Beautiful! Thanks to the Lord for the grace of healing that Lisa carries. This story reminds me the Monograph, "Testing Prayer" by Candy Gunther Brown.
"When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man." - Matthew 9:8
"The only trouble is that modern miracles are not so well known as the earlier ones, nor are they sufficiently pounded into people's memory by constant reading, so that they may stick, as it were, like gravel in cement. Even where pains are taken, as is now the case in Hippo, to have the written depositions of the beneficiaries of these graces read to the people, only those in church hear the stories, and that only once, and the many who are not present hear nothing, and those who have listened forget in a day or so, and you hardly ever hear of a person who has heard a deposition telling it to someone else who was not in church for the reading." - St. Augustine, The City of God, 447 - (quoted from the Master's degree thesis, Gratia Gratis Data: A Thomistic Perspective of Grace in the Life of the Church by Sister Mary Josephine Spellman, O.P.), Page 8.
Hello everyone. Yesterday, we attended a memorial gathering for Kwibuka 31 (commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsi), and the speaker raised many thought-provoking points. Among them, one that stood out to me was how the origin of words—especially those that evolve or shift in meaning—can often cause confusion and contribute to division.
Christian implication: The Body of Christ is sadly divided also, and the use of words with multiple meanings, depending on who is using them, only deepens this division.
This insight, shared by our dear YouTuber and influencer @CapturingChristianity , Cameron Bertuzzi, really resonated with me. I remember reaching a similar conclusion during a Facebook debate (pre-Covid season), so I completely understand where he’s coming from.
Let us also pray for unity in the way Christians use language (e.g., “born again,” “worship,” “prayer,” etc.) as we seek greater Christian unity.
I hope you find the note below a useful reflection and a reasonable appeal:
Greetings all. I have been reading this book (Anthology) edited by Père Michel:
"Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hope" - Editors Michel Segatagara Kamanzi, et al.
One of the contributor made a direct studied correlation between the Jewish Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide. Her comments reminded me this video on how some theologians invented Jesus in their own political image and that led to the jewish hollocaust in Germany.
I found this presentation quite educational and I wanted to share it with you.
Bonjour à tous. Voici un petit chant @Gloriouslouange qui nous rappelle notre mission en tant que chrétiens : faire connaître Jésus-Christ à ceux qui nous sont proches, mais qui ne Le connaissent pas, ou qui Le connaissent mal à cause des circonstances de la vie ou des faux enseignements dont ils ont été victimes. En union de prière. 🙏🏽
Matthieu 28:19-20: _"Allez, faites de toutes les nations des disciples, les baptisant au nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit, leur enseignant à observer tout ce que je vous ai prescrit. Et voici, je suis avec vous tous les jours, jusqu'à la fin du monde."_
Although Benny Hinn has been known for giving false prophecy and expressing false doctrines in the past, it is interesting to notice that not everything about him was utterly fake. I was surprised to read this:
"In emulation of Kuhlman and Casdorph, *the prominent healing televangelist Benny Hinn published a volume of ten healing narratives, Lord, I Need a Miracle (1993), for which a physician, Donald Colbert, M.D., wrote a foreword. Colbert attested to having personally reviewed the medical files for each subject included in the volume.* For example, David Lane had been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the rectum by rectal biopsy; a colorectal surgeon had told Lane that he had thirty days to live without surgery or three months with surgery. Lane elected not to undergo surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, or to take any other medicine, but he did attend a Benny Hinn miracle service. Nine months later, when Lane went to a doctor for an appendectomy, this doctor wrote in his medical report: _'free of metastatic carcinoma... no evidence of malignancy.'_ *Other conditions reported as healed in the volume include chemical hypersensitivity, a cerebral pseudotumor causing blindness, metastasized bladder cancer, lupus, Hodgkin’s disease, thoracic outlet syndrome, pulmonary vascular hypertension, coronary artery disease, and congenital severe hearing impairment.* " - Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, TESTING PRAYER: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press); Page 110
Eric Gatera
Beautiful! Thanks to the Lord for the grace of healing that Lisa carries. This story reminds me the Monograph, "Testing Prayer" by Candy Gunther Brown.
