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.
Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk? – 15 Before you enter into a relationship for any reason, you are wise to take a good look at the personality characteristics you bring to the table and how well they interact with those of the other person. Scripture is full of insight on human nature and…
Heavenly Father, thank You for making a way where there seems to be none for us to resist the wiles of the devil. When the pressure seems insurmountable, invoking the powerful name of Jesus bursts the grip of temptation and frees us to draw closer to You. We can turn from danger like a child…
Today is a beautiful day, because “But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: ’God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.’ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4: 6-8 NKJV) Grace Welcome…
Lord Jesus, Your grace is sufficient. It offers us salvation at the point we believe You are the Son of God, who died on the cross and is risen to sit at the right hand of the Father. You intercede on our behalf. Your name is the only name by which we come. There is…
Today is a beautiful day, because we are established by the grace of God and not by adhering to a list of rules, “Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been…
Father, show me through Your Holy Spirit how to brush aside temptations and distractions so that I may serve You with humility and reverence. Don’t allow me to turn to the right nor to the left, but focus my work toward the task and purpose You set before me. May I run the race in…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” (Hebrews 12:28 NKJV) Grace Welcome to Joy in Verse! Please take a minute to subscribe to this content by adding…
King Jesus, You are my Savior, my Lord, my redeemer, and my friend. By Your amazing grace and mercy, You call me friend. Thank You for rending the veil and making it possible to come directly and boldly to Your throne of grace. You, who will judge the hearts and souls of all, bends…
Lord, Jesus, You are my saving grace. Words I string together cannot come close to expressing my abiding love for You. You left your throne behind to humble Yourself obediently to the Father’s will, even to death. You are the Sovereign Priest who knows first hand what we live through, because You lived through far…
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