“A Way Which Seemeth Right…”
By TBC Staff - MB Published on thebereancall.org (http://www.thebereancall.org)
Created 2005-10-01
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12 [1])
I recently attended the Celebrate Recovery Summit 2005 at Saddleback Church in Southern California. The primary purpose of the conference was […]

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Weaning Evangelicals Off the Word - Part 3
By T.A. McMahon
Published on thebereancall.org (http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5958)
Created 2007-08-31
The previous two parts of this series (TBC, 2/07 [0] , 3/07 [0] ) made some observations that should be of great concern to those who consider themselves Bible-believing Christians. Paul warned that there would come a time when “sound doctrine” (2 […]

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Believers who speak forth regarding the sufficiency of Christ and who speak out against false systems of sanctification found in psychotherapy and its underlying psychologies may be reviled, persecuted, and subtly shunned even by professing Christians.  Readers have shared the pain of rejection from other Christians and the sorrow of being ill-spoken of simply because […]

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Hypnosis in its various forms often occurs in unexpected places in which a person may be led into a trance state without realizing that it is hypnosis.  Our book Hypnosis: Medical, Scientific, or Occultic? includes a chapter titled “Hypnosis in Unexpected Places.” The following is excerpted from that chapter to alert our readers to the […]

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ARE YOU STUCK IN VICTIMIZATION?
Are Women Innocent Victims?
by Carol Tharp Almy, M.D.
The Bible views women and men as equally responsible before God for their sin.  However, the church has followed the world into viewing women as innocent victims with their “mistakes” being due to such things as a bad husband, abuse as a child, or […]

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PART 1
Do children and adults really need self-esteem?  Does low self-esteem lead to serious life problems?  Should parents attempt to build self-esteem in their children?  Does the Bible encourage self-esteem?  Many Christians have assumptions about self-esteem.  But, what does the Bible say?  What does research say?
THE GENISIS OF SELF-ESTEEM
 
The self-esteem movement has its most recent […]

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ARE YOU STUCK IN VICTIMIZATION?
Are Women Innocent Victims?
by Carol Tharp Almy, M.D.
The Bible views women and men as equally responsible before God for their sin.  However, the church has followed the world into viewing women as innocent victims with their “mistakes” being due to such things as a bad husband, abuse as a child, or […]

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by Dr. Jane Gumprecht
(reviewed by Martin & Deidre Bobgan)
“Abusing Memory” is an appropriate title for Dr. Jane Gumprecht’s book.  She skillfully demonstrates that the popular practice of inner healing is a dangerous combination of psychology and new-age spirituality.   Practitioners attempt to heal people of present problems through a mental imagery process that guides people into […]

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PART ONE
“Christian psychologists” follow the theories of secular theorists and they pick up certain ideas and treat them as truth.  One set of currently popular psychological notions is that people repress impulses and memories from consciousness and that those impulses and memories continue to act in powerful ways from an active, motivating unconscious.
INFLUENCE OF FREUD
Simply […]

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by Mark Pendergrast
(Reviewed by Debbie Dewart)
The recent epidemic proportions of the “false memory syndrome” have spawned a number of books providing both information and counsel.  Victims of Memory by Mark Pendergrast is one of the thickest, most extensively researched of such volumes, written by a man whose two grown daughters have accused him of serious […]

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