Power To Forgive: The Power Of Grieving Well

Here is the devotional: Forgiveness always involves grieving.You’ve probably heard of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Because they’re called stages, it’s easy to think grief is a linear process. Stage 1, 2, 3...Click. Yeah! I’m over it!But grieving isn’t like that. It’s more like a spiral. The pain tends…

I Forgive You, But…| Day 1: Life Can Be So Unfair

Here is the devotional: Barbara came to church not long after my husband, the founding pastor, had unexpectedly died, and I had taken over his job as pastor.Barbara caught my eye because she seemed unhappy and downtrodden. Her shoulders were hunched over, she didn’t make eye contact, and looked as if she would cry spontaneously.…

This World Is So Screwed Up!

WARNING!!! This post will have things that will make you uncomfortable. That's the point! There are some sick twisted perverted people in this world. A young child raped 100 times in a freaking Mosque, a Muslim church, by four men. He was only taken to the hospital because he was so brutally beaten that tears…

Celebrate Recovery Is For Everyone

Why do people still believe Celebrate Recovery is just for addicts? Is it because they have seen the movie Home Run? Did they go to that bathroom or something during testimony night in the film, where the main character’s sister-in-law speaks of her sexual abuse as a child? Or could it be because everyone thinks…

What The Freak?!? 😡

WARNING: THIS WILL GET UGLY TO A DEGREE! I read something today on Facebook that literally...pissed angered me to no end! It revolves around sex-trafficking! In said article it stated that kids...and I mean KIDS...girls ages 11-15 and boys ages 13-15 are being sold for a whopping 5,000 a night! What pissed angered me the…