'New' Jim Bakker Returns to Christian Television
		Bakker's new show is taped at the former Cowboy Café-turned-Studio City Café in Branson, Mo. Guests since the January launch have included Rex Humbard, Tony Orlando and Gary Smalley.
		For Bakker, the new show is a far cry from PTL, whose fall revealed the lavish lifestyle he and his ex-wife, Tammy Faye, enjoyed.
		Bakker said he believed his return might give people "hope that the past can be the past, that God can use them no matter what they have been through.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/925128/posts (3353 words)

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