Unholy Charade - Jeff Crippen

Unmasking the Domestic Abuser in the Church

Straining a Gnat to Swallow a Camel – Marriage "Laws" in Most Churches

We all know that the Lord instructs Christians to marry Christians - 1Co 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. I do not know any…

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Silence as a Sign of Abuse

Deu 27:24 “‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ Psa 64:2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, Mar 4:22 For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret…

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Exodus: Getting Free of "the Family"

Mat 10:34-39 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. (35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. (36)…

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A One-Year Later Report on our Friend Mack

As most of you know, one year ago our good friend and longtime faithful elder here at Christ Reformation Church was seriously striken with a life-threatening illness. Now, one long year later, Mack and Rite are able to give us this report: Today is the 1 year anniversary of when…

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Still More About Background Checks

As some of you have correctly pointed out in your comments on the previous post on this subject, a background check is not going to catch all sociopaths, psychopaths, pedophiles and so on. This is important to know. For example, I know a case in which a man was convicted…

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Let's Talk More About Background Checks

1Jn 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. There is nothing "Christian" or "loving" about naively welcoming a person in among Christ's flock, knowing nothing more about them than…

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Let's Think Some More about What it Means to Have no Conscience

Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as…

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A New Book by Cindy Burrell – Reformulating the Christian Marriage Counseling Model Where Abuse is Involved

Our friend Cindy Burrell has published a new book which is available on Amazon here* This is the back cover description - In the years since I began working with abuse victims, I have been shocked - and at times horrified - by the accounts victims have shared regarding their…

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Listen to Me! – A Common Demand of Abusers

2Co 11:20 For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. One of the worst abusers I have ever known, a man who caused all kinds of grief with many attempts…

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The Matriarchal Kingdom of Abuse

1Ki 15:11-13 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done. (12) He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (13) He also removed Maacah his mother from…

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