Men In These Last Days: it's not a medical issue, but a sin issue.

2Ti 3:1  But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 

2Ti 3:2  For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 

2Ti 3:4  treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 

2Ti 3:5  having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 

 For people "will be" = middle voice, meaning the subject is active in this--doing it to themselves. They aren't victims. They do this to themselves up against the truth and true wisdom. So it isn't a medical issue.

This is sin and the world's "wisdom" (psychology) and medicine not only can't solve it, they actually feed the sin by avoiding any consciousness of guilt. They suppress the truth with unrighteousness. Nothing works because they are "irreconcilable", haters of good, and arrogant. 

"unloving" - astorgos= without natural family affection. Same in Rom. 1:30-31. See also 1 Tim. 5:8 (those who don't provide for their household deny the faith and are worse than unbelievers); Matt. 10:35-36 (enemies of one's household)

Jas 3:13  Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.  Jas 3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.  Jas 3:15  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.  Jas 3:16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.  Jas 3:17  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 

ES Williams Examines the SBC, Marxist Critical Race Theory, and Al Mohler

"The Stain of Mohler 3" by ES Williams on thenewcalvinist Youtube Channel

These foolish depraved religious pharisees don't believe all Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, equipping, etc the true Christian (1Tim 3:16). Therefore they DENY the absolute Truth and fact of a literal 7 day creation week and instead, in their unbelief and rebellion against God, hold to evolution as a "tool" to interpret Scripture. That's precisely why they also are ok with feminism, sodomy, racism, marxism, communism, psychology, etc. When you deny the Beginning as literal and you favor the world's philosophy of the Beginning, you WILL end up accepting what follows (and it's ALL rebellion and suppressing the Truth with their unrighteousness). Their "tools" are of the flesh, not the Spirit (2 Cor. 10), are demonic in origin (James 3), and have consequences---wrong interpretation leads to wrong application and division. This IS a worldview, contrary to what Woods said. Their worldview is worldly, fleshly, and rebellious. The true Christian does as Scripture does--interpret Scripture with Scripture. Sound doctrine, Scripture states, leads to sound living. 2Co 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,  2Co 10:4  for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.  2Co 10:5  We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,  2Co 10:6  and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Scripture rebukes these religious God-haters (who are just like the pharisees)--they follow the world and it's god and sow seeds of division, rebellion, unbelief in Scripture, and unholy living: 1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God,  1Co 2:13  which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.  1Co 2:14  But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.  1Co 2:15  But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.  1Co 2:16  For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE SHOULD INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.  Mat 15:7  "You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,  Mat 15:8  'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 9 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"  Jas 3:13  Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.  Jas 3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.  Jas 3:15  This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.  Jas 3:16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.  Jas 3:17  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

John Stott Promoted Homosexuality Christianity, Contrary to Clear Scripture

John Stott, a false teacher of the Anglican church and an annihilationist, omitted two other passages that teach against homosexuality:

Mat 11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."

1Ti 1:10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Moreover, Scripture speaks even about it's desire being UNNATURAL:

Jud 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

In Matt. 5 Jesus says that the lusts in the heart are tantamount to doing the sin with the body before God. Moreover in Romans 1 sodomy is listed as "LUSTS of their HEARTS" that God finally turned those who refused to acknowledge Him, over to; that He gave them up to "a debase MIND". Scripture also lists sodomy as "unnatural", "dishonorable passions", and "consumed with passion for one another". Such is the description of those who refuse to acknowledge God as Creator. For those in Christ, they DO acknowledge Him as Creator and moreover, love and obey Him, therefore they don't suffer such hardness of hearts. They have a NEW heart at regeneration.

