By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission No, I didn’t mistype. I found a video of Todd Bentley predicting a revival in Finland which seems never to have happened. Here is a Facebook page to promote an event, where he spoke in Keuruulla Finland on Sept. 3, 2012.A
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Bene Diction Blogs On: Fred Phelps, Prairie Bible Institute alumnus
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. I’ve seen this on my Facebook feed three times this morning. On his blog, Douglas Todd of the Vancouver Sun reports that Fred Phelps went to PBI. Tim Callaway’s recent book on PBI quotes this e-mail from Phelps’ daughter, which Todd
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rick Joyner had “theological concerns” about Todd Bentley
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Sneeze and you would miss it. But this sentence clause demands special attention by descerning Christians. As I mentioned in my last post, Todd Bentley, as part of his big attempt to apologize on GOD TV back in January, was explaining
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: How Todd Bentley will try to explain the Lakeland aftermath to you
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Following his series of meetings in South Africa–which went from a fairgounds, and then down into presumably smaller churches, Todd Bentley went on vacation for this past summer. Recently, he announced that he would be returning to ministry with some meetings
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A Faytene “stop press”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Apologies to my readers, as a grinding schedule at work has kept me busy. But, that said, I have some “stop press” type items to pass on. 1) Faytene Grasseschi’s big pro-life march on Ottawa appears to have finished–at least her
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Not all religious politicians are conservatives
By Rick Hiebert. All rights reserved. Used by permissio. This is something that BDBO readers already know, but Douglas Todd of The Vancouver Sun reminds us of something interesting on his blog. He’s reporting on the Bridging the Secular Divide: Religion and Public Discourse conference at McGill University earlier this
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Come to the fair! And “I knew when Lakeland was aborted”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Last week, what we could defined as Todd Bentley’s travelling circus hit the road. Starting on May 15, the Bentley revival moved from the Durban area to the “Pretoria Show Grounds” in South Africa. I find that interesting in that the
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret is out. Over the past few years, pro-life politicians have adopted an incremental approach to eventually stopping abortion. John Ivison
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret is out. Over the past few years, pro-life politicians have adopted an incremental approach to eventually stopping abortion. John Ivison
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A sign of the times at the New York Times
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A brief correction notice in the New York Times shows that our world is changing. Several others have already noticed a correction to the Times’ story on the Margaret Thatcher funeral service, towards the end of the online story here. It
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Going “all in” on Todd Bentley’s South Africa meetings
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Some people who are rooting for Todd Bentley’s meetings in Durban, South Africa may have been watching too much Texas Hold ‘Em on TV, as they are pushing their rhetorical poker chips to the center of the table as their wagers
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: It’s Lakeland 2.0! Limited Time Only!!!!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Todd Bentley is preparing to crank up another revival. And GOD TV, the cable TV and internet TV station has just announced this morning that they are jumping in with both feet. Bentley is in South Africa as I write in
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Are they camping?
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Brief Facebook status update by Faytene yesterday: Faytene Grasseschi shared a link via HootSuite. Yesterday The team needs $20,000+ to cover base expenses for the B2L walk. We’d be grateful for anything you can sow. Info: http://ow.ly/jU7qk Details of what they
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Lilley pitches underhand, Faytene triples to right
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is starting to promote her pro-life walk from Montreal to Ottawa with an interview with Brian Lilley of Sun News TV. You may see it here. It’s a friendly interview [Lilley: “I’ve known you for a long time…”]. But
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: She’s walkin’
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is still newsworthy to Charisma magazine, following their recent cover story on her. Their online news service, Charisma News, is reporting that she will lead 25 pro-life women on a walk from Montreal to Ottawa, timed to end at
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “…sit down and shut up.”
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Brian Lilley, of Sun News TV, reports something interesting in a recent blog post. Motion M-408, in the House of Commons, was an initiative by pro-life MPs to address what they saw as the possibility of people using ultrasounds pursue abortions
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley is “as far from the understanding of God as [he has] ever known’
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Why is Todd Bentley starting a little bit of a public relations campaign these days? Well, some of it may be due to the fact that some Christians are dismayed by his actions. One English Anglican vicar comes to mind. Earlier
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Faytene–You are *not* allowed to quote us without permission, redux
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A quick update on Faytene Grasseschi’s group’s media policies, while I wait for that cover story on her in the new Charisma magazine to hit newsstands. I was checking out her group’s stance on Bill C-279 when this notice from My
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Charisma’s Feb. 2013 cover story is about Faytene
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Faytene Grasseschi could be said to have hit the big leagues now. The evangelist, a regular subject here, is profiled in the next issue of Charisma, the periodical of record for U.S. charismatics. Charisma’s cover will show a smiling Faytene with
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: GOD TV is totally fine with Todd Bentley again
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission A brief e-mail from Todd Bentley’s ministry this afternoon reveals that the TV network thinks it quite alll right for the evangelist to appear on their network again starting tomorrow morning. One of his helpers writes: We are very excited to
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