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“My Elders Have Disagreed With Me Only Twice in 28 Year”: The Church Has a Broken Elder System.
2+ day, 18+ 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…...
Nothing Says “I Love You” More Than a PCA Citation. Retroactive Churh Discipline and CrossPointe Church, Austin, TX.
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (337+ words) Sand dunes on Mars. JPL NASA “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”— Buddha. (PS: To those who know who they are: I have been friends with Todd since 2013. One day I…...
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…...
Sometime Evil Demands a Response: Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville, VA, and Anglican Watch
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (807+ words) “You know what the biologists mean by a parasite—an animal that lives on another animal. Evil is a parasite. It is there only because good is there for it to spoil and confuse.” CS Lewis Today’s post is introducing…...
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…...
How Do the Ed Youngs of the World Gain Unlimited Control of Their Churches? The Pewsitters Are Too Bored to Vote.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1076+ words) “Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.” St Jerome Mark Wingfield, executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global, wrote Why you should…...
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…...