This post will take Benny Hinn’s ministry through 2000. We will update his ministry from that point in a later post.
Hinn has claimed to heal thousands of people; however, the proof for such healings is sadly lacking. When Jesus healed the lepers, He told them to go to the priests to verify their healing. Not so with this charlatan. Steve Blow, a columnist for the Dallas Morning news challenged Hinn to prove just one of his healings. Hinn refuses to do so.
Deb here with a true story that involves Benny Hinn. While the following account happened around six years ago, I remember it VIVIDLY because it was so shocking! Here it is:
Dee first became aware of the “Health and Wealth” Gospel (hereafter called HWG) when her three year old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Approximately six weeks prior to the diagnosis, she had read an excellent book called Disappointment With God by Philip Yancey. In this book, he described God’s relationship with the Israelites. He focused on the many miracles God would perform for His people, who would be grateful for a short time. Then they would quickly return to building false idols and whining about their lives.
“The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions, but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.” — John Stott
Ever wonder where our contemporary church practices come from?
Authors Frank Viola and George Barna in their book Pagan Christianity (Tyndale 2008) take a hard look at the roots of our church practices and traditions. They pose the simple question “how do these [current church] practices square with Scripture and the practices of the first-century church.” Surprisingly, many of our typical church traditions are rooted historically in pagan practices.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Spencer, the Internet Monk, who is recuperating from surgery to remove a brain tumor.
Welcome to our new blog format. Over the next few weeks we will be developing all of the categories, search helps, and a few permanent pages that should help some of our new readers understand our “invented here” terms such as Calvinista, boutique seminary, and redneck theology. We are open to suggestions for the format and items that you, our dear readers, might find helpful. Thank you for your patience with these two “technopeasants” as we muddle through setting this up.
A TEEN TEACHES WONDERLAND
Here is some background for today’s post. We at TWW have been blessed to have the friendships of a couple of teens who are regular readers. We met them due to a deep and close friendship with their parents. They also are part of the Wonderland story. If you go to our archives, you can read our “fact or fiction” posts on a dreadful set of circumstances in a “kingdom” far, far away. This kingdom has done a great job of “blaming” the victims and storytellers and, in so doing, caused some to flee the kingdom and obtain citizenship elsewhere. Lise is a young woman who saw some events unfold. She is brave, vulnerable, highly intelligent, and a darn good writer. She is also currently studying in Europe and comments from there. Lise, you are incredible!
We thought that our dear readers might find a comment Lise wrote interesting. Then, an anonymous reader with ties to Wonderland responded. Lise’s response is poignant. “Anonymous” then chimed in on Christmas night telling Dee to “Chill out” (which was promptly deleted – remember… it’s our blog!) Anonymous claimed that her own comment was a thoughtful question. Well, we leave it up to you to decide. Once again, we thank this individual for providing superb insight into the mindset of Wonderland.
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The people in darkness have seen a great light!
Hallelujah!
One of our readers, Junkster, put this lovely poem, written by his mother, in the comment section. It was such a thoughtful poem, we decided to make it a surprise post for today. We know you will find it as thought provoking as we did.
Merry Christmas to all!
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