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.

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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.

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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.

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Prayer for Today

I give thanks to you with my whole heart, LORD. You maintain my just cause. You are enthroned forever established for justice. You judge the world for righteousness and the people for uprightness. You are my stronghold in times of trouble. I put my trust in you. I rejoice in your salvation. Arise, O LORD,…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20200920

Today is a beautiful day, because “What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— ” (Romans 9:22-23…

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Prayer for Today

O, LORD, our LORD, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have established strength out of the mouths of babies and infants to still your foes. I see the heavens and the works of your hands, and I wonder how a Mighty God like you can desire relationship with someone small as…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20200919

Today is a beautiful day, because God prepared Peter to spread the gospel to the Gentiles, “And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20200918

Today is a beautiful day, because we have eternal hope, “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to…

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Prayer for Today

Judge me, Father, not by my righteousness or integrity, but by that of my Savior. O, righteous God, let the evil of the wicked come to an end and establish the righteous. May the one who conceives evil have his own violence descend upon him, for in him there is no repentance. For those who…

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Prayer for Today

Turn, O LORD, and deliver us. Save our country for the sake of your steadfast love. Don’t let the grand experiment, begun by your faithful servants, ordered by your precepts, be given over to tyranny. I am weary with moaning. Tears flood my bed at night for what I see going on. Send your angels…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20200917

Today is a beautiful day, because the tomb is empty, “The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” (Luke 23:55-56 ESV) Prepare #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

Oh, Lord God, you hear my prayer in the morning. I enter your house through the abundance of your steadfast love. Lead me in your righteousness, because of my enemies; make your way straight before me. I take refuge in you. I rejoice and sing, for you spread your protection over me. You cover me…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20200916

Today is a beautiful day, because we lay up treasures in heaven, not on earth, “But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”…

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