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Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 130 Comments -
Their Day in Court: Part Two
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Their Day in Court: Part One
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Statement from Recovering Grace regarding the lawsuit a ...
March 28, 2018 // 186 Comments -
Rethinking the Nativity
December 25, 2016 // 144 Comments
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Plaintiffs Amend Lawsuit Against IBLP, Also Sue Bill Go ...
January 10, 2016 // 1311 Comments -
Charlotte's Story
February 5, 2014 // 601 Comments -
Bill’s Cabin: Uncovering Sin
May 21, 2014 // 475 Comments -
How the Teachings of Emotional Purity and Courtship Dam ...
July 22, 2011 // 431 Comments -
Sacred Grooming, Part Six: A Secretary's Account of Lif ...
January 31, 2014 // 405 Comments
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I understand many people fall into this kind of co ...
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Yes, I agree with you 100%. There are a lot of ove ...
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Rob, this also sounds like a variation on the "pro ...
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what Bill taught can be summed up with the term "m ...
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Indeed. Any attempt to attain righteous by adherin ...
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Psalm 34:15-22 (ESV) reading for today (The face o ...
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Psalm 34:15-22 (ESV) reading for today (The face o ...
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If every accusation against Gothard were false, an ...
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@Rob War "IBLP's downward spiral began before B ...
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Yes, perfect judgement. Bill is no longer the "thi ...
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I'm sure Bill and those supporting him are upset w ...
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Kevin, Thank you. I had a longer reply, but it ...
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You have done an excellent job Larne! You state ...
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Kevin, Your comment about "Witnesses" is intere ...
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Hi Rob. Yes, it is a downward spiral. I read some ...
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Hi Larne, Good to hear from you. Yes, they have h ...
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Rob and Kevin, They have had more than enough t ...
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Grace Overflowing
Our sin, even that which continues in the Christian life, reveals the grace of God. Paul says, in Romans 5, that the grace of God overflows in greater measure than any sin. What that means, put simply, is that you can never “out-sin” God’s grace. Some people don’t like that. Or maybe I should say […]
Dear Mom and Dad
Dear Mom and Dad, I do not write this out of vindictiveness or anger; rather, I write it out of an inquiring and puzzled mind. I do not fault you for putting our family into the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) program. You wanted the best for our family, and I believe you sincerely thought you […]
Stolen Treasures
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on March 11, 2013. A recent article on Recovering Grace, entitled “Moving On,” prompted me to think about the reason it is so difficult to move forward after being victimized by legalism. As I have worked with those hurt by legalism over the years, I have often heard stories about what […]
Marcus’s Story: Touching the Invisible Electric Fence
I was invited to work at the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) headquarters during the summer of 1992. I said goodbye to my family in Knoxville, Tennessee, where we had traveled to attend the yearly Advanced Training Institute (ATI) annual conference, and climbed aboard one of the many vans transporting IBLP staff back to Oak […]
Silencing the Lambs: Listening to an Evil Report
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. IBLP has a Matthew 18 publication that fits well with each monkey. Listening to an Evil Report One question often asked of those who have contributed their stories to Recovering Grace is, “If things were so bad, or even illegal, why didn’t you contact the authorities, or at least tell your parents or a lawyer?” Most who grew up in the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) and/or Institute in Basic […]
Anti-Law
Grace 101 Over the past several Grace 101 posts I have focused on the parable of the sower from Matthew 13 to give us a structure for looking at enemies of grace. I started with the trampled or trodden path, the hard ground that would not let the seed take root. But other enemies take […]
Too Good to be True
Grace 101 Let’s face it. If we are pointing out enemies of grace, particularly those areas where the path is hard from years of tradition and wrong thinking, we don’t have to go any farther than our own minds. I define the flesh as the system we developed to handle life. Perhaps we could broaden […]
Anniversary Milestones
Dear Recovering Grace Reader, This week marks the second anniversary of the launching of Recovering Grace. It hardly seems possible that a little over two years ago, our website was only a germ of an idea being shared among a large number of former students of Bill Gothard and his Advanced Training Institute and Institute […]
When The Church Prefers Perpetrators
Occasionally Recovering Grace likes to offer other articles and resources that our readers may find helpful in their road to recovery. The following linked article is very thought provoking and one that everyone should read and ponder. After all, Jesus came to care for the broken and needy, not protect the proud and haughty. “The […]
Remember Your Brethren in Bonds
In 2 Timothy 3:12, it is written, “Yea, and all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” I don’t remember much persecution, at least not the kind that the Bible talks about. Sure we were ultra conservative and occasionally got some strange looks from people who had no idea what we were talking […]