Home is where one can be who they are and find refuge from a world devoted to misunderstanding them. So many hoped, like Amber, to find such a place in life after leaving her fundamentalist church background and meeting the love of her life whose own church seemed to be just that kind of sanctuary. She found out too quickly how it was instead the worst kind of prison .. without bars. The fiance of Colin, one of our past podcast participants shares her five year exile in the Xenos/Dwell cult and provides her own personal perspective on being an inmate there.

We're back after our needful shut down due to ministry projects. We'll give a quick update and offer another testimony of a survivor of the tender "mercies" of the abusive Gladstone Community/Madison Place Community Church, Mollie Murphy, whose journey in, through and out of the shadowlands of that cultic environment is shared with us here.

There can be no more levelling an experience than to be placed into situations of sheer terror by those who you trust with your spiritual destiny. And this is the grim and daily reality for thousands of men and women in the Xenos/Dwell cult. Listen to Milla's recounting of her years within this toxic movement and how she, as someone struggling with her own mental health challenges and a piteous desire to do what she was told was the right thing only led her deeper into a slough that almost swallowed her completely. We are thankful for the grace that enabled her to leave and seek wholeness apart from the skullduggery of Xenos/Dwell's gossipy taskmasters who jack people up in the name of Jesus.

With former members Jeremiah and Christy, Reverend Martinez engages them in a discussion that provides an alternative perspective upon the deeply toxic spirituality of the Gladstone Community, a cultic movement now calling itself the Madison Place Community Church in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio. We discuss how the movement has been impacted by the new scrutiny that the internet and our podcasts are putting on it.

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WARNING: Explicit discussion on the religious abuses of this group may be triggering to cult survivors.

Timothy Williams is one of those "certain men" who have "crept in unawares" into the lives of many churchgoing people to draw them into his own clique of sincere yet sincerely deceived people. In short, Williams is a "creeper" and a feral cult leader. The sharing of Karla, a former member of "TW's" audaciously self-titled Sound Doctrine Church of Enumclaw, Washington, will give us a gripping account of how destructive "Sound Doctrine's" deception was and yet how much greater the grace of God went to rescue those devastated by it.

Thanks to Don Francisco's 1991 release "Vision Of The Valley", hear his powerful musical rendition of God's judgment upon false shepherds who abuse His sheep and kill, who with harshness and severity try to bend them to their will. The time is not just coming but is at hand.

Our final part of our "Creepers" series features the discernment of Ernie and June Stickler. This older Christian couple found out after a few years of involvement with a sweet looking band of zealous young Christians in Cincinnati called the Gladstone Community that they were not the misunderstood church they came off as being but a truly malevolent cult that, if it could be worse, were being empowered and supported by clueless Christian churches they parasitically feeding off of.

This narration of a 2018 letter of exhortation they sent to the cult before cutting ties with them is one of the finest examples of Christian discernment we've seen of a cult in the circles we've been in .. it's too bad that the senior pastors and ministry leaders that have subsidized them for years have been clueless about these false brethren who have fearlessly dined at their tables for years.

A complete copy of this letter can be downloaded from the link on our blog: https://spiritwatchunchained.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-gladstone-report-by-ernie-and-june.html.

The second of our podcasts on the stealthy ways cults slip into churches to steal, kill and destroy just as Jesus said they would in John 10:10. The reflection of Christina, a member of our home church, who became an unwitting eyewitness to this is both alarming and instructional.