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# Recovering Grace

A Bill Gothard generation shines light on the teachings of IBLP and ATI

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## Posts

- [Realization, Fear, and Action without Acquiescence: Joy Wood's Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/joys-story/) - In this post we hear from Joy Wood, an IBYC staff wife from 1974-1980. She tells of how they came to be on the IBYC staff, and eventually resigned after being asked to promote 'lies of omission' after the scandal broke.
- [The Trouble with Bubbles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/the-trouble-with-bubbles/)
- [When the Courtship Crashes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/when-the-courtship-crashes/)
- [Their Day in Court: Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2019/02/their-day-in-court-part-two/)
- [An ATI Education, Chapter 4: The Law of Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/12/an-ati-education-chapter-4-the-law-of-grace/)
- [An ATI Education, Chapter 3: Thou Shalt Not Trap the Eye](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/12/an-ati-education-chapter-3-thou-shalt-not-trap-the-eye/)
- [Seen "Shiny Happy People?"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2023/05/seen-shiny-happy-people/)
- [Third Witness: Sexual Harassment at Headquarters](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/third-witness-sexual-harassment-at-headquarters/)
- [A Call for Discernment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/a-call-for-discernment-2/) - A thorough examination of the teachings of Bill Gothard. Written in 1998 by the leadership of Calvary Bible Church in Fort Worth, TX.
- [Sonic Bloom: Untruth With An Agenda](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/sonic-bloom-untruth-with-an-agenda/)
- [Waiting on Theological Clarification from IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/waiting-on-theological-clarification-from-iblp/)
- [Their Day in Court: Part One](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2019/02/their-day-in-court-part-one/)
- [Their Day in Court: Part Three](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2019/02/their-day-in-court-part-three/)
- [There Is No Victim: A Survey of IBLP Literature on Sexual Assault and Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/there-is-no-victim-a-survey-of-iblp-literature-on-sexual-assault-and-abuse/)
- [Statement from Recovering Grace regarding the lawsuit against Bill Gothard and IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2018/03/statement-from-recovering-grace-regarding-the-lawsuit-against-bill-gothard-and-iblp/)
- [IBYC Scandal in the News -- 1980-1982](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/ibyc-scandal-in-the-news-1980-1982-2/)
- [Silencing the Lambs: Twisting Matthew 18](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/silencing-the-lambs-twisting-matthew-18/) - Rediscovering a Forgotten Truth is Bill Gothard’s book on Matthew 18:15–19. This article provides a critique on Gothard’s rendition, which adds many additional qualifiers and stipulations to the passage.
- [The Brilliance of Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/the-brilliance-of-bill-gothard/)
- [Rethinking the Nativity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2016/12/rethinking-the-nativity/)
- [Bill Gothard’s Powerless Gospel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2016/03/bill-gothards-powerless-gospel/)
- [Plaintiffs Amend Lawsuit Against IBLP, Also Sue Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2016/01/plaintiffs-amend-lawsuit/)
- [An ATI Education, Final Chapter: Guilty Silence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2016/01/an-ati-education-final-chapter-guilty-silence/)
- [An ATI Education, Chapter 5: We the People Under Authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/12/an-ati-education-chapter-5-we-the-people-under-authority/)
- [An ATI Education, Chapter 2: Is It Just Me?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/10/an-ati-education-chapter-2-is-it-just-me/)
- [An ATI Education, Chapter 1: Under the Umbrella](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/10/an-ati-education-chapter-1-under-the-umbrella/)
- [An ATI Education: Introduction](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/10/an-ati-education-introduction/)
- [Introducing our IBYC/IBLP Facebook Recovery Group](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/12/introducing-our-ibyciblp-facebook-recovery-group/)
- [The Continuing Saga—Recent Developments with IBLP and Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/11/the-continuing-saga-recent-developments-with-iblp-and-bill-gothard/)
- [Negligence Lawsuit Filed Against IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/10/negligence-lawsuit-filed-against-iblp/)
- [A Call to Repentance](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/a-call-to-repentance/)
- [Recovering Grace in the Media](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/09/recovering-grace-in-the-media/)
- [Why We Care About Sexual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/why-we-care-about-sexual-abuse/)
- [Stolen Dreams](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/08/stolen-dreams/) - Gothard warned that exploration and curiosity might lead us out from under authority, which would open us up to Satan’s destruction. So, to be safe, we had to channel our gifts toward pre-approved goals that reinforced his own seven basic principles. If a dream stretched beyond the sharply-drawn boundaries of the Institute, we learned that we should discard it.
- [Church Celebrities Who are Above Criticism: Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/07/church-celebrities-who-are-above-criticism-bill-gothard/)
- [Failure to Repent: Tell It to the Church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/06/failure-to-repent-tell-it-to-the-church/)
- [What Sexual Abuse Counseling Can Do to Help You](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/06/what-sexual-abuse-counseling-can-do-to-help-you/)
- [The Characteristics of a Sexual Groomer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/06/the-characteristics-of-a-sexual-groomer/)
- [Of Music and Football](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/06/of-music-and-football/)
- [Bill Gothard's New Website](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/06/bill-gothards-new-website/)
- [Set Free from Silence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/05/set-free-from-silence/)
- [Belonging](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/belonging/)
- [In Search of Peace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/in-search-of-peace/)
- [IBYC Board Minutes 1977-1980](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/01/ibyc-board-minutes-1977-1980/)
- [My Mother's Day Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/05/my-mothers-day-story/)
- [The Truth About God's Justice](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/the-truth-about-gods-justice/)
- [How "Lessons From Moral Failures in a Family" Blames Victims](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/05/gracenote/)
- [The Shame of Beauty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/the-shame-of-beauty/)
- [Through the Tainted Window](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/through-the-tainted-window/)
- [Resurrection Rhythms](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/04/resurrection-rhythms/)
- [ATI: Designed Around a False Education "Principle" (Part 2)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/03/ati-designed-around-a-false-education-principle-part-2/)
- [ATI: Designed Around a False Education "Principle" (Part 1)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/03/ati-designed-around-a-false-education-principle-part-1/)
- [Ignorance Is Not Bliss](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/03/ignorance-is-not-bliss/)
- [Manipulation by Humiliation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/03/manipulation-by-humiliation/)
- [Sorry, Mom and Dad.  We DO Have Regrets](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/01/sorry-mom-and-dad-we-do-have-regrets/)
- [An Open Letter to ATI Parents](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/01/final-an-open-letter-to-ati-parents/)
- [The Package: Bill Gothard and His Children](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2015/01/the-package-bill-gothard-and-his-children/)
- [The Package: The All Sufficiency of Jesus Christ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/the-package-the-all-sufficiency-of-jesus-christ/)
- [The Package: History of Attempts to Confront Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/the-package-history-of-attempts-to-confront-bill-gothard/)
- [The Package: Bill Gothard's Knowledge of Sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/the-package-bill-gothards-knowledge-of-sin/)
- [IBYC According to Bryen - 1975](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/ibyc-according-to-bryen-1975/)
- [Christmas Thoughts - Part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/christmas-thoughts-part-2/)
- [Christmas Thoughts - Part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/christmas-thoughts-part-1/)
- [Dr. Earl Radmacher, 1931-2014](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/12/dr-earl-radmacher-1931-2014/) - Recovering Grace readers will remember Dr. Radmacher as a determined proponent of investigation and genuine restoration in the wake of the 1980 IBYC scandal, and of dialogue between Bill Gothard and theologians concerning IBYC/IBLP's teachings.
- [Giving Thanks](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/11/thanksgiving2014/)
- [The Difference Between Horizontal and Vertical: Fifty Years of Yielding Rights and Not Taking Up Offenses](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/11/fthe-difference-between-horizontal-and-vertical/)
- [You Cannot Pay With Words](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/11/you-cannot-pay-with-words/) - A leader maintains a double life for decades, then tries to buy restoration with words and tears. It is too late for payments, but not too late to redeem the story.
- [Confident Statements Do Not a Solid Argument Make](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/11/confident-statements-do-not-a-solid-argument-make/)
- [No Grace without Jesus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/no-grace-without-jesus/)
- [When We Throw Stones](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/when-we-throw-stones/)
- [The Agent of Satan](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/the-agent-of-satan/)
- [The Principle of Self-Doubt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/the-principle-of-self-doubt/)
- [Why is that Person your Friend?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/why-is-that-person-your-friend/)
- [Broken Glass - In Memoriam](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/broken-glass-in-memorium/)
- [If Bill Gothard Is Wrong, Then What's Right?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/10/if-bill-gothard-is-wrong-then-whats-right/)
- [Is Jesus a Sinner According to Bill Gothard’s Teachings?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/is-jesus-a-sinner-according-to-bill-gothards-teachings/)
- [Four Tools of Spiritual Manipulators](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/four-tools-of-spiritual-manipulators/)
- [Me and My Red Notebook](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/me-and-my-red-notebook/)
- [Living by Principles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/living-by-principles/)
- ["Just Get Over It"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/just-get-over-it-2/)
- [Thoughts on "Tangled"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/thoughts-on-tangled-2/)
- [Breaking Free](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/09/breaking-free-2/)
- [Standards that Divide Believers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/standards-that-divide-believers/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 8: Revictimizing Victims](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-8-revictimizing-victims/)
- [Wisdom Books and the Beatitudes: Post-It Notes On a Work of Art ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/wisdom-books-and-the-beatitudes-post-it-notes-on-a-work-of-art/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Overview](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-overview/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 5: Identifying the Abusive System](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-5-identifying-the-abusive-system-2/)
- [A Tale of Two Abigails: Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/a-tale-of-two-abigails-part-two-2/)
- [A Tale of Two Abigails](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/08/a-tale-of-two-abigails-2/)
- [Character Sketches or Sketchy Characters?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/character-sketches-or-sketchy-characters/)
- [Christian Karma](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/christian-karma-2/)
- [Rhemas: Hidden Wisdom in Scripture?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/rhemas-hidden-wisdom-in-scripture-2/)
- [We WERE the "Normal Ones"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/we-were-the-normal-ones-2/)
- [The Unfair Bonus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/the-unfair-bonus-2/)
- [Judging 101](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/judging-101-2/)
- [Heather's Story ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/link-heathers-story/)
- [When Apologies Make it Worse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/when-apologies-make-it-worse/)
- [Circumcision, Blue Jeans, & Cabbage Patch Kids: The Danger of Bill Gothard's "Jesus+" Theology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/07/circumcision-blue-jeans-cabbage-patch-kids-the-danger-of-bill-gothards-jesus-theology/)
- [Citing Scripture: Butchery or Surgery?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/citing-scripture-butchery-or-surgery/)
- [Grace Overflowing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/grace-overflowing/)
- [Dear Mom and Dad](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/dear-mom-and-dad/)
- [Foils We Are](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/foils-we-are/)
- [Our Response to the IBLP Board Statement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/our-response-to-the-iblp-board-statement/) - Recovering Grace's response to a statement entitled "A Time of Transition" released by the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) board of directors on Tuesday (June 17, 2014).
