Thursday, May 9, 2013

Plagiarism at The CORE - Approved by DP Doug Engelbrecht





2138 has left a new comment on your post "Ominous - No Views for The CORE's Video Announceme...":

Preached 2-17-13. The Core, Appleton, WI:

https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-core-podcasts/id318740041?mt=2

Could compare it with the original for a dollar (no thanks):

http://store.northpoint.org/staying-in-love-part-four-multiple-choice-marriage.html




Notes page from the Core:

http://thevalley.gotocore.com/audio/podcasts/pdf/Lovestruck%203.pdf

Cody Church of the Nazarene, Cody, WY. Something looks familiar here:

http://www.codynaz.com/uploads/6/3/5/9/6359176/staying_4.pdf

Preached 5-30-10. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Joplin, MO:

http://spwired.com/wp-content/archive//5-30-2010%20Staying%20in%20Love--Multiple%20Choice%20Marriage.pdf

Preached 3-7-11. Creekside Community Church, Katy, TX. This guy at least said where he adapted it from:

http://timmydou.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/staying-in-love-pt-4-multiple-choice-marriage/

Keywords: believe the best, assume the worst, gaps



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GJ - The plagiarized sermons - all denominations - have the same sound to them: multi-part series, cutesy titles, the same text with the same cutesy title, often the same text and title preached in various denominations on the same Sunday.

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Plagiarism at The CORE - Approved by DP Doug Engel...":

Ichabod -

This is one of the things that was revolting to me at Bethel Lutheran here in Bay Co. Michigan. I was able to confirm one plagiarized sermon. But, where there is one; it logically follows: e pluribus unum.

Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org