Key Truths - Page 14

Deborah Brunt in a green garden, relaxed, smiling at the camera

Going with God

Post published:July 5, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church My Story
Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Choosing to go with God where my church culture had forbidden, I had no clue how much seeing and grieving lay ahead. And how very much love and life.

Inside the empty log church building at Shiloh battlefield - view from the back, of all things wooden: the structure with its peaked roof and open beams, the backless benches, the podium, the open door

The Civil War, the South and the church

Post published:June 28, 2019
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

Abuse had begun to open my eyes to evils in my church culture. Then, God took me on a pilgrimage into the past, to show me what is happening now.

Brown magician's wand, with white tip, in the midst of sparkling white light on a black background. A white halo of light behind the wand's tip helps the magician focus attention where he will.

Masters of misdirection

Post published:May 31, 2019
Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
Post last modified:December 11, 2024

Masters of misdirection spend their lives using anyone, everyone, to get whatever they want. They do it so subtly, so skillfully, that the exploited ones usually do not know they’re being used.

Head shot of boy with white cap running into water, mouth wide open in a cry of delight

Exhaling the life and breath of God

Post published:May 16, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:December 31, 2023

Spiritual exhaling releases what God breathes into you, for the building of his kingdom and the honor of his name. Exhaling the Breath of God, you release life.

Inhaling the life and breath of God

Post published:May 1, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:January 13, 2025

As you inhale, you’re filled with breath. As you inhale spiritually, you’re filled with the Breath of God. Spirit-to-spirit, you receive his life.

Newborn baby taking first breath, uttering first cry

Spirit to spirit: A matter of life and breath

Post published:April 24, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:July 16, 2024

In Scripture, God makes a direct connection between breath and spirit, and so, between the act of breathing and the act of relating to him. He shows us: As breath is to the body, being filled with the Spirit and living in the power of the Spirit are vital to life in Christ.

Heart-shaped water drop surrounded by swirling blood-red water

Spiritual schizophrenia and the two-headed snake

Post published:January 23, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:October 24, 2024

"How long will you try to go both ways?" Elijah cried. Where people identified with God cling to deep double-mindedness, they empower a two-headed snake.

Search for brown November

Post published:November 14, 2018
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:March 21, 2024

Most likely, none of us would choose brown and gray all year long. But if we don’t stop to appreciate what God has made beautiful in this time, we may get all our presents and miss all our moments.

CW Eckersberg's painting of Moses, Aaron and the Israelites on shore after crossing the Red Sea. For the most part, their posture and their faces do not tell us that God has just miraculously set them free.

God who teaches us his ways

Post published:November 12, 2018
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 11, 2024

In English Bible translations, phrases beginning "God who" often tell us what he has done or is doing. They show us God's works. But more, these phrases can give us insight into the heart of the One who does the works. They can teach us God's ways.

Interesting door handle on a dark door, opening to a hazy, but very green, world

And the future starts now

Post published:October 26, 2018
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:January 9, 2025

Even in suffering, even in exile, may you find growing within you: A life energetic and blazing with holiness, conceived by God himself. Life healed and whole. Laughter and singing. Genuine faith proved genuine. Living hope. One-anothering love. A future that starts now.