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“My Elders Have Disagreed With Me Only Twice in 28 Year”: The Church Has a Broken Elder System.
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Nothing Says “I Love You” More Than a PCA Citation. Retroactive Churh Discipline and CrossPointe Church, Austin, TX.
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Teaching About the Antichrist and Finding Jesus in Silicon Valley.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (724+ words) We host speaker events where real conversations happen. Where tech founders, producers, designers, and creatives talk candidly about how faith and work collide. Where Jesus is at the center —not as an obligation, but as an invitation. You’ll hear stories…...
Burk Parsons, St Andrews Chapel, and Ligonier Ministries’ Pugnacious and Sanctimonious Application of Excommunication to Drs Steve and Heidi Nichols Should Inform Anyone Thinking of Engaging in These Ministries
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (861+ words) Yan Krukau at pexels “Rejection doesn’t mean you aren’t good enough. It means the other person failed to notice what you have to offer.” Mark Twain I recently saw this announcement on X. I am so pleased to let you…...
Free For Al But Think About “Why I Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead at That Church.”
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (279+ words) One of those days. FYI – Some Notes for everyone If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free…...
The Pearl Perspective’s Liz Green Majors on Church Abuse and Recovery.
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (281+ words) I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and…...
Some Pastors Seem to Believe That They Are the Daddy to the Church Members. Other Pastors Barely Engage. Then, There are the Others…
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (413+ words) “I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did…...
Lessons From Burk Parsons’ St Andrew’s Chapel: When Membership Covenants Are a Means for Pastors to Control the Members.
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Honoring the Well-Lived Life of Dr John Lennox: Mathematician, Theologian, and Servant
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Astronauts Have Taken Communion, Even on the Moon. Mark Dever’s 9Marks Will Only Give Communion to Acceptable Members Who Are in the Building.
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