- [IBLP Board Issues Their Public Statement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/iblp-board-issues-their-public-statement/)
- [An Update from Recovering Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/update/)
- [Bury My Umbrella at Wounded Knee](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/bury-my-umbrella-at-wounded-knee/)
- [Trapped in the Shadow of 'God's Anointed': Breaking free from an Unbiblical Concept](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/trapped-in-the-shadow-of-gods-anointed/)
- [The "False Teacher" Debate](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/the-false-teacher-debate/)
- [IBLP Board Failure: Ignorance or Negligence?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/06/iblp-board-failure-ignorance-or-negligence/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: The Scandal, 1980](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-scandal-1980/) - Part 2 of a 3-part series on the early history of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), and how it demonstrates Bill Gothard's disqualification from ministry.
- [The GOTHARD Files: Failure to Reconcile, 1981–ATI](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/the-gothard-files-failure-to-reconcile/) - Part 3A of a 3-part series on the early history of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), and how it demonstrates Bill Gothard's disqualification from ministry.
- [The GOTHARD Files: The Early Years, 1965–79](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-gothard-files-the-early-years-1965-79/) - Part 1 of a 3-part series on the early history of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), and how it demonstrates Bill Gothard's disqualification from ministry.
- [1984 and ATI](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/1984-and-ati/)
- [Bill Gothard's Basic Conflict in Eternity (magazine)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/bill-gothards-basic-conflict-in-eternity-magazine/)
- [Early Warnings of a False Authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/early-warnings/)
- [Four Pre-Digital Reviews of Gothard's Theology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/four-pre-digital-reviews-of-gothards-theology/)
- [Bill’s Cabin: Uncovering Sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/bills-cabin-uncovering-sin/)
- [Authority vs. Faith in Brazil](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/authority-vs-faith-in-brazil/)
- [The Umbrella of Oppression](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/umbrella-of-oppression/)
- [Narcissistic Apologies](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/narcissistic-apologies/)
- [Twelve Characteristics of Fundamentalist Societies that Shelter Sexual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/twelve-characteristics-of-fundamentalist-societies-that-shelter-sexual-abuse/)
- [Speaking Up Late in the Day](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/05/late-in-the-day-gracenote/)
- [Readings on Acknowledging and Healing from Sexual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/readings-on-healing-from-sexual-abuse/)
- [Finding the Words to Say, "No More"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/finding-the-words-to-say-no-more/)
- [A Long Night's Journey Through the ATI / IBLP System](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/a-long-nights-journey-through-the-iblp-system/)
- [Bill Gothard Issues Public Statement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/bill-gothard-issues-public-statement/)
- [Our Response to Bill Gothard’s Statement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/response-to-gothards-statement/)
- [Heaven's Important, But It's Not the End of the World](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/heavens-important-but-its-not-the-end-of-the-world/)
- [When Sexual Harassment at IBLP Headquarters Is Acknowledged](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/when-sexual-harassment-at-iblp-headquarters-is-acknowledged/)
- [How Could This Happen Here?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/how-could-this-happen-here/)
- [To My Daughter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/to-my-daughter/)
- [The Cost of a Vow](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/the-cost-of-a-vow/)
- [We Are Grateful ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/we-are-grateful/)
- [The One Who's Turned into a Girl Again](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/the-one-whos-turned-into-a-girl-again/)
- [On Feeling Betrayed, Validated, and Brave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/on-feeling-betrayed-validated-and-brave/)
- [Grace, Grace, and More Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/grace-grace-and-more-grace/)
- [Was It All Wrong?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/was-it-all-wrong/)
- [Charlotte's Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/charlottes-stori/) - Charlotte shares her experiences working for Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles Headquarters in Oak Brook, IL.
- [Rachel’s Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/rachels-story/) - Rachel shares her story of sexual harassment experienced while working for Bill Gothard at his Oak Brook, IL, Headquarters. This is the seventh such account that Recovering Grace has published.
- [Robin’s Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/robins-story/) - Living like this just became normal to me. Even though Mr. Gothard treated me in a way that would have got others sent home, I justified it in my mind. I simply could not believe that a man of God would intentionally be inappropriate.
- [LA Committee Questions to IBYC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/la-committee-questions-to-ibyc/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: Failure to Reconcile 1981–ATI, part two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/failure-to-reconcile-part-two/)
- [Rebuffed Are the Peacemakers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/rebuffed-are-the-peacemakers/)
- [Body, Soul & Spirit: An Alternate View](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/body-soul-spirit-an-alternate-view/)
- [Part Two: Body, Soul & Spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/part-two-body-soul-spirit/)
- [Sacred Grooming, Part One: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-one/) - A former secretary shares the dramatic story of her relationship with the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Recovering Grace Interviewed on Christian Talk Radio](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/recovering-grace-interviewed-on-christian-talk-radio/)
- [Dr. Tim Levendusky named new Interim President of IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/dr-tim-levendusky-named-new-interim-president-of-iblp/)
- [Gothard’s Biblical Inoculation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/gothards-biblical-inoculation-2/) - Bill Gothard is a master at inoculating his followers from anyone who would poke holes in his teaching. Allow me to present a case for four of his “inoculations” which combined are extremely enslaving.
- [Stolen Treasures](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/stolen-treasures-2/) - As I have worked with those hurt by legalism over the years, I have often heard stories about what happened five, ten, maybe thirty years ago. I have come to the conclusion that a great deal of the difficulty of moving on has to do with the treasures that were stolen.
- [Questions from the Mailbag](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/questions-from-the-mailbag/)
- [The Question of Grief: "Who am I now?"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-question-of-grief-who-am-i-now/)
- [Bill Gothard Resigns from IBLP Presidency](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/bill-gothard-resigns-from-iblp-presidency/) - On March 6, 2014, Administrative Director David Waller communicated via email to ATI families that Mr. Gothard has “resigned as president of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, its Board of Directors, and its affiliated entities.”
- [Today Is Our Day of Prayer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/today-is-our-day-of-prayer/) - We are asking our readers, friends, and current family of IBLP/ATI to spend time praying on behalf of Bill Gothard, IBLP, Recovering Grace, and all involved in these difficult events.
- [Recovering Grace's Response to IBLP Board Action](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/a-response-to-board-action/)
- [The Original "True Story" from "Rediscovering a Forgotten Truth"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/03/original-true-story/)
- [Marcus's Story: Touching the Invisible Electric Fence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/marcus-story-touching-the-invisible-electric-fence/) - Marcus' account of working at Bill Gothard's IBLP Headquarters in Oak Brook, IL, and the troubling and blatant disparity between Gothard’s own standard of conduct and the standard of conduct set for other single men.
- [Ruth’s Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/ruths-story/) - The heartbreaking story of the late Ruth Gabriel, one of the earliest victims of Bill Gothard's emotional and spiritual abuse, deceit, and evil control.
- [Silencing the Lambs: Listening to an Evil Report](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/silencing-the-lambs/) - A closer look at Bill Gothard's teaching on the "Defilement of Listening to an Evil Report."
- [Silencing the Lambs: Taking Up Offenses](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/silencing-the-lambs-taking-up-offenses/) - A closer look at Bill Gothard's teaching on "Taking Up Offenses," a teaching which has no basis in Scripture has become a powerful tool to spiritually abuse God's flock while providing protection and cover for sin.
- [A Call for Discernment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/a-call-for-discernment/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: 1983 Transcript](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/1983-transcript/) - A transcript of a phone call from 1983 which concludes that Bill Gothard’s misconduct must be exposed in order for people to pay attention to his bad theology.
- [Defrauding: What does it mean?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/defrauding-what-does-it-mean/) - We asked the women who have shared their stories through Recovering Grace what they would think of a repeat performance of Bill Gothard's 1976 and 1981 apologies. Their responses follow.
- [Bill Gothard Placed on Administrative Leave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/bill-gothard-placed-on-administrative-leave/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: Scandal Chronology, 1971–1981](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/scandal-chronology/) - This chronology posted below was compiled by this group during and shortly after the scandal. Many entries are firsthand accounts, and others are recorded second-hand, detailing the group’s efforts to record the unfolding events to the best of their abilities under challenging circumstances. We have redacted some names and details to protect the privacy of the many individuals involved.
- [Sacred Grooming, Part Six: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-six/) - The sixth and final installment in a series of articles written by a former secretary about her experiences working for the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Sacred Grooming, Part Five: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-five/) - The fifth installment in a series of articles written by a former secretary about her experiences working for the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Sacred Grooming, Part Four: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-four/) - The fourth installment in a series of articles written by a former secretary about her experiences working for the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Sacred Grooming, Part Three: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-three/) - The third installment in a series of articles written by a former secretary about her experiences working for the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Sacred Grooming, Part Two: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/sacred-grooming-part-two/) - A former secretary continues her dramatic story about being emotionally controlled and pursued by the powerful Christian leader Bill Gothard.
- [Exploited Innocence: Sexual Harassment at HQ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/exploited-innocence/)
- [Sexual Harassment Part 2: "Aren't you making too big an issue of this?"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/sexual-harassment-part-2-arent-you-making-too-big-an-issue-of-this/)
- [Another Witness: Sexual Harassment at HQ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/another-witness-sexual-harassment-at-hq/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: The Basic Problem](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-gothard-files-the-basic-problem/) - A document written by Dr. Samuel J. Schultz, professor emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College, and a member of the IBYC Board during the 1980 scandal.
