Recently, I sat down with a friend and sister in Christ who had exited a popular women’s group within the hyper charismatic/ NAR movement two years ago. After developing a friendship and getting to know one another for about a year after her departure, Trish felt comfortable sitting down to tell her story and to discuss some of the teachings that she had been exposed to in the Core Group. It has been a year since that first recorded discussion,…
Years ago, I read a book that affected my view of childbirth before my husband and me had children. This book was called Supernatural Childbirth, and the idea behind this doctrine was that a woman could use the Word of God in such a way to overcome the issues in conception, pregnancy, labor, and delivery of children. Pregnancies would be free of nausea, morning sickness, and any type of discomfort or depression. Labor and delivery would be pain free and…
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore…
This week, I recorded an episode answering listener’s questions concerning some beliefs of the New Apostolic Reformation. Some of these questions also included personal elements of how to navigate coming out of this movement and unlearning much of the teaching while also dealing with loved ones and family members still entrenched in it. Here was one of the questions from this week’s episode. “My husband and I were in an NAR based church for 12 years. As you can imagine,…
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God’s wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition. Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment If you had asked me several years ago how to find contentment in God, I would likely have said that it is only found in God and in the abundant life He promises in His Word. That answer sounds a bit convoluted, doesn’t it? To some…
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you. 1 Corinthians 14:22 ESV Imagine participating in what is deemed a prophetic seeing experiment. You are invited to join your consciousness with Jesus and to see the way He sees about a specific…
A woman stands before a church congregation, sharing with them how she loves to get together with her friends and practice prophesying. She tells the people that they sometimes “get it wrong”, and she proceeds to tell them that this does not make someone a false prophet. She instructs those gathered to close their eyes, think on a word that the Holy Spirit is giving them, and if they do not get anything, they should make up a word. A…
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in that name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 God made man as a triune being. Man was given dominion….
In a recent interview with Destiny Image, Larry Sparks and Lydia Marrow discussed her newly published book, Death to Counterfeit Christianity. The title of the interview was interesting, as it posed the question, Are the ELECT Being Deceived: The Religion of the End Times. In response to Larry’s question as to what counterfeit Christianity is, Lydia stated that the church needed to focus once again on the Acts church and to return to its foundation. She stated that Paul did…
Be it known unto all that Dawn Hill having successfully completed all courses of study, and having satisfied all requirement of Impact Ministerial Institute is now, upon the recommendation of the faculty, honored by the presentation of the sacred degree bearing the title of Doctor of Theology with all the rights and privileges thereto given this 21st day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen. I have in my possession several pieces of paper with…