"Though my illness persists, I have finally met the God I had heard about but never truly experienced. A God who heals. A God who loves. A God I cannot logically explain to my psychiatrist. A God who manifests his genius by salvaging good from the evil in our lives. Someone unlike me. Someone unlike the well-meaning inquisitors who judged … Continue reading
“Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism." Richard Kluger The London Eye Michelle Boorstein The Washington Post 202-334-4451 (direct line). Once again, TWW must apologize to the people who have asked us to write about the aversion to clinical psychology in today's post-evangelical church. Lord willing, we … Continue reading
"We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the … Continue reading
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” Unknown freefoto.com Dave Harvey, Acting President of Sovereign Grace Ministries, announced two weeks ago that the SGM Board established a preliminary panel to help them “evaluate C.J. Mahaney’s fitness for ministry”, as stated in this post. At the … Continue reading
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. " Leo Buscaglia sunset over the Sahara (NASA) Sovereign Grace Ministries has been experiencing tremendous … Continue reading
Pride meets covetousness, and compliments it as wise, thrifty, and prudent. Charles Spurgeon freefoto.com Well folks, based on Dave Harvey’s update, it appears to be just “business as usual” in SGM land. While I sit here wondering what it’s going to take for God to get the attention of the powers that be in Sovereign Grace Ministries, Harvey … Continue reading
“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?” William Booth Carina Nebula-Hubble Telescope A well-known, former member of SGM contacted TWW to convey some thoughts regarding the role of women in SGM. Although we know her identity, we will … Continue reading
It is always the secure who are humble. G K Chesterton Bluebird eggs in my backyard Our blogging buddy Steve, who operates a website called I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Wisdom or Foolishness and who also posts comments under the name Steve240, submitted the following article for publication here at The Wartburg Watch. Steve contacted us at our Wartburg … Continue reading
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple Storm clouds freefoto.com What a difference a year makes! Last summer I visited The Gospel Coalition website and watched an interview featured … Continue reading
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us … Continue reading
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. Martin Luther Breaking News: More turmoil in SGM. Joshua Harris ‘stepping down’ or pushed out from board because he is apparently ‘at odds’ with the SGM ‘leadership’ over the Mahaney mess. Things are happening fast and furious and it appears, for now, that things are … Continue reading
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to … Continue reading
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works." Thomas Aquinas We are interrupting our Thursday history series to bring you news that we think is extremely important. CJ Mahaney has decided to temporarily … Continue reading
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that … Continue reading
“All sorrows could be born if we tell a story about them or write them down” – Isak Dinesen Storm Clouds freefoto.com Breaking News: This account was forwarded to TWW last evening. We, along with others, are expressing concern about the way conflict and discipline is handled within Sovereign Grace Ministries. Perhaps this is the … Continue reading
“Spiritual abuse is the misuse of a position of power, leadership, or influence to further the selfish interests of someone other than the individual who needs help. Sometimes abuse arises out of a doctrinal position. At other times it occurs because of legitimate personal needs of a leader that are being met by illegitimate means. Spiritually abusive religious systems are … Continue reading
Jeremiah 5:26 (The prophet speaking for God):…” for wicked men are found among My people…they set a trap, they catch men.” wikipedia The Prodigal Prophet Part 3 My fellow blogger and I just returned from our second annual Cracker Barrel Summit with an old friend that many know as the Georgia Blogger. There is much … Continue reading
“For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” (ESV) Pope With the College of Cardinals (courtesy Malta Diocese) “Change is here to stay” is the mantra long-time SGMers have heard over and over and over again. You see, Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) has been morphing itself over the years. First … Continue reading
"They(those hurt) experience grief, distress, and dissatisfaction with their former church community, and specifically, its leadership. As a result, they encounter a personal dilemma regarding the entire concept of Church." Barbara Orlowski Today I listened to an old interview with Jimmy Kimmel lambasting the editor of the blog known as Gawker Stalker. Said website publishes up to … Continue reading
"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."- C.S. Lewis If you happen to read Josh Harris’ blog on a regular basis, then I have a question for … Continue reading
