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

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Heartcry of one who overcomes

  • Post published:April 17, 2024
  • Post category:Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

“I so want to be a woman of grace in all this!” she cried, through deep, wrenching sobs. In that holy moment, I heard the heartcry of one who overcomes.

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To the exiles scattered by toxic church

  • Post published:December 19, 2022
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Maybe the church has become bewildering to you. Leaders you trusted and people you respected are acting in ways that do not reflect who Jesus is, nor what they profess to believe. They have turned on anyone among them who appears to threaten the status quo. What is going on?

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The truth will set you free

  • Post published:October 27, 2022
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 8, 2025

Since childhood, I’ve treasured Jesus’ words, “the truth will set you free.” Now I see this diamond in its setting. I hear the urgency in his cry to us all.

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Whatever happened to loving one another?

  • Post published:July 31, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:June 8, 2025

Our Lord is building his church. He told us what is key. “Love one another,” he said. When that is happening, all that embodies Christ’s love flows both ways.

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Adulthood and the church that rejects it

  • Post published:July 23, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:June 8, 2025

Frustrated, exhausted, I realized: I would never count as an adult in my church system. Free at last, I’m embracing the adulthood God works in his own

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Strange fruit – or good?

  • Post published:April 15, 2014
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

"The Church's broken history with race needs to be acknowledged before we can move forward."

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Prayer for the Body of Christ

  • Post published:March 31, 2014
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

"I would like to share this prayer with you and ask you to pray with me that, as the Bride of Christ, we will continue to learn to 'walk in beauty' with our fellow man and God." - Mark Charles

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Listen to the whole Body

  • Post published:March 28, 2014
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

It's crucial that we humbly receive what the Lord Jesus wants to pour into our lives through others who love him but look and think differently from us.

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