“The Power of a Transformed Wife”. It’s All About Who is in Control. By Kathi at Spiritual Sounding Board blog

The Power of a Transformed Wife, Lori Alexander, Control, Submission This is a book review series of The Power of a Transformed Wife by Lori Alexander. If you are just joining us, you may click on previous chapter reviews to catch up. Introduction & Chapter 1 Chapter 2 **** *** Chapter 3 – Let it […]

via Book Review Series – “The Power of a Transformed Wife” – It’s All About Who’s in Control — Spiritual Sounding Board

What Should We Do About 9Marks and Other Abusive Churches? By Dale, guest post on The Wartburg Watch blog

Are 9Marks churches divisive? Dale says “YES!” and provides his “Top Ten List” of their “Dividic Kingdom”

via What Should We Do About 9Marks and Other Abusive Churches? Guest Post by Dale —

What Makes 9 Marks Churches So Unhealthy? By Dale on The Wartburg Watch blog

“Dever has a very high view of the skill set of a pastor, and a very low view of the abilities of the sheep.” – Dale

via What Makes 9Marks Churches So Unhealthy? – Guest Post by Dale —

Mind Games of Abusers: When Words Have No Meaning

If you dialogue with a spiritually abusive leader or cult member, prepare to enter a mind warp. The rules of sense, reason, and accepted definitions go out the window and are replaced with jargon, …

Source: Mind Games of Abusers: When Words Have No Meaning

9 Marks/9 Marxists Pastors and Expense Paid Trips to T4G Despite Cash-Strapped Churches, Thou Art The Man blog

My loyal readers may recall that nine months ago I wrote an article titled “Despite Tight Budgets UAE 9Marks Pastors Travel To T4G Conference USA.” (Link) Now, nine months later and facing a serious budget deficit, senior pastor John Folmar had the nerve to ask members to give sacrificially! In the article, I took the…

via After All-Expense Paid Trip to T4G Conference UCCD Leader Pleads For Sacrificial Giving! — Thou Art The Man

The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22 – Marie O’Toole’s blog

When the call to ‘submit’ is wielded like a weapon, it is a sure sign that the follow-up verses on “loving [you] wife as Christ loved the Church” are not being obeyed. Christ never intimidates or t…

Source: The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22

Nevertheless, She Persisted – Jory Micah’s blog

Would anything get done without the persistence of determined women – even women who are willing to “break the rules” in the face of injustice? Would women have the right to vote if our great-grandmothers had not rebelled against men who were determined to keep vaginas out of the voting booth? Oh, does that offend you,…

via Nevertheless, She Persisted… — Jory Micah

How the Threat of God’s Wrath is Used to Silence Abuse Victims – on A Cry for Justice blog

Originally posted on A Cry For Justice: In following the story of Marie Notcheva over at Wartburg Watch, I read the following comment by a “friend” of Marie’s on Facebook. I decided to highlight this comment here in a post because THIS tactic of threatening God’s wrath for exposing evil in a church is really rather common.…

via How the Threat of God’s Wrath is Used to Silence Abuse Victims — Speakingtruthinlove’s Blog