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When Your Abusive Pastor Dies | Liberty for Captives
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Confronting Spiritual Abuse with Grace and Truth. Topical Index of Blog Posts. When Your Abusive Pastor Dies. When Your Abusive Pastor Dies. March 6, 2015. When you hear that your abusive former pastor is dead, the news will not bring you peace and it is unlikely to bring you joy. I stopped and read the paragraph over and over and then I put my phone in my pocket and looked up at the trees and felt the sun and then looked down and shuffled my feet in the dust. Does that make sense? No, your abusive forme...
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Seven Myths about a Pastor's Workweek - ThomRainer.com
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Thom Rainer is the President and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources. December 22, 2014. Seven Myths about a Pastor’s Workweek. Sadly, some church members really believe some of the myths about a pastor’s workweek. And some may point to a lazy pastor they knew. I will readily admit I’ve known some lazy pastors, but no more so than people in other vocations. The pastorate does lend itself to laziness. To the contrary, there are many more workaholic pastors than lazy pastors. Let’s look at seven of them.
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Strengthened by the Testimony of the Saints. | The Small Rain
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Wife, Homeschool Mom. Walking through season of raising children and witnessing a mother's journey with dementia…all about faith and hope and challenge. June 5, 2015. Strengthened by the Testimony of the Saints. In the Book of Revelation, when it tells of the accuser of the saints being conquered, this is said:. 8220;And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. 8221; Revelation 12:11. Our testimony carries weight.
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The Promises are True. | The Small Rain
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Wife, Homeschool Mom. Walking through season of raising children and witnessing a mother's journey with dementia…all about faith and hope and challenge. July 1, 2015. The Promises are True. What a few weeks. What is that argument on FaceBook? It does not have me holding my breath in the way that this young boy’s struggle has caught me and held my attention. His mother has prayed. She has offered her fear and her distress alongside her hope and her trust in God. All the other debates on FB feel trivial at...
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The History Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why – Peace Hacks
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All Marriage is Hard Marriage. A Story of Forgiveness that’s Kicking My Ass. An Evangelical Pastor’s Apology to the Gay Community. How Changing My Mind about Changing Everything Changed My Life. How to Build Self Esteem: 8 First Steps Anyone Can Take. The History Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. When You “Hate” Your Kids. Why blaming everyone else for your crappy life is killing you. The History Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. August 27, 2016. October 19, 2016. Dr Ehrman rightly points out tha...
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Reacting with Gospel Reality. | The Small Rain
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Wife, Homeschool Mom. Walking through season of raising children and witnessing a mother's journey with dementia…all about faith and hope and challenge. June 25, 2015. Reacting with Gospel Reality. I have been walking for a couple months now. Some weeks better than others, however for a few weeks I was walking between 5-10 miles a day. It was a commitment. It took time out of my day and called for sacrificing other things. I had gained 6 pounds. The walk of the Christian is the same. When we are struck b...
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Big Fish Vomit | Spiritual Authority
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Here’s my comment dropped today beneath a most worthy post at Crossroad Junction:. I Confess: I Killed Ekklesia. Abandoning man-made traditions is hard, said Jim Wright. And abandoning man-made traditions is nigh impossible until we’re able to discern these traditions as man-made and not divinely instituted. Ultimately, they were strangulating the life from the body. Yet, these elders couldn’t be checked for having assumed for themselves autonomous control over their operations. Proof that our pastor mad...
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Obey your leaders and submit to them | Spiritual Authority
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Obey your leaders and submit to them. Note: I’ve updated my understanding of Biblical Leadership in a new SpAu post on Church Leadership. Published June 10, 2016. Πείθεσθε τοῖς ἡγουμένοις ὑμῶν καὶ ὑπείκετε. Repost from SSB July 4, 2013 @ 11:26 am. Amos, my friend, you write: I think the word Leadership is NOT Biblical. It is true that much of the Church has fallen under forms of Leadership that are NOT Biblical. However, the word Leadership is. A Biblical term and concept. The question at hand should be:.
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One Key Reason Most Churches Do Not Exceed 350 in Average Attendance
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Thom Rainer is the President and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources. March 25, 2015. One Key Reason Most Churches Do Not Exceed 350 in Average Attendance. Nine out of ten. Nine out of ten churches in America have an average worship attendance of less than 350. And that percentage has not changed significantly for many years. Yet the unchurched pool of persons is increasing in most communities. There are people yet to be reached. But most churches will never exceed 350 in attendance. Why? We are a nation ...
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The Necessity of Play | The Small Rain
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Wife, Homeschool Mom. Walking through season of raising children and witnessing a mother's journey with dementia…all about faith and hope and challenge. June 3, 2015. The Necessity of Play. Yesterday as I was walking I listened to a TED radio hour about play. Now, I was outside and I was moving, but I wasn’t exactly playing. I was working to get my body in better shape…so that I can play more. With my kids. Because sometimes they need encouragement to play. The colors purple and pink. That’s a sure...
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