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.
Lord Jesus, I come to You with thanks for the opportunity to speak to You directly. Thank You that Your work on the cross and Your resurrection split the veil between us. I pray that I can live my life in simplicity and godly sincerity, covered by Your grace and mercy. I drank the sour…
Today is a beautiful day, because “For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.” (2 Corinthians 1:12 NKJV) Grace Welcome to Joy in Verse! Please…
I am small, God of all; but for Your grace I am what I am. The encouragement I cast comes directly from Your Scripture. This is the Book that speaks of the uplifting promise of eternal blessing and life from cover to cover. Your Word is truth and life, just as Jesus is Truth and…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul gave credit to God’s grace, “For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in…
Father, it is not by my power, but by Your mighty arm, that the Your kingdom is advanced. You bring the increase. All honor and glory belong to You. Grant me Your grace that I may be one who plants or one who waters as You bring the hurting and broken into my path. Give…
Today is a beautiful day, because God gives the increase, “So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s…
Holy Spirit, keep me on the right track toward obedience. Don’t allow me to stray to the right nor to the left, but stay within the circle of the Father’s will. Grant me wisdom to see the folly to avoid and to recognize those You put in my path who need ministering to. I ask…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul wrote, “For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus…
Lord, thank You for intervening in Saul’s life in a way that reset him and renamed him to speak Your gospel boldly. The fact that You turned him from persecuting Christ followers to loving and instructing them in his era and all the generations after shows me that You can use the least and worst…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul instructed the gentiles how to live before a Holy God, “Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God, that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the…
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