I wrote years ago:

So if God is so clear on homosexuality (- In the patriarchs (Genesis 19:1-28), the Law of Moses (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13), the Prophets (Ezekiel 16:46-50) and in the New Testament (Matt.11:24; Romans 1:18-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Jude 7-8), there is no way to accept it on any level, but that's what the liberals are doing as they secretly sneak in among us and then redefine things by trying to cloud the issue regarding sodomy. They try to use "science" and psychology, and even try to equalize the unnatural passion and lust of sodomy as if its like any other sin. That way they can play the victim and say it's merely a struggle like, say, drinking (eternal victimhood is a play right out of psychology's playbook---you never have victory over the sin or its desire but rather always struggle, thus always "recovering" but never recovered).

The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were sexual in nature and therefore earned God's special judgement. If He destroyed not only those two cities, but the surrounding ones because of such heinous sexual immorality, then how in the WORLD can "Christians" think He's any less angry and less holy now with sodomy? Both the Old and New Testaments show God's absolute consistency regarding sexual immorality. Or do these "Christians" fancy themselves more tolerant and "loving" than the HOLY HOLY HOLY God of Israel Himself?

If liberals can't get sodomy into the churches by full frontal attack, they'll do it by a more subtle means--incrementalism, psychology, the great sin-equalizer, and victimization.

Suicide Is An Indication of Not Being Truly Saved

Recently, there was a pastor of a local mega seeker (pagan) friendly church who killed himself. While a sad thing for that church, it's an indication of how serious it is to not hold to sound doctrine.

Sound doctrine leads to sound thinking and sound living, if truly believed. That is, if one holds Scripture as it is: the very words of God, living and active, infallible, without error, eternal, absolutely true and is one's sole authority for all things pertaining to life and godliness (1Thes 2:13 ; Heb. 4:12-13; 2 Peter 1:3; 2Tim 3:16-17).

2Ti 3:13  But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14  You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them;
2Ti 3:15  and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16  All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 
2Ti 3:17  that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Sound doctrine, the Word of Truth, preserves the soul. That is, it is living, life-giving, nourishing to the soul that is alive to God, a regenerated heart and mind.

Heb 10:39  But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

True peace is grounded in being in Christ and having HIS peace, feeding on His Word, being equipped by His Word and Holy Spirit to grow and enduring:

Php 4:4  Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
Php 4:5  Let your forbearing spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.
Php 4:6  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.
Php 4:9  The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you.

2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 
  seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 
2Pe 1:4  For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 
2Pe 1:5  Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge;
2Pe 1:6  and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness;
2Pe 1:7  and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
2Pe 1:8  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When so-called Christians, like "pastors" go to the world for help, it can only lead to unstable ways. But those who are truly saved and have true, biblical faith, will grow and endure and bear fruit that meets with repentance:

Col 2:2  that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 
Col 2:3  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 
Col 2:4  I say this in order that no one may delude you with persuasive argument. 

Col 2:8  See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 

Jas 4:1  What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
Jas 4:2  You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
Jas 4:3  You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Jas 4:4  You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

Jas 1:2  Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
Jas 1:3  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 
Jas 1:4  And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Jas 1:5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Jas 1:7  For let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, 
Jas 1:8  being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 

Jas 1:18  In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be, as it were, the first fruits among His creatures.
Jas 1:19  This you know, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; 
Jas 1:20  for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21  Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. 
Jas 1:22  But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

Eph 4:17  This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 
Eph 4:18  being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 
Eph 4:19  and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 
Eph 4:20  But you did not learn Christ in this way, 
Eph 4:21  if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 
Eph 4:22  that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 
Eph 4:23  and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 
Eph 4:24  and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. 

Those in Christ have true, living faith and hope that doesn't disappoint.

