This is his REAL sister. My brother is the best teepee builder east of the Mississippi!

No, I'm his sister. Each year for my birthday we would make arrowheads and watch Dances With Wolves. What a great brother!

I'm his sister too! We used to hold hands and do a rain dance together whenever there was a drought.

I'm his sister! We spent the summer making windchimes together.

Habitual liar, egomanical, self centered. I should know...I'm his sister. Ask yourself why none of his family will attend that church.

I have never before seen these reviews about Bill Purvis. I found it doing a search for Bill Purvis because he was not on the channel and at the time I usually watch him. I am 67 years old and watch a lot of preachers. There are a lot of preachers that I will not watch because I don't believe them to speaking for God, but speaking for themselves. I believe not only that Bill Purvis is a man speaking to the best of his ability for his God but I also believe that in his actions every day of his life, he is attempting to do God's will.
Now I must find a place I can hear this man on TV or on the net. Satan must not like his work.

The criticism of Bill always seems to stem from someone who doesn't like the way Cascade Hills is operated. In my opinion, the proof is in the pudding. Cascade Hills has been so successful under Bill's leadership it is incredible!

I also notice that he has sustained growth for more than a 25 year period which is pretty much unheard of. He also has remained married to his wife over 25 years and appears to have a great marriage and family life. This is more evidence that he is a man of character in my opinion.

I have attended Cascade for several years and hear all kinds of untruths on the street from people who don't go there and really know nothing about the church or Bill but just want to throw rocks at a successful church and pastor.

Finally, I will say that is exciting to be a small part in a ministry that is so vibrant and touches so many people's lives with the message of Christ! I wonder how many lives the critics have touched. Not many I suspect.

I've been a devote Christian for 9 years now and it sad ends me to see such evangelicals talked down and made to look like criminals. I don't know what all is going on with this alleged news about Bill Purvis but I believe that we aren't to judge one another as Christ explained, that is especially without all the proper facts. The world is out to get anyone who proclaims the name of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and that person if they seems genuine with their faith, standing up for controversial issues and practicing what they preaches then they are a big target. You would never hear of such a news out break of someone like Rob Bell and others who preaching a a so called "soft" message of love and peace and whatever else they may preach, that is except from the stead fast evangelists who stand up for the Bible in whole without compromising what it says for the sake of the World. I've been watching Bill Purvis for a while now and his messages hit just where people need it the most and so I like him. If you have something to argue about, get the facts straight first and I mean all the facts, I mean maybe he did do something wrong but go to the source because until then all it seems you're doing is trying to tear someone down for you're own self glory and/or gains.

See todays Ledger Enquirer 2/15/08 to read about Bill's latest adventures. This guy is a control freak, no one should be allowed to speak against him. His day will come and it will be a long fall

I think with all the bad public exposure Cascade Hills has been getting lately, it's time to do some investigating. I've never known/heard of a pastor who will go to such lengths to silence people. I've also never seen people who are supposed to be Christians, attack those who disagree or speak out against them. I've also never known someone, much less a Pastor, who refuses to address such allegations against him or the church. Why won't he defend the church who he is suppose to protect?

I notice that there is a very long list of TV Evangelist on Rate It All.  I wonder how many of them have attempted to obtain by court order the ID of those who posted a negative comment about them?  The fact that Bill Purvis used his influence with a Superior Court Judge to have someone privacy invaded in order to stop them from sharing the truth should tell you that he has something to hide.  For those he has helped I understand your appreciation, and I am glad he was there for you.  For those he has hurt I understand your position as well.  However, for those your who follow him without quesiton I pitty you and for those of you who actually work for him may God forgive you.  Ask yourself this question... Why would a man who claims to speak to 394 million people ever week (number is from his website) care about one or two people making a negative comments.  Even more amazing is that he would care to so much that he would take the time effort and expense to hire an attorney, to go before a judge and have a court order to obtain identies, emails and cc list from those people.  If you ask me, this is a man who has something to loose and something to hide.  May God forgive him for what he has done.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/215178.html

