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.
Almighty, Loving Father, You performed a great work in me through salvation. I am a new creation. My old nature was not upgraded to a better one, it was replaced by my new nature in Christ Jesus. The gift of salvation changed how I think, believe, and live according to my belief. It was nothing…
Today is a beautiful day, because “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”…
Father, thank You for showing me mercy and grace. Thank You for adopting me into Your household so that I may one day sit with Christ in the heavenly places. I lift my prayer in the name and authority of Jesus, who gave up His life to redeem mine, according to Your good and perfect…
Today is a beautiful day, because “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly…
The calendar just turned a page into the new year? Where do you stand with your relationships? Are there things you wish someone had talked over with you prior to this? Are you moving into a new relationship? Do believe that long-term relationships are a thing of the past? A couple in my church just…
Jesus, You are the firstborn from the dead, the faithful witness, the giver of life everlasting, the source of living water for my soul. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the Creator, Redeemer, Savior and Judge. All things were made through You. All things will resolve through You, by your forgiveness or your judgement….
Today is a beautiful day, because “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed…
Father, Almighty God, may I walk circumspectly within Your good pleasure. I thank You for Your blessings upon this coming year of 2026. May we know You more intimately. May we sense Your presence every day. May we be drawn by Your Holy Spirit and taught by Him as we read and study Your Word….
Today is a beautiful day, because “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having…
Lord Jesus, where would I be, if it weren’t for Your saving grace: without eternal hope, without eternal life, without forgiveness, without personal worth, without eternal relationship? Without. I would be without, but You loved me enough to fill all the gaps, right all the wrongs and establish the solid foundation upon which I stand….
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