Top of the Week: Benny Hinn Breaks Silence Amid Controversy
Following are snippets of the top stories posted over the past week on charismanews.com. We encourage you to visit the links to read the stories in full.
Benny Hinn Breaks Silence Amid Controversy
Pastor. Preacher. Author. Charlatan.
Evangelist Benny Hinn has been called a lot of things and held many titles over the years, and whether people love him or hate him, they still cannot stop talking about him and his recognizable crusades.
As the information era continues moving forward, Hinn’s reach has only grown, and critics are able to make a career out of reacting to decades-old videos of Hinn from as far back as the 1980s and ’90s.
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WATCH: Gun Miraculously Jams as Man Shoots at Pastor
A pastor in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, is giving God all the praise, honor and glory after a man tried to murder him as he was giving his sermon.
Pastor Glenn Germany had fractions of a second to react as the man, identified as 26-year-old Bernard Junior Polite, casually strolled up to the front altar of the Jesus Dwelling Place Church, smiled at the pastor and raised a silver pistol mere feet from Germany with a clear line of fire.
Cahn Talks Mental Health Amid MacArthur Backlash
Pastor John Macarthur is facing backlash from the Christian community after his statements that PTSD is nothing more than grief.
“If you understand, take PTSD, for example, what that really is, is grief. You are fighting a war you lost. Your buddies, you have a certain amount of survival guilt because you made it back, they didn’t. How do you deal with grief? Grief is a real thing. But grief is part of life, and if you can’t navigate grief, you can’t live life,” MacArthur said.
As the Christian Post reported, MacArthur further said, “But if you clinically define that, you can give them a pill, a series of medications, and they end up in LA, homeless on the sidewalk. This is, in regard to children, it’s the most deadly thing that’s been unleashed on children—medication.”
Benny Hinn’s Regrets: ‘I’m a Human Being. I’ve Made Mistakes’
In an exclusive interview with Stephen Strang, Benny Hinn addressed his two major regrets in regard to prosperity gospel and prophecy.
“I’m a human being. I’ve made mistakes,” Hinn says.
When it comes to ministry, Hinn says his first regret is about mishearing God when giving others prophetic words.
7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal the Direction America Has Chosen
Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.
When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans also embraced. But in our day and age, those values have been discarded and now people that see the world the way that I do are clearly not in the majority any longer.
I know that a lot of people out there may not want to hear that our national values have been turned upside down, but it is the truth. Those that sought to “fundamentally transform” this country have succeeded, and at this point “American values” are vastly different from the American values that I cherished as a young boy.
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