I have recently had a personal experience of my own with Bill Purvis, before all this drama started...I have recently went through an untimely divorce while pregnant, left a horrible marriage with two teenagers in tow,moving out of state and starting over with very little.Mr Purvis,voluntarily,out of his own pocket, financially made it possible for me to pay some of my legal fees, bought formula and diapers for my new baby girl,along with grocery store gift cards and school supplies for my teenagers.People like him are the definition of Christlike love. His help couldnt have come at a better time.He also did nice things like encouraging better reading material for my 8th grade daughter by purchasing good books for her to read in her spare time.He has been nothing but kind,and did these things in private,seeking no public recognition whatsoever.People who know Bill Purvis on a personal level know that he is as genuine as it gets. God has really blessed him for it.But from what I have observed, he "pays it forward" every chance he gets.

I have known Bill Purvis for more than thirty years, and it is sad to see that some have attacked his character by innuendo and suspicion, when not a shred of evidence points to anything wrong having been done to, through, or on behalf of Cascade Hills church.Bill has made a lot of money through his investments and business,and that is probably a sore spot with those who would be covetous of his cars, etc. But what he has given to the church (and to many other causes)is more than generous, and what he has received in salary is reasonable compensation for the leadership he has given to them. There has never been any discrepancy regarding him and church funds. Any person who knows Bill knows that he is radically and conspicuously honest, almost to a fault. I remember when he drove across town to re-pay a hospital parking garage fifty cents, and that was back when nobody knew who he was, and long before he was a pastor. Bill Purvis- dishonest? Don't make me laugh!
I am wondering if some of these critics perhaps should examine their motives to see if they might just be jealous. Investigate a matter- that is fine. If something is really wrong, be specific. but when you find nothing wrong, admit it, and let this man and the Cascade Hills church get back to doing the ministry they were called to do.

I am a former employee of Cascade Hills Church and have seen Pastor Bill Purvis behind the scenes and I can honestly say that there is no doubt that he is a man of God. Thanks to his commitment to the Lord he has lead thousands to faith in Jesus Christ. With his talent and drive he could be much more successful in private business (with a lot less drama to deal with) but he has chosen to follow God's will for his life.

I have to say that the negative comments made here are sad reflections of you personally.  I have been attending Cascade Hills since my Husband deployed the 1st time in 2005.  Brother Bill is a down to earth, tell it like it is, Blessed and wonderful Pastor.  He has built up a great church and has an excellent staff working for him.  I attend Cascade Hills, I also volunteer there, and I tell anyone and everyone that I could not have found a more better church to attend than I have found with Cascade Hills.  As for his personal life, whose business really?  Mind yours and everyone will be alright; I have seen his Family and they seem like wonderful People.  God continue to Bless Brother Bill & his and God Bless those that speak against him too.  C. Ervin, Columbus GA; Child of God, Army Wife of a Deployed Soldier and mother of 2.

I DO NOT ATTEND CASCADE HILLS CHURCH, BUT I DO LIVE IN THIS AREA AND I DO MY RESEARCH BEFORE I WRITE. I AM TOTALLY NEUTRAL ON THIS SUBJECT. SO HERE ARE THE FACTS. MR PURVIS DOES CHECK OUT, HE DOES NOT LIVE IN A 10K PLUS SQ FT MANSION ON THE WATER NOR DOES HE LEAD A LAVISH LIFESTYLE. IF ANYTHING HE LIVES WELL BELOW HIS MEANS. HE DOES NOT DRIVE A FERRARI OR A LAMBO. HE DRIVES CARS THAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS CITY DRIVE. I DO NOT KNOW HIS INCOME NOR IS IT MY BUSINESS, BUT I'LL HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED WHILE GROWING THIS CHURCH.

You sheep need to wake up, if this man doesn't take a salary then he must have won the lottery.  The comments are so fake.  I know the ethics professor at the local University, and he definently didn't write that BS.  Whenever a minister is pushing a tithe on the church web-site, you better get the heck out of Dodge!!

