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, lead me in the way of righteousness. Stop me from getting ahead of You. Remind me to release all offenses to You, because You are faithful and just. You see past, present and future and are all-knowing. You are the judge and I am not. You are the Lord, and I am not. Keep…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’” (Romans 12:19 ESV) Thus says the LORD #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because James spoke to the Jerusalem council, citing God’s words to Amos, “After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the…
I can’t say enough about the tenacity and bravery of the whistleblowers. They have taken many slings and arrows as opposition to their position pushed back. Even the authorities in Mexico blocked their attempts to remedy the situation for the victims at Niños. Olivia Paola Cuevas speaks of this reluctance in her Facebook post on…
Lord, what kind of a house am I building for You? It’s a profound question, as I look at the temple that is me. Help me maintain this dwelling place for You in a way that glorifies You and honors your precepts. Keep my feet on the solid ground of your Scripture. Don’t let me…
Today is a beautiful day, because Stephen speaks boldly to the angry mob in God’s words from Psalm 114, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all…
Jesus, I don’t find words to pray. The impact of this verse goes soul-deep as it makes me face just why You gave up your life to pay for me. I bring my most ardent thanksgiving for your love so deep and pure that You gave on the cross. I’m just sitting with the intensity….
Today is a beautiful day, because Peter described the divinity of Jesus, “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has…
Lord! Right there, near the end of the Old Testament, sits this verse that is so applicable to today. I didn’t go searching for something to fit, your timing in the word study I’m posting brought it to light today. I am awed by your simplicity in the complexity of life. I am struck by…
Today is a beautiful day, because “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear…
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