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 the LORD was Samson’s strength, “And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ And he awoke from his sleep and said, ‘I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.’ But he did not know that the LORD had left him.” (Judges 16:20 ESV) Free…
Justice stumbles in the public square; but you, God, are perfectly just. Logic, morality and integrity become the jokes of scoffers; but you stand in the current coming against them to protect them. Life’s cycles bring age, illness and void from loss, but you hold my heart and are the lifter of my head. You…
Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus bore our sins once for all, “The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.” (Leviticus16:22 ESV) Free #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Father God, I thank you for your faithfulness and your steadfast adherence to your covenants. I thank you for the biblical examples of covenants between men like that between David and Jonathan. Most of all, I thank you for the New Covenant of Christ that secures my salvation and eternal hope. I lift my praises…
Today is a beautiful day, because God led the way to Rebekah, “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before…
Almighty Loving Father, there is none greater or more faithful than you. There is none more holy. There is none more wise. No one can thwart what you purpose in your heart. I desire to learn more of your heart and attributes. I thank you for the Scriptures that reveal your nature and your heart….
Today is a beautiful day, because “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.” (Revelation 22:17 ESV) Water #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Almighty Creator, God over all and Ruler of the cosmos, you are El Roi, the God who sees me. Who am I that you, so mighty a sovereign, would desire a heart-to-heart relationship with me? How is it that you saw to pull me from the pit of my poor choices? I am forever grateful,…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds…
Lord Jesus, I stand on your promise that you will not abandon me. You will not leave me or turn away. I am secure in your commitment by your precious blood, for your name’s sake, according to the Good and perfect will of the Father. Amen. “And David became greater and greater, for the…
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