WOW! For all of you who are a part of this judgment and the gossip being done. I have one question are you a follower of Christ? b/c the last time I checked gossip and judgment were not acts of god.
The Bible says that the words of gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a mans inmost parts. Proverbs 18:8
Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. John 7:24 oh and please dont forget that the judgment you make towards others will one day be used upon you.
I live just miles form cascade hills and my family and I attend this church often. My husband discovered cascade hills when we were facing a divorce. However God had other plans, God saved my marriage and through cascade hills we were able to learn how to be Christian parents and how to make our marriage work as god intended. I could not tell you any ones name that attends this church. I have never carried on a conversation with brother bill. However he has seen my family at church or in public and he always speaks and his family is always extremely nice.
What I can tell you is I could care less about how much money brother bill has, about who pays the bills, or what kind of car they drive. I go to church to worship my father and only him. I do not need to listen to brother bill or any other preacher. I study the word and I have my own relationship with god I dont have to depend on someone elses faith I go to church because god ask me to. So for all of you involved my question to you is why are you at church is it to serve your father or are you theyre for a power trip, or to see what kind of car the pastor drives? Maybe youre the ones who need to be investigated.
And by the way what kind of car do you drive and how did you get it?

Praying for you all!
Brother Bill I think youre great may god bless you and your family.

Seems like the issue is the "taking away" of the congregations voting rights and assigning it to the "board of Directors" - If the congregation voted to do that - then there's no issue. If the board just took it away from them - then there's trouble in paradise. As for the cars - nothing wrong there - but perhaps better judgement should be used by someone in these positions. I would never bemoan someones success...but to flaunt it around is a different issue.

To whom it may concern:

http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/imaging/14436191.pdf

This pastor is very authentic and real. Never met anyone like him. He always loves to encourage people to do their best. Most people write negative and false info of him because of their jealousy. I believe God has annointed him and he is very blessed by it. If you spoke with him or listened to him, you would know that he is real and it comes from his heart. Look at givemeabreak's info that was written.  It's true.

As an ethics professor from the region this pastor serves,(I don't attend his church) I verified the following:He's Baptist. He pastors a large, influential congregation. He does not have 2 Hummers nor a mercedes (tag office verified)and I called the seminary and spoke with an admissions personel. He verified that Purvis has an earned accredited doctorate from their school.When well known pastors Drs. Charles Stanley, Spiros Zodiates, & Stephen Olford (do web search) graduated, the school was under "candidate status for accredition" at that time. It was approved years before before Pastor Purvis graduated. The accreditation is verified by both the United States Department of Education and CHEA (Council on Higher Education). To argue against the facts could only be personal,bias or foolish at this point. I would not agree with his doctrine because I'm not baptist, but the accusations made against this man are not true and were professionally verified.

Check out the churches web site. Tithe on-line with PayPal?? Yikes..You Purvisites gotta be kidding me man!

Hahaha!! The list of websites I could give you to prove that you are wrong is endless! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer_H3  If you look closely, something you obviously forgot to do the first time, you'll see that there were actually 33,140 sold in 2005.

If someone came to you for a pastor position and his Doctorant was non-accredited and needs 2 Humvees to get the job done what would you say ? preacher or leech ? Be not deceived.
photo of an 2005 h3 hummer

All I know is they didnt make the hummer H3 in 2005.  Are the rest of your facts correct?

As an insider who was directed to this site to read the lies and slander beging told of Pastor Bill Purvis, I'd like to respond.  

One writer is correct, Bill Purvis will probably never read a blog. However, my neighbor knows I am employed by a professional firm with information about him, so she asked my view. I believe that the writer named Mrs. Owens is very, very close to the truth in her response. 

Now, to address some of the slander...

What if Pastor Purvis was not even at the Ritz Carlton in North Georgia on a retreat with staff almost 2 years ago but was instead speaking for the New York Life Insurance Company in Macon, GA at the time alleged, and upon arrival to Columbus he conducted a funeral for a young man whom he'd led to Christ, that died in his parents home.  All of this can be verified by all church staff, the employees of the insurance company, and the family of the deceased.  Would this make the accusations against him now true or false? How reliable is his accuser now?

What if when Pastor Purvis discovered that one of his top staff did take several staff to the Ritz-Carlton, that person is no longer employed at the Church, he was angered by the misconduct enough to pay the bill himself? How reliable is the accuser now?

What if Pastor Purvis personally paid for the New York trip which aired the RealTime broadcast with his own personal credit card from his own funds? I suspect the accuser himself enjoyed the benefits since only they could have known this. How credible is his accuser now?

