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“My Elders Have Disagreed With Me Only Twice in 28 Year”: The Church Has a Broken Elder System.
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (652+ words) “Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.” L Ron Hubbard Yesterday, I received a bunch of documents from members of a PCA church who want to go forward with their experience of abuse via the…...
Mark Driscoll Jokes About Obesity in Pastors But Laughing at Others as Opposed to Dealing With His Problems Is Boringly Predictable
2+ week, 6+ day ago (370+ words) “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” –C. S. Lewis Unlike Piper, who stays within the Calvinista tradition, Driscoll moved on to a whole new crowd…...
Life Church and the AOG: When a Church Ceases to Be a Church and Becomes a Spectator Sport And the Denomination is Just Plain Ducky With It All.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (796+ words) The One who created this is the One who deserves the honor, not me. Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of Lucifer…. An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because…...
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, 1+ week 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.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (869+ words) @ESA’s Euclid mission released its first science images, including views of a large cluster of thousands of distant galaxies, close-ups of two nearby galaxies, a gravitationally bound group of stars called a globular cluster, and a nebula, or a cloud…...
Five Views of Christian Nationalism: Al Mohler and Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney, Oh My!
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (989+ words) My concern in this post was a drift of the SBC toward the more rigid views of Doug Wilson. I asked Wade if I was being overly dramatic, but he assured me I wasn’t. Here’s what I wrote in that…...
Honoring the Well-Lived Life of Dr John Lennox: Mathematician, Theologian, and Servant
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (438+ words) “God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very…...
The Gospel Coalition Sees Only Lay Elders(Men) Doing Visitation and Other Activities to Help Out Busy Pastors. Why Not Women?
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (510+ words) “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” CS Lewis It appears the SBC is reversing direction. Willy Rice, the new president of the SBC, was featured…...