As we write about abuse, as we speak about it and give counsel to abuse victims, the subject and question of ANGER frequently comes up. It arises in various ways: Victims who are Christians are conflicted because they are angry, yet they think...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 ESV since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, (7) and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Acts 19:18-19 ESV Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. (19) And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When in hearing the Word preached, and sins reproved in the congregation, some hearers misapply the same. As for example, the minister reproves the sin of swearing, of drunkenness, or any such sin; then someone guilty thereof, does not only...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1 Kings 3:25-28 ESV And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” (26) Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John 3:7 ESV Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ With some frequency I receive reports from domestic abuse victims/survivors about how they were directed to various types of short term programs that promised a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1 John 2:4 ESV Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, Years ago I was at a wedding where the presiding pastor was from a large “happening” church. (I have long...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2 Timothy 4:14-15 ESV Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. (15) Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. There is an atmosphere, a culture, an often unspoken law in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Many of you have either been through the family court system (such a nice name, right?) or you are still enduring the suffering of that battleground. Not only at the hands of your abuser, but many times through the injustice of the court itself....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later. (1 Timothy 5:24) There is a young lady, 19 years old, a Christian, raised in a conservative church, wants to serve the Lord…and she...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