- [Gothard's Process: Invite, Idealize, Isolate, Transgress, Rewrite](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/gothards-process/) - The following chart records Bill Gothard’s patterns of behavior in seven women’s narratives already posted on Recovering Grace.
- [Chronology of Ruth, Annette, Charlotte, Meg, Rachel, Lizzie, and Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/chronology-of-favorites/) - The following is a brief chronology of seven women whose lives intertwined in a tangled web of favoritism and manipulation by Bill Gothard.
- [From Bill to Larne and Ruth, February 1981](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/from-bill-to-larne-and-ruth-february-1981/) - A letter from Bill Gothard to Larne and Ruth Gabriel dated February 12, 1981. Included with the letter was Gothard's new booklet entitled, "How to Guard Against Defilement that Comes from Listening to an Evil Report."
- [The GOTHARD Files: The Sleeping Giant](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-gothard-files-sleeping-giant/) - An introduction to 3-part series on the early history of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), specifically the scandal of 1980.
- [IBYC Staff Instructions: How to Answer Questions about Dating](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/ibyc-staff-instructions-how-to-answer-questions-about-dating/) - A document distributed to the staff of Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts to provide them with approved answers to questions they might receive about their dating habits.
- [Two Witnesses for Charlotte](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/two-witnesses-for-charlotte/) - Two witnesses corroborate important details of Charlotte's story and experiences working at Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles.
- [The GOTHARD Files: Corresponding with Bill](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-gothard-files-corresponding-with-bill-x/) - The Recovering Grace leadership team shares an email exchange that took place with Bill Gothard in June and July of 2013.
- [Why Not Confront Him Personally?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/why-not-confront-him-personalli/)
- [The GOTHARD Files: A Case for Disqualification](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/the-gothard-files-a-case-for-disqualification-x2/) - The Recovering Grace team introduces a new series of articles intended to make a clear, biblical case that Bill Gothard is disqualified from ministry.
- [My Childhood in ATI, Part 3](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/atichildhood3/)
- [Finding My "No"!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/finding-my-no/)
- [Examining "Life Focus"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/life-focus/)
- [Life Focus: The Price of a White Polo](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/life-focus-the-price-of-a-white-polo/)
- [What Have You Done with My Daughter?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/what-have-you-done-with-my-daughter/)
- [The Detour](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/the-detour/)
- [A Pastor's Confession](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/a-pastors-confession/)
- [Where Healing Begins](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/where-healing-begins/)
- [2013 Year in Review](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/01/2013-year-in-review/)
- [Merry Christmas!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/merry-christmas/)
- [Good Counsel?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/good-counsel/)
- [What My Parents Did Right](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/what-my-parents-did-right/)
- [What Grace Means to Me](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/what-grace-means-to-me/)
- [Letter from a Survivor of Spiritual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/letter-from-a-survivor/)
- [What's Wrong with Guarding your Heart?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/whats-wrong-with-guarding-your-heart/)
- [Does Jesus Love Me?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/does-jesus-love-me/)
- [No Condemnation!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/no-condemnation/)
- [Shrimp on a Sheet: A Talmud of Our Own](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/12/shrimp-on-a-sheet-a-talmud-of-our-own/)
- [Life Focus: A Sister's Perspective](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/life-focus-a-sisters-perspective/)
- [One Way Love: An Antidote to Gothardism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/one-way-love-an-antidote-to-gothardism/) - Dr. John Cornish reviews Tullian Tchividjian's new book on God's inexhaustible grace.
- [When I was on Fire](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/when-i-was-on-fire/)
- [Hiding](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/11/hiding/)
- [Separating the Wheat from the Chaff](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/separating-the-wheat-from-the-chaff/)
- [But What About...?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/but-what-about/)
- [Reflections on Healing After Surgery](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/reflections-on-healing-after-surgery/)
- [The Blessings of God](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/the-blessings-of-god/)
- [Overcoming Relational Aggression](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/overcoming-relational-aggression/)
- [Tragic Misguidance: Gothard's View on Mental Health Treatment and the Petit Family Murders](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/tragic-misguidance-gothards-view-on-mental-health-treatment-and-the-petit-family-murders/)
- [My Heart's Guardian: Missing in Action](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/my-hearts-guardian-missing-in-action/)
- [Anti-Law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/anti-law/)
- ["Rocky" Arguments and a Double Standard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/10/rocky-arguments-and-the-double-standard/)
- [The Cave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/the-cave/)
- [From Rules to Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/from-rules-to-grace/)
- [Too Good to be True](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/too-good-to-be-true/)
- [We're All on a Journey](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/were-all-on-a-journey/)
- [There You Go Again---An Open Letter to Bill Gothard (1997)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/there-you-go-again-an-open-letter-to-bill-gothard-1997/)
- [Issues of Concern---Bill Gothard and the Bible (1984)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/09/issues-of-concern-bill-gothard-and-the-bible-1984/)
- [Whelp, there it is: 15 Signs of False Humility](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/whelp-there-it-is-15-signs-of-false-humility/)
- [Fellow Fundamentalists Denounced Gothard's "Chain of Command" (1974)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/fundamentalists-denounce-gothards-chain-of-command-1974/)
- [Life Isn't a Role-Playing Game: Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/life-isnt-an-rpg-part-2/)
- [Life Isn't a Role-Playing Game: Part One](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/life-isnt-a-role-playing-game-part-one/)
- [Life Isn't a Role-Playing Game: Part Three](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/life-isnt-a-role-playing-game-part-three/)
- [The Dreaded "B" Word](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/the-dreaded-b-word/)
- [Me, the Pharisee](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/me-the-pharisee/)
- [A Culture of Addicts---The Problem with Living for Eternity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/a-culture-of-addicts-the-problem-with-living-for-eternity/)
- [Experiencing Freedom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/08/experiencing-freedom/)
- [Anniversary Milestones](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/anniversary-milestones/)
- [Reprobation or Christian Liberty?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/reprobation-or-christian-liberty/)
- [Garments of Salvation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/garments-of-salvation/)
- [Gothard’s Biblical Inoculation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/gothards-biblical-inoculation/)
- [Convictions or Preferences?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/convictions-or-preferences/)
- [A True Shepherd's Heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/a-true-shepherds-heart/)
- [Finding the Real Me](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/finding-the-real-me/)
- [The Pressure of Perfection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/the-pressure-of-perfection/)
- [Not My Doctor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/07/not-my-doctor/)
- [The Tree of Knowledge](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/the-tree-of-knowledge/)
- [We Were The Normal Ones ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/we-were-the-normal-ones/)
- [Gracenotes: Thoughts on Matthew 18](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/gracenotes-thoughts-on-matthew-18/)
- [When The Church Prefers Perpetrators](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/when-the-church-prefers-perpetrators/)
- [Remember Your Brethren in Bonds](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/remember-your-brethren-in-bonds/)
- [Christian Women Should Not Eat Chocolate](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/christian-women-should-not-eat-chocolate/)
- [The Grace Relationship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/06/the-grace-relationship/)
- [The Glory of Children](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/the-glory-of-children/)
- [Wisdom Books and the Beatitudes: Post-It Notes On A Work of Art](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/wisdom-books-beatitudes/)
- [From Clear Conscience to Clear Thinking: Journey from Guilt to Grace!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/from-clear-conscience-to-clear-thinking-journey-from-guilt-to-grace/)
- [Book Review: "He Still Moves Stones"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/book-review-he-still-moves-stones/)
- [When We Criticize The Church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/when-we-criticize-the-church/)
- [The Gospel of Pragmatism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/05/the-gospel-of-pragmatism/)
- [When Analogies and Anecdotes Dictated the Music Standard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/when-analogies-and-anecdotes-dictated-the-music-standard/)
- [They Will Know You Are Christians... By Your Standards?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/they-will-know-you-are-christians-by-your-standards-2/)
- [Here's The Courtship; Where's The Love?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/heres-the-courtship-wheres-the-love/)
- [What Forgiveness Isn't](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/what-forgiveness-isnt/)
- [Set Free by Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/set-free-by-grace/)
- [Escaping the Religious Noose, Part 4: Wrapping Up](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/religiousnoose4/)
- [Escaping the Religious Noose, Part 3: Absolute Authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/religiousnoose3/)
- [Escaping the Religious Noose, Part 1: Legalism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/religiousnoose1/)
- [Escaping the Religious Noose, Part 2: Grace Redefined](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/religiousnoose2/)
- [When Asking "Why" Does Not Bring Answers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/when-asking-why-does-not-bring-answers/)
- [How “Counseling Sexual Abuse” Blames and Shames Survivors](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/how-counseling-sexual-abuse-blames-and-shames-survivors/)
- [How "Lessons From Moral Failures in a Family" Blames Victims](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/how-lessons-from-moral-failures-in-a-family-blames-victims/)
- [Passive Moms: A Plea for Compassion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/passive-moms-a-plea-for-compassion/)
- [A Life Defined By Externals](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/04/defined-by-externals/)
- [God is Dead](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/god-is-dead/)
- [The God Who Bleeds](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/the-god-who-bleeds/)
- [We Had Hoped](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/we-had-hoped/)
- [Why Be a World Changer?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/why-be-a-world-changer/)
- [My Journey: Legalism, Atheism, and Finally Freedom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/my-journey-legalism-atheism-freedom/)
- [Safety or Superstition?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/safety-or-superstition/)
- [Outcome-Based Storytelling](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/outcome-based-storytelling/)
- [Stolen Treasures](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/stolen-treasures/)
- [Toxic People: Narcissists in Ministry](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/03/toxic-people-narcissists-in-ministry/)
- [Confido](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/confido/)
- [I Remember...](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/i-remember-2/)
- [My Heart's Cry ~ Part One](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/my-hearts-cry-part-one/)
- [We Were Elite, Super Special Christians](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/we-were-elite-super-special-christians/)
- [Les Miserables: The Struggle between Legalism and Grace - Part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/les-miserables-the-struggle-between-legalism-and-grace-part-1/)
- [Les Miserables: The Struggle between Grace and Legalism - Part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/les-miserables-the-struggle-between-grace-and-legalism-part-2/)
- [How Does Jesus Love You?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/how-does-jesus-love-you/)
- [Dear Grace: Letter From a Parent](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/dear-grace-letter-from-a-parent/)
- [It's All In Your Head!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/02/its-all-in-your-head/)
- [Words that Wound](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/words-that-wound/)
- [Life Unexpected](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/3582/)
- [The Chosen Few?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/the-chosen-few/)
- [Identifying Religious Brainwashing: Doctrine Over Person](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/identifying-religious-brainwashing-doctrine-over-person/)
- [Dear Mr. Gothard: One Student's Letter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/dear-mr-gothard-one-students-letter/)
- [How to Identify Religious Brainwashing ~ Part One](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/how-to-identify-religious-brainwashing-part-one/)
- [Spiritual Abuse?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/spiritual-abuse/)
- [Parents in a Potemkin Village: Six Weeks in the Moscow Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/potemkin-village-mtc/)
- [To Russia With Love, part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/to-russia-with-love-part-1/)
- [Snooping, Spying, and Snitching: A Training Center Status Quo](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/snooping-spying-and-snitching-a-tc-status-quo/)
- [Dear Grace: Overbearing Parents](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/dear-grace-overbearing-parents/)
