In an HLN exclusive interview with Carol Costello, Costi Hinn described growing up in the Hinn family as a hybrid of being a “royal family” (lavish riches) and the “mafia” (strict enforcement of the mafia). “You keep to your own, you defend your own. You never, ever, regardless of what the truth might be, do... Continue Reading

But at that moment, there was something about hearing the words, in the King James Version, as old and familiar to me as my own security blanket: “And the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.” It hit me that this was my problem: I was sore afraid.  ... Continue Reading

“Children adoption cases have been a thorny issue in American politics, with religious agencies in various states asking to be allowed to operate by their beliefs and retain the right to refuse placing children into the homes of same-sex couples.”   A Kentucky Family Court judge who earlier this year said he cannot hear adoption... Continue Reading

The problem here, aside from the shell game of politics and theology, is timing. When Keller adopted evangelicalism as his identity, did he really not know that Billy Graham, the poster-boy for post-World War II neo-evangelicalism and a board member at Keller’s seminary, Gordon-Conwell, had conducted religious services in the White House for Richard Nixon?... Continue Reading

My salvation experience occurred on Christmas Eve. It was 1982. I was attending a special worship service at a small church in Vietnam. The pastor, Ho Hieu Ha, delivered a message many Christians would find familiar: Christmas is not about the gifts we carefully wrap and place under a tree. Rather, it is about the... Continue Reading

Fix the system, not just the problem. Once the problem has been resolved, go the extra mile and ask yourself, “was this really a completely unpreventable problem, or is this a systems issue?” Chances are something in your current system produced the result. As you know, your system is perfectly designed to get the results it’s currently getting,... Continue Reading

God’s Word teaches that open rebuke is better than hidden love, though. James 5:29states, “Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” We are told in the first verse of Galatians 6: “Brothers, if anyone is caught in any... Continue Reading

Athanasius’s stalwart defense of the full divinity of Christ in a world that was rapidly moving into a more rational direction earned him the epitaph Athanasius contra mundum (Athanasius against the world). This doesn’t mean he was the only dissenting voice. He had many named and unnamed supporters: his Egyptian flock, the monks who publicly backed and... Continue Reading

He started out by asking the congregation what makes St. Andrews different? The answer was that St. Andrews was ordinary. St Andrews didn’t desire to think up new ways of reaching the world, but rather trusted the Lord, through the simple means of Grace that God had ordained, and that the early church had established... Continue Reading

Foster parents Derek and Frances Baars, members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), do not believe in lying to children about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, which became a point of contention with the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) of Hamilton. A CAS support worker felt the family was not doing their... Continue Reading