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Naghmeh Panahi, Eschet Chayil, on Walking Away From the Church.
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (187+ words) Naghmen has face so much with great dignity. FYI – Some Notes for everyone Naghmeh Panahi from her website “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C. S. Lewis It’s…...
Short Update on the Mica Miller Story and Free For All
1+ week, 3+ 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, 5+ 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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
Mark Driscoll Says He’s Going to Sue His Former Leaders of the Real Men and Real Women Ministries For MIsusing Contact Lists
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (851+ words) “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” GK Chesterton I have been writing about Mark Driscoll since 2009. He was once a darling of The Gospel Coalition, and there seems to…...
I Will No Longer Post EChurch@Wartburg Do to the Increase of Social Media by Most Churches
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (133+ words) Please feel free to comment. I needed to find some margin in my life. I felt this would be an appropriate time to discontinue EChurch, as most churches and some parachurch organizations are now filming their worship services. I will…...
03.28.26. ECHurch@Wartburg. Dallas Willard: Radical Evil in the Ruined Soul
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (142+ words) Dallas Willard is worth listening to. FYI – Some Notes for everyone A Morning Prayer from the Syrian Clementine Liturgy link O God, Who are the unsearchable abyss of peace, the ineffable sea of love, Clement of Rome (c.96) (One of…...
Dispatches from the Entertainment Room at the Hotel California: Steven Adams, Youth Pastor at St Andrews Will Teach on Humility on Palm Sunday.
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (530+ words) I don't know if Burk Parsons knows it yet, but he hould be concerned. FYI – Some Notes for everyone “Courage is found in unlikely places.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien Thank you for your kind concern. I am feeling better but…...