- [The Promise of a Thousand Anecdotes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2013/01/promiseofanecdotes/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Concluding Thoughts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-concluding-thoughts/)
- [Christmas Eve Reflections](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/christmas-eve-reflections/)
- [The Right Thing for The Wrong Reason](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/the-right-thing-for-the-wrong-reason/)
- [Emmanuel: Our Rescuer Will Come!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/emmanuel-our-rescuer-will-come/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 21: A Second Response: Fight](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-21-a-second-response-fight/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 20: One Response: Flight](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-20-one-response-flight/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 19: Recovering Right Focus (Part 2)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-19-recovering-right-focus-part-2/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 19: Recovering Right Focus (Part 1)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-19-recovering-right-focus-part-1/)
- [Peering Underneath the Umbrella: Musings on Gothardism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/12/peering-underneath-the-umbrella-musings-on-gothardism/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 18: Renewing the Mind](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-18-renewing-the-mind/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 17: How to Escape a Spiritual Trap](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-17-how-to-escape-a-spiritual-trap/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Introduction to Part Three](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-intro-to-part-3/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 16: The People Get Devoured](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter16-the-people-get-devoured/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 15: Spreading “The Gospel”](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-15-spreading-the-gospel/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 14: “No Admittance”](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-14-no-admittance/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 13: The Weight of Religion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-13-the-weight-of-religion/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 12: Straining Gnats, Swallowing Camels](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-12-straining-gnats-swallowing-camels/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 11: Image Is Everything](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-11-image-is-everything/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 10: "You Can Trust Me"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-10-you-can-trust-me/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 9: "Because I'm the Pastor, That's Why!"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-9-because-im-the-pastor-thats-why/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 7: Abuse and Scripture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-7-abuse-and-scripture/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 6: When You Cannot Leave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-6-when-you-cannot-leave/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 5: Identifying the Abusive System](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-5-identifying-the-abusive-system/)
- [Success Redefined: God's Love For Those With Mental Illness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/success-redefined-gods-love-for-those-with-mental-illness/)
- [Lucky Charms](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/11/lucky-charms/)
- [Can God Speak Past the Umbrella?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/can-god-speak-past-the-umbrella/)
- [Transformation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/transformation/)
- [Rethinking Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/rethinking-grace/)
- [The Ravages of Guilt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/ravages-of-guilt/)
- [Designed to Be a ... Finger?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/10/designed-to-be-a-finger/)
- [Forced Fasting](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/forced-fasting/)
- [Recovering from the Most Subtle of Lies](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/recovering-from-subtle-lies/)
- [The Elephant Effect](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/the-elephant-effect/)
- [Mr. Gothard's Sexual Rules: Part Three](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/mr-gothards-sexual-rules-part-2-2/)
- [The Raising of a Christian Narcissist](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/the-raising-of-a-christian-narcissist/)
- [As the Pendulum Swings](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/as-the-pendulum-swings/)
- [Free to Worship!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/09/free-to-worship/)
- [Bill Gothard’s Tornado That Didn’t Happen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/bill-gothards-tornado-that-didnt-happen/)
- [I Kid You Not!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/i-kid-you-not/)
- [Why I Reject IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/why-i-reject-iblp/)
- [A Different Kind of Sexual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/a-different-kind-of-sexual-abuse/)
- [Life Focus: Isolation Instead of Relationship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/life-focus-isolation-instead-of-relationship/)
- [ATI's Mindset Can Damage Your Career](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/atis-mindset-can-damage-your-career/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 8: Revictimizing Victims, cont'd](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/08/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-8-revictimizing-victims-contd/)
- [Behind Every Good Man…](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/behind-every-good-man/)
- [How to Spiritually Manipulate Young People in Six Easy Steps](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/how-to-spiritually-manipulate-young-people-in-six-easy-steps/)
- [Celebrating our First Anniversary](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/first-anniversary/)
- [He Freely Gives Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/he-freely-gives-grace/)
- [If Mama Ain't Happy . . .](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/if-mama-aint-happy/)
- [Father's Day and the Mystical Hedge of Protection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/fathers-day-and-the-mystical-hedge-of-protection/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 4: The Pre-Abuse Set-up](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-4-the-pre-abuse-set-up/)
- [Introduction to The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/introduction-to-the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 2: Spiritual Abuse Is Not New](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-2-spiritual-abuse-is-not-new/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 3: Abused Christians](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-3-abused-christians/)
- [He Was Supposed to Protect Us](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/07/5817/)
- [Grace...Fully Loaded](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/6583/)
- [I Just Want to Be Normal!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/i-just-want-to-be-normal/)
- [Somebody SHOULD Have Despised My Youth!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/somebody-should-have-despised-my-youth/)
- [Sowing to the Flesh--More thoughts on Mr. Gothard's Sexual Rules](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/sowing-to-the-flesh-more-thoughts-on-mr-gothards-sexual-rules/)
- [Establishing a Career the Hard Way](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/establishing-a-career-the-hard-way/)
- [Spiritual Alchemy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/spiritual-alchemy/)
- [The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, Chapter 1: “Help Me...”](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse-chapter-1-help-me/)
- [Is This the Gospel?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/is-this-really-the-gospel/)
- [When the Formula Fails](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/06/when-the-formula-fails/)
- [The Best of RG](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/the-best-of-rg/)
- [Welcome ATI Families!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/welcome-ati-families/)
- [Finding My Self Worth](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/finding-my-self-worth/)
- [A Response to Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/a-response-to-bill-gothard/)
- [The Leader Who Lost His Anointing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/the-leader-who-lost-his-anointing/)
- [Failure to Conform](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/failure-to-conform/)
- [Gothard's Biblical Inoculation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/gothards-biblical-innoculation/)
- [The Formula Problem: Why Duggarizing Your Marriage is Not Recommended](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/the-formula-problem-why-duggarizing-your-marriage-is-not-recommended/)
- [Grace in Gothard’s Economy: Sanctification with Compounding Interest](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/grace-in-gothards-economy-sanctification-with-compounding-interest/)
- [The Thing About Purity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/the-thing-about-purity/)
- [No Place for Shame!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/no-place-for-shame/)
- [Breeding Relational Immaturity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/breeding-relational-immaturity/)
- [Courtship Covenants](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/courtship-covenants/)
- [Finding the Key](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/finding-the-key/)
- [I Kissed Courtship Goodbye!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/courtship-no-thanks/)
- [Courtship Promised to Protect Me, Pt 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/courtship-promised-to-protect-me-pt-2/)
- [Courtship Promised To Protect Me, Pt 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/courtship-promised-to-protect-me-pt-1/)
- [To My Daughter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/things-i-wish-i-could-tell-you-face-to-face/)
- [Gracenotes: Sexual Abuse Wrap-Up](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/gracenotes-sexual-abuse-wrap-up/)
- [But...](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/6010/)
- [Life Inside](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/life-inside/)
- [Giving up on the Apprenticeship Life](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/giving-up-on-the-apprenticeship-life/)
- [Finding Relationships, Not Rules](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/finding-relationship-vs-religion/)
- [Emotion - A Dirty Word](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/05/emotion-a-dirty-word/)
- [Creating a Rebellious Heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/creating-a-rebellious-heart/)
- [A Difficult Journey](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/a-difficult-journey/)
- [A "New" Approach to Easter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/bills-new-approach-to-easter/)
- [Character Sketches or Sketchy Characters? Dinah and Tamar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/character-sketches-or-sketchy-characters-dinah-and-tamar/)
- [IBLP's Peru Trip Website](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/iblps-peru-trip-website/)
- [Finding Healing and Recovery From Abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/finding-healing-and-recovery-from-abuse/)
- [Spiritual Abuse Recovery](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/spiritual-abuse-recovery/)
- [It's All My Fault](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/its-all-my-fault/)
- [Without an Umbrella in a Broken System](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/without-an-umbrella/)
- [Choosing Both Forgiveness and Prosecution](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/forgiveness-and-prosecution/)
- [Gracenotes: Sexual Assault Awareness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/gracenotes-sexual-assault-awareness/)
- [Facing the Future....Alone!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/04/facing-the-future-alone/)
- [Others may....](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/others-may/)
- [Unprepared for Life](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/unprepared-for-life/)
- [A Matter of Basic Principles-A Review](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/a-matter-of-basic-principles-a-review/)
- [My Year as an LIT](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/my-year-as-an-lit/)
- [The Art of Manipulation ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/4854/)
- [The Aftermath of ATI and its Aversion to Higher Education: Part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/the-aftermath-of-ati-and-its-aversion-to-higher-education-part-1/)
- [The Aftermath of ATI and its Aversion to Higher Education: Part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/the-aftermath-of-ati-and-its-aversion-to-higher-education-part-2/)
- [Why Subtle Differences Matter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/why-subtle-differences-matter-2/)
- [Contradictions and Confessions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/contradictions-and-confessions/)
- [Quiverfull or "Full of It?'"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/quiverfull-or-full-of-it/)
- [On Forgiveness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/on-forgiveness/)
- [On Being a Shoe Salesman....](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/on-being-a-shoe-salesman/)
- [If your god is not God, fire him.](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/03/if-your-god-is-not-god-fire-him/)
- [Who Speaks for the Church? (An Excerpt)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/who-speaks-for-the-church-an-excerpt/)
- [Uniquely Me!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/4610/)
- [My Journey Toward Healing (So Far)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/02/my-journey-toward-healing-so-far/)
- [Christian Karma](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/christian-karma/)
- [A Legalist Goes Shopping](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/a-legalist-goes-shopping/)
- [Clear as Mud](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/clear-as-mud/)
- [Sensitivity vs. Callousness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/sensitivity-vs-callousness/)
- [Thoughts on "Tangled"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/thoughts-on-tangled/)
- [Freedom from Strongholds](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/freedom-from-strongholds/)
- [Mr Gothard's Sexual Rules: Part One](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/the-sexual-rules-of-mr-gothard/)
- [The Glory of Hair](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2012/01/the-glory-of-hair/)
- [An Open Letter from Bill Gothard’s First Generation to Basic Seminar Attendees](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/basicseminarletter/) - An open letter of warning from Bill Gothard's first generation to those attending his Basic Seminar.
