Before you kiss the frog, let’s talk. Let’s talk about choices that make your future healthier. Walk with me through a biblically based decision tree and not rely on aroused feelings and sensations that can lead us astray.
Come along with me through discussion of characteristics of churches and pastors that tend to operate this way under the threat of misconduct exposure. Let’s look at common techniques of leadership during the cover-up process.
This is the true story of a church in America's Bible Belt, the First Christian Church in Florissant, Missouri--a church with a meager beginning and record of steady growth for forty-nine years until the weight of sexual abuse charges against a youth minister left it, and its congregation, broken. This is a case history and analysis of those events. This is for the victims.
Lord, thank You for intervening in Saul’s life in a way that reset him and renamed him to speak Your gospel boldly. The fact that You turned him from persecuting Christ followers to loving and instructing them in his era and all the generations after shows me that You can use the least and worst…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul instructed the gentiles how to live before a Holy God, “Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God, that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the…
Holy Spirit, Scripture says I have been gifted according to grace given to me. Help me discern exactly what my personal gifting is. Show me the godly purpose You have for me in the areas in which my gift(s) apply. Make my efforts there more effective. Increase my territory. Broaden my abilities. May all I…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives,…
Analysis of the Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment Final Report on Niños de Mexico reveals the failures of the institution and its leadership. A simple search for “failure” results in 54 incidents of ‘failure’ and 7 occurrences of ‘failures.’ Here is a summary of what the AI report shows. “The document contains…
I love you, Father. I love You, Lord Jesus. I love You, Holy Spirit. Thank You for giving me another day. I ask that You keep me grounded. You pulled me from the pit of my past and gifted me with compassion and discernment to help others struggling with similar issues. I have seen You…
Today is a beautiful day, because “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3 NKJV) Grace #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday …
Father, You are El Roi, the God who sees me. Where would I be were it not for Your grace, forgiveness and redemption? I shudder to imagine. Thank You for giving me grace. I love You, Father. I love You, Jesus. I love You, Holy Spirit. I come to Your throne to praise You in…
Today is a beautiful day, because of God’s grace, “Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise…
Lord, Jesus, the law acted like a mirror to point out my sins, misdirection, poor judgements, and outright disobedience. I am ever grateful for the conviction of Your Holy Spirit that led me to change my ways and walk according to Your teaching, Lord. I didn’t know Him before my salvation by grace, but I…
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