1Ki 18:17-18 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” (18) And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of...
Continue ReadingHow I Learned About Abuse Victims being Blamed Instead of the AbuserTag: hypocrites
Counterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668
Here are some excellent truths about fake repentance. These words are from a pastor of old named Thomas Watson in England: COUNTERFEITS of Repentance (from Thomas Watson’s The Doctrine of Repentance, Puritan Paperbacks series) To discover what true repentance is,...
Continue ReadingCounterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668Gehazi is Still Among us – and often he is in charge!
In the account of the miraculous healing of Namaan the Syrian at the hands of Elisha at Samaria, we see an example of something that is all too common today in the churches. Elisha had a servant named Gehazi and...
Continue ReadingGehazi is Still Among us – and often he is in charge!Idolatry Will Never Produce Love for Others
You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water...
Continue ReadingIdolatry Will Never Produce Love for OthersLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the Wicked
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s...
Continue ReadingLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the WickedThe Disconnect in the Evil Man’s Mind
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. We know that abusers are never wrong. The kind we...
Continue ReadingThe Disconnect in the Evil Man’s MindThe Old Man Fallacy as an Excuse for Abuse in Independent Fundamental Baptist Theology
The following lines are taken from the doctrinal statement that appears at the Sword of the Lord website. Sword of the Lord is a publication that has been around for decades, promoting KJV only, separatist, soul-winning fundamentalism. In the same...
Continue ReadingThe Old Man Fallacy as an Excuse for Abuse in Independent Fundamental Baptist TheologyThe Secrecy of Evil
Act 26:16-18 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which...
Continue ReadingThe Secrecy of EvilIs a Christian Absolutely Forbidden to Sue Their Church Leaders?
1 Corinthians 6:1-7 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? (2) Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if...
Continue ReadingIs a Christian Absolutely Forbidden to Sue Their Church Leaders?The Abuser as Esau — A Sobering and Freeing Truth for Victims
This is a sermon delivered by Jeff Crippen at Christ Reformation Church. It presents a realistic view of the abuser who has persisted in abuse without repentance for many years all the while claiming to be a Christian. ...
Continue ReadingThe Abuser as Esau — A Sobering and Freeing Truth for Victims