“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” Matthew 23:27-28 New American Standard Version “I’d dare say this comes… Read More »
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by… Read More »
Steve Shank, a pastor at the Sovereign Grace Church of Gilbert, AZ and a Regional Leader of the Sovereign Grace Churches denomination, has vanished without a trace. Shank, a close friend of C.J. Mahaney’s and a fellow pastor with him from the earliest days of the organization, seems to be the victim of a “Stalinesque” purge. (This is… Read More »