If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy,…
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Most of you know that when a victim of an abuser (RASN = reviler, abuser, sociopath, narcissist) tells someone about the abuse she (or he) is experiencing, they often meet with disbelief. They are dismissed as over reacting to things that surely are not as bad as all of that.…
Read MoreI 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.…
Read MorePsalms 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…
Read MoreDESTRUCTION 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…
Read MorePsalms 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…
Read MoreHave 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…
Read MoreThey 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…
Read MoreColossians 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,…
Read MoreMalachi 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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