Don’t Let Super-Spiritual People Hurt Your Church, J Lee Grady, Charisma Magazine

A few years ago a prominent charismatic evangelist gained a wide following when he said an angel was visiting him regularly during his televised revival meetings. The angel was supposedly dispatched to unleash the next great healing revival in the United States. One big problem: The revival didn't happen.

Yet month after month, the tales of this evangelist's wild spiritual adventures grew more and more incredible. At one point he wrote that he visited heaven and met the Apostle Paul—and then said Paul admitted he was the author of the Book of Hebrews. A 2,000-year-old theological mystery was solved!

Looking back on these events now, it's hard to believe so many charismatics fell for these wild claims. Anyone with the most basic level of discernment knows God does not allow us to talk to dead people to get spiritual information. So why are we so gullible? I call this the "oooh, ahhh" factor.  read more

 

Britain's most unpopular flight costs YOU £86 per passenger to subsidise, Daily Express

The public pay £1.2m a year to subsidise the unpopular air service from Cardiff Airport to Anglesey in North Wales.

The Labour-run Welsh Government insisted on heavily subsidising the cost of running the route, with tickets starting at just £29.95.

But the flight has been a huge flop with around 100 people using it every week - costing the public £86 for each passenger.

Transport chiefs today called for a "comprehensive marketing programme" to boost passenger numbers.

Darren Millar AM, chair of the National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee, said: "We remain concerned that this service is underperforming when it comes to providing value for money for the Welsh taxpayer.

Going, going, gone! A small town loses THREE banks in a year as branches continue to close all over Britain, Daily Mail.

One year ago there were four banks on the High Street in the north Essex town of Brightlingsea. By this autumn only one will remain.

First Nationwide shut, then NatWest said it would leave, and now Barclays has followed suit. The closures are threatening to bring this thriving community to its knees. 

Susie Bowes has only been running Vintique antique shop on the High Street for two months and the Barclays branch is six doors down. She knew NatWest - further down the road - was going to close when she was looking to open a business bank account. She chose Barclays. It never said it was going to go, too.

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Romanian family of 17 who lied to get a house live in a three-bedroom London semi.

A Romanian migrant family of 17 who lied to get a three bedroom house but take home £55,000 a year in benefits say they put up with the overcrowding because life is better in Britain.

The Toma family arrived in Britain in 2012, but after struggling to find a letting agency prepared to house all 15 of their children they told a landlord there were just six of them to get a home.

Although electrician father Mihai Toma, 47, earns £1,800 a month which covers the rent at the house in Harrow, north-west London, because of the number of children the family get £55,000 a year in tax credits and benefits.

  Toma family arrived in Britain from Romania in 2012 'for a better life'

  Family of 17 struggled to find letting agents who would accept them

  They then lied to a landlord, saying there were only six family members

  Father Mihai earns £1,800 a month as an electrician

  They say they get £4,600 in monthly benefits due to the number of children

  Tomas want a bigger house, but councils says they are not eligible

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