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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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20180105

January 5, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.” (Psalm 103: 13 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 4, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Loving Father, Abba Daddy, you are distant, yet closer than our heartbeats to those who believe and call on your name for salvation. We bare our souls, hopes, dreams and aspirations to the one who hears our prayers and bears our burdens. There is no closer friend than you, Lord. No one loves us more…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20180104

January 4, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because ” …as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103: 11-12 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20180103

January 3, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.” (Psalm 103: 8 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 3, 2018
By Joy Taylor

God, I wish I could measure your power, fathom the depth of your love, calculate the vastness of your ageless being, understand how you feel and think, comprehend the length and height of your holiness, breathe the fragrance of your worth, and catch the light of your glory. Father, can I know you more? Show…

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Prayer for Today

January 2, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, you are God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. You are the one true God. Help us to recognize our status with you, and our desperate need for a Savior. You are perfectly holy and perfectly just. We are fallen people in a fallen world, and…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20180102

January 2, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because of God, “who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” (Psalm 103: 4b-5 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

January 1, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Almighty God, you are the God who forgives our sins, heals us, and redeems us from the pit. There is no other God who is like you. Father, I pray that 2018 is a year of great renewal and revival. I pray that you draw many our of the bondage of sin and into the…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 01012018

January 1, 2018
By Joy Taylor

Today is a beautiful day, because of God, “who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit…” (Psalm 103: 3-4a ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

December 31, 2017
By Joy Taylor

Heavenly Father, I take time today to celebrate the year gone by and look forward to a new one in which to walk side-by-side with you. You made a way where there seemed to be none. You stood by in the shadows to see your word fulfilled. You held my heart when I thought it…

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