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I Saw Satan Fall
October 20, 2011
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Confession, forgiveness and repentance have become forgotten ordinances that we have twisted into ineffective spiritual abstractions. As a result, most churches have lost the ability to meaningfully administer those graces today.
Read more Christian Counseling Class
August 29, 2011
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I will be teaching a semester-long Christian counseling class beginning next Tuesday, September 6th, through early December. We will be meeting every Tuesday evening at my home just south of Manassas, Virginia, from 7:00 to 9:15 pm.
Read moreConfronting Abusive Pastors, Part 3: A Mandatory Public Reprimand
May 29, 2011
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What if an unrepentant leader’s sin is public and brings reproach on the church, or is an abuse of his position of trust and power in the church? Then he must be openly rebuked as a public warning to all – no exceptions! 1 Timothy 5 teaches this.
Read moreConfronting Abusive Pastors, Part 1: My Personal Angst
May 23, 2011
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Much to my dismay, God keeps bringing people to my door who have been abused by a pastor or other trusted church leader. Over the last year, I’ve taken on three cases against abusive pastors. Two involve significant embezzlement and fraud by pastors in different churches. A third involves extensive sexual abuse and misconduct by [...]
Read moreMy Prayer
September 26, 2010
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How long, Lord, will you continue to tolerate those leaders among us who bring shame on your name and prey on your people? How long, Lord, will you tolerate those who enable such predators, thus allowing even more harm to your precious children? For your name’s sake, bring righteousness and judgment. Purify your Church, Lord, [...]
Read moreTransparent
April 17, 2010
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My spiritual DNA — the way God put me together — makes me instinctively encourage others to give away what God has given them. Sharing God’s blessings is a key component to spiritual growth, I’ve found. I often teach and minister in a faith-based dorm at the local jail. Rather than me “leading” this Friday, [...]
Read moreWhole Health
March 5, 2010
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The more pastoral counseling I do, the more I realize how often people deal with life’s traumas, hurts and disappointments by suppressing their hearts and their spirits. Instead of being healthy, integrated people, they numb out or otherwise retreat exclusively into the realm of their minds — i.e., their analytical logic and reason. They are [...]
Read moreRepentance, Forgiveness and the Kingdom of God
February 13, 2010
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Recorded before a group of men in the local jail, this 55 minute audio teaching explains how we find peace and freedom when we allow God, through authentic Biblical confession, repentance and forgiveness, to change what we think, believe and perceive. That, in turn, allows us to know the righteousness, peace and joy that comes [...]
Read moreA Very Public Confession
February 11, 2010
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Here’s a news brief I came across that really stood out. In it, the CEO for Continental Airlines admits that his company in the past was racist and refused to hire black pilots. Past racism, in and of itself, is hardly surprising. What is surprising, however, is the candor of Continental’s public confession and the [...]
Read moreRegeneration
November 2, 2009
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A friend posted this short video on Facebook and it’s too precious, timely and relevant to pass up. As you listen, may God mercifully and lovingly wound you in order to heal you. It’s by Paul Washer, who I first mentioned in a blog back in March (see God Is Not Passive). His burden for [...]
Read moreThe Challenge of Intercession
August 27, 2009
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The intercessory prayer movement of the last several years is at a crucial junction. Driven by angst over our nation’s declining commitment to basic principles and the growing malaise of our increasingly dysfunctional churches, many Christians are crying out for God’s intervention. What I’ve rarely seen, however, is a matching embrace of effective, transformational repentance [...]
Read moreThe Sunday "God Show" at Your Friendly Podium Church
July 19, 2009
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When did “church” become a podium-focused “God Show” watched by passive spectators for an hour or so each Sunday morning? Where do we even find that in Scripture? I believe that the days of the “podium church” and the Sunday “God show”are passing — where we gaze each Sunday past the back of the head [...]
Read moreFellowship and Light
June 1, 2009
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“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he [...]
Read more Dealing With Church Leadership Abuse
May 20, 2009
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So how do we handle leadership failings, especially when they go beyond merely personal sin and involve an abuse of position or trust which harms the church and hurts others?
Read moreConversion
April 11, 2009
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It’s interesting how God sometimes returns us to our spiritual roots, even while we are pressing forward in the faith. Forty-three years ago on Easter Sunday, 1966, I became a Christian at eight years of age in response to a sermon preached by George Batson. George was then a young Assemblies of God pastor starting [...]
Read moreGod is Not Passive
March 21, 2009
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I’m seeing others who also are quietly moving forward, with fire stirring in their spirits, to proclaim true repentance, Christ’s Lordship and the Kingdom of God rather than conformist, complacent Christianity. These co-conspirators are being compelled by God to preach outside our churches because too many of our pastors have been unwilling, so far, to [...]
Read more God Shows Up
February 13, 2009
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As I’ve counseled hundreds of people of the years, I’ve learned that Jesus miraculously heals us when we’re willing to go to and expose to Him those places at the core of our being where wounds, hurts and lies reside.
Read morePentecost in the Local Jail
January 7, 2009
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In 2007 over 75 men in the local jail – comprising more than a forth of those incarcerated in the “modular” building – had a dramatic encounter with God. For some time, I’d been feeling that we were falling short with the men who were coming to the Lord or re-dedicating their lives through various [...]
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