- [Energy Givers, Energy Wasters, and Energy Takers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/energy-givers-energy-wasters-and-energy-takers/)
- [Training Center Christmas Memories](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/training-center-christmas-memories/)
- [The Gift of Imagination~](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/the-gift-of-imagination/)
- [Mr. Gothard's Sexual Rules: Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/mr-gothards-sexual-rules-part-2/)
- [Gracenotes: Christmas Thoughts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/gracenotes-christmas-thoughts/)
- [PTSD for Christmas](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/ptsd-for-christmas/)
- [The Gift of Peace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/the-gift-of-peace/)
- [My Life in ATI, part three](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/my-life-in-ati-part-three/)
- [My Life in ATI, part two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/my-life-in-ati-part-two/)
- [My Life in ATI, part one](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/my-life-in-ati-part-one/)
- [In The Hands Of Jesus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/my-jesus/)
- [The Disease Catalogue](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/the-disease-catalogue/)
- [We Must Not Be Trying Hard Enough](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/we-must-not-be-trying-hard-enough/)
- [Vow vs. Relationship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/12/3661/)
- [The Little Things](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/the-little-things/)
- [Keeping Up Appearances.](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/keeping-up-appearances/)
- [Confusing the Covenants](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/confusing-the-covenants/)
- [Circumcision and Victory Over Sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/circumcision-and-victory-over-sin/)
- [A Real-Life Lesson](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/a-real-life-lesson/)
- [The Phony "Consequences" of Rock Music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/the-phony-consequences-of-rock-music/)
- [Spiritual Gifts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/spiritual-gifts/)
- [Forced Family Relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/forced-family-relationships/)
- [A Look at Life at the Riverfront Character Inn](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/a-look-at-rci-life/)
- [Dear Dad and Mom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/dear-dad-and-mom/)
- [Gracenotes: Recovering Grace mentioned in Hartford newspaper](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/gracenotes-rg-in-hartford-newspaper/)
- [Promises, Promises...](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/promises-promises/)
- [Missing the Beat](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/missing-the-beat/)
- [Failing Formulas](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/failing-formulas/)
- [Once a Child Always a Child???](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/once-a-child-always-a-child/)
- [A Tale of Two Abigails: Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/a-tale-of-two-abigails-part-two/)
- [Disillusioned, Not Equipped, part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/not-equipped-part-1/)
- [Who Is God to You? (Part 2 of 2)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/who-is-god-to-you-part-2-of-2/)
- [Who Is God to You? (Part 1 of 2)](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/who-is-god-to-you-part-1-of-2/)
- [My ITC Prison Sentence, Part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/my-itc-prison-sentence-part-2/)
- [My ITC Prison Sentence, Part 3](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/my-itc-prison-sentence-part-3/)
- [My ITC Prison Sentence, Part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/my-itc-prison-sentence-part-1/)
- [A Tale of Two Abigails](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/a-tale-of-two-abigails/)
- [Identity Theft](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/identity-theft/)
- [My Heart's Cry ~ Part Two](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/my-hearts-cry-part-two/)
- [Prisoner of the Glass House](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/prisoner-of-the-glass-house/)
- [Adoption: The Ultimate Act of Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/adoption-the-ultimate-act-of-grace/)
- [Barbwired Heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/barbwired-heart/)
- [ATI Teachings or Family Application: Which is the Culprit?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/ati-teachings-or-family-application-which-is-the-culprit/)
- ["Get Over It"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/get-over-it/)
- [A Jonah Tale](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/a-jonah-tale/)
- [Choosing Forgiveness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/choosing-forgiveness/)
- [Hannah's Story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/2687/)
- [The Leaky Umbrella](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/the-leaky-umbrella/)
- [A Letter From My Heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/a-letter-from-my-heart/)
- [Spanking the Orphans: A Brief History](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/spanking-the-orphans-a-brief-history/)
- [Living as God Designed](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/living-as-god-designed/)
- [Disney vs. IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/10/disney-vs-iblp/)
- [Story of a Destiny](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/story-of-a-destiny/)
- [Sweeping the Stairs: An Exercise in Will-Breaking](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/sweeping-the-stairs-an-exercise-in-will-breaking/)
- [A Christian "Utopia"?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/a-christian-utopia/)
- [Who Is God? . . . a Follow-Up](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/who-is-god-a-follow-up/)
- [Standards that Divide Believers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/standards-that-divide/)
- ["Just Get Over It"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/just-get-over-it/)
- [Broken Glass](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/broken-glass/)
- [Judging 101](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/judging-101/)
- [A Sorrowful Mother's Answer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/a-sorrowful-mothers-answer/)
- [Dandelions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/dandelions/)
- [Taking the Bait](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/taking-the-bait/)
- [Rhemas: Hidden Wisdom in Scripture?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/rhemas-hidden-wisdom-in-scripture/)
- [The Prayer Closet: An Introduction](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/the-prayer-closet/)
- [Disillusioned, Not Equipped, Part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/disillusioned-not-equipped-part-2/)
- [Children Leading Children](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/childrenleading/)
- [Circumcision, Blue Jeans, & Cabbage Patch Kids: The Danger of Bill Gothard's "Jesus+" Theology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/circumcision-blue-jeans-cabbage-patch-kids-the-dangers-of-jesus-theology/)
- [My Childhood in ATI, part 1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/atichildhood1/)
- [My Childhood in ATI, part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/atichildhood2/)
- [Work Parties](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/work-parties/)
- [My Tower Won't Reach!](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/my-tower-wont-reach/)
- [Dividing Sister and Brother](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/dividing-sister-and-brother/)
- [When Tragedy Strikes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/when-tragedy-strikes/)
- [Open Letter To My Mother](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/open-letter-to-my-mother/)
- [Unredefining Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/unredefining-grace/)
- [A Journey, Not a Formula](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/a-journey-not-a-formula/)
- [Gracenotes: the first week](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/gracenotes-the-first-week/)
- [Forced Instability](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/forced-instability/)
- [Communion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/communion/)
- [When the Gospel Becomes No Gospel At All](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/gospel-becomes-no-gospel/)
- [Questioning God](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/questioning-god/)
- [Gracenotes: Are We Bitter?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/gracenotes-are-we-bitter/)
- [Discovering the Heart of the Father](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/discovering-the-heart-of-the-father/)
- [Muzzling the Ox](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/muzzling-the-ox/)
- [Breaking Free](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/breaking-free/)
- [The Unfair Bonus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/the-unfair-bonus/)
- [To Russia With Love, part 2](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/to-russia-with-love-part-2/)
- [Is This for Real?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/is-this-for-real-2/)
- [A Parent’s Perspective - Sixteen Years in Bondage](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/a-parent’s-perspective-sixteen-years-in-bondage/)
- [You'll Be Okay ... Maybe](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/youll-be-okay-maybe/)
- [Off Beat: Is Rock Music Inherently Evil?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/off-beat-is-rock-music-inheritly-evil/)
- [Grace and Culture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/grace-and-culture/)
- [Created to Worship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/created-to-worship/)
- [Longing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/longing/)
- [Honor vs. Obey](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/honor-vs-obey/)
- [A Look at Family Relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/09/a-look-at-family-relationships/)
- [God's Best: The "Commitments" Payoff](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/08/gods-best-the-committments-payoff/)
- [Minor Hazards of Fuel Stops](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/07/minor-hazards-of-fuel-stops/)

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- [truth](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/truth/)
- [relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/relationships/)
- [family](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/family/)
- [tragedy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tragedy/)
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- [success](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/success/)
- [security](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/security/)
- [pseudo-psychology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pseudo-psychology/)
- [home](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/home/)
- [IBLP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/iblp/)
- [ATIA](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/atia/)
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- [light to the world](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/light-to-the-world/)
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- [television](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/television/)
- [safe](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/safe/)
- [curse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/curse/)
- [movie](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/movie/)
- [drugs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/drugs/)
- [Bill Gothard on grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bill-gothard-on-grace/)
- [journey](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/journey/)
- [healing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/healing/)
- [circumcision](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/circumcision/)
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- [Communion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/communion/)
- [Church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/church/)
- [Salvation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/salvation/)
- [works](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/works/)
- [BG](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bg/)
- [Depression](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/depression/)
- [gospel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gospel/)
- [law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/law/)
- [faith](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/faith/)
- [prayer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prayer/)
- [recovery](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recovery/)
- [systematic](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/systematic/)
- [Advanced Training Institute](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/advanced-training-institute/)
- [culture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/culture/)
- [Homeschool](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/homeschool/)
- [prayer room](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prayer-room/)
- [MTC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mtc/)
- [orphans](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/orphans/)
- [spanking](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spanking/)
- [false accusation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-accusation/)
- [medical care](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/medical-care/)
- [neglect](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/neglect/)
- [fasting](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fasting/)
- [abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/abuse/)
- [marriage](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/marriage/)
- [protection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/protection/)
- [favor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/favor/)
- [mercy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mercy/)
- [Christianity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christianity/)
- [judgment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/judgment/)
- [humility](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/humility/)
- [standards](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/standards/)
- [Strongholds](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/strongholds/)
- [Homosexuality](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/homosexuality/)
- [Prisoner](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prisoner/)
- [Comfort](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/comfort/)
- [Debt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/debt/)
- [college](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/college/)
- [fear](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fear/)
- [Sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sin/)
- [Christian Music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian-music/)
- [Freedom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/freedom/)
- [pain](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pain/)
- [confusion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/confusion/)
- [real](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/real/)
- [genuine](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/genuine/)
- [fake](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fake/)
- [Worship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/worship/)
- [karma](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/karma/)
- [dating](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dating/)
- [respect](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/respect/)
- [Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gothard/)
- [Music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/music/)
- [Oklahoma Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/oklahoma-training-center/)
- [OTC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/otc/)
- [Indianapolis Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/indianapolis-training-center/)
- [A Matter of Basic Principles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/a-matter-of-basic-principles/)
- [OBCOL](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/obcol/)
- [apprenticeship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/apprenticeship/)
- [career](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/career/)
- [education](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/education/)
- [longing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/longing/)
- [checklists](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/checklists/)
- [steps](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/steps/)
- [infertility](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/infertility/)
- [unwed](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/unwed/)
- [committments](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/committments/)
- [conceive](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/conceive/)
- [blessings](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/blessings/)
- [love](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/love/)
- [Degree](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/degree/)
- [Cult](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cult/)
- [Generation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/generation/)
- [Rock Music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rock-music/)
- [Rock Beat](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rock-beat/)
- [Contemporary Christian Music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/contemporary-christian-music/)
- [EQUIP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/equip/)
- [eating disorders](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eating-disorders/)
- [sexuality](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexuality/)
- [What Now?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/what-now/)
- [parents](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/parents/)
- [genogram](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/genogram/)
- [family relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/family-relationships/)
- [Design](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/design/)
- [Seven Basic Principles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/seven-basic-principles/)
- [Creation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/creation/)
- [obey](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/obey/)
- [honor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/honor/)
- [freedom in Christ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/freedom-in-christ/)
- [Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/institute-in-basic-youth-conflicts/)
- [IBYC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ibyc/)
