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It’s about 9 pm at night when there’s a knock at your door. You go to the door to find me standing there with a stern look on my face. You notice in my hand a piece of wood with a handle. You haven’t seen one of those things in a while but you recognize it so you say, “Rusty, it’s kind of late, what…

Now, I’ll be the first one to admit that confrontation isn’t pleasant. I don’t like it because I want to be liked. I want people to accept me and consider me their friend. But, right after I moved to Wilson, I discovered that being liked was not the same as being effective in ministry. It happened in…

“Unless we come to terms as a Christian community with the cultural arson that destroys individuals and homes, pastoral counseling, psychotherapy, and psychiatry will continue to be the fire department of churches.” If we changed the metaphor to a medical one, we could say, “Until we clear the swamps…

The Archimedean Point 12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you." 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 (NIV) From time to time throughout history, those calling themselves “Christian” have…

It is often suggested that we never should expose sin in the professing church because it advertises the faults of believers to the world. Well, we are not telling the world anything it did not already know. Road To Revival, Vance Havner, page 54

Florida Woman Says Former Church Plans to Make Her Sins Public Thursday , December 18, 2008 By Diane Macedo ADVERTISEMENT A 49-year-old Florida woman says her former church is threatening to reveal her sins to its congregation after learning that she is in a "sexually immoral relationship." Rebecca Hancock…

Moreover, formal religious influences have generally left these underlying formations of personality untouched. Religious behavior has taken the form of the personality disorder more often than religious experience has wrought a deep change in the patterns of this disorder. In short, the person’s basic…

Not Even Among Pagans! 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?…

Actually religious institutions are the worst offenders at encouraging immaturity and irresponsibility. In church after church, some member is passively aggressively holding the whole system hostage, and no one wants to fire him or force her to leave because it wouldn’t be “the Christian thing to do.”…