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Challies reviews TTUAC

By Hermana Linda | July 31, 2012 |

After his review of Created To Be His Help Meet a few days ago, Tim Challies has decided to review To Train Up A Child, which he does in 2 parts: Tim Challies Review of To Train Up A Child Part 1 in which he looks at training versus discipline, and his concerns with Pearl’s…

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Is It Wrong To Speak Out Against Other Christians?

By Hermana Linda | April 11, 2012 |

Cindy of Under Much Grace has posted a sermon by E.L. Bynum called, “IS IT RIGHT: To Judge, To Expose Error, and To Call Names?” I am so glad she did because I, too, have been told that it is wrong of me to speak out against other Christians. When I gently explain that I…

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Bill Gothard and His Definition of Grace

By Hermana Linda | December 19, 2011 |

Cindy of Under Much Grace explains more about Bill Gothard and his erroneous definition of grace in Merging Justification and Sanctification: More About Gothard’s Thanksgiving Letter and Concerns About Grace For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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A Closer Look At The Pearls’ Teachings and Adoption

By Hermana Linda | October 8, 2011 |

Christine Minich takes a look at The Pearls’ Teachings in: The Disturbing World of The Pearls in which she looks at Doublespeak and Definitions as well as some examples of his abusive teachings. and The Disturbing World of The Pearls Part 2 in which she takes a look at their heretical Theology. Also, TulipGirl tries…

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Michael Pearl: Heretic?

By Hermana Linda | April 28, 2011 |

Becky, from Created To Be His, shares how she changed her mind about Michael Pearl’s teachings after 10 years of following them in Michael Pearl: Heretic? For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Spanking to Remove Guilt?

By Hermana Linda | February 18, 2011 |

Back in October of 2010, Michael Pearl published an article where he claimed that he had never taught that spanking absolves a child of guilt. He does, however, teach in that same article that they need the spanking in order to absolve themselves of guilt. It is clear in all my writing that the forgiveness…

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The Burden of Legalism

By Hermana Linda | February 16, 2011 |

Rach at the Incorrigible Gingers posts about the Burdens legalistic teachers are placing on the Believers’ backs. Speaking of Legalism, there is an interesting article at NLQ about Why the Quiverfull Movement is called Legalistic? . For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Spanking is NOT God’s Will Part 8

By Steph, M.S.Ed | February 7, 2011 |

More information on the Book, Gentle Firmness, by Stephanie Cox ( part 1 ) ( part 2 ) ( part 3 ) What is grace? This is the question running through my head as I wrestle with a bit of discouragement as children continue to be harmed by well-meaning people who want so badly to…

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Spanking is NOT God’s Will Part 3

By Steph, M.S.Ed | January 7, 2011 |

( Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) I finished Samuel Martin’s book, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me today. Here’s more of what I have learned about God’s Word. Many Christian advocates of spanking children quote the following Proverb in order to support their philosophy that spanking children will save their souls from Hell. It says:…

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Spanking is NOT God’s Will Part 2

By Steph, M.S.Ed | January 6, 2011 |

(Part 1) After reading and studying more today in this wonderful book by Samuel Martin and doing my own Bible study, here are some things that God has revealed to me. First, the book of Proverbs is the oldest book in the Holy Bible. While King Solomon and King Hezekiah wrote most of Proverbs, according to Martin’s…

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Spanking is NOT God’s Will Part 1

By Steph, M.S.Ed | January 4, 2011 |

I am reading a wonderful book by theologian, Samuel Martin, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me. It’s clear from historic, contextual, Hebrew info on the book of Proverbs that we are NOT to spank (hit) children. The book of Proverbs was not meant for verses to be taken out of context. Even Jewish…

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Review of Good and Evil by Michael Pearl

By Hermana Linda | December 21, 2010 |

Glenn E. Chatfield from Watchman’s Bagpipes reviews Michael Pearl’s Comic Book Version of the Bible (illustrated by a former Marvel cartoonist), Good and Evil. He lists everything he considers to be unscriptural and/or extra-biblical. His main concern is the inclusion of the “Gap Theory.” For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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What Does Mr. Pearl Really Believe?

By Hermana Linda | November 6, 2010 |

Michael Pearl has a very interesting article on his website where he responds to Pastor Raley‘s warning against his teachings in his church bulletin. Now, in this article, Mr. Pearl says that he did not say what Pastor Raley says that he said. I found that very interesting and so I decided to go through the…

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Enduring Sound Doctrine

By Hermana Linda | October 14, 2010 |

The pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of Temecula says in a post called, Enduring Sound Doctrine: One writer who started out with some fairly sound material on raising children but has moved subtly away from sound doctrine is Michael Pearl. I have recently removed all of his material from my personal library and from the…

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Unstringing the Pearls: A Critical Pastoral Assessment

By Hermana Linda | October 5, 2010 |

Unstringing the Pearls: A Critical Pastoral Assessment is a warning from a pastor to his church, updated from a 2006 email. Since this pastor recommends Tripp, this is obviously another argument from someone who promotes spanking and will be tagged appropriately. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Fundamental Baptist Warns Against NGJ

By Hermana Linda | August 26, 2010 |

David Cloud of Fundamental Baptist Information Service has updated his Warning Against No Great Joy Ministries. While he agrees with a lot of what the Pearls teach, he has some serious reservations: 1 ) Exalting the family over the church. 2 ) Sinless Perfection 3 ) Michael Pearl’s duplicitous dealings with the author 4 )…

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Addressing Parenting Techniques

By Hermana Linda | July 14, 2010 |

Scita Scienda has a new post Addressing Parenting Techniques. It looks like it could become part of the introduction to their Parenting in the Name of God series. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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total depravity theology

By Hermana Linda | June 9, 2010 |

Elizabeth Esther looks at How the “I am a worm”/total depravity theology hurts children. She links this belief with abuse and makes some good points. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Parenting In The Name of God part 9

By Hermana Linda | May 18, 2010 |

Parenting in the Name of God, Part 9 is up. To pique your interest, here is an excerpt: At this time, we want to review the anecdotes offered by No Greater Joy’s articles and books of newsletter reprints. If anything, the theology of conditioned morality and holiness is fully connected in the object lessons and…

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Rebellion

By Hermana Linda | May 15, 2010 |

Matthew Raley’s series about rebellion and the Christian continues. In this entry, he mentions how Michael Pearl’s teachings are designed to break, not soften, a child’s will and why we don’t want that. Rebellion and Stubbornness For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Parenting In The Name of God Part 4

By Hermana Linda | April 13, 2010 |

Parenting In The Name of God Part 4 is up at Scita Scienda. If you have missed any part of this series, there is a link to it in my sidebar under Anti Pearl Resources. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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