True biblical faith has as it's core, faith in the literal six day Creation by God's spoken Word as Genesis and other passages declare:

Heb 11:1  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Heb 11:2  For by it the men of old gained approval.
Heb 11:3  By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

Rom 5:1  Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
Rom 5:2  through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 
Rom 5:3  And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
Rom 5:4  and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Rom 5:5  and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

1Pe 1:1  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 2  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure.
1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4  to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5  who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Rom 16:17  Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
Rom 16:18  For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

1Ti 6:3  If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,
1Ti 6:4  he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,
1Ti 6:5  and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

2Ti 3:5  holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these. 
2Ti 3:6  For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
2Ti 3:7  always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

A person who kills himself does not have this hope, this faith, this endurance. Psychobabble is nothing but worldly, demonic, anti-Christ, anti-Holy Spirit, anti-biblical doctrine that is impure, untrue, not good, is selfish, divisive, hostile toward God, feeds the flesh, causes division, quarrels, and conflicts, denies sin and godliness as God has defined it. So those who hold to any part of such philosophies of the world are feeding on what is deadly and incapable of dealing with their sin, thoughts, motives, and actions, therefore they are in a hopeless, dead, lifeless, powerless state.

More on psychology and the difference between "mental health" and a brain (organ, physical) problem, etc. here.

A Little Bit of This

You can't accept a little bit of Evolution, Psychology, Feminism, homosexuality, or Socialism/Marxism and not expect for it to take over a person's, an institution's, a church's, a political party's, or a society's thinking and behavior.

Allowing for "differences of opinion" is the leaven that will leaven the entire loaf. A little bit of evolution leads to accepting it fully. A little feminism leads to accepting it fully. A little homosexuality leads to accepting it fully. A little bit of psychology leads to accepting it fully. A little socialism/marxism leads to accepting it fully. A little affection for the world leads to loving it fully.  Incrementalism is what this is. "Just a little bit" is ok. No it isn't. 

Each one of these is a godless, pagan worldview which has taken over Evangelicalism, because it's taken over our society. 

"No lie is of the Truth," Scripture states. Conversely Truth is not of a lie. To try and wed lies with truth is as possible as trying to bond Christ to Satan or water to oil. It is impossible. So one will take over. A person will repent of one and be loyal to the other. As King Jesus has said, no man can serve two masters, for he will love one and hate the other. He also stated that a lukewarm person He will reject. Scripture teaches exclusivity and absolutes. Post-Modernism teaches a blending of truth and lies, right and wrong, and an inability to know the difference. 

We are to reject an entire philosophy or gospel that does not entirely line up with Scripture. As well, we are to reject the men through which they come.

Col 2:2  that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

Col 2:3  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Col 2:4  I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

Eph 4:17  This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 
Eph 4:18  being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 
Eph 4:19  and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 
Eph 4:20  But you did not learn Christ in this way, 

Eph 4:21  if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 

2Jn 1:9  Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.

2Jn 1:10  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;

2Jn 1:11  for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds. 

2Co 6:14  Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

2Co 6:15  Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

2Co 6:16  Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

2Co 6:17  "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you.

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals." (1Co 15:33)

Hiring Problems of TMS in 1995

The more I look back, read information, and hear the leadership speak, the more I'm seeing a pattern of ungodly, unbiblical behavior with TMCS. The WASC report found problems with neopotism, hiring and firing practices among other things. You can read the report here.

What was revealed after this was John MacArthur's angry, defensive, and rebellious diatribe at TMS's first chapel for the 2018-2019 school year in August. What struck me was what MacArthur said about the founding of TMS: that he knew what it would take to apply to get the seminary started (a lengthy process), so "it was better to ask for forgiveness later than ask for permission now".

Just a little while ago I stumbled upon this article and it again, shows a similar the pattern that WASC was very concerned about.

Psychoheresy wrote an article back in 1995. Larry Crabb was removed from TMCS/GCC's bookstore shelves because he was rightly deemed unbiblical. Then this happened.

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The Master’s College recently employed David Harrell as a faculty member in the expanding Department of Biblical Studies. According to Dr. John Stead, who was Vice President of Academic Affairs at the time, Harrell was hired at the recommendation of Dr. Wayne Mack.

Harrell has a B.S. in psychology and an M.A. in biblical counseling. He earned the M.A. under the leadership of Dr. Larry Crabb at Grace Theological Seminary. This is a one-year degree program compared with an M.Div., which usually takes three years. At one time Harrell attended Tennessee State University and was majoring in Psychology.

