Category Archives: Sovereign Grace Ministries

Janet Mefferd Cuts to the Heart of the Matter

I included this video in an article I wrote about a year ago. Since then there have been many new visitors to this blog and most of them have never heard this program by Janet Mefferd. Mefferd does a masterful job of sorting through all the facts of the Sovereign Grace Ministries/Sovereign Grace Churches sexual abuse scandal, presenting… Read More »

C.J. Mahaney – Doing the Hard Work of Sermon Preparation?

  “For a long time I have been convinced that I could take a person with a high school education, give him or her a six-month trade school training, and provide a pastor who would be satisfactory to any discriminating American congregation. The curriculum would consist of four courses. Course I: Creative Plagiarism. I would put you in… Read More »

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

I came across this insightful article today. It is a few years old but worthy of a review.   “It’s no accident that so many allegations of serious abuse have arisen across SGM’s churches. The combination of patriarchal gender roles, purity culture, and authoritarian clergy that characterizes Sovereign Grace’s teachings on parenting, marriage, and sexuality creates an environment where… Read More »