3Jn 1:9-10 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. (10) So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us....
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 4Category: Evil in Churches
How Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil, Part 3 – Yielding to Threats
Way back in January of 2013 not long after my first book was published (A Cry for Justice: How the Evil of Domestic Abuse Hides in Your Church), I was contacted by Matt Claridge, a Baptist pastor and member of...
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil, Part 3 – Yielding to ThreatsThe Real Source of Evil Hiding in Local Churches
Mat 13:37-39 He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. (38) The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil...
Continue ReadingThe Real Source of Evil Hiding in Local ChurchesThe Cognitive Dissonance Created by Hypocrites
The following is taken from a note from a friend. It is an example of how the Lord opens our eyes to the confusion and fog cast by those who claim to be fine Christians but aren't. Let me define...
Continue ReadingThe Cognitive Dissonance Created by HypocritesSouthern Baptist Leaders are Merely Slapping More Whitewash on the Tomb – Don’t be Duped
Mat 23:27-28 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. (28) So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but...
Continue ReadingSouthern Baptist Leaders are Merely Slapping More Whitewash on the Tomb – Don’t be DupedHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil (Part 2) – Leaving Our First Love
Rev 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. This is the second installment in the series of posts I want to share with you about how local churches become enslaved...
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil (Part 2) – Leaving Our First LoveHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Insights from the BTK Killer (Part 1)
2Co 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. (14) And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (15) So it is no surprise if his servants, also,...
Continue ReadingHow Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Insights from the BTK Killer (Part 1)Give Me What I Want- or Else!
James 4:1-2 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? (2) You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you...
Continue ReadingGive Me What I Want- or Else!Church Associations/Denominations – How they enable Abusers in churches
I am going to make a statement here that 10 years ago I would have argued against. No way would I have agreed with it. But hard experiences and further thought on God's Word have turned me around completely on...
Continue ReadingChurch Associations/Denominations – How they enable Abusers in churchesIs it Possible that Most Local Churches are the Creation of Man and not Christ?
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Gal 4:28-29 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. (29) But just as at that time he...
Continue ReadingIs it Possible that Most Local Churches are the Creation of Man and not Christ?