Sovereign Grace Ministries and Abuse: Time to Speak Out

May 26, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser For some time I’ve been watching with a heavy heart the progress of the lawsuit initially filed against Sovereign Grace Ministries in October 2012.  The original news articles have long since been archived, but the evangelical watchdog blog site The Wartburg Watch 

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Josh Harris Reveals Childhood Abuse

May 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Calulu You remember Josh Harris, author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and pastor of Maryland mega church Covenant Life Church? He’s been in the news during the separation of Covenant Life Church and their denominational links to Sovereign Grace Ministries over the last year.

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“Defrauding” or How Men Can Keep Women From Stumbling!

May 24, 2013 By 9 Comments

by Hopewell – crossposted from her blog Hopewell Takes On LIFE!   source Thanks to TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” America has discovered Bill Gothard’s idea of  “defrauding” or making men “stumble.” How does this happen? If you watch the show you know it’s because someone forgot to call out the code word “Nike” to [...]

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CTBHHM: Disappointed Old Failures

May 19, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 58-59 The title of this section is “Disappointed Old Failures,” and it follows last week’s section in threatening women with disaster and shipwreck if they fail to follow Debi’s advice. Or, God’s advice. Debi clearly thinks they’re they same thing.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Combating Pornography?

May 17, 2013 By 11 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman of Persevero News So the worldly social reformer is faced with trying to tell the women themselves not to act in demeaning ways. But let’s face it, they aren’t preaching to the choir. Like the issue of gun control it is the very people they want to reach that won’t be listening.

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