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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

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Sometimes, intimate conversation with God is passionate and fierce.

It is God who has wronged me

  • Post published:March 2, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Deeply grieving, falsely accused, Job cried in anger. “It is God who has wronged me!” Sometimes, intimate conversations with God are passionate and fierce.

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Defender of the forsaken – this is God

  • Post published:February 20, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 8, 2025

The Lord sees when the vulnerable are wrongly rejected. He hears when the helpless cry to him, and he champions them. Defender of the forsaken – this is God.

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Isn’t it time to leave the past behind?

  • Post published:February 8, 2025
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:May 23, 2025

God wants to lift from our shoulders staggering burdens that generations have needlessly carried. He wants to show us the way to send away the past that binds.

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Women, false responsibility and the church

  • Post published:January 11, 2025
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 28, 2025

A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church but often hidden in a fog. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.

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“Burned out on religion? I will give you rest”

  • Post published:December 5, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 10, 2025

“Religion almost killed me,” she said, then paused, waiting for my response. I had no words. But I believed her – and I could identify. She saw it in my eyes.

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Spirit, power, Elijah and an undivided heart

  • Post published:October 24, 2024
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
  • Post last modified:October 24, 2024

Elijah was human, like us. The spirit and power in his life had everything to do with the God who gave them, and the undivided heart that welcomed them.

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This “good Christian girl” is a woman now

  • Post published:August 1, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

I was a “good Christian girl” until well into middle age. Then, God led me where I did not want to go, to show me what I desperately needed to see.

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Code blue! God’s cry to the breathless

  • Post published:July 16, 2024
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:July 19, 2024

Any time, ever, that you find yourself lying broken and spent, the Lord has a message for you. It’s his cry to wake you, and his promise to revive and restore.

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O say, can you see?

  • Post published:July 11, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

I did not dream that, in my lifetime, leaders in the US church would convince so many to embrace such skewed views of God, Christianity and country.

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The world in church clothing

  • Post published:June 20, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:June 7, 2025

Lord Jesus, show me when the church is not the church, but instead, the world in church clothing. Show me when a system is competing with you for my heart.

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