by Dawson Jarrell | Apr 19, 2024 | Christian Ethics, Christian Living, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Growth
Seven Signs of Manipulative Prophetic Ministry Below is a list of signs that point to someone using their platform or prophetic ministry in a manipulative way. People with real prophetic gifts and people faking a gift are accounted for here. In short accountability...
by Dawson Jarrell | Mar 9, 2024 | Christian Ethics, Christian Living, Discipleship, Spiritual Growth
A Hidden Hindrance to the Holy Spirit’s work in Community Swimming in the problem I live in the southern United States; if the south is a pond then pretentiousness is like water. People swim around in it and don’t even realize it’s what they live in. This...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jan 27, 2024 | Christian Ethics, Church History
Purpose, Power and the Occasional Obnoxious Preacher’s Kid What God loves to do with unruly preacher’s kids is a great blessing to me. Firstly, because I am one, but second, because it is always entertaining to me. Here is one of my favorite testimonies of one such...
by Dawson Jarrell | Oct 20, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Christian Living, Discipleship, Spiritual Growth
The Greatest Hindrance to a Servant Attitude I think most people find selfishness in other people to be hot…… How many of you just thought to yourself, “What is he talking about?” Likely everyone, because selfishness is a turn off. (Please allow me one Dad...
by Dawson Jarrell | Sep 14, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Growth
How to Deal with Manipulative Christians (who sometimes prophesy) Know your boundaries. Boundaries are guidelines, or limits that a person creates to identify for the person what are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around them. In...
by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 8, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Ecclesiology
Two Kinds of Leadership In a blog on theology in the Gospel of Mark, renowned Greek professor and Pauline scholar David Allen Black wrote about a memory that still haunts him: “As a 10-year-old boy growing up in Hawaii, I clearly remember the day our pastor was...
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