Harrell also has a D. Phil. degree from Oxford Graduate School, which sounds rather prestigious until one learns that this Oxford is unaccredited and is essentially a correspondence school in Tennessee.

Harrell is cofounder and Executive Vice President of Buyer’s Healthcare Cooperative, Inc. (BHC). We called BHC and found that Harrell was there from 1989 through 1995 until he left for The Master’s College. During his first six months at BHC Harrell worked part-time and counseled part-time. During the past five years he was full-time at BHC. Harrell is a member of the board of BHC and is one of five shareholders.

BHC negotiates discounts for employees for health care services. The employees work for businesses that are represented by BHC. The health care services include the usual psychiatric and mental health services that similar plans offer. For a little less than one year, prior to coming to The Master’s College, Harrell was both full-time at BHC and the pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Joelton, Tennessee.

While we do not believe one needs programs and degrees to give godly counsel, one would expect accredited Bible Colleges and Seminaries to follow academic standards of sound biblical scholarship in the Biblical Studies departments. Therefore we looked into what is usually required of prospective faculty members in accredited, academically oriented Biblical Studies departments in liberal arts Christian colleges.

After interviewing a number of department chairs of such colleges, we conclude that Harrell would not likely have even been considered by those institutions, let alone be hired, because he lacks the educational and experiential background requirements for teaching in a Biblical Studies department at an accredited Christian college. In addition, The Master’s College lists Harrell’s D. Phil. from Oxford, even though the Christian colleges we called do not permit recognition for work or degrees received from unaccredited institutions.

With a B.A. in psychology, an attempt at a doctorate in psychology, and an M.A. in an integrationist biblical counseling program under Crabb, we are concerned about a possible incongruity between Harrell’s educational interests and his current position in a Biblical Studies department

Based upon our interviews with department chairs at other Christian colleges, we also conclude that in addition to being academically unprepared, Harrell is experientially unprepared. He has no real college teaching experience. Both college teaching experience and recency of college teaching experience are important factors in consideration for employment at other Christian colleges similar to The Master’s College. The only college teaching experience we are aware of occurred as a part-time hourly instructor under Crabb at Grace Theological Seminary during 1984-85. We were told by an administrator at Grace that this involved "very little teaching." If this is true, he has no teaching experience similar to what he is required to do at The Master’s College. And, the limited amount of teaching he has done was supervised by Crabb.

The fact that Harrell’s business, BHC, negotiates mental health care services for employees seems a bit contradictory if one stands for the Bible as the source for dealing with problems of living. We understand how this would occur if one were merely an employee, but question a Christian who is an owner doing it. We wonder how many Christian employees have used the mental health services as a result of Harrell’s company’s negotiations. If Harrell is now opposed to such services, has he been public in his opposition to the use of the usual psychotherapy provided by such services?

Harrell has written three brief articles during his career. The first was for IBC Perspectives, a publication from the Institute for Biblical Counseling headed by Crabb. We could not obtain a copy of this article. The other two brief articles were in Parent Life. Parent Life is a mixed bag of soundly biblical teachings and psychoheresy. We give one example of Parent Life’s psychoheresy in our July-August PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter. If invited, individuals who are truly biblical should not provide articles for such a publication.

We were aware that Harrell charged fees for biblical counseling in the past. When asked about charging, he said, "I’ve repented of that." We wonder if he has apologized to those whom he charged or offered to return their money.

As we said above, Harrell taught for Crabb at Grace Theological Seminary. Although Harrell claims to be converted from Crabb’s influence, Harrell has done Crabb-inspired integration counseling over a longer period of time than biblical counseling, since he has done little counseling during the past five years. How could he? A wife and three children and a full-time position at BHC, which he partly owns, along with his interest in "hunting, fishing, shooting sports, reading, writing, and family camping" (Handbook of the Biblical Studies Department, p. 7) would leave little to no time during the past five years to counsel, which is the very activity about which he is employed to teach. According to Harrell his change of heart began about five years ago. This raises the question: why would Mack recommend someone as a faculty member to teach classes in biblical counseling when Harrell has counseled so little in the past five years? And his prior counseling was Crabb-inspired.

