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.
Father, I want to thank you for constantly working for our greater good and your glory. I’m reminded in a post from Janet Ross that you are constant, whatever we go through. What a blessing that is to me as I walk through these days of swirling uncertainty and transition. You are my rock and…
Life flows shallow the way the world operates these days. Is there depth in your relationships? Are you satisfied to wade in the shallow water or are you willing to go deeper for meaning and purpose? I floated through more than 30 years of my life, letting currents carry me where they would. When I…
My older sister and her family are Mainers. I have visited Swan’s Island every Labor Day since 2009. I am smitten by that place, the seaman’s atmosphere, gorgeous sunsets over the Atlantic Ocean and the sounds of breezes and lapping waves along the shore. Most of all, I am captivated by long walks and heart-felt…
Haven’t we all wished to rid ourselves of this earthly existence and experience a little bit of heaven here on earth? Don’t we long to walk away from the mundane and into the sublime? Oh, yes. Oh, yes we do. The only place I’ve found that is in the presence of Jesus through prayer and/or…