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.
Holy Spirit, remind me to think carefully before I speak. Let the words that I say reflect Jesus in their content and in the way I deliver them to the one who hears. I pray in the name and authority of Jesus, according to the good and perfect will of the Father. Amen. “Let your…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” (Colossians 4:6 NKJV) You are blessed this day and everyday. Grace Welcome to Joy in Verse! Please take a minute to subscribe to this content by…
We’ve been looking at defining what love is in the last couple of updates. Philosophers and relationship pundits with academic credentials far greater than mine have grappled with that definition for centuries. However, I venture it is worth taking a personal stab at our own individual definition as to what we expect is the answer,…
Father, thank You for my brothers and sisters in Christ, who encourage me, teach me, and admonish me. Let me be always open to their wisdom and leading that is directed by Your Holy Spirit. Thank You for those who sing Your praises along with me, blending and harmonizing in our love for You. Thank…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul calls us to “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” (Colossians 3:16 NKJV) Grace Welcome to Joy in Verse!…
Abba, Father, thank You for bolstering our faith through Your Word. Our faith in Christ leads to the eternal hope of the gospel. The acknowledgement of our eternal hope leads us to share what You have done and are doing in our lives, since the day we heard and knew Your grace in salvation. Our…
Today is a beautiful day, because “We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you…
Father, I’m encouraged that You are not done with me, because I am far from where I want to be in my walk with Jesus. I desire to love Him in a deeper way. I seek to know Him more intimately. I pray to be more like Him, as You continue your work in me….
Jehovah Nissi, You are the banner over us. Your loving mercies are new each morning. I praise You for Your grace that abounds. I pray that all my brothers and sisters in Christ see Your grace in the rhythm of their days. I pray that we sense You near. I pray for close relationships among…
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