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How To Revive A “Dead” Church

How To Revive A “Dead” Church

This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 40, number 04 (2017). Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all...

China’s Falun Gong: The World Is Watching…and Joining

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 2 (1999).   SYNOPSIS Falun Gong’s struggle with the Chinese communist government and the groups stress on physical fitness and personal morality should not ask the dogmatic and...

Discernment in an Age of Information Overload

Discernment in an Age of Information Overload

  This article first appeared in CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 33, number 03 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS In our age of information overload, Christians must learn to...

Loving the Trinity

This article first appeared in the Volume 21 / Number 4 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SUMMARY The Trinity should be the object of our love, for the...

Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet

Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet

To listen to the audio version of this article, please click here.  This is an online article from the Christian Research Journal. ​When you  support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These...

Turning Truth into Mythology

Turning Truth into Mythology

Excerpt from Christianity in Crisis—21st Century Turning Truth into Mythology by Hank Hanegraaff   The following tale is a composite of the erroneous teachings of individuals such as Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth...

The Fifth Gospel: The Ultimate Apologetic

The Fifth Gospel: The Ultimate Apologetic

Synopsis The late British evangelist Gypsy Smith once quipped, “There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian, but most people never read the first four.” Guess what this implies? People are reading your life. And here’s a stunning reality—you...

Gwen Shamblin: Weighed & Found Wanting

Gwen Shamblin: Weighed & Found Wanting

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal volume 23, number 3 (2001). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SYNOPSIS The Weigh Down Workshop (WDW) has forced individual Christian pastors, and churches to...

Equipping the New Generation: There’s No Place Like Home

Equipping the New Generation: There’s No Place Like Home

This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 32, number 04 (2009). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ Synopsis Current research reveals that we are...

Joel’s Army Marches on

Joel’s Army Marches on

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 32, number 03 (2009). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org. SNYOPSIS Heirs of the latter rain movement that originated with William...

Equipping the Next Generation

Synopsis Current research reveals that we are realistically in danger of not passing on biblicalChristianity to the next generation. Both an overexposure to worldly philosophy and anoverdependence on church programs have caused us to fail in our task to hand off a...

The Celestine Prophecy& “Cosmic Synchronicity”

This article first appeared in the Volume 23 / Number 1 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org CURRENT PREOCCUPATIONS IN THE NEW AGE The 1960s saw a paradigm shift,...

Religious Advertising

The highways leading to Atlantic City, New Jersey are lined with billboards advertising the city’s many gam­bling establishments. But one billboard advertising “world peace” stands out. The way to achieve it, the billboard proclaims, is to join...

Pro-Life Arguments and the Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist

Pro-Life Arguments- SYNOPSIS The past few years have witnessed a stunning development in the pro-life movement. Many pro-life leaders now think we can make abortion rare by downplaying the moral question, “Does abortion take the life of a defenseless human...

New Challenges Face Gary Ezzo and Growing Families International

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 3 (2001). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org   Two and one-half years ago the Christian...

Another Milestone on the Road to Complete Recovery…and More

Hank’s absolute neutrophil and white blood cell counts are up on their own, without pharmaceutical intervention! That’s huge—magnify the Lord! And he is now out of the danger zone for Graft Versus Host Disease, so the doctors have taken him off the harsh preventive...

Marianne Williamson: From Inner Healing to the Healing of America

Marianne Williamson: From Inner Healing to the Healing of America

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 21, number 2 (1998). For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal Marianne Williamson has been tagged “the high...

The Dangers of Todd Bentley Theology

I was just talking to a friend of mine, Gerry James, who once was a Mr. California who, as a long drive champion, he's quite a physical specimen. We've been friends for a long time. He told me that he had just returned from a Todd Bentley healing extravaganza in...

Village Atheists with Vengeance

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 5 (2007). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   A few published and prolific atheists apparently have commandeered the...

Christianity Still in Crisis? A Word of Faith Update

Christianity Still in Crisis? A Word of Faith Update

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 3 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Hank Hanegraaff wrote in his book Christianity in Crisis that...

No Longer A Heretical Threat; Now Dear Brothers And Sisters In Christ:  Why, Concerning the Local Churches, I No Longer Criticize, But Instead Commend (A Reassessment of the “Local Church” Movement of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee)

No Longer A Heretical Threat; Now Dear Brothers And Sisters In Christ: Why, Concerning the Local Churches, I No Longer Criticize, But Instead Commend (A Reassessment of the “Local Church” Movement of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee)

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 32, number 06 (2009). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. The teachings of Witness Lee were first criticized in publication in America in...

Understanding Social Media

Understanding Social Media

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 33, number 03 (2010). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

The 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions (Parts 1 & 2)

PART ONE: INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE OR NEW AGE REALITY? This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 2 (Fall 1993). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   Saturday morning, August 28: I have just...

The Lost Beauty of Truth

One of the effects of Christianity on what was called “Christendom” was to create a setting in which the fundamental assumptions of a Christian world view were taken for granted. Virtually everyone, even the apostate or unregenerate, lived under the canopy...

The Internet’s Connection to Our Dark Sides

The Internet’s Connection to Our Dark Sides

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 34, number 05 (2011). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Warren Jeffs and His Prophecies from Prison

Warren Jeffs and His Prophecies from Prison

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 37, number 03 (2014). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Hank Is Back Live on the Bible Answer Man Broadcast Tonight!

He's been praying and thinking a great deal about how to have the greatest impact on the Bible Answer Man broadcast — continue answering questions live from callers, or offer more direct and in-depth teaching from the Word of God? Hank voiced the audio pages for his...

The Son of God and Muslim Idiom Translations

The Son of God and Muslim Idiom Translations

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 36, number 06 (2013). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Tell Me who I Am, O Enneagram

Tell Me who I Am, O Enneagram

This article first appeared in the Fall 1991 issue of the Christian Research Journal. The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. In America...

Scientology: From Science Fiction to Space-Age Religion

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 1 (Summer 1993). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SUMMARY The Church of Scientology is a controversial new religion developed by L. Ron...

Christian Apologetics in a Nutshell

Christian Apologetics in a Nutshell

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 42, number 3/4 (2019). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. SYNOPSIS Christians are called to make a rational case for their worldview. This...

Tomorrowland: The Future is Here — Isn’t It Mesmerizing?

This article first appeared in  the Christian Research Journal volume 23, number 1 (2001). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   America's love affair with technology is rooted in a type of secular Manifest Destiny, which sees...

An Apologetic for Apologetics in Cyberspace

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   One of the most gratifying aspects of using the Internet is...

Harold Camping

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 1 (2002). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Harold Camping is the president of Family Radio. He teaches that...