Posts tagged “Abuse”
A time for sadness
It’s hard to know what to say in hard and tragic times, isn’t it? What do you say when a child is back in…
How do you know God loves you?
When you are in unspeakable pain, it is natural to question the love of God. If God has the power to end your pain,…
Overflowing
“Excuse me, sir?!” I was trying to exit a coffee shop as a kind lady behind the coffee bar continued, “I was listening to…
Pray for God’s justice
One of the beautiful things about biblical writing is that it does not whitewash human thought processes. Even amongst those who wrote under God’s…
God gets your abuse
Have you ever been going through something in life and had a conversation with someone who truly understood what you were going through? Maybe…
God loves the abused
A few years back, a pastor told me about the funny way our minds do math. He had just read a study that said…
Abuse is not your fault
As I prepared a series of messages on the topic of abuse, I sent my first drafts to a woman I knew who specialized…
God hates abuse
A man came to my office and confessed to me that he had been abusive with his girlfriend. After expressing my grave concern for…
God is close to the abused
While abuse is not a comfortable topic to talk about, we need to. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s statistics are correct,…
If you can save just one
As I was preparing to teach a series of messages on abuse, members of our church gave me some honest feedback on a survey…
Help abusers with grace
Recently 159 members of our church completed a survey to help me prepare for a series of messages on abuse, and one of the…
Help the abusers with truth
I once accused a man of being a liar. Following a conversation with his wife and daughters, three quiet women who told me about…