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 “For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.” (2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
El Elyon, God over all, there is none like you. Who can stand before the one who binds the four angels at the great Euphrates river for the time of the sixth trumpet? Who can measure the temple? Who allows the nations to trample the courts and the holy city for forty-two months? You send…
Today is a beautiful day, because we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, “For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,” (1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/joyinverse/Messed_Up.mp3 The trap of perfectionism, don’t fall into it.
Almighty Omnipotent God, you are He who lives forever. You created heaven and what is in it. You created the earth and the seas and what is in them. You declare what the seven thunders have said and what is written down in the sealed little scroll that embittered John’s stomach. You determine the time…
Today is a beautiful day, because “For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness,’ and again, ‘The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.’” (1 Corinthians 3:19-20 ESV) Wisdom #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Lord God, my heart is heavy reading your message that the fierceness of the judgment to be released on earth will not cause some to repent. I know that you desire all to come to the saving knowledge of you. I join in your disappointment caused by those who choose not to turn away from…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those…
Jehovah Hashapet, you are the God our judge. The words describing the vision of John strike deeply at my heart. ‘When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.’ Does it give space so the prayers of the saints can be heard? Does it accentuate the sobering…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.”…
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