With all of the deficiencies discussed above, it is startling that Harrell was employed at The Master’s College and as an Associate Professor, when the usual entry level is that of an Assistant Professor. Harrell claims that he has additional background that would shed light on why he was employed over others. We wrote to him and asked him for the additional background. We followed up with a phone call in which he said that he would provide the information. Though he has had plenty of time to respond, to the date of completing this issue of PAL, we have received nothing.

This unusual hiring of Harrell and his immediate elevation to Associate Professor causes us to wonder why he was chosen over others. Why were the usual hiring standards set aside? Why wasn’t someone with a better academic and experiential background employed? Our guess is that Dr. Wayne Mack, who has more than a taint of integrationism about him, selected someone who would be compatible with his own position on recycling (euphemism for integration) of psychological teachings. Considering Harrell’s interest in psychology with a B.A. and attempted doctorate augmented with an integrationist MA under Crabb, this surely makes sense.

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The rest of the article can be read here.

Psychiatrist: don't use words like "lazy"

Breitbart reports:

A leading psychiatrist has identified six words people should not use, because they are “accompanied by feelings of moral judgment, hatred and utter rejection,” Business Insider revealed Monday...

“Words like selfish, stupid, spoiled, and lazy” can be more damaging than we realize, the article warns.

“These are dividing words, misunderstanding concepts, rather than language which joins and deepens mutuality and self-relationship,” Brenner asserts, and their use constitutes “an act of linguistic violence.”

The word “lazy,” for instance, “suggests there’s something fundamentally wrong with you if you can’t work hard,” Brenner writes, while “the answer may simply be to give yourself smaller goals.”

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This demonstrates why Scripture prohibits going to the world for wisdom. Psychology is deadly. It feeds the monster of Self. It calls sin "good" as it's proponents (who are usually really messed up themselves) justify sin. They refuse to acknowledge that such sinful behavior affects others around them. Indeed often, psychologists blame others for the sin of their customer, which is why we've got bad parenting, bad schools, and a bad judicial system (all of which have been infested by psychology).

I find Brenner's thinking in his argument false because he's claiming that the use for the word "lazy" suggests you can't work hard and thus something's wrong with you. Actually that's not what the word suggests. It means you CAN work hard but REFUSE to do so, and THAT'S the fundamental problem. 

Using proper words, the ones he doesn't want used, is exactly why we should use them--they rightly identify the problem and therefore the solution. If a person physically can't work, they aren't being lazy, they are handicapped or disabled. So a lazy person isn't incapable of work, it's just that they don't want to work and what's the result of that? Others are impacted--their schedules, time, energy, focus. People are put out or have to carry more of a burden because the person is lazy--this is the problem. God calls it sin. God demands that each man work. A productive individual makes for a productive family and society. A lazy one does just the opposite (imagine a lazy military or police or husband?).

Pro 18 :9  Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. 

Pro 19:15  Laziness casts into a deep sleep, And an idle man will suffer hunger. 

Pro 6:6  Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, 

Pro 6:7  Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, 

Pro 6:8  Prepares her food in the summer, And gathers her provision in the harvest. 

Pro 6:9  How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 

Pro 6:10  "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest"-- 

Pro 6:11  And your poverty will come in like a vagabond, And your need like an armed man. 

1Th 4:11  and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 

1Th 4:12  so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

2Th 3:8  nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9  It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 

Not only that, but a lazy person is an idle person and an idle person starts to get involved in affairs not their own. 

1Ti 5:13  And at the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention. 

1Ti 5:14  Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach; 

1Ti 5:15  for some have already turned aside to follow Satan. 

So instead of listening to demonic psychology, we should abhor & reject it completely:

Jas 3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. 

