Bible
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The Problem of Certainty
Exploring the extreme certainty fundamentalists often place on the authority of the bible. Big words such as infallible and inerrant are mentioned.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 13
Chapter Fifteen: Discipline Issues (Part Two) While the previous chapter focused on a specific parenting “problem,” this chapter covers a variety of common childhood misbehaviors. All of which the author assures us are easily able to be controlled by proper parenting. He provides a list of these misbehaviors in the opening portion of the chapters:…
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 10 (Gary’s Views on Spanking)
This blog post is about Gary Ezzo’s book Growing Kids God’s Way. With a specific focus on the author’s views on spanking as a form of discipline.
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Conspiracies and Fundamentalism
A post on the relationship between fundamentalism and conspiracy theories.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 7
Growing Kid’s God’s Way. Chapter 7. Respect for the Elderly. In which Gary Ezzo introduces parents to the interrupt rule and mandated use of titles and last names.
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Fear and Salvation
Assurance in salvation. How can someone really know that they are saved? And my fears and anxiety around this question from my times as an evangelical.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 5
Part 5 of my series on Gary Ezzo’s Growing Kids God’s Way. This portion focuses on Gary’s views on morality.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 3
My thoughts and concerns on Growing Kid’s God’s Way – Chapter 2 “Right Beginnings” Within this chapter Garry Ezzo warns of the dangers of child-centered parenting and stresses the importance of the parent’s marriage.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 2
Continuing my book series on “Growing Kids God’s Way.” Moving on to the first chapter in which Gary Ezzo focuses on biblical morality.
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Religious Guilt and the Total Depravity of Man
Some thoughts on my own religious guilt regarding sin. Or my scrupulosity as I view it now in retrospect.
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