Rick Warren's Son Committed Suicide

Pastor Rick Warren’s youngest son, Matthew, committed suicide.

A statement from the Saddleback Church was released today explaining that Matthew suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts. He took his life last night.

More to come to this story.

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Ricky Warren raised 2.4 million in 48 hours

Last week, Ricky begged his sheep to send him $900,000 bucks to get the church out of debt.

Well, those fuggers came through and raised over 2 mill-mill in 48 hours.

Warren sent out an "urgent" plea Wednesday for the nation's sixth largest church to come up with more than $900,000 in 48 hours to meet a budget shortfall and allow the Saddleback Church to carry on service programs from Southern California to Africa.

To no one's surprise, the congregation came through big time, even as Warren took a clubbing in the national media for the "sky-is-falling" tone of his missive and his surprise that it made news. A spokesman for the church later said Warren also made clear that the ministry "never asks -- or expects -- outsiders to give."

Saturday night, in the first round of weekend services, Warren announced more than $2.4 million rolled in through online offerings and envelopes delivered to the church's Lake Forest campus, south of Los Angeles.

But the financial tally was not, by Warren's sermon, "The Miracle" -- the title of his sermon. No, he said, the miracle is the "radical generosity" shown this week.

That's interesting and scary at the same time. Take note LGBTers, these are the kind of folks we are fighting. They are highly organized, devoted and head-on. We can learn a lot from them.

Maybe even take notes. They know how to win, we need that same format.

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Is Rick Warren Broke?

Interesting drama, kids.

Ricky Warren posted this letter on his website:

Dear Saddleback Family,

THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER unlike any I've written in 30 years. Please read all of it and get back to me in the next 48 hours.

I have thrilling news to share with you below but first some seriously bad news:

With 10% of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated. Still, with wise management, we've stayed close to our budget all year. Then... this last weekend the bottom dropped out.

On the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive - leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year, unless you help make up the difference today and tomorrow.

Basically he's begging his sheep for money. This sounds familiar...