Jas 3:15  This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. 

Jas 3:16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. 

Eph 4:17  This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 

Eph 4:18  being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 

Eph 4:19  and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 

Eph 4:20  But you did not learn Christ in this way, 

Eph 4:21  if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 

Jas 4:4  You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Brenner said not to use the six words (lazy, spoiled, stupid, selfish, bored, and hypocrite) "because they are “accompanied by feelings of moral judgment, hatred and utter rejection" according to Breitbart's report. But Brenner is himself making moral judgments makes him a hypocrite.  Also we are indeed to make judgments on morals or immorality. That's how one deals with behavior, after all. This is common sense. It boggles the mind that someone so educated is so utterly foolish and void of common sense.  Psychology makes people become drama queens, too. I mean, to be rightly called "lazy" is really going to make someone feel like another person hates them and are totally rejected? Really? That's quite a jump, especially in regard to parenting. One can see Brenner's inner teenager revealed here. Correction of bad behavior is the job of every parent and teacher IF they want a productive, less-selfish individual in their community. 

Evangelical Leaders and Sin

Today's Evangelical leaders believe error has no consequence and isn't sinful, and they believe that sin has little consequence except for the "big" ones like adultery or murder.

It's not what they always say--indeed they might profess what is true. The measure of a man, especially a teacher, is what they proclaim AND practice. 

Most today deny and divorce sound doctrine from sound living (godliness).

1Ti 6:3  If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,
1Ti 6:4  he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,
1Ti 6:5  and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

2Pe 1:3  seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
2Pe 1:4  For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 
2Pe 1:5  Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge;
2Pe 1:6  and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness; 
2Pe 1:7  and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
2Pe 1:8  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Unsound doctrine leads to unsound living. False teaching (anything that isn't true according to Scripture) cannot help in sanctification. Rather, it is corrupt.

The notion that sin has little consequence (except for the "biggies"), is bound to the notion of "easy believism" divorces doctrine and practice from the believer. Usually men hide it:

by layers of associations: surround themselves with staff or associates but can't go directly to the "top" man (as they have set it up--"senior pastor" for example). No direct access to himself.

by attaching themselves to a perceived sound man, thus looking solid and trustworthy himself (that is, they borrow perceived qualities of a well known or top wrung man).

by promoting or worse, believing one's own PR

Worse, such leaders redefine sin:

They create categories of sin: lesser sins are justified by human nature ("nobody's perfect", "we all sin"); greater sins: will incur church discipline for the people, but rarely for the elders (our "betters"); they use the opinions and practices of leaders, scholarly degrees, books written, as well as attendance to conferences to measure truth and a man's spiritual standing (1Cor 1:20-21; 3:18-21). These are fleshly things used to determine what is by nature, spiritual (1 Cor 2:14).

They violate this: 1Co 1:26  For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27  but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

In the Evangelical leaders' attempt to redefine sin, they also necessarily they don't even see sin AS sin, such as:

favoritism, celebrity, evil desires (empire building, church gluttony (bigger and better facilities for attracting people--that is, appealing to the flesh to get bigger numbers), sodomy), unsound doctrine (evolution, psychology, pragmaticism, doubting of Scripture); hypocrisy; plagiarism (stealing) (in books, sermons--quotes); self promotion, flaunting freedom; association with false teachers.

Scripture calls these things sin and what does the Lord instruct us to do regarding sin? Confess it and repent of it. To deny one is in sin and if you remain in unrepentant sin (especially when we're talking about teachers and leaders) Scripture states:

1Jn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

1Co 11:27  Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1Co 11:29  For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly.
1Co 11:30  For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

To deny for example, that one is guilty of the sin of favoritism while he is truly guilty of it (1Cor 1-3, James 2, 3 John 9-11; Gal. 4:16-17) is to argue with Scripture and not humbly accept God's verdict:

Jas 1:18  In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be, as it were, the first fruits among His creatures.
Jas 1:19  This you know, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;
Jas 1:20  for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21  Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22  But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 
Jas 1:23  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 
Jas 1:24  for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.

