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I am with a man who gets high on cocaine, physically abusive, and has been unfaithful at times. I love this man when he is himself. We start our morning by saving the LORD’S PRAYER at our bed side, we attend church every Sunday. We say our prayers before we eat, thank GOD
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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/
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’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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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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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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There are four major areas the Christian community can begin to address the issue of domestic violence. The first and a must is to educate themselves about DV. Begin with the leadership (pastors, elders, deacons, deaconesses, etc.). Filter the education down to women’s ministry, counselors, leaders of children’s ministry, small groups, Sunday School, recovery groups,
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Where were you when 911 happened? I recall working on a project and listening to the radio playing in the background. Suddenly all programs were interrupted with the announcement of an airplane hitting one of the twin towers in New York City. It was followed by another plane crashing into the
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“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord. Isaiah 54:17 NIV
The Lord is for us as long as we abide in Him!
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — A man who police said gunned down his wife during a counseling session inside a Federal Way church waived his right to appear in court Thursday.
The shooting happened shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Calvary Lutheran Church in the 2400 block of South 320th Street.
According to probable cause documents, Charles
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