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

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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 19, 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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Illusionists! The abusers we have not seen

  • Post published:August 17, 2023
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

Some illusionists fool us to amuse us. Abusers and abusive systems fool us to control us. Freedom and life hinge on seeing the illusionists we have not seen.

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Treachery and divorce: When God sees betrayal

  • Post published:June 15, 2023
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 19, 2025

If you have been betrayed by a spouse: The God who sees you has been there. He hates treachery. He calls out the treacherous - and he defends the betrayed.

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Witchcraft in the church

  • Post published:September 16, 2022
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 10, 2025

In the church, those obsessed with manipulating, intimidating and dominating can pose as those serving God. And we can be very fooled for a very long time.

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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.

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