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.
Dear readers, I have been posting prayers on social media for more than eleven years. That is a lot of prayers. Holy Spirit is prompting me to branch out with personal prayers on behalf of you. How may I pray for you? Let me know in the comments. Joy in Verse Welcome to…
Father in heaven, the idea that I could go against Your will is repulsive to me. I admit my frailty, though, because I know I have done just that more than a few times. Keep my feet upon the path You want me to walk. Don’t allow me to move out of the circle of…
Today is a beautiful day, because “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?”…
El Olam, You are the everlasting God. You are El Shaddai, God Most High. You are El Roi, the God who sees me. You have given me the Spirit of adoption by which I pray, Abba, Father. You are the God of all comfort, redemption and grace. Sin and death are overcome by Jesus the…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 5: 20-21 NKJV) Grace #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday Welcome to…
I love You, Father. I love You, King Jesus. I love You Holy Spirit. Adam sinned along with Eve. The fall brought the death of many. Father, You intervened through Your grace. Lord Jesus, You came, walked and taught among us, then died and rose to lift condemnation and gift us freedom by Your grace….
Today is a beautiful day, because “But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the…
Have you cemented a definition as to what you believe love is? From the book: Love is everything. Love is nothing. Life without love is hollow, cold and lonely. So, what is love? Is it an emotion, an instinct, an accident? Is love fallen into, fallen out of, found instantly? Is it emotional, physical, or…
Father, Abba, I stand in Your grace and rejoice, because You and I are at peace. There is no greater understanding that my faith grounds me to Your solid foundation. My feet are planted on a rock that is higher than I. I am sealed and sanctified by Your grace, certain of my salvation. I…
Today is a beautiful day, because believers are justified by faith and enjoy peace with God, “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”…
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