You know how the typical arguments against divorce for abuse go. Most of you have heard them too many times. They are based upon ignorance or even willful distortion of God's Word. So let me show you biblical proof that...
Continue ReadingThe Lord Wants us Free of RASN’sTag: false teaching
Do Not add to or Take Away From God’s Word
Deu 4:1-2 “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of...
Continue ReadingDo Not add to or Take Away From God’s WordIt’s the Same Old Tactic – Keep the Bible from the People
Psa 119:105-111 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (106) I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules. (107) I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD,...
Continue ReadingIt’s the Same Old Tactic – Keep the Bible from the PeopleTwisted Notions of “Martyrdom” Keep Victims in Bondage
Abusers who use Christianity as their facade of choice quite often press the martyrdom/suffering-for-Jesus card upon their target victim, with the goal of keeping the victim in their evil grip. As I have seen this wickedness in action, it seems...
Continue ReadingTwisted Notions of “Martyrdom” Keep Victims in BondageThe Vapory Ether of Deception
2 Corinthians 4:2-4, “But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of...
Continue ReadingThe Vapory Ether of DeceptionMaybe my Abuser is an addict – isn’t sin an addiction?
1Co 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, (10) nor thieves, nor the greedy,...
Continue ReadingMaybe my Abuser is an addict – isn’t sin an addiction?We Must Understand the Nature of Sin if we are to Properly Deal with it in the Church
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies....
Continue ReadingWe Must Understand the Nature of Sin if we are to Properly Deal with it in the ChurchCool Academia has a Place – but not always
I have been thinking a lot lately about how we are often pressured, especially in the world of theology and writing and blogging, to maintain a cool professionalism that never gets torqued. A polite respectability if you will that leaves...
Continue ReadingCool Academia has a Place – but not alwaysBeing Abused Does not Give us the Right to be Mean
Eph 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Abusers are evil. Abuse is evil. Wicked. It is cruel and those who exercise it are going to be objects of God's wrath....
Continue ReadingBeing Abused Does not Give us the Right to be MeanA Thought for Today from Jeremiah 5
I am just going to quote a Scripture here. This passage pretty well nails the scenario in our churches today that most all of us have experienced and which we are trying to expose. I like the Lord’s promise of...
Continue ReadingA Thought for Today from Jeremiah 5