Everyone I Don’t Like is Literally Gothard
I’ve spent a fair chunk of my life researching Bill Gothard, interviewing him, warning others about him, and debating him and his followers. So, when someone comes along and accuses a well-known Christian of teaching Gothard’s concepts, it tends to get my attention,...
Hi, Megan! About those tweets from Rachael Denhollander…
A little over a week ago (Wednesday, March 8, 2023), Megan Basham asked me a question via text message. I immediately realized it would be difficult to give her an adequate response via text, so I told her I’d respond by email. As I was working on the email, it took...
There are Personality Tests and then there is the Dodekagram
Personality type assessments originated in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They initially involved evaluating the bumps on the subject’s head (phrenology) or “based on a person's outer appearances.”1“Personality test” These innovative methods of assessing character...
Your Best Life Now?
I went from being an agnostic/atheist to being born again on September 6, 1974. Joy had recommitted her life to Christ earlier that year and dragged me along for the ride. Together we have undertaken an interesting journey that included some very difficult days and...
The Muddy Waters of the Enneagram
(Editor Alert! This article is not short.) One of the newest books promoting the Enneagram to Christians is How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and Others through the Enneagram by Jesse Eubanks.((Jesse Eubanks, How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and...
Challenging Questions
The Lifetime Network premiered their film, “Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation,” on February 4, 2023. It was more a docu-drama than a documentary and was generally based on Gwen Shamblin’s life from the time she started the Weigh Down Workshop until her fairly...
End Notes
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Hello, Nick, It might be helpful for you to know that this article is hardly the sum of the concerns…
This article is severely mislead. Making hasty generalizations about men and women you do not know is more dangerous than…
I was not aware of this umbrella concept from Gothard, but it helps me understand what a person said to…
Do you think it's possible that Watchman Nee may have capitalized upon the Larger Catechism's treatment of the fifth commandment?…
Ron, great research, insight, and a fair differentiation between MacArthur and Gothard. I had to laugh at the "Gothard 5:8"…