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TH in SoC: April 2008
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Sunday, April 27, 2008. Daddy Hammer and Mommy Chisel. This post will explore the goals, methods and effects of child-training as taught in an unhealthy fringe church. But first, it is probably helpful to understand the methods used to mold individuals in general to the group's aims and agenda. 8220;George Geftakys’ Heavenly Vision”.). So how did this work for Assembly children? Ask to be baptized. 8220;And then we bolted. Wonder why? There ...
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TH in SoC: January 2008
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Sunday, January 27, 2008. The Cheapening of Church, And Other Matters. Around the time that the Disney version of the. 8220;Lion, Witch and Wardrobe”. Came out, it was revealed that Disney had begun a church-based marketing campaign for the movie. This was not unusual in itself; the. Movies and Mel Gibson's. Passion of the Christ. 15 November 2006, http:/ knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm? 8221; This was also done to us when the. Some ...
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TH in SoC: September 2008
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Saturday, September 27, 2008. Introduction, Preface, Index, End. Welcome to my blog,. This, my introduction, is actually the last post I will write for this particular blog. Why put a blog introduction at the end? Because this is most likely the first page a first-time visitor will see. A rough “table of contents” for this blog would look thus:. Part 1: Where I Came From. 8211; Posts written from 2005 to March 2007. Is my handful of theses n...
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TH in SoC: August 2008
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Saturday, August 23, 2008. The Church of My (Day) Dreams. I still sometimes have dreams about my old abusive church. In those dreams, I frequently find myself attending long and dreary meetings listening to our head honcho or his lieutenants preaching while we all sit like prisoners, listening (although sometimes I am standing up in such meetings, yelling things like “Shut up! The church of my dreams would have one and only one main meeting ...
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TH in SoC: Finding Turangawaewae
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Saturday, September 20, 2008. Several years ago Alan Jamieson, a New Zealand pastor and sociology Ph.D., wrote. A book which studied the phenomenon of increasing numbers of New Zealanders and Australians leaving the institutional church which he called the EPC (Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic) church. In 2004 or 2005 I encountered an article on the. 8221; After attending a church where subtle racism was practiced, what Christians fr...
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TH in SoC: April 2007
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Sunday, April 01, 2007. Discernment: The Bible is increasingly devalued among evangelicals, because there are too many parts in the Bible which rebuke the deeds of these evangelicals. So their church meetings become entertainment services in which preachers give positive, “inspirational” sermons from “safe” parts of the Bible. And when people ask, “How can I find out what God's will is? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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TH in SoC: February 2008
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fighting With Broken Weapons. 18 October 2005, http:/ www.villagevoice.com/. This is why neither Christ nor His apostles ever. 8221; And, “…if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.”. Figures such as James Dobson in th...
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TH in SoC: December 2007
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Sunday, December 30, 2007. The Church and Money - An Introduction. If anyone is interested. Please forgive the typos and grammatical errors in some of the later articles. 8221; So I'm back. Now then, let's talk about money. Who has four Social Security numbers and used to keep thousands of dollars in cash in his home, according to some former members. Indeed, to borrow a phrase from Hebrews 11, time will fail me if I tell of Jimmy Swagga...
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TH in SoC: Missionaries to the First World, Part 2
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Who broke my church? Who broke my faith? Who can fix this mess? Saturday, September 13, 2008. Missionaries to the First World, Part 2. Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past. 8220;Francis of Assisi, Friar,” http:/ justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/258.html. That is a very large question and I am sure that there are many answers; but I want to focus on three particular answers. Help to people in material need. There is the insistence that the Republican Party is the party of godly Chris...
