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.
Today is a beautiful day, because of God’s boundless grace, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me….
Father in heaven, there is no one like You, who can turn hearts and minds of the kings like the ribbons of rivers. You use the unexpected to bring about Your will. Just like that famous meeting between Jesus and Paul on the road to Damascus. The Lord turned the persecutor into the promoter of…
Today is a beautiful day, because God called Paul into His service, “And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal…
Holy Spirit, I ask that You keep me grounded in Scripture. Please, don’t let me wander into my own interpretations. Teach me as I read and study what is the true gospel. Take away any intent to please readers. May I always write with the specific purpose of pleasing my Father in heaven. May my…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul describes the weight of carrying the gospel, “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ….
Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, I bring a Christmas request to Your mercy seat. May all Your beloved follow Paul’s benediction to the Corinthians. May we know that we are made complete in Christ. Let us know the warmth of Your comfort. May Your love and peace fill us and emanate from within us to those…
Abba, Father, You are the God of all comfort. You are the God of peace. You are the God of harmony. You are the God of order. You are El Roi, the God who sees us. I have a heart for those who struggle during the holy season of Jesus’ birth. Gather them under Your…
Today is a beautiful day, because if God’s grace was sufficient for Paul’s trials, it is also sufficient for us, “And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may…
Father, You are the One who supplies. You are the One who gives the increase. I come, now, to ask that You multiply the seeds I sow with my meager offering. Use it for the greater good and for Your glory. I ask in the name and authority of Jesus, according to Your good and…
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