Word: swaggart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot cover sin. It has to be exposed." That was the stern view of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart last March as he pushed for full disclosure of the adultery and alleged homosexual activities of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. Swaggart, an emotional, tear-jerking performer whose TV ministry takes in an estimated $140 million a year, called Bakker's behavior a "cancer that needed to be excised...
...most of all to my Lord and my savior, my redeemer, the one who I serve and I love and I worship," Swaggart said. "I bow at his feet who has saved me and washed me and cleansed me. I have sinned against...
...have asked myself that 10,000 times through 10,000 tears," Swaggart said...
...After Swaggart finished, throngs of worshipers, members of the choir and band and other church officials huddled around him for more than 20 minutes, holding hands...
Officials of Swaggart's ministry had met reporters at the door and asked them to check their tape recorders and cameras at the door...