New Life Church founder and former evangelical leader Ted Haggard returned to the pulpit to give two sermons in a small Illinois church on the second anniversary of his scandal-forced exit from a high-profile ministry at his megachurch in Colorado Springs.
Haggard appeared Nov. 2 at the Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., led by his friend of 35 years, Pastor Chris Byrd. Haggard's sermons surfaced on the church's and Haggard's websites.
Haggard spoke about how his "struggle with sin," involving a male prostitute and drug purchases, grew out of a sexual incident with a man employed by his father when Haggard was 7 years old....
