Dennis Bennett
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Dennis Bennett: God Does Want to Heal Everybody
We have a hard time believing God wants to heal everyone for one rather obvious reason: Everyone doesn’t get healed. But perhaps we will see no more than a trickle of healings until we settle in our minds that God indeed wants to heal everybody. Does God want to heal all His people? I know …
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The Christmas Rush
Are there blessings hidden amid the tinsel, the sales and the madness at the mall?
Does it bother you at Christmastime when carols are being played in shopping malls to the accompaniment of ringing cash registers? Does it upset you when the symbols of Christmas such as the Bethlehem star and the manger scene are used to sell merchandise and cards and decorations?
There’s no doubt, the commercialization of Christmas has been overdone. It would be nice if Christmas tinsel wouldn’t appear until at least after Thanksgiving. Nevertheless, I suggest we cool it on the complaining.
It’s unfair to put down people who make their living in merchandising just because they like to do a brisk business at Christmastime, and because they use the Christmas symbols and themes to help them do it. Like it or not, we are a “nation of shopkeepers”—we believe in and depend upon free business, which is a lot better than depending upon the government to feed us and tell us what to do.
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God’s Strength for This Generation
Originally written 20 years ago, a pioneer’s message on our need for the Holy Spirit’s power is just as relevant–and prophetic–today. Dennis Bennett was a priest in the Episcopal Church who became known as the father of the modern charismatic movement after he proclaimed from his pulpit on April 3, 1960, that he had been …
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