This is a rare weekend update.
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Mark Driscoll “Puts Down” British Christians While Ed Young “Beds Down” In Dallas
"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude…that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing." – CS Lewis
All Ed Young Jr Is Saying Is “Give Me the Cash!”
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Mark Twain
FALSE HUMILITY, TRUE HYPOCRISY: A REVIEW OF C.J. MAHANEY’S BOOK HUMILITY, True Greatness
Review of CJ Mahaney's book on Humility, which he is not!
When Everyday Pastors Tell “Whoppers” Like Ergun Caner and Ed Young Jr
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." Winston Churchill Hubble Telescope in 1998 Introducing a New Service: Tracking Urban Legends in the Pulpit Years ago, I heard Ed Young Jr tell a moving story of how he witnessed to a clerk in a tie shop. He shared with his audience "his" clever way to share the Gospel. After the service, in the “shake Ed’s hand” line, I heard the man in front of me tell Ed that he liked the way Ed told that story better than the way Bill Hybels told it. Ed quickly moved him on. I ran after this man, who would become a good family friend, and he told me that the story was one that Bill Hybels frequently told, right down to the tie shop. He also said that Bill Hybels, through the Willowcreek Association, provided sermons for use in other churches. I felt deceived. From that time forward, I listened for any use of this “technique” in church. Most readers know the sad story of the lies of Ergun Caner. Continue reading →
When Pastoral Care Means Taking Care of the Pastor
"There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?" James Robinson Sunset over the Sahara-NASA On Monday, we will look at the 20/20 story on the IFB churches which dealt with sexual and child abuse. What has happened to the role of pastor? I think of the genial Methodist minister who lived up the street who occasionally visited our home, along with the homes of all of our neighbors, for coffee and cookies. He was often found at the local hospitals and nursing homes, visiting church members and even some locals who were not church attendees. He attended Little League games, cheering on the kids from his youth group. He attended school board meeting and gave the occasional prayer. Our Russian Orthodox priest always viited our home. He could be seen dancing the polka at the Polish festivals and kept a similar schedule to his Methodist counterpart. Both men were known, respected and genuinely liked by the community in Salem, Massachusetts. Soon after I became a Christian, I met another pastor who was cut from the same cloth. These Continue reading →
Ed Young Jr. Videos Back In Action
Tom Rich, FBC Jax Watchdog, was successful in getting Ed Young Jr's tithing videos back on VIMEO by appealing to the Fair Use Doctrine. Atta way to go, Dog! Young wanted the public's attention and, by golly, he got it. So, for those of you who missed it, please refer to our post- Ed Young Jr-It's All About the Money. Link here.
Spiritual Abuse: The Public Speaks Back and the Church Just Whines
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Spiritual Abuse: Why Are Pastors Silent About the Real Reason People Are Leaving the Church?
"For from the least of them to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for gain, and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. And they have healed the brokenness of my people superficially saying, “Peace. peace,” but there is no peace." Jeremiah 6:13-14 This morning it dawned on me, I have heard sermons on just about every subject imaginable ranging from social issues, church history, doctrine, creation, gossip, anger, but I have never heard one sermon on spiritual abuse. Not even in some of the good churches. Why? The answer is relatively obvious. Pastors rarely preach on the subject because, by and large, pastors and other church leaders (including parachurch ministries) are the perpetrators of such exploitation. It is far easier to do a sermon about shared sin, like anger and immorality. It is even easier to do a sermon about how the church membership is not doing their part to build up said leader. It is much harder to talk about an issue that is primarily one-sided. Some of us have a faulty view of Christian leadership which can hinder recovery from spiritual abuse. Once again, we look to Continue reading →
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