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How do we heal from the SBC Sexual Assult Scandal?

I want to be a part of the solution, not the cause of more injuries. As a survivor, I understand the fear of the pain when reflecting on the past. News reports of more instances of people experiencing an injustice prick wounds buried deep. It has taken me years to find the courage to speak up about the criminal acts done to me. And it has taken even longer to embrace those pain points and filter them through the blood of Jesus. I by no means am completely healed from these wounds, but I am healing. This journey will be long but worth it.

God is Good!

I repeat, God is a good God! We say this phrase quite frequently. Sometimes the statement rolls off our tongue and is spoken with conviction. Other times it’s said casually or perhaps, sarcastically.  We generally have a sense that those words are absolute truth, but there are also moments when the validity of His goodness …

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Love Week Posts:

What is LOVE?
Before we can love someone else in a healthy way, we must learn to love ourselves.
How do you see yourself? Our perspective about ourselves determines the way we seek to love. We either embrace or deflect true love for ourselves depending on how we view ourselves. If we seek love in all the wrong places, then ask ourselves, “I am worthy of love?”

Blessed are…

When we think of being blessed, do we envision persecution, poverty, or grief? Those situations erect pain, not a blessing, at least that’s the world’s view. However, when defining blessing from a spiritual perspective, suffering is anticipated but briefly when looking at an eternal lifeline. A friend said, “We are not a period signifying the …

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SOD 2.12.20

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