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~Created For His Glory~: June 2015
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Love is Worth the Risk}. An open letter to the extraordinary ladies of Bible Baptist Church of Fall Creek, WI.}. It’s 4 o’clock in the morning, but I’m wide awake with a heart overflowing with thankfulness and tears. And I just have to say it . THANK YOU! Thank you so much. For not seeing me as your pastor’s wife, but for seeing me. For loving me for who I am and all that I’m not, and not only choosing to see Jesus in me, but for being Jesus to me. For bei...
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ Why I Write ~
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: . a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." Ecclesiastes 3:1 and 7b. When I sit down to write I'm inevitably faced with more questions than answers. "What if this isn't the right time? What if it hurts others? The Lord knows, it hurts me. Enough. What if I'm misunderstood? I'm still learning, what about what I don't know? That purpose in a nutshell is:. 2) to encourage the...
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~Created For His Glory~: December 2012
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, December 12, 2012. I just realized yesterday that Adam could have freely eaten of the tree of life. As in, it was conveniently within his reach all the time. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.". I'm an idiot, I know. These two particular trees are extra special, one of a ki...
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ What Is Spiritual Abuse? ~
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. What Is Spiritual Abuse? There is a very real need to expose some misconceptions about what spiritual abuse is, and how and why to leave a church. Several excellent books are available that cover this subject in-depth, so I will be referencing them briefly throughout to keep things simple here, but I urge you to get these books and read them in their entirety to get the complete, comprehensive picture. Another very common form of pastoral abuse and contro...
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ "Unspoken or Unwritten Rules" ~
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Unspoken or Unwritten Rules". Unspoken or Unwritten Rules. This also brings up a little known, but pervasive idea within churches; unwritten rules. A major one being the "don't talk rule." The tricky thing about unwritten rules is that the only way to discover them is to break them. With the "don't talk rule,” if you speak of a problem, you. Things have a tendency to get turned upside down when everything is not on the up and up. Them, it doesn't cause.
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ Unbiblical Church Government and Leaving "Quietly" ~
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Created For His Glory. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Unbiblical Church Government and Leaving "Quietly". A dear friend wrote this to us shortly after we left the church and I think it's important to include here. It is succinct and powerful, and seeing someone so far removed from the situation have such complete understanding of all we were experiencing was a comfort and blessing:. Thanks for sharing your story. Is there a spiritual need in the church that I have failed to teach and address? Just know we are ...
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Seems like only yesterday |
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A Few Favorite Things. Just stating a fact, ma’am. Seems like only yesterday. On: February 11, 2009. Don’t you just love toddler-speak? 8220;Mom, can you help me un-inside-out my shirt? 8220;Hey, look! I see a chikmunk! 8220;Can we stop at Old McDonald’s? Snuffed up / snuffy. 8220;My hair is snuffed up (or snuffy)! 8221; (describing static cling). 8220;That sounds pretty companated.” (complicated). 8220;I have a chippy throat.” (sore throat). 8220;Look at me! I’m on my toe tips! A Bargain for Frances.
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ A Paradigm Shift ~
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Isaiah 61:8 " …and I will direct their work in truth …". It's been a year of detours for us. Almost as soon as good weather hit last spring the construction workers were out in full force. In the fall of 2013, however, we had indications that a major detour of a spiritual kind would be in our very near future. We fought it. Oh, how we fought it. That staying in that comfort zone becomes an impossibility. He is the God of the impossible, after all. Despite...
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~Created For His Glory~: ~ What Can I Do? ~
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Created For His Glory. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. What Can I Do? What Can I Do? Know this: We were chosen by God Himself to go through this trial. It didn't take Him by surprise. We are not victims, we are victors. In fact, God says we are more. Than conquerors. We can control the outcome by our reactions. We do have a choice to stay or leave, to fight or flee. We can make a difference! In fact, we were meant to do so. What should be our response to persecution inside the church? God calls us blessed.
