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. —Joy S. Taylor, Author
Today is a beautiful day, because Rahab and family were protected and have a place in the lineage of Jesus, “Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign that you will…
Almighty, Holy God, there is none like you who holds perfect justice and offers forgiveness for sin. Forgive us, Father, because we fail you. I bring my nation to your mercy seat. I pray for the salvation of our leaders. I pray for eyes to open and for scales of unbelief to fall. I pray…
Today is a beautiful day, because “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. ” (Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV) Deliver #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Heavenly Father, power and pride corrupt the hearts of even the greatest men and Satan takes advantage; but your Holy Spirit can turn the hearts of the kings like the bends of rivers. Call our leaders to repentance for your name’s sake. Reverse their thinking and point them to your salvation. Replace their hearts of…
Today is a beautiful day, “Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.” (Deuteronomy 23:14 ESV) Deliver #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
I am small, God of all. How is it that You call me? I don’t know The way to go. Why is it that You show me? I’m unworthy, God of mercy. Why would You want to save me? I’m so tiny; You’re so mighty. Why do you guard me nightly? I have nothing. You…
Today is a beautiful day, because God remembered His covenant, “Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great…
Almighty God, you are our fortress, our help in need, our rock in whom we take refuge. You are our deliverer and the God of our salvation. You stand with us in the fire and part the current in the waters. You never leave us. You never fail us. In life or in death, you…
Today is a beautiful day, because God delivers his beloved, “Then the Lord said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…
All Knowing, Holy God, your thoughts are not our thoughts and your ways are not our ways. They are higher, as the heavens are higher than the earth. Don’t let me put my ideas and motives before yours, Father. Don’t allow me to use a cart when I am supposed to lift the weight to…
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