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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…...
Short Update on the Mica Miller Story and Free For All
1+ week, 4+ day ago (201+ words) “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight…...
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…...
Teaching About the Antichrist and Finding Jesus in Silicon Valley.
3+ week, 4+ 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…...
Holy Weirdness: Bethel Church’s Bill ‘Glitterati’ Johnson Demonstrated His Ignorance of the Holy Spirit.
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (595+ words) “O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus…...
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…...
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…...
Placerita Bible Church Is Accused of Using Revenge Porn in an Attempt to Stop a Pending Divorce. This Is Considered Biblical Counseling?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (723+ words) Jupiter swirling clouds or an artist’s palette? NASA “According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a…...