A few years ago when I was pastoring, I posted several of my messages on a website called www.preachit.org. Obviously, I am no longer pastoring, but I still get calls quite frequently from preachers all over the country thanking me for the messages, etc. I am very happy that even though I'm not preaching them, they are still being broadcast and being a blessing to others.
Today I logged onto EA, and was scanning the front page. I was quite surprised to see one of my sermon titles listed on the right side of the page, and I thought, "Hmm, maybe someone posted it from the other website".
Well, I clicked on it, and it was my message - word for word, but another preacher had taken credit for it!
Now, I don't mind telling you, I was a bit miffed. But, should I have been? I never copywrited the message, so maybe I really can't complain.
What are your thoughts on this issue?
I'd probably start a thread in the forum on EA, something similar to what you said here... It's just wrong for someone else to take credit.
I have the date I posted it on the other website, which was around 2002, and then there is the date he posted it on EA, which is like yesterday!
However, I'm not out for blood, mainly I was out for a sanity check.......I don't want to be carnal about this!
People need to be held accountable for dishonesty. I hope you contact him and ask him to either delete it or correctly attribute it.
It is a shame that any man calling himself a pastor or even a Christian would steal a sermon word for word like that and put their own name on it.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
People need to be held accountable for dishonesty. I hope you contact him and ask him to either delete it or correctly attribute it.
It is a shame that any man calling himself a pastor or even a Christian would steal a sermon word for word like that and put their own name on it.
I haven't decided what to do just yet.
I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed if it hadn't been copied word for word from the other website, with no mention.
I have a friend who preaches some of my original messages, and posts them on his website, but at the bottom of each one he makes a statement that the message is original to his good friend, Mike Phelps, lol.
__________________ "Many people view their relationship with God like a "color by number" picture. It's easier to let someone else define the boundaries, tell them which blanks to fill in, and what color to use than it is for them to take a blank canvas and seek inspiration from the Source in order to paint their own masterpiece"
A few years ago when I was pastoring, I posted several of my messages on a website called www.preachit.org. Obviously, I am no longer pastoring, but I still get calls quite frequently from preachers all over the country thanking me for the messages, etc. I am very happy that even though I'm not preaching them, they are still being broadcast and being a blessing to others.
Today I logged onto EA, and was scanning the front page. I was quite surprised to see one of my sermon titles listed on the right side of the page, and I thought, "Hmm, maybe someone posted it from the other website".
Well, I clicked on it, and it was my message - word for word, but another preacher had taken credit for it!
Now, I don't mind telling you, I was a bit miffed. But, should I have been? I never copywrited the message, so maybe I really can't complain.
What are your thoughts on this issue?
If you still post or whatever on preachit I would contact them and let them know that someone is stealing from their website. And then I would contact EA and .ning about it.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
If you still post or whatever on preachit I would contact them and let them know that someone is stealing from their website. And then I would contact EA and .ning about it.
I believe when you join preachit.org(pay) you have permission to use the sermons. not sure exactly all the rules of the use. I do know it is a paid subcription for members.
I believe when you join preachit.org(pay) you have permission to use the sermons. not sure exactly all the rules of the use. I do know it is a paid subcription for members.
I don't think Brother Phelps would have brought this up if that were the case.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I believe when you join preachit.org(pay) you have permission to use the sermons. not sure exactly all the rules of the use. I do know it is a paid subcription for members.
Even if that were the case it doesn't give you the right to lie and claim they are your sermons when you didn't create them.
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