"When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man." - Matthew 9:8
"The only trouble is that modern miracles are not so well known as the earlier ones, nor are they sufficiently pounded into people's memory by constant reading, so that they may stick, as it were, like gravel in cement. Even where pains are taken, as is now the case in Hippo, to have the written depositions of the beneficiaries of these graces read to the people, only those in church hear the stories, and that only once, and the many who are not present hear nothing, and those who have listened forget in a day or so, and you hardly ever hear of a person who has heard a deposition telling it to someone else who was not in church for the reading." - St. Augustine, The City of God, 447 - (quoted from the Master's degree thesis, Gratia Gratis Data: A Thomistic Perspective of Grace in the Life of the Church by Sister Mary Josephine Spellman, O.P.), Page 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1av4...
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Eric Gatera
Hello everyone. Yesterday, we attended a memorial gathering for Kwibuka 31 (commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsi), and the speaker raised many thought-provoking points. Among them, one that stood out to me was how the origin of words—especially those that evolve or shift in meaning—can often cause confusion and contribute to division.
Christian implication: The Body of Christ is sadly divided also, and the use of words with multiple meanings, depending on who is using them, only deepens this division.
This insight, shared by our dear YouTuber and influencer @CapturingChristianity , Cameron Bertuzzi, really resonated with me. I remember reaching a similar conclusion during a Facebook debate (pre-Covid season), so I completely understand where he’s coming from.
Let us also pray for unity in the way Christians use language (e.g., “born again,” “worship,” “prayer,” etc.) as we seek greater Christian unity.
I hope you find the note below a useful reflection and a reasonable appeal:
#Twibuke,Twihubaka!
https://capturingchristianity.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-saying-roman-catholic
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Greetings all. I have been reading this book (Anthology) edited by Père Michel:
"Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hope" - Editors Michel Segatagara Kamanzi, et al.
One of the contributor made a direct studied correlation between the Jewish Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide. Her comments reminded me this video on how some theologians invented Jesus in their own political image and that led to the jewish hollocaust in Germany.
I found this presentation quite educational and I wanted to share it with you.
https://youtu.be/hnnggA-mIJI?si=hU9Ws...
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Bonjour à tous. Voici un petit chant @Gloriouslouange qui nous rappelle notre mission en tant que chrétiens : faire connaître Jésus-Christ à ceux qui nous sont proches, mais qui ne Le connaissent pas, ou qui Le connaissent mal à cause des circonstances de la vie ou des faux enseignements dont ils ont été victimes. En union de prière. 🙏🏽
Matthieu 28:19-20: _"Allez, faites de toutes les nations des disciples, les baptisant au nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit, leur enseignant à observer tout ce que je vous ai prescrit. Et voici, je suis avec vous tous les jours, jusqu'à la fin du monde."_
https://youtu.be/eXc6isyEKsw?si=WjISH...
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Although Benny Hinn has been known for giving false prophecy and expressing false doctrines in the past, it is interesting to notice that not everything about him was utterly fake. I was surprised to read this:
"In emulation of Kuhlman and Casdorph, *the prominent healing televangelist Benny Hinn published a volume of ten healing narratives, Lord, I Need a Miracle (1993), for which a physician, Donald Colbert, M.D., wrote a foreword. Colbert attested to having personally reviewed the medical files for each subject included in the volume.* For example, David Lane had been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the rectum by rectal biopsy; a colorectal surgeon had told Lane that he had thirty days to live without surgery or three months with surgery. Lane elected not to undergo surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, or to take any other medicine, but he did attend a Benny Hinn miracle service. Nine months later, when Lane went to a doctor for an appendectomy, this doctor wrote in his medical report: _'free of metastatic carcinoma... no evidence of malignancy.'_ *Other conditions reported as healed in the volume include chemical hypersensitivity, a cerebral pseudotumor causing blindness, metastasized bladder cancer, lupus, Hodgkin’s disease, thoracic outlet syndrome, pulmonary vascular hypertension, coronary artery disease, and congenital severe hearing impairment.* " - Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, TESTING PRAYER: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press); Page 110
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