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 pray that our worship is soul-felt and deeper than rituals. May it be continual gratitude and communication with You through the Holy Spirit. Let our celebration of freedom in Christ be daily. I exalt You in the name and authority of Jesus, according to Your good and perfect will. Amen. “You shall count…
Today is a beautiful day, because Moses described the Festival of Weeks, “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a…
Jesus, my Lord, my Redeemer, You did not give up on me. You stood with me in the fiery conflict. When I was but a lump of tears in the shower, You heard my prayer for the water to wash away the pain. You turned my head when I thought only death was my release….
Today is a beautiful day, because Moses prayed, “Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look…
You are Jehovah, I Am, the God of covenant. Jehovah Jireh, You are our Provider. You give us our talents and capabilities. You establish our efforts. You bless us with spiritual, emotional and physical wealth. Let us not forget that You are the supplier, You are the owner of all we have. You give that…
Today is a beautiful day, because God asks His people to remember His covenant: how He kept them and led them through the wilderness, “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers,…
Holy Spirit, just as the LORD led His people through the wilderness, You have guided and educated us each day since we chose to follow Jesus. You instruct us in what the Word has to say. You tap us to remind us to read more closely, follow more intentionally, and love more fully. You are…
In our deepest hurt, in our darkest of moments, when we are so far down the only way to look is up, You are there, Jesus. You wait in the shadows to see Your word established in us. You call us by name to come out of the darkness and into Your marvelous light. We…
Today is a beautiful day, because “And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.” (Deuteronomy 5:15 NKJV) Remember Welcome…
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