Often, longstanding hurts, disappointments and emotional wounds are like old, familiar friends. We let them become so engrained into our sense of identity that they begin to define us.
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I Am Content
December 15, 2011
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A poem of sorts to express my gratitude to the Lord and my love to my wife, Marianne.
Read more Beauty from Ashes
September 9, 2011
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I take on pastoral sex abuse cases not only because I believe in justice, but because I also believe in redemption. Often, I have the privilege of seeing God’s grace shine through as healing comes and the survivors begin to find the strength to reclaim their lives – and their stolen voices.
Read moreAbuse, Church, Grace, Gratetude, Healing, Justice, Mercy, Pain, Redemption, Woundedness
Christian Counseling Class
August 29, 2011
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I will be teaching a semester-long Christian counseling class beginning next Tuesday, September 6th, through early December. We will be meeting every Tuesday evening at my home just south of Manassas, Virginia, from 7:00 to 9:15 pm.
Read moreConfronting Abusive Pastors, Part 1: My Personal Angst
May 23, 2011
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Much to my dismay, God keeps bringing people to my door who have been abused by a pastor or other trusted church leader. Over the last year, I’ve taken on three cases against abusive pastors. Two involve significant embezzlement and fraud by pastors in different churches. A third involves extensive sexual abuse and misconduct by [...]
Read moreLife!
September 3, 2010
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My greatest joy is walking with guys as they learn to stop being knuckleheads and become men; to minister to hurt and wounded women as they find not just healing, but health and wholeness; to let others come forth into life and gifting as they exceed me in the Kingdom. For all of this, Lord, [...]
Read moreTransparent
April 17, 2010
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My spiritual DNA — the way God put me together — makes me instinctively encourage others to give away what God has given them. Sharing God’s blessings is a key component to spiritual growth, I’ve found. I often teach and minister in a faith-based dorm at the local jail. Rather than me “leading” this Friday, [...]
Read moreWhole Health
March 5, 2010
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The more pastoral counseling I do, the more I realize how often people deal with life’s traumas, hurts and disappointments by suppressing their hearts and their spirits. Instead of being healthy, integrated people, they numb out or otherwise retreat exclusively into the realm of their minds — i.e., their analytical logic and reason. They are [...]
Read moreRepentance, Forgiveness and the Kingdom of God
February 13, 2010
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Recorded before a group of men in the local jail, this 55 minute audio teaching explains how we find peace and freedom when we allow God, through authentic Biblical confession, repentance and forgiveness, to change what we think, believe and perceive. That, in turn, allows us to know the righteousness, peace and joy that comes [...]
Read moreA Very Public Confession
February 11, 2010
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Here’s a news brief I came across that really stood out. In it, the CEO for Continental Airlines admits that his company in the past was racist and refused to hire black pilots. Past racism, in and of itself, is hardly surprising. What is surprising, however, is the candor of Continental’s public confession and the [...]
Read more The Gift of Mercy
August 4, 2009
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Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts.
Read more Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
June 17, 2009
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As I struggle with an autoimmune condition called systemic sclerosis, I have begun to understand chronic fatigue and how to cope with its effects.
Read moreFellowship and Light
June 1, 2009
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“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he [...]
Read morePastoral Burnout
April 27, 2009
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Sunday afternoon I attended an authentic fire-from-heaven, slain-in-the-spirit, foot stomp’n, Pentecostal Holy Ghost church service with handkerchief-to-wipe-away-the-sweat-on-the-forehead preaching on — believe it or not — pastoral burnout. Although the topic could be viewed as a “downer”, it actually was a great time of refreshing and renewal!
Read moreWoundedness
April 21, 2009
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On Sunday I taught men in the jail, using Psalms 116:5-7 (ESV), about moving from woundedness to life. I challenged them not to settle for mere comfort when confronting hurt, but to embrace life instead. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, [...]
Read moreChristian, Counseling, Faith, Grace, Healing, Joy, Truth, Woundedness
Sufficient Grace
March 30, 2009
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When I contracted a rare, degenerative autoimmune disease, I began to find sufficient grace – or rather, Sufficient Grace found me. I am forever changed.
Read more God Shows Up
February 13, 2009
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As I’ve counseled hundreds of people of the years, I’ve learned that Jesus miraculously heals us when we’re willing to go to and expose to Him those places at the core of our being where wounds, hurts and lies reside.
Read morePentecost in the Local Jail
January 7, 2009
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In 2007 over 75 men in the local jail – comprising more than a forth of those incarcerated in the “modular” building – had a dramatic encounter with God. For some time, I’d been feeling that we were falling short with the men who were coming to the Lord or re-dedicating their lives through various [...]
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Church sower, mentor, teacher, foe of tyrants, friend of the dispossessed, Christian, thinker, author, attorney, entrepreneur, pilot and so-so bass fisherman.According to the internet tracking service Networked Blogs, Crossroad Junction is among the top 100 blogs worldwide on "Christianity", among the top 100 on "faith", and also among the top 100 blogs on "culture".
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