By Holly Pivec A heterodox movement in Protestant Christianity known as the “New Apostolic Reformation1” (NAR) — also known as the “apostolic-prophetic movement” — gained vast influence among Pentecostal and charismatic churches worldwide, beginning in the late 1990s. The people who are part of this burgeoning movement follow present-day apostles and prophets who claim to govern the church and give new…
By Todd Starnes Published August 11, 2015 It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand. Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials. “We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me…
Commentary by Roger Oakland www.understandthetimes.org Recently, I was contacted by a friend and colleague who also has a discernment ministry. He was surveying other discernment ministries in order to come up with a list of the top ten subtle ways the body of Christ is presently being led astray. As I was busy speaking at a conference at the time I received…
By Kerry Trahan August 9, 2015 Inquiry is often made in regards to: 1) How many Resurrections occur? 2) In what order do they occur? And 3) When do they occur? This brief outline was compiled in the hopes of bringing clarity to some in response to such questions. First, the Old Testament addresses the subject of Resurrection on several occasions, but…
By Peter John When God promised Abraham that his descendants would possess all of the land from the Nile River in Egypt to Lebanon and everything from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River, he could not have imagined that God’s promise would be delayed by a diaspora lasting nearly 4,000 years into the future. A dispersion of the twelve tribes of…