Pastor Shaun Marksbury

 I wanted to write a quick post prompted by a unsolicited book I received through church mail.  It's titled  Catch and Release God’s Supernatural: Keys to Operating in God’s Miracles, Healing, and Power . I don't know the author, but the title is a flag as red as the cover of the book.  If there's anything we see in Scripture about the supernatural, it's that natural man can't catch it and control it.  This is true of even the apostles, who could not always heal themselves or others.   Yet, the back cover of this book says that the author has experienced "personally and in ministry," and he will "take you by the hand to teach you how you too can operate in the same power." We don't need to look beyond this cover to know how this will go.  The first bullet point intended to highlight what Nkoyoyo will show is this: "how the power of God will make a shift in your life."  The word "shift" is one of the ambiguous words false p...

This was originally posted at my old blog, July 19, 2008, "We Need to Correct Our Bent:" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We just came back from vacation in Florida, visiting the kin folk. Overall, it was a wonderful visit. Some stories I began to hear, however, made me quite uneasy. For instance, my ears perked up while visiting our home church when a gal began praising the Lakeland Revival -- to the approval of the pastor and congregation. I was told by others that several people from the church had gone to the visit the supposed outpouring. Having only recently heard of Todd Bentley, and the reports were unsavory from a biblical perspective, I looked for videos on our pal, YouTube. Here are some of the search results: Todd Bentley hears the "audible voice of God" and discovers he was demon possessed [EDIT: at a Charismatic Catholic mass!] after his profession of faith ( video ). Bentley announces the physical app...