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I worked at Majestic Star in the marketing department and the place is a joke inside and out. Everyone who works there is either unhappy or looking for another casino to work for.

April 06, 2013 7:33 am on Police uncover new clues in Austgen slaying
Resistance is futile, you must donate to Munsey or God will punish you. 8 people will donate $8,000 dollars, 8 people will donate $1,000, 8 people will donate $500, and $100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuydWziggVM

April 01, 2013 8:00 pm on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
This Munsey Guy is a loser and lets not forget his daughter was arrested 15 or so years ago at the old Motel 6 in Hammond with two guys from Gary and a whole lot of cocaine,
(http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/local-megachurch-faces-new-foreclosure-case/article_b10d9226-026a-5741-93da-1ea81e9a3950.html)
She also has 3 charges for driving while suspended in the past 20 years on her record with 2 driving with expired plates. It's in the Lake County court record database.

April 01, 2013 8:25 am on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
@MariW I'm sorry but you've been smoking the Munsey mushrooms for far too long if you believe what you just said in your comments above. For example, just a lot of land only 500 yards north of their Briar Ridge home without a gated community and with no golf course cost me $45,000 back in 1977, which is 10 years before the Munsey's home was even built in 1987. And you say that their entire home (land and building) was going for only $55,000 in 1987??? Even if volunteers built that 5 bedroom, 6 bath home as you claim, there's no way on God's green Earth that they only paid $55,000 total for that Briar Ridge home. Just keep on believing what you want to believe and ignore the facts because it seems to be working for the Munsey family with all of their status symbols.

@MariW I'm sorry but you've been smoking the Munsey mushrooms for far too long if you believe what you just said in your comments above. Just a lot of land only 500 yards north of their Briar Ridge home cost me $45,000 back in 1977, which is 10 years before the Munsey's home was even built. And you say that their

In 2010 the Munsey's took out a $2.3 million mortgage on their home in Briar Ridge. The home, which has been put up for sale in Feb,2013, has an assessed value of $550,800, according to the Lake County assessor's office. Now all of a sudden the house is not up for sale anymore and the fancy pictures of the interior are all taken down from the internet. Hmm, sounds really suspect if ask me. Looks like you're the only on here one who buys what the Munseys' are selling.

March 29, 2013 9:13 am on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
@MariW, You're making my day, thank you. You mean famous people like Mancow Muller who used to attend his church every Sunday with his family??? They were so close that they used to go on private jet trips with Steve Munsey to be on national Christian TV shows together. Then this past month when Mancow was asked about FCC on his radio/TV show on channel 50 he said he no longer attends FCC in Munster and he said in reference to FCC, that "people will deceive you, but not the man upstairs." He now attends a different church in the Chicago area. You probably didn't know that while in your defense of FCC.

You said " The IRS has went over FCC's finances with a fine comb and has found every cent went to a great cause." Stretching the truth would be an understatement right there. So they can pay themselves a salary of $520,000 per year and his wife $210,000 per year, but can't pay any of their numerous mortgages or other church related bills. There are several cases of FCC not paying their bills and at the same time Steve and his wife getting paid at least $3 million dollars from 2008 to 2011, not to mention what his son Kent get's paid.
(http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/local-megachurch-navigates-precarious-path/article_2f3b628a-0f42-5355-a8a0-230b1cb1aab8.html).

They call themselves a church, so I would hope that they'd do some kind of charity work because that's what they're supposed to do. However, churches are not supposed to ignore their bills, spend lavishly on themselves with plastic surgery, custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles, private jets, fancy suits and cars. If they can't pay their bills, why don't they trade in their Mercedes-Benz and other fancy cars that you claim was donated to them and use the money for a good cause such as paying-off the money they owe??? Why don't they live within their means and get a smaller home instead of the Briar Ridge mansion that you say was built for them by volunteers??? Actions speak louder than words any day of the week, so the next time you listen to Munsey at the FCC, please ask him those questions. Want more?

During the years the Munseys' personal finances flourished, the fiscal health of the church they served faltered, according to a Times review of available records. When Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider saw some of the expenditures being made in this church when there was a mortgage not being paid, she was astounded," as she told attorneys during a Dec. 4 hearing relating to a California-based credit union's attempt to foreclose on the church.

Baer the appointed financial administrator by the church recommended the townhomes be put up for sale and advised the church to get out of the real estate business. "They're so deep that we couldn't possibly find the funds to correct the tax situation, which is why we recommend walking away (from the townhomes)," The church's lawyer and spokesperson won't comment on the matters.

Taken from an article cited below, "Munsey is a prosperity pimp, he uses God to make money for his own selfish needs. The only one getting rich is him and his plastic surgery crazy wife. He surely doesn’t help anyone in his congregation, yes after 55 years of service to that ministry my Mom passed away without even a phone call or card to my Dad from Munsey. Munsey has twisted the word of God so horribly that it is now an evil message. Wake up people….before it is to late."
Check out the other comments about FCC below:
http://preachersaidwhat.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/steve-munsey-said-what/

"Munsey, a middle-aged man (an “empty suit,” as described to me later by someone disenchanted with the movement) with a flop of a hairpiece that looks like straw, is imploring the audience not just to make a donation but to make a “Passover offering.” Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. If you make the Passover offering, Munsey claims, God will give you seven blessings: God will dispatch an angel to lead miracles; rid you of your enemies; bless you with prosperity; heal you; give you longevity; give you an inheritance you knew nothing about; and give you back everything the devil has stolen from you. In other words, these are the ways in which the TBN Praise-a-thon is about you and not about Paul and Jan Crouch or Steve Munsey or Benny Hinn or Eddie Long or anybody else making more money. Instead, if you give, you will be blessed in miraculous ways.

