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.
Holy Spirit, I pray You guide my thoughts and steps to stay within the circle of the Father’s will. Don’t allow me to turn to the right nor to the left, but keep my eyes and my momentum trained in the direction of my Savior Jesus. May I spend my hours abiding in God’s love,…
Today is a beautiful day, because ” But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by…
Lord, I’m banking my sanity on your sovereignty. The world spins off kilter in reaction to divulged corruption, deportation confusion, declared and undeclared wars, and devastation from disasters. Though we reel on our axes, You are Who holds it all together. You are the anchor of our strength for today and our hope for tomorrow….
Today is a beautiful day, because “May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.” (Jude 2 ESV) Mercy #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Father, thank You showing me love. Thank You for teaching me how to love others in truth. I am ever grateful that I am capable of giving love because your truth and love abide in me forever. I am saved by the blood of Jesus and indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Grace, mercy and peace…
Today is a beautiful day, because believers know love and the truth that abides in us forever, “Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.” (2 John 3 ESV) Mercy #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Father, I have tasted and seen that You are good. Your love is everlasting. There is no one like You who goes out for the benefit of your beloved. You have set your Cornerstone, Jesus, chosen and precious that whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. Rejected by men, we are deemed…
Today is a beautiful day, because God called us out of the darkness and into His marvelous light, “Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” (1 Peter 2: 10 ESV) Mercy #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Lord Jesus, You made a way for me where there seemed to be none. You loved. You saved. You provided. You opened heaven’s gates that I may spend eternity with You. I am forever grateful. I bring my praise in your name above all names and authority higher than any other, according to the good…
Today is a beautiful day, because “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven…
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