Findings: My Journey To Joy                            

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

Prayer for Today

Day-by-day the time of your coming approaches, Lord. Evil shows its ugliness openly now. Justice dies in the streets. Persecution of the faithful comes close to being codified. Let your people echo the cry of the angel to worship you who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water. Babylon will fall….

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210525

Today is a beautiful day, because “Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.” (Colossians 1:28 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

Jehovah Avinu, you are the LORD our Father. You are the uncaused cause, from everlasting to everlasting. You are the God who sings over us. You are the one who teaches the redeemed 144,000 a new song that fills the heavens like the roaring waters, punctuated by tympanic thunder. Let the harpists play, Mighty God….

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210524

Today is a beautiful day, because “And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,” (Colossians 1:9 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

Holy Spirit, help me to hear your voice more clearly. Prevent me from being deceived by evil manipulators. Keep me strong in Christ. Be with me in rejection of the mark of the beast that I worship no one but the Lord, that I bow down to no one but Christ. I am not strong…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210523

Today is a beautiful day, because “To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,…

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Prayer for Today

Lord God, if anyone has an ear, let him hear the entreaty of Revelation. Let him envision the first beast taking over the rule of earth, receiving power from the great dragon. Let him see the scene John describes of the whole world worshiping this beast with blasphemous names on its seven heads. Let him…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210522

Today is a beautiful day, because “I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that…

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Prayer for Today

Holy and Loving God, the world spins into insanity and depravity around me. People portray what is right to be wrong, what it sacred to be defiled, and what is wrong to be right. Justice dies in the streets as the divide between us widens. Satan truly seeks his advantage. Help your beloved, Father God,…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210521

Today is a beautiful day, because “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ…

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