Posted in charismania on November 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Gospel of Jesus – the good news of what Jesus has accomplished for us through His death on the cross and His resurrection – is a message that will work, will be true, for all people at all times. If you put your faith in what Christ did on your behalf, you will be [...]
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Posted in Biblical truth, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Elijah list, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged abuse, angels, anointing, authority, Biblical truth, cessation, Charisma, charismatic, christian, church, cult, fake, falling down, falling out, falling out under the power, gifts of the spirit, inappropriate, pentecostal, power, prophecy, Prophetic, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, spiritual gifts, Word of Faith, word of life christian center on October 28, 2009 | 28 Comments »
I’ve been going through the Old Testament for my Bible reading these days. Last night I was in the book of I Kings, in the passage where King Solomon dedicates the temple of the Lord.
That’s when I came across a couple of verses that seemed especially familiar:
When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled [...]
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Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Elijah list, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on June 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before how we arrived at our “Charismaniac” church after a lifetime spent in more traditional Bible-based Reformed/Evangelical churches.
I think a good part of the allure that Living Word Church (a pseudonym) had for us, at least at first, was that it WAS such a departure from what we’d grown up with. Instead of [...]
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Posted in Biblical truth, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Elijah list, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, tagged abuse, charismatic, church, church money, cult, cultic, dramatic, falling out under the power, false miracle, false miracles, miracle, miracles, pentecostal, prayer line, prophecy, speaking in tongues, spiritual gifts on May 23, 2009 | 20 Comments »
I haven’t posted anything meaningful in quite awhile, mostly because I tend not to think so much anymore about our time in Charismania. We’ve moved on and are in a good, healthy place.
But every once in awhile, something does trigger a memory, or a flash of insight.
The other night, right as I drifted off to [...]
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Posted in charismania, tagged abuse, Amway, angels, anointing, authority, Biblical truth, Blogroll, cessation, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, Elijah list, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prayer cloth, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism, Word of Faith on March 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
We’ve written about prayer cloths before.
We continue to refuse to doubt that God can and does heal people, and we believe that the principle behind the idea of prayer cloths is in the Bible. Check out Acts 19:11-12 -
God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to [...]
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Posted in charismania, tagged abuse, Alexandra Pelosi, anointing, Biblical truth, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, charismatic, christian, church, deception, discernment, false miracle, HBO documentary, homosexuality, New Life Church, Oprah, Ted Haggard, Word of Faith on January 31, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Over the past couple of days, I’ve had the opportunity to watch both the HBO special, The Trials of Ted Haggard, and the interview that Haggard and his wife Gayle did with Oprah.
Some troubling stuff there.
Considering that both Oprah and Alexandra Pelosi are firmly in the camp that typically views Bible-believing fundamentalists as irrational nuts clinging to outdated ideas about homosexuality, I [...]
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Posted in charismania on January 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m really NOT obsessed with Pastor Smith (a pseudonym, as are all other names used in this post).
We have moved on. It’s been nearly two years since we attended our final service at Living Word Church. We are part of a healthy congregation now, where week after week we are privileged to hear normal, healthy [...]
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Posted in Amway, Biblical truth, Blogroll, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Elijah list, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, fake degree, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on December 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of the strangest (and most unbiblical) things about our particular experience with “Charismania” was the odd dynamic that swirled around the pastors of Living Word Church (a pseudonym, as are most other names on this website). Within the world that they’d created inside the walls of Living Word, the Smith family – Pastor Smith, [...]
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Posted in Biblical truth, Blogroll, Charisma, Elijah list, Word of Faith, abuse, angels, anointing, authority, cessation, charismania, charismatic, christian, church, church money, cult, deception, discernment, equality, evil, excellence, false prophecy, false prophet, favoritism, financial abuse, fraud, inappropriate, pentecostal, perfection, pimp, prophecy, prophetic movement, prosperity gospel, spiritual abuse, spiritual favoritism on October 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Pastor Smith is still at it. He’s still preaching what amounts to a “different gospel.”
I don’t know why this surprises me. We’re a few months shy of the two-year anniversary of our leaving Living Word Church (a pseudonym, as are all other names mentioned in this post), and every time I check in and listen [...]
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Posted in charismania on October 9, 2008 | 37 Comments »
The other day, my husband and I were musing aloud about our time at Living Word Church (for the record, a pseudonym, as are all other names used here - except for those of widely known celebrity TV preachers). As we reminisced, I had a fleeting thought of a story I’d shared once before, in the [...]
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