What if Pastor Purvis' wife, who drove a Chevy for the past 5 years, received a large settlement from her deceased father's estate last year when his second wife died and she chose to buy a 2005 Hummer for herself? (we handled it) Why is that a sin?  How reliable is his accuser now?

What if Pastor Purvis, who's known to be one of the highest tithers in his church and one of the most generous givers in the area, still lived well below his means and ability, would that be worth anything to anyone?

What if I knew for a fact that he has paid a price in many ways to help people either financially, spiritually, in loss of privacy and other ways, and has turned away larger opportunities for "career" moves, is that worth anything?

What if the accuser, who is deliberately attacking a person who led a church from 32 people to its present state, had instead chosen to do something worthwhile with their own life?

The critic is absurd. My pastor, Dr. Benny Tate, credits Bill as one of his best mentors and our church is the largest in our denomination. Editor Joe Westbury verifies his influence www.christianindex.org/1362 and thousands of leaders recieving his monthly training can't be ingnored. On Sermon familarity, he preaches through Proverbs, Genesis, James, etc verse by verse, so the similiarity would be that man is sinful and Jesus is LORD. He's surrounded himself with Godly, successful leaders who are in unity (Psalms 133), so that's good, and concerning the "scape goat", friend of the critic, he was not there 20 years (another falsehood), and was never replaced, so he must not have been that valuable.

I think that Dr. Bill Purvis is an authentic man. I happen to live in his town and by reading some of these negative comments on this site, I know for a fact that they are certainly NOT TRUE. I know that he has dedicated his life to living by God's plan and not his own. He has been with Cascade Hills Church faithfully for over 25 years, and the church just keeps growing. I would say that if this was not God's plan for his life, then he wouldn't be as blessed as he is now.

I THINK THAT BILL PREACHES THE WORD OF GOD THE WAY IT SHOULD BE PREACHED I WATCH HIM EVERY SUNDAY AND RECEIVE HIS TAPES WEEKLEY JOHN REEDER TULSA OK

Bill is a real guy. If that were not the case then I wouldnt sit at church and listen to him every Sunday. He makes good money, but its not from Cascade Hills. From what I can tell he has made some really good investments that may account for the sweet rides. To me it does not matter if he is riding a scooter or in a hummer. Who am I to judge what someone drives. For all I know the cars could have been given to him from the community. I truly believe GOD speaks through him. He is very plain spoken and keeps everyone entertained. In fact, I think this is the first church I have gone to and never seen anyone nodding off. Never.. He gets a 5 from me.

He seems like a good person, but there is some smoke and mirrors involved. He drives two Hummers and a new Mercedes, so he's making lots of $-not that he doesn't deserve a high salary, but it makes me believe that the "Real Time" and real guy approach is because he's not good looking. How many everyday real guys drive Mercedes and Hummers, even if they can affort them.

I'm glad to hear he was approachable. We heard that from a couple in our church who told us to watch him because they met him and found him plain spoken yet encouraging. Their story was that he preached at their church and returned the honorium privately as a gift to their church building fund. Her husband was the treasurer and said that was a first. My husband and I just started watching him and we like the way he preaches the Bible, verse by verse & book by book. What I like is that he preaches without shouting. My husband likes that is a masculine preacher with a courtesy. He says there are enough "weak" preachers already. I say there are enough "ranting" preachers, so this is one we can both listen to. We both understand scripture better after watching his program and that's what I think we need more of. I give him a 5.

I heard him speak at a large convention (10000 people) and met him afterwards. He was approachable & very respectful. I later learned he has never taken a salary from the church. I'm a skeptic, but he "won me over". His humility is rare among pastors of churches that size.

He and I were classmates at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Their church website reveals he earned his doctorate from Luther Rice Seminary (good school where several SBC Presidents went, ie: Charles Stanley,Jerry Vines, etc). Purvis is legit.

I thought this was the guy who killed Dillinger.LOL

GOOD GRACE TEACHER BUT STILL TEACHES THAT WE HAVE TO TITHE 10%.

Bill Purvis is so real, i listen to him every week and love it more and more

He is so Relevant!