“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984 … Continue reading
Note from the editor: Brent Detwiler is a friend of mine and the former number two man in the leadership of Sovereign Grace Ministries (now Sovereign Grace Churches). He has permitted me to reprint this article in its entirety. I have made only three editorial changes which are contained within brackets. -Todd Convicted Child Molester Vince Sievert Allowed to Serve … Continue reading
Russell Tusing II, 44, Senior Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of LaGrange, GA was arrested and charged with sexual battery (FVA) and child molestation (FVA). Tusing was booked into jail on Friday, March 15. According to LaGrange Police Public Information Officer Lt. Chris Pritchett, the charges stem back to a report made in February with allegations dating back to 2022 … Continue reading
In today’s post I will be highlighting the nearly extinct role of apostles in Sovereign Grace Churches, but before I do so I will tell you a little about my life in American “churchianity”. I was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN and, like the majority of Minnesotans back in the late 1950’s I was raised in the Lutheran Church. … Continue reading
“I think biblical teaching – we can obscure it, we can suppress it – but I think the biblical vision of manhood and womanhood in a redeemed heart finds an echo… Finds an echo, meaning there’s a rightness to it.” Jeff Purswell, Dean of Sovereign Grace Churches “Pastor’s College” and Board Member of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. “I … Continue reading
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support? — Gerard Majella Below is a clip from a video titled “The Role of the Pastors College,” published on February 27, 2023. It features Mark Prater, … Continue reading
I generally listen to my I-Pad as I retire for the evening. I select a YouTube video that interests me. I usually fall asleep in the middle of the program and sometime later in the night I wake up and turn it off, or don’t. This past Sunday morning I awoke to a church service playing on my I-Pad. I … Continue reading
“So we’ve asked CJ [Mahaney] to teach on the pastor’s self-watch, to watch his life and doctrine closely, something that he’s not only taught, but he models very well. Because we want to be pastors who love Jesus and it marks our life. We are passionate about Christ. I know we’ve asked Jeff [Purswell] to do a session on theological … Continue reading
SBC believes that Sovereign Grace Churches Louisville, Mahaney’s church, is in friendly cooperation with the SBC!!
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Sovereign Grace Churches are setting up their own college. This ought to be interesting. I am not hopeful about the academic “rigor.”
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“Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis 18:25, NIV Judge McGann didn’t buy what the former minister was preaching either, saying: “You can’t even bring your despicable self to admit your crime. So, you hide behind your phony self-diagnosis of amnesia. Mr. Morales, you are one pathetic human being. August 14, 2014 “I am pleading guilty … Continue reading
“I don’t believe your insatiable appetite for boys can be cured. Your wires are permanently twisted. Your conduct has had a profound and lasting deleterious effect. A long sentence is the only way to adequately punish you, protect society from you and deter other potential boy molesters. … You can’t even bring your despicable self to admit your crime. So, … Continue reading
“Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.” -Sinclair Lewis, Letter Declining the Pulitzer Prize, 1926 “Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you are always certain about everything, you might just live in an echo chamber, or there might be … Continue reading
“God may reveal Himself and give guidance to His servants any way He pleases. It is not for us to set limits on Him. But it remains a question as to whether or not we are entitled to expect ‘hotline’ disclosures on a regular basis. The correct answer is no. All the Biblical narratives of God’s direct communications with men are … Continue reading
*Title is a quote from Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929 “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “The trouble with … Continue reading
“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.” ― Élie Wiesel, Night “Let me be clear that we deny – in the strongest terms possible – that any Sovereign Grace Leaders conspired to cover up abuse as alleged in this lawsuit.” -Mark Prater, Executive Director of Sovereign Grace Churches. “An Open Letter to Members of Sovereign Grace Churches,” October … Continue reading
