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.
Father, this is a double-edged passage. You made your point that either your people would enjoy the good of the land or be defeated by the sword. The pivot point hinged on willingness and obedience. Give me a heart of willingness and obedience, Father. Increase my sensitivity to hear your Holy Spirit speak and the…
Today is a beautiful day, because Isaiah transferred God’s either-or message to His people, “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall…
Good morning, Lord. You are the reason the day is good. You put purpose in the hours. You are the refuge from the enemy who prowls to see what he can devour. Your Word is profound, refined Truth. It remains consistent and constant. What was applicable in David’s era applies today, for we live in…
Today is a beautiful day, because King David wrote words applicable to today “‘Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,’ says the Lord; ‘I will place him in the safety for which he longs.’ The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on…
Lord, this powerful prayer that Hezekiah lifted in his illness as he was slated to die moves me to send an entreaty on my behalf. I pray, not because I am ill or distressed in any way. I pray Hezekiah’s sentiment because it is sound and meaningful. Lord, please remember that I have walked before…
Today is a beautiful day, because God answered Hezekiah’s prayer, “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to…
Father, the way you weave your Word so that the Old Testament verses point toward the New Testament amazes me. The man asked Elisha how his provision could feed so many, as did the apostles ask Jesus in Matthew 15. Jesus spoke similarly to the apostles before feeding the four thousand. Types and shadows tie…
Today is a beautiful day, because God provides, “A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, ‘Give to the men, that they may eat.’ But his servant said, ‘How can I set this before…
Today is a beautiful day, because King Jehoshaphat turned to God in his crisis instead of avoiding God in the drought, “And he [Elisha] said, ‘Thus says the LORD, “I will make this dry streambed full of pools.” For thus says the LORD, “You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be…
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