Category: Spiritual gifts

My review of Benoit, Not By Ignorance (Review copyrighted and sponsored by The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship, Inc.)

Frank W. R. Benoit, Not by Ignorance: An Explanation of Cessationism (Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2020; Spanish first edition 2017, Sevilla, España), 264 pp. $15.99 paperback. The FULL review in English is available HERE.The full review in Spanish is available HERE.In both cases, the reviews are copyrighted and sponsored by The Foundation for Pentecostal... Continue Reading →

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Yes, a seminary education helped me!

It is fashionable to criticize seminary training. For example, Peter DeHaan argues that “Seminary delays ministry!” That is, the years you invest in training, are years wasting God’s time. He writes: “If God actually tells you to go to seminary, then go. Otherwise just start serving him and leave the advanced education to the academics.... Continue Reading →

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Has church become a “show”?

In another place I have written about two churches I have visited that gave a broad weekly invitation for all members to participate in leading worship. I have also written on the related theme of the Priesthood of all Believers. As we hear so often, “The church is not the building, but the congregation.” That... Continue Reading →

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Did David Wilkerson predict Coronavirus in 1973? Or in 1986? Or, was it only last Wednesday? Or did Jim Bakker predict 9-11, but only mentioned it 6 years after the fact?

Beware of those who are trying to resurrect David Wilkerson's The Vision, where in 1973 he supposedly predicted the plague that we now call Coronavirus. He did not, not by a long shot. What he ACTUALLY said was quite different. Most of his "vision" was utterly generic and rambling and could be true for any... Continue Reading →

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