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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…...
Naghmeh Panahi, Eschet Chayil, on Walking Away From the Church.
6+ day, 17+ 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…...
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…...
The All Male Membership of The Gospel Coalition Gets Ready to Welcome The Gospel Coalition UK Along With The Women.
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (892+ words) In the beginning, that seemed to be the case. In 2014, Deb wrote The Gospel Coalition Goes ‘Down Under’ to Enlarge Its Territory. The Bible Society published an article announcing TGC’s expansion into Australia. It states: The group will meet for…...
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…...
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…...