By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission An article from Charisma magazine this morning reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Jennifer LeClaire, the magazine’s Senior News Editor, posted an article on the magazine’s website, which gives a rundown on several “prophetic words” of 2014. It is “Did 2014’s Prophetic
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Bene Diction Blogs On: The Crossroads Communications network renames and rebrands itself
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. An interesting story in the National Post a couple of days ago. Reporter Claire Brownell reports on changes to Christian broadcasting in Canada. The sermon on the monitor: The new wave of evangelists who’ve turned preaching into a multimedia endeavour She
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley’s new wife is pregnant
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission It should be noted for the record that Jessa Bentley, the second wife of Todd Bentley, is well along with being pregnant. It was confirmed by an e-mail to his supporters a few weeks ago, complete with photo of a very
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Marci McDonald, “friend” of Faytene?!?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Did you know that reporter and author Marci McDonald was at one time part of “The hand of Hell”? Or that at one time, she was a “friend” of Canadian evangelist and activist Faytene Grasseschi (nee Kryskow), who was a portrayed
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Harper signed trade agreements with China, while Canadian Christians rot in prison
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Can’t say that Stephen Harper doesn’t know the value of a dollar. Over the past few days he has been In China, finalizing trade agreements with the government of China worth $2.5 billion. As he did, Canadians Kevin Garratt and Julia Dawn
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rewriting history for the past five years, and counting
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Winston Churchill once said, or wrote: “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” Or rewrite it, in the case of Faytene Grasseschi, perhaps? The Canadian born evangelist and activist was at Toronto City Church in late
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: They could use that old barn out back
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission There will be at least one sequel to the new Left Behind with Nicolas Cage, says filmmaker Paul Lalonde. In a statement released on the Left Behind fan page on Facebook… …Lalonde announced that he feels compelled to keep the series
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: An apology on behalf of “social media” Christians to Nicolas Cage
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Ted Baehr’s Movieguide has felt burdened to apologize to Bicolas Cage about the occasionally visceral reaction to the new Left Behind film. The open letter… Open Letter to Nicolas Cage: Critical Christians Left Behind Love for Others …argues that Christians on
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The Ottawa/Parliament Hill shootings
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Following yesterday’s shootings in Ottawa, I thought creating a thread might be helpful. Discuss in the comments. And pray offline. Thank you.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “No airline attendant would wear a blouse two sizes two small.”–On the new Left Behind film
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Quite the crash and burn, for the new Left Behind film starring Nicolas Cage, as it were. According to the movie grosses site, Indiewire, as I write, Left Behind has dropped to number 10 on their list of movie grosses, earning
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Yellow light for Todd
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Todd Bentley evidently sees his recent trip to British Columbia as a success, as he’s planning more. From Sept. 25-28 he’ll be back at Windword church in Langley Township, B.C.. This is where Brent Borthwick is pastor, and Bentley’s starter wife
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Cracked on faith healers
By Rick Hiebert. All Right Reserved. Used by Permission The humour website Cracked is exposing faith healers. A Robert Evans, who says he is a retired faith healer, explains how he did it, or rather faked it, in this blog post here. Would be interesting to know if his back
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Berated for not being able to predict Mark Driscoll’s and Todd Bentley’s futures
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Blogger Jeffrey Yoder is even harder than I can be in the case of Todd Bentley, if that were possible. But I think it a bit much to expect people to predict the future. In his new post What Todd Bentley
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Scriptures for ’71
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Do you recall my post on the “Good News for British Columbia” booklet? Well, I have a small update. When I was out on errands this afternoon, I found another copy of the booklet. As you may recall, this was a
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Good News for British Columbia, indeed.
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. In the run-up to the B.C. Day long weekend, a bit of obscure history related to sharing the Gospel in the province. Back in 1971, local Christians wanted to do something unique to celebrate the 100th anniversary of B.C. becoming part
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Two of the most scary video soundbites that I have recently heard
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It takes some doing for Todd Bentley or a friend/supporter of his to leave me a bit gobsmacked by something they say. Let’s turn a last time to Todd Bentley’s appearance on the History TV Canada program Miracles Decoded June 1,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley on History Channel Canada
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission (My main post on Todd Bentley’s appearance on History TV Canada June 1, 2 and 4.) Todd Bentley, the noted faith-healing Canadian evangelist, was featured in a History TV Canada program in early June. The second episode ever of Miracles Decoded,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t star in documentaries
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Big thanks to blogger Peter T. Chattaway at Patheos, who brings us the latest news about Hillsong United. Next Easter, Warner Brothers will release Hillsong: Let Hope Rise, a documentary concentrating on the worship band part of this church movement. Chattaway
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley’s first try to get a reality show, and the angel that missed the plane
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission {The fist part of what will probably be a lenthy post on Todd Bentley’s appearance on History TV Canada July 1, 2, and 4) Did you know that the “Reno Outpouring featured on the recent episode of Miracles Decoded with Todd
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: So much for sneaking into B.C….
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission If Todd Bentley had been hoping to sneak into Langley B.C., that might not be happening now. Douglas Todd, the veteran religion reporter for The Vancouver Sun, has noticed that Todd Bentley has announced his plans to minister this week, for
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