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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January 25, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because God asserts his authority through Isaiah, saying, “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” (Isaiah 43: 25 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

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January 24, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because God tells us through Isaiah, “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.” (Isaiah 43: 10 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 24, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Gracious God, you are the author of relationship. Thank you for sending folks into my life. Help me nurture the bonds between us, so that I can speak freely about my relationship with you. Let them see Jesus in my actions and words. Keep me from doing anything that would damage my representation of Jesus….

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Prayer for Today

January 23, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Father God, you are the God who hears our prayers. They come from the pain and joy of living. So many, so much overflowing, overwhelming. Yet, you continue to work for the greater good and for your glory. Remind us that you are making something new in us, around us and through us. Present perfect…

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January 23, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because God spoke through Isaiah, saying, “I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.” (Isaiah 43: 11 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 22, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Father in heaven, who is like you? There is no comparing you to anything else in your kingdom. You stretched out the heavens, dotted the velvet night with stars, ignited the sun to warm the earth, and created a plan to warm men’s hearts and draw them to you. Thank you for your power and…

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January 22, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because “He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.” (Isaiah 40: 29 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

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January 21, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because “He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.” (Isaiah 40: 28b ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 21, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Almighty God, you are above all, and you seated Jesus at your right hand far above all rule and authority and power and dominion. He commands even the evil spirits. They know who he is. They must flee at his name. We speak the name of Jesus, the name above all names, that all evil…

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Full Circle

January 20, 2018
By Joy Taylor

This is the final poem in my first collection, entitled Findings: My Journey to Joy. The flow of poems in that book spoke to finding who I was and what I was about after being divorced. I started writing the poems a couple years before the divorce, and published the book a couple years afterwards,…

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