Job 32:21 I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. Psa 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with...
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A Few More Thoughts on “The Happy Church”
I recently posted the article Beware the Happy Church and add some additional thoughts this morning. Consider again the following: 1Co 11:20-30 When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. (21) For in eating, each...
Continue ReadingA Few More Thoughts on “The Happy Church”Beware the “Happy” Church
1Co 11:28-30 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. (29) For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. (30) That is why...
Continue ReadingBeware the “Happy” ChurchLessons in Discerning False Victim Advocates
1Peter 5:2-3 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; (3) not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples...
Continue ReadingLessons in Discerning False Victim AdvocatesA Sure Sign a Church’s Claim to be a Friend of Abuse Victims is False
Currently, we are seeing churches and organizations jumping on the band wagon of supposedly exposing domestic and sexual abusers in the church and coming to the aid of their victims. Occasionally these claims are genuine, but most frequently they are...
Continue ReadingA Sure Sign a Church’s Claim to be a Friend of Abuse Victims is FalseThe Reason Churches Protect Abusers and Cast Out Victims is that they do not Fear a Holy God
Most all of you know the sickening pattern. Wicked, evil person hiding in the church behind a disguise of "saint." He victimizes the innocent who then cry out for justice. Victims are marginalized, disbelieved, silenced, and even thrown out of...
Continue ReadingThe Reason Churches Protect Abusers and Cast Out Victims is that they do not Fear a Holy GodWatch Out for People Who are Running to the Head of the Table
Luk 14:10-11 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who...
Continue ReadingWatch Out for People Who are Running to the Head of the TableShunning is Not Always Wrong
Many times I have heard people criticize churches and Christians for "shunning" someone. And in many of those cases the criticism is valid because the person being shunned is in fact a victim of some evil which the church refused...
Continue ReadingShunning is Not Always WrongYou Cannot Appease Evil – It Will Just Grow Stronger
Pro 22:10 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. A widespread, common, and dangerous fallacy rampant among Christians is that if victims of evil just submit to it, if they work harder...
Continue ReadingYou Cannot Appease Evil – It Will Just Grow StrongerIt is a Great Error to Assume that Even the Devil is Open to Negotiation
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies,...
Continue ReadingIt is a Great Error to Assume that Even the Devil is Open to Negotiation