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 Moses warned against worshiping creation instead of the Creator, “And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God…
If You are for us, Father, who can be against us? You are jealous for us. You desire the greatest good for your beloved. I am blessed to be part of your beloved. Keep me moving within the circle of your will. Holy Spirit, don’t allow me to move to the right nor to the…
Today is a beautiful day, because God warned His people against idolatry, “(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),” (Exodus 34:14 NKJV) Worship #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Almighty God, El Shaddai, You are the God of the patriarchs of the faith. You are I AM. You are the God of covenant and steadfast love. You use the weak to confound the strong. Without You we can do nothing. Just look at the faith Abraham and Isaac exhibited. Father, increase my faith that…
Today is a beautiful day, because Abraham trusted God, “And Abraham said to his young men, ‘Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.’” (Gen 22:5 NKJV) Worship #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Father, You are the Alpha and the Omega, the Mighty Creator, the Almighty. Who is like You. Who hung the stars and ignited the sun if not You? Who set the planets spinning and holds the universe together if not You? I am awed and honored that such a great and mighty God desires to…
Today is a beautiful day, because “’I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.’” (Revelation 1:8 ESV) Thus says the LORD. #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Father, as Paul discusses the distinctions between believers and non-believers, he quotes your words from the OLD Testament writers. He tells us to separate ourselves from evil. In doing that, we are to separate ourselves toward God, to come out of worldly and to sanctify God’s temple within us. Draw me closer, Father. Remove any…
Today is a beautiful day, because Paul quoted from the Old Testament, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to…
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