- [Institute in Basic Life Principles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/institute-in-basic-life-principles/)
- [home school](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/home-school/)
- [sinner](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sinner/)
- [secret sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/secret-sin/)
- [living through Christ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/living-through-christ/)
- [living by law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/living-by-law/)
- [renewing of the mind](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/renewing-of-the-mind/)
- [Florida Bible College](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/florida-bible-college/)
- [ReCreation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recreation/)
- [Recovering Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recovering-grace/)
- [RecoveringGrace.org](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recoveringgrace-org/)
- [authoritarianism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/authoritarianism/)
- [TC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tc/)
- [Rhema](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rhema/)
- [false teaching](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-teaching/)
- [Pastor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pastor/)
- [Principles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/principles/)
- [holy living](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/holy-living/)
- [judging](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/judging/)
- [judge](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/judge/)
- [Knoxville](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/knoxville/)
- [Obedience](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/obedience/)
- [God](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/god/)
- [relationship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/relationship/)
- [teachings](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/teachings/)
- [Meditate](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/meditate/)
- [Immodesty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/immodesty/)
- [Life Purpose](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/life-purpose/)
- [Character Qualities](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/character-qualities/)
- [confessions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/confessions/)
- [Utopia](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/utopia/)
- [global](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/global/)
- [community](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/community/)
- [Ayaan Ali Hersi](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ayaan-ali-hersi/)
- [Jean Hatzfeld](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/jean-hatzfeld/)
- [Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/training-center/)
- [Moscow](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/moscow/)
- [discipline](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/discipline/)
- [housekeeping](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/housekeeping/)
- [Moscow Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/moscow-training-center/)
- [power](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/power/)
- [Forgiveness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/forgiveness/)
- [South Campus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/south-campus/)
- [Sins of the Fathers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sins-of-the-fathers/)
- [Suicide](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/suicide/)
- [CFE](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cfe/)
- [punishment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/punishment/)
- [inappropriate relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/inappropriate-relationships/)
- [adoption](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/adoption/)
- [generational sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/generational-sin/)
- [bondage](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bondage/)
- [purpose](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/purpose/)
- [covenant](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/covenant/)
- [vow](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/vow/)
- [control](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/control/)
- [EXCEL](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/excel/)
- [Cosmetology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cosmetology/)
- [cosmetology school](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cosmetology-school/)
- [Christians](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christians/)
- [Non-Believers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/non-believers/)
- [umbrella](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/umbrella/)
- [vows](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/vows/)
- [commitments](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/commitments/)
- [RCI](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rci/)
- [character](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/character/)
- [Don Veinot](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/don-veinot/)
- [Midwest Christian Outreach](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/midwest-christian-outreach/)
- [MCO](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mco/)
- [accountability](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/accountability/)
- [prooftexting](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prooftexting/)
- [training](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/training/)
- [teaching](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/teaching/)
- [buddy system](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/buddy-system/)
- [spiritual gifts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spiritual-gifts/)
- [scripture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/scripture/)
- [life lessons](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/life-lessons/)
- [Komisarjevsky](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/komisarjevsky/)
- [Petit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/petit/)
- [mental health](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mental-health/)
- [psychiatrist](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/psychiatrist/)
- [questioning](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/questioning/)
- [incorrect response](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/incorrect-response/)
- [Children's Institute](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/childrens-institute/)
- [spiritual abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spiritual-abuse/)
- [boundaries](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/boundaries/)
- [Train](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/train/)
- [Divorce](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/divorce/)
- [Daughters](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/daughters/)
- [wife](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wife/)
- [Life Focus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/life-focus/)
- [ALERT](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/alert/)
- [LIT](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lit/)
- [leader in training](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/leader-in-training/)
- [counseling](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/counseling/)
- [Life Focus Advanced](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/life-focus-advanced/)
- [Anger Resolution Seminar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anger-resolution-seminar/)
- [verity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/verity/)
- [Body](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/body/)
- [Soul](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/soul/)
- [Spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spirit/)
- [Dichotomy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dichotomy/)
- [Trichotomy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/trichotomy/)
- [disease](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/disease/)
- [health](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/health/)
- [Henry Wright](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/henry-wright/)
- [finances](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/finances/)
- [mortgage](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mortgage/)
- [Peace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/peace/)
- [holidays](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/holidays/)
- [Christmas](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christmas/)
- [disgrace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/disgrace/)
- [Magic](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/magic/)
- [Imagination](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/imagination/)
- [Creativity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/creativity/)
- [Fiction](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fiction/)
- [Fantasy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fantasy/)
- [Fairy Tales](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fairy-tales/)
- [Northwoods](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/northwoods/)
- [Dallas Training Center](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dallas-training-center/)
- [DTC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dtc/)
- [Hair](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hair/)
- [clear conscience](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/clear-conscience/)
- [conviction](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/conviction/)
- [Eagle Springs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eagle-springs/)
- [Flint](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/flint/)
- [Oak Brook](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/oak-brook/)
- [Headquarters](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/headquarters/)
- [spying](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spying/)
- [tale-bearing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tale-bearing/)
- [tattling](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tattling/)
- [moles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/moles/)
- [gossip](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gossip/)
- [rumors](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rumors/)
- [sex](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sex/)
- [trust](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/trust/)
- [masturbation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/masturbation/)
- [Diagram](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/diagram/)
- [gay](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gay/)
- [kissing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/kissing/)
- [death](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/death/)
- [illness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/illness/)
- [prolotherapy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prolotherapy/)
- [injury](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/injury/)
- [rebellion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rebellion/)
- [funeral](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/funeral/)
- [leadership](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/leadership/)
- [sensitivity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sensitivity/)
- [insensitivity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/insensitivity/)
- [anger](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anger/)
- [modesty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/modesty/)
- [immodest](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/immodest/)
- [Shunning](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/shunning/)
- [identity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/identity/)
- [Meek](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/meek/)
- [Quiet spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/quiet-spirit/)
- [Obedient](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/obedient/)
- [Advanced Seminar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/advanced-seminar/)
- [Accelerated Christian Education](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/accelerated-christian-education/)
- [ACE](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ace/)
- [Mexico](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mexico/)
- [clothing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/clothing/)
- [scars](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/scars/)
- [Brandon Santan](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/brandon-santan/)
- [counselor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/counselor/)
- [redefinition of grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/redefinition-of-grace/)
- [subtle](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/subtle/)
- [angle of error](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/angle-of-error/)
- [frames](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/frames/)
- [feminism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/feminism/)
- [Holocaust](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/holocaust/)
- [hatred](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hatred/)
- [enthusiasm](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/enthusiasm/)
- [Dachau](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dachau/)
- [concentration camp](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/concentration-camp/)
- [eating disorder](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eating-disorder/)
- [Duggars](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/duggars/)
- [self worth](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/self-worth/)
- [passive](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/passive/)
- [despair](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/despair/)
- [courage](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/courage/)
- [BItterness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bitterness/)
- [emotions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/emotions/)
- [sad](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sad/)
- [happy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/happy/)
- [yielded rights](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/yielded-rights/)
- [single mom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/single-mom/)
- [singleness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/singleness/)
- [denial](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/denial/)
- [sexual abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-abuse/)
- [sex therapy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sex-therapy/)
- [Easter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/easter/)
- [Character Sketches](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/character-sketches/)
- [Dinah](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dinah/)
- [Tamar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tamar/)
- [initiative](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/initiative/)
- [crying out](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/crying-out/)
- [Sexual harassment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-harassment/)
- [Soul Surfer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/soul-surfer/)
- [Bob Jones](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bob-jones/)
- [Pilot Family](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pilot-family/)
- [CPS](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cps/)
- [Beating](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/beating/)
- [Solitary Confinement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/solitary-confinement/)
- [Leaders in Training](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/leaders-in-training/)
- [fatherless](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fatherless/)
- [widows](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/widows/)
- [cults](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cults/)
- [abused](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/abused/)
- [victim](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/victim/)
- [child abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/child-abuse/)
- [rescue](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rescue/)
- [sexual harassement](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-harassement/)
- [scandal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/scandal/)
- [panic attack](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/panic-attack/)
- [anxiety](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anxiety/)
- [shame](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/shame/)
- [adultry](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/adultry/)
- [Matthew 18](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/matthew-18/)
- [IBLP board](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/iblp-board/)
- [regret](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/regret/)
- [worth](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/worth/)
- [emotional purity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/emotional-purity/)
- [sanctification](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sanctification/)
- [Wisdom Searches](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wisdom-searches/)
- [The Lord's Anointed](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-lords-anointed/)
- [Saul](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/saul/)
- [David](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david/)
- [Samuel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/samuel/)
- [motives](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/motives/)
- [anointed](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anointed/)
- [The subtle power of spiritual abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-subtle-power-of-spiritual-abuse/)
- [formula spirituality](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/formula-spirituality/)
- [failure](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/failure/)
- [joy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/joy/)
- [mistakes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mistakes/)
- [formulas](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/formulas/)
- [twisting scripture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/twisting-scripture/)
- [alchemy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/alchemy/)
- [one-accord](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/one-accord/)
- [alchemist](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/alchemist/)
- [preparation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/preparation/)
- [isolation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/isolation/)
- [acculturation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/acculturation/)
- [pop culture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pop-culture/)
- [GED](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ged/)