This requires action:

Mat 18:15  "And if your brother sins, go and reprove him in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
Mat 18:16  "But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.
Mat 18:17  "And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer.

1Ti 5:19  Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.
1Ti 5:20  Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also may be fearful of sinning.
1Ti 5:21  I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.
1Ti 5:22  Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thus share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

True Love Hates Wickedness: that includes "social justice"

Love--true love, agape love, loves what is righteous and hates what is not. This is the nature of true, godly, love:

Psa 97:10 Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth

Truth is knowable and absolute.

Wickedness and unrighteous is a all that is not according to God's holiness and word. It is knowable and unchanging because God is knowable and unchanging. Sin has been defined by God in Scripture and it cannot be redefined by people today according to one's sentimentality or culture.

God's justice is perfect, holy, righteous, and inflexible. It is not one of favoritism because of it's precise and absolute holiness.

Psa 97:2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

The Law shows His standard which hasn't changed between testaments nor between the NT and now, because it's Author is unchanging. If God is unchanging, and He is, then His Word, promises, threats, and warnings are unchanging and we will see their fruition in the End. It is in the Tribulation where we see God's inflexible iron of justice and absolute precise sword being weilded against all unbelievers for their rebellious unbelief after His merciful warnings to repent. He shows zero favoritism. Even to the widow and orphan. This is why Evangelicalism's co-belligerence with the worldly social "justice" is wrong. It presumes all widows,orphans, and Blacks to be righteous, all rich to be unrighteous, and all whites, especially males, to be unrighteous. This is the sin of favoritism.

Lev 19:15 'You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Jas 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

Isa 9:17 Therefore the Lord does not take pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity on their orphans or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 1Co 6:11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Jude 1:7  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Orphans, widows,homosexuals and all ethncities will all be judged and killed in the Great Tribulation who did not repent of their sins, submit to Christ, and find salvation in Him alone. All of them. Only the remnant who turn to Christ will be saved. It has been this way from the Beginning. When people begin to believe so-called science and/or psychology which redefines what is normal,healthy, and righteous to that which is abnormal, unhealthy, and unrighteous, they are showing doubt and rebellion against God's clear Word. They then start to apologize for perceived hurt feelings by those who are offenders of God's law and at the same time accuse those who love the Law and the Lord of it with sin which is not their's. It's only a half step then, to full acceptance of the wickedness and they will oppose anyone who refuses to submit to their Pharisaical, futile, foolish declarations, associations, and agendas. This is the trajectory of both Richard Mouw who infamously apologized to the Mormons at their headquarters in Salt Lake City for--in his view-- of supposed mistreatment of Mormons by Evangelicals, and that of Al Mohler, who apologized to Mormons and homosexuals for--in his view--perceived mistreatment of homosexuals by Evangelicals. This is unjust because it: elevates these men to popish heights as if they speak on behalf of all Evangelicals, presumes sin upon all Evangelicals, and promotes tolerance for wickedness.

Social "justice" is not biblical justice by any stretch of the imagination. It begins with elevating man and ignoring (at best) God and His clear and solely authoritative Word (which makes no categories of justice at all). To have true justice is to fear the biblical God, believe all of Scripture including the sound doctrines of Creation in six literal days, eschatology, sotierology, ecclessiology, Christology, sin, the Gospel, etc. That is the foundation of knowing God's standard of righteousness and justice, as Ps 97:2 talks about. The world starts with rebellion against God and His Word and their minds are futile, dark, and without wisdom, full of foolishness and vanity.

Jas 3:15  This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

Eph 4:17  So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 

Eph 4:18  being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 

Eph 4:19  and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 

Eph 4:20  But you did not learn Christ in this way, 

Eph 4:21  if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 

Eph 4:22  that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 

Eph 4:23  and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 

Eph 4:24  and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.