The abusive mentality is that of a profound sense of entitlement to power and control over others, and of a conscienceless justification for utilizing tactics to gain and maintain that power and control. Pastors, in the course of their ministries, will certainly come up against such abusers because a common, if not innate, quality of… Continue reading Dealing with domestic abuse (advice for pastors, Part 1, by Ps Jeff Crippen)
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We Are Ignorant of Evil, and it is Killing Us
The problem of evil is a very big mystery indeed. It does not submit itself easily to reductionism. (M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie) (Acts 19:13-16 ESV) (13) Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you… Continue reading We Are Ignorant of Evil, and it is Killing Us