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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Prayer for Today

November 1, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Lord, someone needs your healing hand today. Someone needs the Holy Spirit to straighten out their ‘organizational operation’ within their body. Someone needs to know you are at work on their behalf. Someone needs to know and feel the warmth of your healing hand on their shoulders and racing through their systems, cleaning out the…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20171101

November 1, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Today is a beautiful day, because “the LORD sets the prisoners free.” (Psalm 146:8a) ESV A tributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

October 31, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Jehovah Mekoddishkem, you are the God who sanctifies me. You are the God who makes me holy. There is no one like you. Because of your perfect will, my past is obliterated. It no longer holds sway over me. You forgave the choices I made that saddened you. You called me out of the darkness…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20171031

October 31, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Today is a beautiful day, because God is the one “who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.” (Psalm 146:7 ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

October 30, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Lord, may I see your mighty hand at work today in the hearts and souls of women. May those who are of your household boldly come before your mercy seat to beg for the salvation of our sisters. May those not saved step into full faith to begin reformation of their cultures. We stand on…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20171030

October 30, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Today is a beautiful day, because God is faithful forever. (from Psalm 146: 6b ESV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Prayer for Today

October 29, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Listen to the voices, claiming to be holy, Father. Listen to them professing the unbiblical as truth. They speak ‘peace, peace’ to the nations where there is no peace. Your people are persecuted. Scoffers abound. Your people are in physical danger. Your people are in spiritual danger. The arrows of the enemy fly toward the…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20171029

October 29, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Today is a beautiful day, because “Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.” (Psalm 146:…

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Prayer for Today

October 28, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Well, Father, you are amazing. There is no one like you. On this day in 2013, we prayed that you would send more workers to the field to help with the harvest of those you call to salvation. Today, we celebrate that you called, prepared and sent exactly as we requested. Thank you for the…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20171028

October 28, 2017
By Joy Taylor
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Today is a beautiful day, because “The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.” (Lamentations 3:25-26 NIV) Attributes of God #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday