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

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210529

Today is a beautiful day, because “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.” (Collosians 4:5 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

Oh, Father God, the text of the final book is truly final. It gives me the sense of riding a roller coaster through time. We climb higher and higher, cog-by-cog, to the pinnacle of the first hill where the seven bowls of judgement fall on the heads of humanity and the earth crumbles beneath their…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210528

Today is a beautiful day, because “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” (Colossians 3:16 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

Almighty God, you are El Shaddai. Your ways are just and true. You rule the nations. Who will not revere you? Who will not glorify your holy name? The seven angels ready their appearance. One of the four living creatures prepares to distribute seven bowls of wrath. Your loving kindness delays their coming so that…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210527

Today is a beautiful day, because “These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated…

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Prayer for Today

The final earth’s harvest approaches, Father God. Open our eyes to see and our ears to hear. Strengthen your call to the unbeliever. Draw the churched who aren’t truly saved. Pull on the hearts of the unchurched, for the time of the heavenly sickle gathering the clusters of the vine of the earth comes. Nothing…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20210526

Today is a beautiful day, because Paul prayed for the Laodicceans, “that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:2-3 ESV)…

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/joyinverse/It_Dont_Take_Long.mp3 It don’t take long. Yes, the grammar is wrong, but that is the joy of poetic license.

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