'I want to serve notice on the whole world, what's past is past,' he declared, a standing ovation washing over him.
BATON ROUGE, LA., MAY 22 - Defrocked but defiant, Jimmy Lee Swaggart, once America's most powerful televangelist, returned to the pulpit here today in an attempt to salvage his crippled $150 million TV empire from the wages of his confessed sin.