Charismatic Feeds

… the doctrine and practice of the Church fathers/mothers and adherents for centuries, and are being performed perhaps more than ever today with the explosive growth of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Christian movement.

To me Pope Francis’ action looks very like the sort of prayer that happens at charismatic healing services – not surprising given the Holy Father’s charismatic background. It might therefore be a prayer for deliverance

Then in the 1960s, the charismatic movement began to influence the church. The spirituality of the Pentecostal movement, with its emphasis on the personal experience of the Holy Spirit,

The Patristic church , a roughly thousand-year development between the primitive and medieval Church , produced the Creeds, gave us the Fathers, and evangelized the pagans. The 500 years of medieval Catholicism gave …

Mohammedanism: a religion founded on narcissism, schizophrenia, and paranoia … The same charismatic but haunted man that fled away into the desert was not the one who eventually

In contrast, all the new charismatic churches seem to have is each member’s personal beliefs and their personal relationship with God. It’s hard to tell what the church, as a body,

In the charismatic world, I think you find a lot of preaching that tends to force very sharp distinctions between the Old Testament’s Israel and the New

There was a similar longstanding attitude in the Church regarding the Holy Spirit, I think, until about 40 years ago when the Charismatic Movement became popular, and sort of helped to reeducate mainstream Christians to …

Last month I attended C2E2. C2E2 is a massive comic-con that happened at McCormick Place April 26-28, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. It was also the first stop on my summer convention tour. I

Have you ever been a part of a worship service in a charismatic pentecostal church? Have any of you had this experience? Now, I’m not talking about the exaggeration of this tradition