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This is the Day Interview with Nancy Turner

Paula Silva, President of FOCUS Ministries, Inc., was interviewed on This is the Day with Nancy Turner, Moody Radio Chicago on July 30, 2010. If you missed the broadcast, you may listen to the audio archive…

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Promise and Perspective

Moses announced to the Israelites as they were getting ready to cross the Red Sea.

The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still”. Exodus 14:14

Promise: “The Lord will fight for you.”
Perspective: “You need only to be still.”
Translation: It may be your job to cross over, but its God’s job to see

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Marital Abuse & the Bible

Too often a woman who is in domestic violence is kept in bondage by the misuse and misinterpretation of Scripture. Headship and submission become an issue within churches. Link to this blog and gain new insight.

http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/03/27/marital-abuse-the-bible/

Overwhelmed By Fear

I am struggling. I go to counseling, read books, take bible studies, seek guidance, etc . I’ve been told many times by Christian counselors that it will take a miracle from God for my batterer to ever be any different.

I’ve been told that he has narcissistic personality disorder and is an anger addict. I separated

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I Am Feeling Negative

I’ve just been sitting here writing a very long and negative letter about my life with my husband. The past days and actually much of my marriage. I had to delete it because with all of my heart, I do not wish to speak negatively. I believe that negative words cause negative reactions. I am

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Could Yeardley Love and Other Victims Have Been Saved?…

Since the brutal murder of UVA lacrosse player, Yeardley Love, the media, Advocates and Experts have been questioning, “Could Yeardley Love have been saved?” Many of us wonder and ask why George Huguely hadn’t been stopped before. He was witnessed strangling Love at a party, attacked a fellow teammate while they slept for supposedly kissing

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Hey, God, You Have a Plan Right?

Watch a TV interview on a new book, Hey, God, You Have a Plan Right? by clicking on the words TV interview on the signs. I recommend this book.

http://www.karenjessing.com/heygod.html

What Kids Need From Dads

Kids have many influences in their lives that often steer them off course from Christ. Many of their responses in life’s situations will feel natural to them yet will leave them empty and alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8fVTElktQ

Busy People

We have become a society of very busy people. Days are literally flying by. Before we know it, another month is being torn off our calendar. As we reflect back on the days gone by, did we stop to view the butterfly that rested on the vibrant flower? Did we gaze at the clouds and

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Why Does He Do That? - DVD

Leah Mayer of Chicago believed she was too intelligent and too educated to be trapped by an abusive man. And when independent thinker Martha Tyler became a pastor’s wife, she found herself believing that her husband was “too good” for her. Both were caught in the mind games, verbal assaults and eventually physical violence that

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