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Serving the God of Miracles

admin@opentheword.org (Cathy Wilhelm) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:03:16 GMT

Shortly after Dennis and I moved to Oregon we were driving on a curvy country road between Sweet Home and Lebanon. Dennis was driving. We looked up as we came around a corner and there was a huge truck right in front of us, coming straight toward us in our lane.

There was no time to do anything and nowhere to go. The truck was only a couple of yards in front of us and both vehicles were traveling about 40 MPH. I screamed, "JESUS!!!!!" That truck did not hit us,

The Impact of Focus on the Family's "John 3:16" Commercial

admin@opentheword.org (Aimee Herd) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:43 GMT

"The boys started commenting on the commercial… my younger boy said, 'Well, I want to have everlasting life.' So I just stopped and looked at him, and said, 'Well, let's go take care of that.'"

The Bible says God's Word is "living and active" and "sharper than any two-edged sword.." and as God Himself reiterates in Isaiah 55:11, "so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

Jesus was

Please Stop the Holy Ghost Smackdown

admin@opentheword.org (J. Lee Grady) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:42 GMT

Do you want the real power of the Holy Spirit? Then don’t pretend by pushing people to the floor when you pray.

I love it when the Holy Spirit shows up in church gatherings. Whenever sinners are converted, backsliders repent, bodies are healed or self-centered believers are broken by God, we see evidence of the Spirit’s work. But I don’t appreciate it when people fabricate spiritual manifestations to prove God is using them. (Image Laying on of Hands at a Pentecostal church:Wikipedia;PDUSGov)

A few years ago a popular charismatic preacher spoke

UK Christians told by advertising authority that they cannot say that people can be healed from physical illness

admin@opentheword.org (opentheword.org) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:27 GMT

BATH, UK (ANS) -- The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told a group of Christians in the city of Bath, located in Somerset, south west England, not to make any claims which state or imply that, by receiving their prayer, people could be physically healed.

A registered Christian trust, the "Healing on the Streets Bath" (www.hotsbath.org) team, comprised of Christians from many different churches, have been praying for the public outside Bath Abbey for three years and regularly offer to pray

2012: America's Final Warning?

admin@opentheword.org (Jonathan Cahn) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:57 GMT

More than 2,700 years ago God gave ancient Israel a specific warning accompanied by nine symbolic signs of things to come if it didn’t return to Him. Those same harbingers of destruction are today reappearing—in uncanny detail—in America. Has God issued the same prophetic message for our nation of what is yet to come? Jonathan Cahn, author of the just-released book, The Harbinger, offers his perspective.

Is it possible that there exists an ancient mystery in which is hidden the secret of America’s future? Is it possible that this mystery

Satanism is growing among Iranian youth

admin@opentheword.org (Dan Wooding) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:24 GMT

IRAN (ANS) -- A recent survey reveals that seventy factions of Satanism are active in Iran and these Satanist groups have attracted around two thousand members in some cities in the country.

This has been revealed in a story by Mohabat News (http://mohabatnews.comIt says in a story, "The findings of a recent government survey show that the dangers of such groups regarding cultural and moral

What Faith Looks Like Today

admin@opentheword.org (Joe McKeever) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:00:26 GMT

When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."(Mark 2:5)

Jesus saw their faith.

We think of faith as an attitude, intangible and invisible, something we feel or we don't.

We cannot see faith. But the Lord Jesus Christ does. He sees faith. He can tell in an instant whether faith is present and if it is the real thing.

Now, let's clear up one thing right up front: Everyone lives by faith. Everyone. The fiercest agnostic and most confirmed atheist share this in common with believers:

Christian Anti-Trafficking Organization Rescues 13 Girls From being Forced into Prostitution from Mumbai, India

admin@opentheword.org (Jacob Philip) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:23 GMT

"I thought there would be no way I could come out of the brothel and finally one good day an Investigator of Indian Rescue Mission came to me and he offered help and today I am glad that I am rescued from this horrible place."

(Mumbai, India)—Acting on a tip off by Indian Rescue Mission (IRM) regarding a trafficking racket, Mumbai Crime Branch raided a brothel and rescued thirteen girls from Faras Road, Mumbai on Thursday January 12, 2012.

Two days prior to the raid,

NEWSLETTER: Do You Have the Right Kind of Faith for Miracles?

admin@opentheword.org (Dean Smith) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:04:13 GMT

Predictably 90% stuck up their hand.

We all want miracles and we all want the faith to perform them. But the question is do we have the right kind of faith? (Image Peter Walking on Water:Wikipedia)

I argue most of us don't, and the reason is due to a misinterpretation of a single Greek word in the New Testament. Well, it is actually a compound word, but you get my drift.

In Matthew 14, we

Atheism and Liberal, Missouri

admin@opentheword.org (Eric Lyons) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:06 GMT

In the summer of 1880, George H. Walser founded the town of Liberal in southwest Missouri. Named after the Liberal League in Lamar, Missouri (to which the town’s organizer belonged), Walser’s objective was “to found a town without a church, [w]here unbelievers could bring up their children without religious training,” and where Christians were not allowed (Thompson, 1895; Becker, 1895).

“His idea was to build up a town that should exclusively be the home of Infidels...a town that should have neither God, Hell, Church, nor Saloon” (Brand, 1895). Some of the