The end for a doomsday prophet came quietly this past weekend. Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, and a man who made international news with his false predictions on the return of Christ, died Sunday. The 92 year old is survived by his wife and children. Religion News Service:
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Bene 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: West Jet Christmas video
“WestJet said that if the video attracts 200,000 views, the company would give away holiday flights to needy families.” – Market Watch
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Mark Driscoll plagiarism debate twists and turns
I got an email from a reader today with the comment that this is usually something I’m on top of. BREAKING: Janet Mefferd Removes Tweets and Blog Material Regarding Mark Driscoll and Alleged Plagiarism He is correct, often I am on top of stories such as the above that explode
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: Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, dead at 79
The founder of the worlds largest Christian cable network, Paul Crouch died today in California. LA Times: The son of a Missouri missionary, Crouch moved to California in the early 1960s to manage the movie and television unit of the Assemblies of God. A decade later, after receiving what he
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: Rob Ford Opera
(CBC Radio’s Day 6 recorded this Rob Ford aria, arranged and written by Topher Mokrzewski, resident conductor with the Calgary Opera. Alex Beley and Tyler Fitzgerald sing as the Ford Nation Chorus)
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
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Conference circuit time for celebrity Calvinists – Act Like Men
US pastor Mark Driscoll was in Hamilton for the neo-Calvinist Act Like Men conference this weekend. According to one participating US celebrity pastor, Act Like Men Canada drew about 8 thousand male fans. While continuing to promote his events, Driscoll has wondered in 2008 if some of the men who
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley predicted big “like Finney” revival, which is long overdue to start, in Finland
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
Continue readingBene 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: Grimsby youth minister charged with sexual assault and exortion
“The arrest and charges against this former employee are being treated with the utmost seriousness and concern. And its urging anyone with information related to these charges to go to police. Lakemount has and will continue to cooperate fully with police and local authorities during the investigation of this matter. As this
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Pat Robertson not happy about Mission Congo debut at Toronto Film Festival
A documentary which debuted at tiff Friday night is getting a lot of buzz. Televangelist, multi-millionaire, and leader of the religious right, Pat Robertson is a man on a mission. During an escalating refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Robertson took to the airwaves of the Christian Broadcasting
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