By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It may be of passing interest that Faytene Grasseschi, a regular subject here, is now letting on that she is pregnant on Facebook. She’s now in her third trimester. Congratulations and hope all goes well. Cue up the Amy Grant song.
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Bene Diction Blogs On: Big news about to break with Todd Bentley?
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. I should have first realized that something may have been about to break in regards to Todd Bentley when I saw this is my inbox this morning. He’s selling everything on his own Sound of Fire website–not fresh Fire–for 50 per
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: How responsible is the International House of Prayer for the death of Bethany Deaton?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Rolling Stone has a sordid tale of cruelty and death in its January 30, 2014 issue. And the International House of Prayer hypercharismatic movement, I suspect, is hoping that you won’t read it. Following the death of Bethany Deaton in 2012,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “But hey, if she’s gonna run off with another man, why not Jesus, huh?”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. One short clip from Nicolas Cage’s upcoming remake of Left Behind has made it out on the Internet. You can check it out here, if you like. This would be Cage pre-Rapture.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rumours should only be a Johnny Crawford song
BY Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Earlier today, I thought that a piece of news might be forthcoming on the Internet based on something I read. I’m not the type to go “Okay, this person is standing next to Brezhnev at the May Day parade, so….” Facts
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Canadian University Press plays to the grandstands
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Please permit me to address a bit of a different topic for myself. As an old student press hand back in the day, I was stunned to see something on the Internet yesterday. Something that has caused a bit of an
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Pastor has 62 second sermon to catch football game
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Don’t want to make this worse by posting on this, but an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in the US held his sermon to one minute on Sunday so he could watch his beloved 49ers play. It’s likely to go viral. It will
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Friel “kicked out” over Todd Bentley stance?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission During his first radio broadcast of the year on January 6, Todd Friel–host of the American theologically conservative Wretched Radio and its accompanying TV show–alluded to the price you can pay when you can stick up for the right thing. In
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “Church-goers bilked by ‘divine’ advice”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Good catch by a local daily paper near Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church In Redding California. Johnson’s church, noted by some for being a bit “out there” as a charismatic church attracted David Arnold Souza who, in late December’ was “was convicted
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Was Faytene ahead of the curve?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. The Dec. 20 Supreme Court of Canada decision striking down several Canadian laws regulating how prostitution operates in Canada would certainly be dismaying to some Canadian social conservatives. But they must recognize that they were warned that something like this could
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: He’s too sexy for this post. Too sexy for this…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. It’s a big day for Robert Grasseschi today as I write (December 12) Today, according to Faytene’s Facebook feed, he will be taping a segment for The 700 Club to air in the new year. He will no doubt talk about
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Speaking of porn…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Christians are not merely handing out Scripture portions to target the porn industry, as the news this morning will attest. This past weekend, The Manchester Guardian reported that the porn industry centered in Los Angeles faces a bit of a perfect
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Jesus Loves Porn Stars
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It’s certainly the most different Gospel of John that I have recently seen. It’s produced by xxxchurch.com, which reaches out to the “porn industry”, and those affected by “porn addiction”. You can tell, as “Jesus Loves Porn Stars includes brief testimonies
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: What happened to Todd Bentley’s “$13 million in the bank”?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. How did Todd Bentley, assuming he is being truthful, blow through $13 million Canadian? On November 4, he sen’t out an e-mail “Redeeming the Time” to his e-mail list. I’ll be copying the entire e-mail as a comment on this post,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Portland TV news reporters see deaths trend in “faith healers” church
vised By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Reporters at Portland Oregon TV station KATU are attributing the deaths of 10 children and teens to the religious practices of a U.S. church. A reporter for the station , advised by a former member of the Followers of Christ
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The revival that Todd Bentley predicted for Fresno is now overdue. By perhaps 12 years but at least 10 months
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Some folks,eager for a revival, ran into Todd Bentley in Stockton, California. Unfortunately for Todd they were “rolling tape”, and it is now on YouTube, as I write. Starting at 0:11, Bentley says: “…The Lord told me–the greatest healing revival–Twelve years
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Funny how all these Todd Bentley accounts happen where they can’t be confirmed Independently
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Hat tip to the folks at Right Wing Watch blog for spotting a new video by Todd Bentley this week. Todd says, in a Morningstar video, there was gold in them thar revival in South Africa this past summer. Allegedly gold
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Church planned Halloween Bible burning
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. An item from the British newspaper The Telegraph’s “Whaaa?!?!” file. A church in Canton, North Carolina, which is “King James Only” planned to use Halloween to burn all sorts of “Satanic” books, which were to include non King James Bibles, and
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: This *not* just in
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. UsedBy Permission This morning, federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney delivered what was called a “rich and gracious address” to a meeting of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada>. And how did I know that, you ask? Well, no thanks to the press. as of yet
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Faytene adds a new hat (Two actually)
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Faytene Grasseschi’s latest idea may be a “reboot” of an idea she tried up in Canada. During the first weekend in October 2013, she held an event for youth. The Movement 133 (M133) Student summit was intended to bring students (“from
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