Unmasking the Domestic Abuser in the Church

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Still Seeking Your RASN Father’s Approval?

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. (John 17:23) Not everyone has the privilege of growing up in a home where their parents truly loved them.…

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The RASN is an Addict

Psalms 7:14  Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. I listened to a very helpful podcast this week by Dr. Les Carter. He discussed narcissism as an addiction, comparing the narcissist to an addict. One point in particular which he made…

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The Destructive Path of the Abuser

DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN.”(Romans 3:16-17) RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are like a tornado. You no doubt have seen the path of a tornado in the news media or perhaps even in person. You can see where it…

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Are You Ever Sorry that You said “I’m Sorry?” –

Psalms 109:1-5  To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise!  (2)  For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.  (3)  They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.  (4)  In return for…

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Refusal to Accept Truth is a Mark of the RASN

Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?(Galatians 4:16) "If you want to be respected, then stop getting angry when you are told the truth." That is a great quote I heard recently in a video about Winston Churchill. His wife, Clementine, had passed on some constructive…

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RASNs are Users

They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.(Galatians 4:17) Revilers, abusers, sociopaths, and narcissists never give, they always take. Just as the Apostle Paul warned the Galatians, RASNs flatter, but only so that they can…

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RASNs Love to Make Others Feel Stupid

Colossians 4:6  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. The RASNs (reviler, abuser, sociopath, narcissist) words are anything but gracious. In sooo many ways they are, as Paul puts it in Romans, the poison of asps,…

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RASNs Make Themselves the Victim – and YOU the Culprit

Malachi 1:1-2a  The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.  (2)  “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” Malachi 1:6  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is…

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RASNs (Covert Abusers) Keep Us Confused About What they are

Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. (Proverbs 26:24-26) Those verses nail it! When…

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Revisiting an Important RASN Tactic of Retaliation

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. (John 3:19-20)…

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