If any of you have been wondering why there has been a lack of Dick and Joan on the Miracle Channel recently, well I think the headline speaks for itself.  It was announced in church today (Dominion Gateway Centre and Victory Church of Lethbridge) by a very tearful Dick and Joan, that they will no longer be heading up the Miracle Channel.  They have stepped down and Ray and Donna Block have been asked (and I believe they accepted) to run the channel.  Wayne and Rose Boersma, formerly of Victory church in Brooks have been asked to take over the Pastorship of Dominion Gateway. 

I used to think the prosperity gospel of health and wealth was mainly confined to the Word of Faith, positive confession bunch. However, it seems this doctrine has managed to trickle its way into even the most mainline orthodox Christian denominations in Canada. Undoubtedly, we must credit the Miracle Channel for the broad dispersion of this false teaching throughout the church at large and the deception it births in many who succumb to embracing unbiblical doctrine. This doctrine of earthly abundance and prosperity does not produce the fruit of Christ, but the fruit of man's unregenerate nature, ever seeking to fulfill its own desires and never beholding, much less conforming to the true nature of Christ. Followers of Christ, who do not imitate Him, are not followers at all. They are imposters driven to serve their own agenda, not to serve the Master.

One day, whether in this life or the next, the directors of the Miracle Channel will be held accountable for presenting doctrines diametrically opposed to the simple truths of the Gospel, using Jesus' name, as they fervently endeavor to promote the eternally dangerous teachings of a man named Clive Pick.

Because the Miracle Channel is required by the CRTC to present a variety of religious views as part of the "balance requirement" in programming, it is necessary that they broadcast the teachings of the prosperity gospel, dangerous as they are. However, something the Miracle Channel consistently fails to do, though also required, is present opposing views to this particular "religious view" which they are so fond of. Thus the reason for this article.