- [diploma](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/diploma/)
- [high school](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/high-school/)
- [rest](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rest/)
- [legalists](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/legalists/)
- [sexual rules](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-rules/)
- [fallacy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fallacy/)
- [Old Testament](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/old-testament/)
- [New Testament](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/new-testament/)
- [Galatians](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/galatians/)
- [staff](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/staff/)
- [student](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/student/)
- [christian living](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian-living/)
- [blame](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/blame/)
- [power-posturing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/power-posturing/)
- [spiritual authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spiritual-authority/)
- [hedge of protection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hedge-of-protection/)
- [fathers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fathers/)
- [father's day](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fathers-day/)
- [paranoia](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/paranoia/)
- [secrecy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/secrecy/)
- [loyalty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/loyalty/)
- [abusive system](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/abusive-system/)
- [alone](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/alone/)
- [togetherness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/togetherness/)
- [Christian Karma](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian-karma/)
- [acceptance](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/acceptance/)
- [stories](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/stories/)
- [The Pearls](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-pearls/)
- [Michael Pearl](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/michael-pearl/)
- [Debi Pearl](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/debi-pearl/)
- [Help Meet](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/help-meet/)
- [submit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/submit/)
- [wives](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wives/)
- [husband](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/husband/)
- [patriarch](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/patriarch/)
- [complementarian](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/complementarian/)
- [humanism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/humanism/)
- [Big Sandy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/big-sandy/)
- [hypocrisy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hypocrisy/)
- [appearances](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/appearances/)
- [CI's](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cis/)
- [COMMIT](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/commit/)
- [CI](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ci/)
- [Sound Foundations](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sound-foundations/)
- [evangelism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/evangelism/)
- [traps](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/traps/)
- [bait](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bait/)
- [toxic faith](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/toxic-faith/)
- [luck](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/luck/)
- [charms](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/charms/)
- [rituals](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rituals/)
- [Mental Illness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mental-illness/)
- [Obsessive Compulsive Disorder](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/)
- [Financial Freedom Seminar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/financial-freedom-seminar/)
- [Basic Seminar Follow-Up Course](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/basic-seminar-follow-up-course/)
- [Unchangeables](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/unchangeables/)
- [yielding rights](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/yielding-rights/)
- [umbrella of authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/umbrella-of-authority/)
- [umbrella of protection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/umbrella-of-protection/)
- [can't talk rule](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cant-talk-rule/)
- [false authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-authority/)
- [fight or flight](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fight-or-flight/)
- [maturity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/maturity/)
- [Advent](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/advent/)
- [Redemption](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/redemption/)
- [Grace Notes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grace-notes/)
- [Wisdom Search](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wisdom-search/)
- [Gene Edwards](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gene-edwards/)
- [The Birth](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-birth/)
- [spiritual warfare](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spiritual-warfare/)
- [Dear Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dear-grace/)
- [Eric Pazdziora](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eric-pazdziora/)
- [mind control](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mind-control/)
- [clones](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/clones/)
- [Second Generation Adults](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/second-generation-adults/)
- [unconditional love](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/unconditional-love/)
- [Les Miserables](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/les-miserables/)
- [Hugo](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hugo/)
- [living by grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/living-by-grace/)
- [justice](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/justice/)
- [world changer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/world-changer/)
- [new approach](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/new-approach/)
- [Narcissism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/narcissism/)
- [toxic people](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/toxic-people/)
- [facade](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/facade/)
- [belief](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/belief/)
- [confido](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/confido/)
- [world](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/world/)
- [perfection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/perfection/)
- [problems](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/problems/)
- [confidence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/confidence/)
- [self-confidence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/self-confidence/)
- [move on](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/move-on/)
- [lies](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lies/)
- [heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/heart/)
- [confession](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/confession/)
- [Bright Arrows](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bright-arrows/)
- [physical touch](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/physical-touch/)
- [kiss](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/kiss/)
- [holding hands](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/holding-hands/)
- [Max Lucado](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/max-lucado/)
- [bible drill](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bible-drill/)
- [outcome](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/outcome/)
- [storytelling](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/storytelling/)
- [superstition](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/superstition/)
- [Indianapolis South Campus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/indianapolis-south-campus/)
- [sonic bloom](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sonic-bloom/)
- [plants](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/plants/)
- [green house](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/green-house/)
- [godly music](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/godly-music/)
- [Theater](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/theater/)
- [Actress](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/actress/)
- [Creator](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/creator/)
- [Jesus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/jesus/)
- [God who bleeds](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/god-who-bleeds/)
- [Christian](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian/)
- [Resurrection](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/resurrection/)
- [Good Friday](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/good-friday/)
- [hope](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hope/)
- [darkness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/darkness/)
- [sexual assault awareness month](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-assault-awareness-month/)
- [silence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/silence/)
- [shepherd](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/shepherd/)
- [illegal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/illegal/)
- [call](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/call/)
- [molestation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/molestation/)
- [moral failure](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/moral-failure/)
- [sexual assault](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-assault/)
- [repentance](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/repentance/)
- [Levitical law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/levitical-law/)
- [A Beka](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/a-beka/)
- [Counseling Seminar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/counseling-seminar/)
- [vaccination](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/vaccination/)
- [survivor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/survivor/)
- [mighty in spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mighty-in-spirit/)
- [passive aggression](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/passive-aggression/)
- [stronghold](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/stronghold/)
- [rape](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rape/)
- [Why did God let it happen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/why-did-god-let-it-happen/)
- [self-injury](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/self-injury/)
- [grooming](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grooming/)
- [anorexia](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anorexia/)
- [forgive](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/forgive/)
- [Acting](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/acting/)
- [skirts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/skirts/)
- [normal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/normal/)
- [higher education](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/higher-education/)
- [hermeneutics](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hermeneutics/)
- [context](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/context/)
- [prescription](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prescription/)
- [description](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/description/)
- [Wisdom books](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wisdom-books/)
- [wedding](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wedding/)
- [pragmatism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pragmatism/)
- [machiavelli](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/machiavelli/)
- [machiavellian](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/machiavellian/)
- [ministry](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ministry/)
- [religion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/religion/)
- [Amazon link](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/amazon-link/)
- [Sermon on the Mount](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sermon-on-the-mount/)
- [curriculum](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/curriculum/)
- [Beatitudes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/beatitudes/)
- [Matthew 5-7](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/matthew-5-7/)
- [post-its](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/post-its/)
- [children](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/children/)
- [crown](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/crown/)
- [old men](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/old-men/)
- [Proverbs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/proverbs/)
- [parenting](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/parenting/)
- [grandchildren](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grandchildren/)
- [Proverbs 17:6](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/proverbs-176/)
- [admiration](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/admiration/)
- [prodigal son](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prodigal-son/)
- [parables](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/parables/)
- [Luke 15](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/luke-15/)
- [duty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/duty/)
- [chocolate](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/chocolate/)
- [persecution](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/persecution/)
- [Voice of the Martyrs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/voice-of-the-martyrs/)
- [false shepherd](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-shepherd/)
- [Tree of Knowledge](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tree-of-knowledge/)
- [doctor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/doctor/)
- [Great Physician](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/great-physician/)
- [condemnation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/condemnation/)
- [conformity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/conformity/)
- [new creation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/new-creation/)
- [pressure](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pressure/)
- [lost](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lost/)
- [Gothardism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gothardism/)
- [seeking](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/seeking/)
- [searching](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/searching/)
- [protect](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/protect/)
- [feelings](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/feelings/)
- [dissociation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dissociation/)
- [Good Shepherd](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/good-shepherd/)
- [convictions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/convictions/)
- [preferences](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/preferences/)
- [morals](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/morals/)
- [inoculation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/inoculation/)
- [theology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/theology/)
- [scholarship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/scholarship/)
- [logic](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/logic/)
- [stand alone](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/stand-alone/)
- [Men's Manual](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mens-manual/)
- [chain of command](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/chain-of-command/)
- [Bockelman](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bockelman/)
- [Ronald Allen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ronald-allen/)
- [Reprobate](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/reprobate/)
- [Oak Brook College of Law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/oak-brook-college-of-law/)
- [CCM](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ccm/)
- [Addiction](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/addiction/)
- [Bubbles](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bubbles/)
- [The Bubble Song](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-bubble-song/)
- [compassion](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/compassion/)
- [False Teachers](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-teachers/)
- [False Prophet](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-prophet/)
- [RPG](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/rpg/)
- [role-playing games](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/role-playing-games/)
- [youth group](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/youth-group/)
- [results](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/results/)
- [friendships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/friendships/)
- [Holy Spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/holy-spirit/)
- [piano](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/piano/)
- [Navajo](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/navajo/)
- [Jeff Van Vonderen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/jeff-van-vonderen/)
- [commands](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/commands/)
- [Larry Crabb](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/larry-crabb/)
- [role-playing game](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/role-playing-game/)
- [Dr. Hobbs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-hobbs/)
- [The Projector](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-projector/)
- [fundamentalists](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/fundamentalists/)
- [Dr. Ronald B Allen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-ronald-b-allen/)
- [Dr. Radmacher](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-radmacher/)
- [Book of Job](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/book-of-job/)
- [IFB](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ifb/)
- [Dr. Earl Radmacher](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-earl-radmacher/)
- [appeal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/appeal/)
- [Open Letter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/open-letter/)
- [pen pal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pen-pal/)
- [facts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/facts/)
- [Evangelical Talmud](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/evangelical-talmud/)
- [patriarchy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/patriarchy/)
