Those who suggest emotional or verbal abuse is not really abuse need to consider scripture and psychology.
Leadership
Authorized Unity: Loyalty, Allegiance and Fidelity
When your pastor says, "If you don't trust me, you don't trust God," run.
Saving a Relationship | Job with an Abuser
Do you want to regain a relationship (reconciliation) with an abuser? Are you seeking to save your job or your marriage? This is a clarion call that the only way a relationship with an abuser will be saved is through his repentance. Hold the line!
Poor Judges: Problems in Presbytery
It is hit or miss when it comes to finding justice and healing in the church or Christian organization. We need professional help!
Counterfeit Gods: The Power and the Glory
Timothy Keller writes insightfully, "To be your own god and live for your own glory and power leads to the most bestial and cruel kind of behavior. Pride makes you a predator, not a person."
Humility. Humility. Humility.
Indicative of the abuse of power in the home, church, organization, or workplace is entitlement. Scripture gives no leeway to those who think they are particularly important.
Headship: Demand it of Yourself
In the experience of abusive leadership in the home, workplace, and government, it is not uncommon to hear demands of submission as if the leader has absolute and ultimate authority. Biblically, it is not true. Don't be fooled by the blustering.
Though They Rage…God is Our Refuge
Wading into the depths of Psalms 44 and 46 can be both the healing balm and helpful aid to building boundaries that protect our integrity from those who war against a Biblical understanding of abuse.
Humility, Like Oil On the Head
We are all dependent. We long for respect and love and relationship. But leaders need to depend on God, not our subordinates.
Gentleness & Believability: Philippians 4
I sat in the plush CEO's office of a Christian mission organization. A friend had known the mission leader since their parents had worked together on the field when they were children. We were happy to join her though a bit suspicious of her reading of the situation. We knew the president as a charming and responsive leader.