By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Expect lots of listeners for this Cross Talk (internet) Radio episode. I’m hearing about it days before it is to air! Tony Milano is scheduled to interview Justin Peters about his confrontation with Todd Bentley this Saturday. Here is a link
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Bene Diction Blogs On: “I’m NOT praying for you” doesn’t mean “Sometimes people don’t get healed.”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Justin Peters’ confrontation with Todd Bentley, blogged about here a few days ago, appears to be a story that “has legs” as we used to put it back in my old newsroom. Latest on it is the Christian Post, which moves
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley sneaks back in to British Columbia
By Rick Hiebert. Used by Permission All Rights Reserved Todd Bentley is making a quick visit to his native British Columbia, the first quietly public activity here, since the collapse of the Lakeland Revival. He grew up on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast and started his evangelism in the province. [Which led
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley denies God’s omnipresence?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. One of the tenets of charismatic theological thinking is that the Holy Spirit may work today as He did in the days of the Apostles. Unless you are at a Todd Bentley meeting, then all bets are off. In Todd Bentley’s
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Justin Peters and Todd Bentley, mano a mano
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It was second time lucky for evangelist Todd Bentley as he appeared on the *second* episode of Miracles Decoded last week. I’m working on an indepth post on that, but for now there’s another fuss about Todd Bentley. Todd Friel is
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Tonight! Todd Bentley on History TV Canada! Or perhaps not!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Canadian-born evangelist Todd Bentley will appear on the History TV Canada program “Miracles Decoded” June 1. Unless something happens as happened last night, May 25, when the episode Bentley was on was pulled from being broadcast, perhaps at the last second.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Hmm, Parliament talks about abortion
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission The political issue of abortion may be closed in Stephen Harper’s mind, but the pro-choice side in Parliament is not co-operating, if he thinks that way. You’re probably familiar with Justin Trudeau’s recent decision that new Liberal candidates must be pro-choice,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The “Welcome To Mississauga!” New Testament
By Rick Hiebert.All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission I come across interesting things in thrift stores, such as this New Testament. It’s title: The Greatest Is Love.” Published in 1971 by the Canadian Home Bible League, as it then was, it’s interesting for at least two reasons. I wonder if
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rick Joyner downsizes, Todd Bentley upsizes?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Excited e-mail from Todd Bentley on the morning of May 8, as he is starting up his new-to-him revival center with a little conference this weekend, to be broadcast live over the internet. The location? In Fort Mill S.C. at an
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “A revival [will] hit your land [Canada] that will be a hundred times more powerful than all historic revivals put together.”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Since April of 2013. Faytene Grasseschi has felt led to boost the idea of a great Canadian revival. One so great that it will spread worldwide until the “return of Jesus. It’s a bit of a meme among a certain group
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Two odd things about Bob Jones visiting from heaven
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Bobby Conner believes that the late “prophet” Bob Jones visited him in a vision. I’d suggest there is reason to go “I dunno” in response. Perhaps even two. Conner, using The Elijah List, excitedly shared his experience yesterday [April 23] by
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley: I need $10,000 NOW!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Well, perhaps it wasn’t stated as bluntly as in my headline. But Todd Bentley put on the pressure a couple hours ago by e-mail. And he only has about 45 hours to go. Is he paying a ransom to kidnappers? Owe
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Blogging at BDBO to be light that week. :)
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Reporters were watching The 700 Club broadcast on Monday, where Pat Robertson broke the news that a huge asteroid will hit the earth, and perhaps destroy it, as soon as next week. The San Antonio Express-News is on the story this
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Your “Nazis equal gays” candidate for Massachusetts governor
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved Used by Permission. Today as I write, I heard, over the Internet, an independent candidate who is running for governor of Massachusetts speaking at an all-candidates meeting organized by the LGBT community. Scott Lively, a very conservative Christian activist, naturally tried to make the
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Fred Phelps dies
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Fred Phelps, the former pastor (as he had recently been excommunicated by his extremist Westboro Baptist Church), died today. The National Post reports that he passed away in the wee hours of March 19-20. He was in a hospice and had
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The “Filipino-Canadian priest” who is front page news
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. The name of Father Fernando Suarez may be familiar to Catholics in the Toronto area. But Filipino community readers across Canada will certainly now know of him as he is the cover subject of The Filipino Post Father Suarez, the Vancouver
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The “Toronto Blessing” 20 years later
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Interesting article from Christianity Today in my inbox this morning. Time flies, and it has been 20 years since the revival broke out at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowhip, as it then was. Now, the magazine has sent journalist Lorna Dueck back
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: No Oscars for Dominionists?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission In the run-up to the Oscars, you may have noted that a song in the film Alone Yet Not Alone was nominated for an Oscar this year. It was though to be quite a feather in the caps of the filmmakers,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd recycles
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. A new e-mail may imply that Todd Bentley’s sabbatical may start out to last at least a couple of months. He’s staring an e-mail series on “The Father’s House”, as I write. This is about a series of visions that he
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Bob Jones dies
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Charisma News is reporting that “prophet” Bob Jones passed away on Valentines Day. In the Charisma piece. Rick Joyner is quoted as the expert on Jones, as the latter was closely connected to Morningstar in recent years. Jones was prominent and
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