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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > Pentecostal Churches
What happens when prophets are wrong?
In 2020, many Christians claiming to be prophets said that God told them that Donald Trump would be re-elected as president, which did not happen. What happens when prophets get it wrong? Are there consequences for misleading God's people?
In recent years, gross misjudgments among Charismatic Christians claiming to speak for God and moral failures within Evangelicalism have resulted in a crisis of belief. In Prophetic Integrity, bestselling author and speaker, R.T. Kendall gives a warning to those speaking in God's name and offers a way forward in trusting God despite the failures of the church.
Includes:
- Personal accounts of visions and supernatural experiences
- Good, bad, and ugly examples of modern-day prophecy
- Seven levels of prophetic gifting
- Examples of false teachings within open theism
- Relevant Bible verses and meaningful quotes
- Thought-provoking questions
- A call for honesty, vulnerability, and repentance
Prophetic Integrity is a book for those who believe that God still speaks today but have serious questions about those within the church that identify as prophets.
Many Jesus followers are sleepwalking through their Christian lives. They wear a smile, attend church gatherings, and try their best to make it through, but they don’t really expect answered prayers, breakthroughs, or a miraculous change in their situations. Why? Disappointment and disillusionment. The Bible calls this “hope deferred.” What we hoped for did not happen, and we are left with hopes and dreams that are dead.
But remember: we serve the God of resurrection life and revival!
Robert Henderson is the bestselling author of the Courts of Heaven series, and in this latest book he challenges you to pray for miracle reversals in every situation that seems hopeless. Resurrection thunders as a verdict from the Courts of Heaven, for it is God alone who gives life to the dead.
This powerful new book will show you how to:
- Discover the Seven Secrets to seeing dead things revived in your life
- Identify the spirit of sabotage in your life - and cancel its influence
- Make Lazarus Decrees over those situations that Jesus wants to resurrect and revive
- Dismantle the spirit of death—and stop it from impacting every area of your life
- Receive stirring biblical examples of resurrection power released into impossible situations
- Break off the pain of disappointment and position yourself for answered prayer
Resurrection is not a one-time event; it should be the default setting of the Christian life. We are filled with Jesus’ resurrection life and power! We have been commissioned by the resurrected Jesus to see His supernatural miracle power reverse any plan of the enemy that has sought to steal, kill, and destroy.
Joseph W. Williams examines the changing healing practices of
pentecostals in the United States over the past 100 years, from the
early believers, who rejected mainstream medicine and overtly
spiritualized disease, to the later generations of pentecostals and
their charismatic successors, who dramatically altered the healing
paradigms they inherited. Williams shows that over the course of
the twentieth century, pentecostal denunciations of the medical
profession often gave way to ''natural'' healing methods associated
with scientific medicine, natural substances, and even psychology.
By 2000, figures such as the pentecostal preacher T. D. Jakes
appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, other healers marketed their books
at mainstream retailers such as Wal-Mart, and some developed
lucrative nutritional products that sold online and in health food
stores across the nation. Exploring the interconnections,
resonances, and continued points of tension between adherents and
some of their fiercest rivals, Spirit Cure chronicling adherents'
embrace of competitors' healing practices and illuminates
pentecostals' dramatic transition from a despised minority to major
players in the world of American evangelicalism and mainstream
American culture.
The growth of Christianity in the global South is one of the most
important religious stories of the last decade. In no branch of
Christianity has that growth been more rapid than Pentecostalism.
There are over 100 million Pentecostals in Africa, and Pentecostal
practices infuse Catholic, Anglican, and Independent churches. In
the traditional Catholic stronghold of Latin America,
Pentecostalism now vies with Catholicism for the soul of the
continent. And the largest Pentecostsal church in the world, with
over 800,000 members, is in Seoul. In To the Ends of the Earth,
Allan Anderson offers a historical and theological examination of
the growth of global Pentecostalism. Examining such issues as
revivalism, healing, gender, worship, and globalization, Anderson
seeks to show how the growth of global Pentecostalism is changing
the face of Christianity as a whole.
Divine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of
Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. But although we know that
healing is central in these movements, we know surprisingly little
about how divine healing beliefs and practices reflect the
interplay of local and global patterns of cultural development. The
essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and
what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse
contexts, trace formal and informal lines of cultural influence
across geographic and national boundaries, and ask how healing both
reflects and contributes to larger processes of globalization. The
collection will not only flesh out a picture of how and why
spiritual healing is practiced in diverse cultural contexts and how
healing practices reflect and shape the transnational spread of
Christianity; it will also provide insight into the nature of
globalization. The authors will attend to a wide range of issues,
including the theological rationales for divine healing; the
symbolic objects and ritual enactments employed; the cultural
controversies surrounding these practices; the relationship between
Christian healing and local or indigenous healing traditions;
whether an emphasis on financial prosperity is always present; and
the extent to which Pentecostal and charismatic churches are
networked and the role of healing in such networks. All the essays
are new to this volume.
Pastor of Angelus Temple and the Dream Center, founder Matthew
Barnett leads participants on a six-week learning experience to
understand how simple it is to make a lasting impact on their
world. It is not as daunting as we might think. World-changers
start with a heart open to the leading of the Holy Spirit and a
willingness to do as he asks. Ideal for small groups, Bible
studies, and church classes, this kit includes a copy of the book
One Small Step, a DVD with an in-depth video for each session, and
a participant's guide to help members hear the Holy Spirit's voice
and obey his nudges. Also included are small step activities to
participate in, throughout the study and beyond. Boldly embrace the
life-changing adventure of becoming the hands and feet of Jesus to
the people right outside your front door. You will soon discover
that "random acts of kindness" are not so random after all.
An Unlikely Missionary Dispels the Myth That
Miracles Happen Only in Africa
Michele Perry may be an unlikely person to start a missionary
orphanage in war-torn Sudan. Born without her left hip and leg, she
is no stranger to overwhelming impossibility. She's learned from
childhood to rely fully on God, who constantly surprises her--and
she and her Sudanese children, more than one hundred of them, have
witnessed him moving in miraculous and wondrous ways again and
again.
Here she shares some of these amazing, inspiring stories. More than
that, she shows how readers can genuinely, fully experience God in
their everyday lives--whether in Africa or at home, wherever they
are. She helps them understand what he looks like, what it means to
hear his voice, what it's like to see a vision, and how to
recognize the holy in the ordinary. With these practical keys,
believers will be able to open the floodgates of life changing,
supernatural encounters with God.
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