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    Church Attempts To Extradite Member Fleeing From Abusive Pastor

    https://julieroys.com/burk-parsons-florida-church-wont-allow-elder-to-resign/ "In a follow-up letter sent to Zima on Jan. 28, St. Andrew’s elders warned him there is no 'escape hatch' to get out of church discipline. They told Zima that the now-independent Reformed church maintains both the...
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    5 Reasons Why Churches Are No Longer Training Leaders

    https://rootedthinking.com/2025/08/14/5-reasons-why-churches-are-no-longer-training-leaders/ I would closely consider Reason #2 - "Some pastors fear losing power. . . . They hesitate to train men for ministry because they fear that younger men may outshine them . . . Then, pastors wonder why...
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    Law Enforcement In Chicago To Be Eradicated

    https://cwbchicago.com/2025/09/law-enforcement-is-a-sickness-to-be-eradicated-says-enraged-chicago-mayor.html “'Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,' Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declared during a fiery press conference Tuesday, adding...
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    Revivalism - Blessing or Blunder?

    https://churcheswithoutchests.net/2025/08/27/i-still-have-my-fundamentalist-card/ "Fundamentalism as a movement, like any movement, has the good, the bad, and the ugly. Most people know only the bad and the ugly: rabid King-James Onlyism, obscure taboos, insular tribalism, pugnacity, and...
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    Post-Mortem on John MacArthur

    Interesting review of John MacArthur's life and ministry from an IFB viewpoint: https://www.proclaimanddefend.org/2025/07/16/john-macarthur-and-the-fundamental-baptists/ "From the 1970s through the 1990s, he openly opposed the doctrine of secondary separation; a stance held by many...
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    Attack On Iran - Sign Of the Rapture?

    https://churchleaders.com/news/513700-russell-moore-warns-jesus-return-israel-iran.html "It would be wise for Christians not to try to connect the current war between Israel and Iran to specific prophecies in the Bible in an effort to determine where we might be in the end times, said Dr...
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    History of Highland Park Baptist Church By Reverend Cumulonimbus

    Posted for informational purposes - not intended as an endorsement of everything in the article or everything that David Cloud has ever written. https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/church-of-the-green-light.php "The effect of Highland Park's missionary conferences was electrifying. Hundreds of...
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    Should Unsaved Be Told To "Ask Jesus Into Your Heart?"

    This missionary says "no" - https://rootedthinking.com/2025/05/20/do-you-speak-churchese-ask-jesus-into-your-heart/ “'Ask Jesus into your heart.' You’ve heard it said. Maybe you’ve said it yourself. Often, it’s what we say to children as we encourage them to become Christians. I’ve heard it in...
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    Pope Francis - World's Foremost False Teacher

    Telling it like it is: https://www.challies.com/articles/the-worlds-most-prominent-false-teacher/ "For as long as he was pope, Francis was the world’s most prominent false teacher. Though there are many other false teachers in this world, none of them had even a fraction of his reach or power...
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    Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Is Moving To Canada

    https://julieroys.com/trinity-evangelical-divinity-school-will-move-canada-acquisition-deal/?mc_cid=54d1e14b8c&mc_eid=5f87b5be9b Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Bannockburn, Illinois, affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America, was one of the largest and most influential...
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    Pensacola Christian College Slammed For Having Former BJU President Steve Pettit Speak

    Lou Martuneac, who did everything in his power to hound Steve Pettit out of the Presidency of Bob Jones University in 2023, is now having conniptions because Pettit was invited to speak at Pensacola Christian College. He is branding Pettit as an "ecumenical compromiser" and Reformed theologian...
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    "Pastor Is Always Right, Even If Wrong" - Abusive Spiritual Authority Hall of Shame

    Good article about sources of the Dictatorial Preacher Rule teaching, showing that it is by no means a monopoly of the Independent Baptist movement - many charismatics have taught and propagated this heresy...
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    Post Mortem - Why Did Clarks Summit University Close

    https://drdavidlturner.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Drifting-Past-the-Faithful-Word-7-16-24-3-3.pdf This is a very lengthy article so I will try to summarize: The author believes Clarks Summit (the former Bible Baptist College) was managed incompetently, in contrast with sister school Faith...
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    Dictatorial Preacher Rule - Where It All Began

    Joel Carpenter, in his book "Revive Us Again - The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism" (1997) describes the fundamentalism of the 1930s as characterized by combativeness, by "militancy," "machismo," "aggressiveness," and "pugnacity." He notes nicknames that were "more appropriate for boxers...
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    King James-Only Hysterics Refuted

    https://protestia.com/2025/01/20/op-ed-forgotten-facts-about-the-1611-king-james-version-kjv-disproves-kjvo-hysterics/ Some of the points in this article: the 1611 KJV translators accepted even imperfect translations such as the Septuagint as the Word of God. They included variant readings in...
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    Jewish Scholars Say the Land Promise To Israel Is Conditional

    Since the question has been raised on our forum of whether the land promise to Abraham and his descendants is conditional or unconditional, I hereby present the teachings of Jewish scholars on that issue: Avraham Burg, former Speaker of the Knesset: "We're not the Chosen People just by virtue...
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    Just Horsing Around - Not Enough Horses in the World to Fulfill Revelation 9:16

    "And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them." -Revelation 9:16 The standard pre-trib dispensensationalist interpretation of this passage is that this predicts an invasion of the Middle East from somewhere east of the Euphrates...
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    Pool Boy's Tell-All Book

    Has anyone here read Giancarlo Granda's book "Off the Deep End - Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty" (2022) and have any comments about it? It is the inside story of the sleaze and hypocrisy of the leadership at the world's largest Christian university, and we...
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