Passover has nothing to do with money, but in Munsey’s hands it is about little else. Gone is the biblical story of freedom from slavery, the journey through the desert with only the unleavened bread, or the parting of the Red Sea. Instead, a donation to TBN is like the blood Jews placed on the doors of their homes so that God would “pass over” and spare their first-born sons from death." (http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/indiana_mega_church_faces_foreclosure_partner/)

The only church in the world with a Starbucks inside. Corporate symbols and crosses go so well together don't they? NOT!!!

March 28, 2013 2:05 pm on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
@MariW, You're making my day, thank you. You mean famous people like Mancow Muller who used to attend his church every Sunday with his family??? They were so close that they used to go on private jet trips with Steve Munsey to be on national Christian TV shows together. Then this past month when Mancow was asked about FCC on his radio/TV show on channel 50 he said he no longer attends FCC in Munster and he said in reference to FCC, that "people will deceive you, but not the man upstairs." He now attends a different church in the Chicago area. You probably didn't know that while in your defense of FCC.

You said " The IRS has went over FCC's finances with a fine comb and has found every cent went to a great cause." Stretching the truth would be an understatement right there. So they can pay themselves a salary of $520,000 per year and his wife $210,000 per year, but can't pay any of their numerous mortgages or other church related bills. There are several cases of FCC not paying their bills and at the same time Steve and his wife getting paid at least $3 million dollars from 2008 to 2011, not to mention what his son Kent get's paid.
(http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/local-megachurch-navigates-precarious-path/article_2f3b628a-0f42-5355-a8a0-230b1cb1aab8.html).

They call themselves a church, so I would hope that they'd do some kind of charity work because that's what they're supposed to do. However, churches are not supposed to ignore their bills, spend lavishly on themselves with plastic surgery, custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles, private jets, fancy suits and cars. If they can't pay their bills, why don't they trade in their Mercedes-Benz and other fancy cars that you claim was donated to them and use the money for a good cause such as paying-off the money they owe??? Why don't they live within their means and get a smaller home instead of the Briar Ridge mansion that you say was built for them by volunteers??? Actions speak louder than words any day of the week, so the next time you listen to Munsey at the FCC, please ask him those questions. Want more?

During the years the Munseys' personal finances flourished, the fiscal health of the church they served faltered, according to a Times review of available records. When Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider saw some of the expenditures being made in this church when there was a mortgage not being paid, she was astounded," as she told attorneys during a Dec. 4 hearing relating to a California-based credit union's attempt to foreclose on the church.

Baer the appointed financial adminstrator by the church recommended the townhomes be put up for sale and advised the church to get out of the real estate business. "They're so deep that we couldn't possibly find the funds to correct the tax situation, which is why we recommend walking away (from the townhomes)," The church's lawyer and spokesperson won't comment on the matters.

Taken from an article cited below, "Munsey is a prosperity pimp, he uses God to make money for his own selfish needs. The only one getting rich is him and his plastic surgery crazy wife. He surely doesn’t help anyone in his congregation, yes after 55 years of service to that ministry my Mom passed away without even a phone call or card to my Dad from Munsey. Munsey has twisted the word of God so horribly that it is now an evil message. Wake up people….before it is to late."
Check out the other comments about FCC below:
http://preachersaidwhat.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/steve-munsey-said-what/

"Munsey, a middle-aged man (an “empty suit,” as described to me later by someone disenchanted with the movement) with a flop of a hairpiece that looks like straw, is imploring the audience not just to make a donation but to make a “Passover offering.” Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. If you make the Passover offering, Munsey claims, God will give you seven blessings: God will dispatch an angel to lead miracles; rid you of your enemies; bless you with prosperity; heal you; give you longevity; give you an inheritance you knew nothing about; and give you back everything the devil has stolen from you. In other words, these are the ways in which the TBN Praise-a-thon is about you and not about Paul and Jan Crouch or Steve Munsey or Benny Hinn or Eddie Long or anybody else making more money. Instead, if you give, you will be blessed in miraculous ways.

Passover has nothing to do with money, but in Munsey’s hands it is about little else. Gone is the biblical story of freedom from slavery, the journey through the desert with only the unleavened bread, or the parting of the Red Sea. Instead, a donation to TBN is like the blood Jews placed on the doors of their homes so that God would “pass over” and spare their first-born sons from death." (http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/indiana_mega_church_faces_foreclosure_partner/)

The only church in the world with a Starbucks inside. Corporate symbols and crosses go so well together don't they? NOT!!!

March 28, 2013 1:55 pm on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
Where is the Times online user "charter school teacher"???? Please come on to this comment section and defend the church you called "wonderful" the other day. Ha ha!!!

March 28, 2013 3:41 am on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
@westminister abbey, You are 100% correct, we can't let these clueless readers drink the Munsey Koolaid, or should I say Munsey Starbucks coffee. The only church in America with a corporate symbol inside the church. How ridiculous, I guess Munsey forgot about one of the most told stories in the history of church, "the temple of moneychangers." If you don't know what that is then Google it MunsterGuy29.

March 28, 2013 3:40 am on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
@MunsterGuy29 you're doing a good job of making the hole you dug deeper with your attempt at an argument regarding Family Christian Center. Just keep on talking because it's making my day, ha ha!!! So you see there is divine intervention in this online forum, you were meant to pass on some humor to all the regular EDUCATED readers of the comment section at NWI Times online. Thank you for that. God bless you.

March 28, 2013 3:35 am on Family Christian Center faces third mortgage foreclosure case
Oh "charter school teacher" where are you now in defense of these corrupt pastors such as Jack Schapp and Steve Munsey. Come out, come out wherever you are. Crickets and more crickets, just as I thought.

March 26, 2013 4:37 am on Hyles' daughter apologizes for 'nefarious actions' of church