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 20160926

Today is a beautiful day, because “my heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me. But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.” (Psalm 38:10,15 ESV)

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160928

Today is a beautiful day, because God “will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.” (Psalm 37:6) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160927

Today is a beautiful day, because “the Lord is my light and my salvation,” which means I don’t have to be afraid. (from Psalm 27:1) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160926

Today is a beautiful day, because the Lord lightens our darkness. (from Psalm 18:28 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20190925

Today is a beautiful day, because God puts the light of His life-giving faith in our eyes and deals with us bountifully. (from Psalm 13) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160924

Today is a beautiful day, because when we cry out, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, LORD!” our great and holy God answers our prayer. (from Psalm 4) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160923

Today is a beautiful day, because God’s power rules and His watchful eyes are on us; as Job says, “His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.” (Job 41:18 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160922

Today is a beautiful day, because God asks Job, “Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness…What is the way to the place where light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered on the earth;” and then God answers hundreds of years later by sending…

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160921

Today is a beautiful day, because God himself intervenes when the people get on their knees in repentance, pleading for peace and revival, love and compassion, unity and brotherhood/sisterhood; for what is the color of a soul? Satan desires nothing more than to see us fighting each other over race and religion. Government hasn’t given…

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