- [birth control](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/birth-control/)
- [complementarianism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/complementarianism/)
- [decisions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/decisions/)
- [soul-binding](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/soul-binding/)
- [consequences](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/consequences/)
- [right](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/right/)
- [wrong](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wrong/)
- [David Orrison](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-orrison/)
- [Grace for the Heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grace-for-the-heart/)
- [Jesus loves me](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/jesus-loves-me/)
- [loving God](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/loving-god/)
- [Plato's Republic](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/platos-republic/)
- [shadows](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/shadows/)
- [The Cave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-cave/)
- [prison](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/prison/)
- [light](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/light/)
- [guarding your heart](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/guarding-your-heart/)
- [romantic relationships](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/romantic-relationships/)
- [eisegesis](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eisegesis/)
- [offense](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/offense/)
- [relational aggression](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/relational-aggression/)
- [surgery](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/surgery/)
- [distractions](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/distractions/)
- [Narcissist](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/narcissist/)
- [hiding](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hiding/)
- [Brennan Manning](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/brennan-manning/)
- [Ragamuffin Gospel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ragamuffin-gospel/)
- [on fire for God](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/on-fire-for-god/)
- [antinomianism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/antinomianism/)
- [performance](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/performance/)
- [One Way Love](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/one-way-love/)
- [Tullian Tchividjian](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tullian-tchividjian/)
- [Proverbs 31](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/proverbs-31/)
- [thanksgiving](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [grateful](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grateful/)
- [Romans 8:1](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/romans-81/)
- [godly](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/godly/)
- [restoration](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/restoration/)
- [beauty](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/beauty/)
- [counsel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/counsel/)
- [baby](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/baby/)
- [savior](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/savior/)
- [manger](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/manger/)
- [humble](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/humble/)
- [best of](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/best-of/)
- [Tenth Avenue North](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tenth-avenue-north/)
- [Healing Begins](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/healing-begins/)
- [worldly](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/worldly/)
- [Gothard church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gothard-church/)
- [ATI pastor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ati-pastor/)
- [ATI church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ati-church/)
- [worldliness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/worldliness/)
- [detour](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/detour/)
- [self](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/self/)
- [hurt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hurt/)
- [secretary](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/secretary/)
- [sacred grooming](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sacred-grooming/)
- [soul ties](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/soul-ties/)
- [one spirit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/one-spirit/)
- [staff family](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/staff-family/)
- [dallas](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dallas/)
- [Board member](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/board-member/)
- [footsie](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/footsie/)
- [false intimacy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/false-intimacy/)
- [Dentist](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dentist/)
- [sexual grooming](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-grooming/)
- [immigration](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/immigration/)
- [harassment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/harassment/)
- [hawaii](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/hawaii/)
- [Turtle Bay Resort](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/turtle-bay-resort/)
- [Gothard Files](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gothard-files/)
- [disqualification](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/disqualification/)
- [victims](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/victims/)
- [Micah 6:8](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/micah-68/)
- [correspondence](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/correspondence/)
- [reconciliation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/reconciliation/)
- [email](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/email/)
- [The Gothard Files](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-gothard-files-2/)
- [The Scandal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-scandal/)
- [Bill Gothard scandal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bill-gothard-scandal/)
- [Bill Gothard abuse](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bill-gothard-abuse/)
- [Northwoods scandal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/northwoods-scandal/)
- [Ruth's story](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ruths-story/)
- [silencing the lambs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/silencing-the-lambs/)
- [Taking up an offense](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/taking-up-an-offense/)
- [Psalm 15:3](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/psalm-153/)
- [Under Much Grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/under-much-grace/)
- [grief](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/grief/)
- [colorado flooding](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/colorado-flooding/)
- [stages of grief](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/stages-of-grief/)
- [loss](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/loss/)
- [Northwood scandal](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/northwood-scandal/)
- [board](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/board/)
- [Administrative leave](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/administrative-leave/)
- [Day of Prayer](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/day-of-prayer/)
- [resignation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/resignation/)
- [Tim Levendusky](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tim-levendusky/)
- [Board of Directors](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/board-of-directors/)
- [radio interview](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/radio-interview/)
- [allegations](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/allegations/)
- [media](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/media/)
- [heaven](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/heaven/)
- [NT Wright](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/nt-wright/)
- [abuser](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/abuser/)
- [Ron Henzel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ron-henzel/)
- [anointing](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anointing/)
- [apology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/apology/)
- [narcissistic apology](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/narcissistic-apology/)
- [Dave Orrison](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dave-orrison/)
- [satan](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/satan/)
- [spiritual attack](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/spiritual-attack/)
- [adult children](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/adult-children/)
- [Eternity Magazine](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eternity-magazine/)
- [Joseph Bayly](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/joseph-bayly/)
- [accounatibility](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/accounatibility/)
- [David Henke](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-henke/)
- [G. R. Fisher](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/g-r-fisher/)
- [Paige Patterson](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/paige-patterson/)
- [George F. Lee](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/george-f-lee/)
- [Bill's cabin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bills-cabin/)
- [sexual immorality](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/sexual-immorality/)
- [Gary Smalley](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gary-smalley/)
- [Tony](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tony/)
- [Larry Coy](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/larry-coy/)
- [Wheaton College](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wheaton-college/)
- [1984](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/1984/)
- [George Orwell](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/george-orwell/)
- [Shai Linne](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/shai-linne/)
- [Dr. John H. Armstrong](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-john-h-armstrong/)
- [Campus Teams](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/campus-teams/)
- [church authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/church-authority/)
- [church judgment](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/church-judgment/)
- [IBYC Board](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ibyc-board/)
- [1980](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/1980/)
- [corporate governance](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/corporate-governance/)
- [ethics](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ethics/)
- [David Gibbs](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-gibbs/)
- ["the agent"](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-agent/)
- [Gothard letter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gothard-letter/)
- [BG letter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/bg-letter/)
- [the agent letter](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-agent-letter/)
- [LaGrange Bible Church](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lagrange-bible-church/)
- [LBC](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lbc/)
- [caboose](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/caboose/)
- [secret honor](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/secret-honor/)
- [IBYC staff](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ibyc-staff/)
- [Veinot](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/veinot/)
- [MCOI](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mcoi/)
- [Chain of Authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/chain-of-authority/)
- [AMOBP](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/amobp/)
- [submission to authority](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/submission-to-authority/)
- [Jesus a sinner](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/jesus-a-sinner/)
- [butchering Scripture](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/butchering-scripture/)
- [butchering the Bible](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/butchering-the-bible/)
- [Christian leaders](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian-leaders/)
- [foil character](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/foil-character/)
- [failed leader](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/failed-leader/)
- [David Gibbs Jr](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-gibbs-jr/)
- [Dr. Stephen Paine](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-stephen-paine/)
- [Pastor David York](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/pastor-david-york/)
- [Anthony Burrus](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/anthony-burrus/)
- [Gil Bates](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gil-bates/)
- [Dr. John Stancil](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dr-john-stancil/)
- [Christian Law Association](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/christian-law-association/)
- [Chicago Sun-Times](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/chicago-sun-times/)
- [license to sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/license-to-sin/)
- [m](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/m/)
- [self-doubt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/self-doubt/)
- [the heart is deceitful](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-heart-is-deceitful/)
- [friendship](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/friendship/)
- [narcississt](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/narcississt/)
- [Psalm 18](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/psalm-18/)
- [gratitude](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gratitude/)
- [survival](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/survival/)
- [Scandal of 1980](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/scandal-of-1980/)
- [All Sufficiency of Jesus Christ](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/all-sufficiency-of-jesus-christ/)
- [The Package](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-package/)
- [Non-optional Principle](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/non-optional-principle/)
- [Precepts of Man](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/precepts-of-man/)
- [the Law](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-law/)
- [nativity](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/nativity/)
- [David R. Bryen](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-r-bryen/)
- [psychology of Bill Gothard](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/psychology-of-bill-gothard/)
- [inoculation against sexual sin](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/inoculation-against-sexual-sin/)
- [IBLPopenletter.com](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/iblpopenletter-com/)
- [disqualified](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/disqualified/)
- [recant](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recant/)
- [merit grace](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/merit-grace/)
- [the desire and power](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-desire-and-power/)
- [faith by visualization](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/faith-by-visualization/)
- [Levitical dietary commands](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/levitical-dietary-commands/)
- [eating pork](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eating-pork/)
- [Duggar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/duggar/)
- [Did Jesus Sin?](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/did-jesus-sin/)
- [ATI curriculum](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ati-curriculum/)
- [Wisdom Booklets](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/wisdom-booklets/)
- [Myron Horst](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/myron-horst/)
- [Donald Simanek](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/donald-simanek/)
- [IBYC Board minutes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ibyc-board-minutes/)
- [humiliation](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/humiliation/)
- [dangers of analogies](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/dangers-of-analogies/)
- [new life](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/new-life/)
- [Paul](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/paul/)
- [Mothers day](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mothers-day/)
- [reward](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/reward/)
- [seminar](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/seminar/)
- [special](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/special/)
- [secrets](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/secrets/)
- [kindness](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/kindness/)
- [gifts](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gifts/)
- [characteristics of sexual grooming](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/characteristics-of-sexual-grooming/)
- [Joe Bayly](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/joe-bayly/)
- [Tim Bayly](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/tim-bayly/)
- [criticism](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/criticism/)
- [celebrities](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/celebrities/)
- [World Magazine](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/world-magazine/)
- [failure to repent](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/failure-to-repent/)
- [news](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/news/)
- [ATI Education Series](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/ati-education-series/)
- [Eye Traps](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/eye-traps/)
- [Politics](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/politics/)
- [facebook](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/facebook/)
- [recovery group](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/recovery-group/)
- [cult recovery](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/cult-recovery/)
- [assault](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/assault/)
- [lawsuit](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/lawsuit/)
- [David Gibbs III](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/david-gibbs-iii/)
- [the gospel](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/the-gospel/)
- [power of the cross](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/power-of-the-cross/)
- [gracenotes](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/gracenotes/)
- [Mary](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/mary/)
- [Joseph](https://www.recoveringgrace.org/tag/joseph/)