Spiritual Tyranny.com Thinking: The Antidote to Despotism Thu, 09 May 2024 22:21:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spiritualtyranny.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-favicon-500-x-462.jpg Spiritual Tyranny.com 32 32 Interpretive Methods Always Shape Doctrinal Conslusions https://spiritualtyranny.com/interpretive-methods-always-shape-doctrinal-conslusions/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/interpretive-methods-always-shape-doctrinal-conslusions/#respond Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:56:23 +0000 https://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=2966&preview=true&preview_id=2966 The post Interpretive Methods Always Shape Doctrinal Conslusions appeared first on Spiritual Tyranny.com.

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/author-intent-is-the-plumb-line-of-understanding/feed/ 0 Calvinism ~ The single most disastrous body of ideas ever perpetrated on Humanity. https://spiritualtyranny.com/calvinism-the-single-most-disastrous-body-of-ideas-ever-perpetrated-on-humanity/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/calvinism-the-single-most-disastrous-body-of-ideas-ever-perpetrated-on-humanity/#respond Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:50:47 +0000 https://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=2960&preview=true&preview_id=2960  

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/calvinism-the-single-most-disastrous-body-of-ideas-ever-perpetrated-on-humanity/feed/ 0 Ben Shapiro ~ Just say No! https://spiritualtyranny.com/ben-shapiro-just-say-no/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/ben-shapiro-just-say-no/#respond Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:22:11 +0000 https://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=2908     I understand why people respect Ben, however they would do well to run far and fast from his exegetics. We will unpack this in due time. John     I understand why people respect Ben, however they would do well to run far and fast from his exegetics. We will unpack this in […]

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/god-given-rights/feed/ 0 Prodigal Son . . . the Reason Christians Don’t Believe in Justice. https://spiritualtyranny.com/prodigal-son-the-saddest-story-in-the-gospels/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/prodigal-son-the-saddest-story-in-the-gospels/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:02:43 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=2010 I wrote this article . . . oh . . . maybe fifteen years ago. It has set on my hard drive ever since. I’ve let maybe a dozen people read it to mixed reviews. I recently offered this to another reader, and he insisted that I should publish it. He made a good point […]

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/prodigal-son-the-saddest-story-in-the-gospels/feed/ 63 Paul Dohse’s early thoughts about Blight in the Vineyard https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-dohses-early-thoughts-about-blight-in-the-vineyard/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-dohses-early-thoughts-about-blight-in-the-vineyard/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:46:42 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=1351 If you haven’t caught it yet, here is a review of Blight in the Vineyard.   This article was originally posted at Pauls Passing Thoughts. [vc_button title=”Get a Free Sample of John’s Book” href=”https://spiritualtyranny.com/freesampleofblightinthevineyard/” color=”btn-success” size=”wpb_regularsize” icon=”none” target=”_self” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] If you haven’t caught it yet, here is a review of Blight in the […]

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-dohses-early-thoughts-about-blight-in-the-vineyard/feed/ 9 Pay No Attention to the Doctrine Behind the Curtain https://spiritualtyranny.com/pay-no-attention-to-the-doctrine-behind-the-curtain-3/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/pay-no-attention-to-the-doctrine-behind-the-curtain-3/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:19:25 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=1296  By John Immel (For those of you who don’t care about the specifics of the SGM phenomena, give me a minute. This is going somewhere.)  Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Wake up – sleepy head Rub your eyes, get out of […]

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/sense/feed/ 5 Paul Balluff-The Final Lesson https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-the-final-lesson/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-the-final-lesson/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 02:36:25 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=505 You guys suck at teaching your own body of doctrine. How is it that you can have a true SGM believer that can utter such inane doctrinal words? Come ON guys...my salvation demonstrated in using the word ASS? And not even Jackass or stupid-ass or ridicule-ass.

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-the-final-lesson/feed/ 186 Paul Balluff Lessons https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-lessons/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-lessons/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 19:28:16 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=457 by John Immel I”m sitting in my living room hanging out with friends, cracking jokes, talking about ideas, barbequing tyrants, on occasion sharing struggles, pains and turmoils about life’s pressures and experiences. Some newcomers join the conversation adding their 38 cents worth. They don’t agree. They say so. No biggie. This is the Arena of […]

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-balluff-lessons/feed/ 92 Ducks, Bar, Man, Pastor https://spiritualtyranny.com/ducks-bar-man-pastor/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/ducks-bar-man-pastor/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:09:37 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=447 "Look, if you ask me one more time if I have got any bread, I'm going to nail your beak to the bar!"

"Got any nails?"

"No"

"Got any bread?"

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/ducks-bar-man-pastor/feed/ 18 To Reform or Not to Reform https://spiritualtyranny.com/to-reform-or-not-to-reform/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/to-reform-or-not-to-reform/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:52:33 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=400 It is the cry of many hearts in the blogosphere that SGM reform. Many of you hope that the leadership in that bunch takes a good long look in the mirror and says "Eureka!" or "John Calvin!" or "I could have had a V-8" or whatever they are inclined to say when they discover a thought not found in Sin and Temptation.

This assumes they like mirrors, which in my cynical olderness, I'm inclined to think not so much. Or maybe better said, they do look in the mirror, mirror, on the wall, and it affirms that they are the Fairest Wretch of them all. They knew they were wretched; they saw what they expected so how can they be faulted for seeing their failings and therefore are utterly qualified to persist?

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Why do we think this? Simple: Uber Church leaders need free work so they need a carrot to go with the stick of "Submit to Authority." It isn't all that hard to sell folk on the idea that "ministry" starts with lowly service and manufacture a hierarchy of important church occupations. Big Spiritual Stuff is preaching in the big room to the big people, under the lights to 5,000 filled seats. Everything else is less important.

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]]> https://spiritualtyranny.com/broom-pushing-theology/feed/ 43 Paul Revere, Shrek, and Donkey https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-revere-shrek-and-donkey/ https://spiritualtyranny.com/paul-revere-shrek-and-donkey/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:33:54 +0000 http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=345 You know Paul Revere would have been screwed if the British were coming from both directions: land and Sea. What the heck is a guy to do if they are coming by both?

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