Key Truths - Page 13

Deborah Brunt in a green garden, relaxed, smiling at the camera

Going with God

Post published:July 5, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church My Story
Post last modified:March 21, 2024

Choosing to go with God where my church culture had forbidden, I had no clue how much seeing and grieving lay ahead. And how very much love and life.

Inside the empty log church building at Shiloh battlefield - view from the back, of all things wooden: the structure with its peaked roof and open beams, the backless benches, the podium, the open door

The Civil War, the South and the church

Post published:June 28, 2019
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:August 1, 2024

Abuse had begun to open my eyes to evils in my church culture. Then, God took me on a pilgrimage into the past, to show me what is happening now.

Brown magician's wand, with white tip, in the midst of sparkling white light on a black background. A white halo of light behind the wand's tip helps the magician focus attention where he will.

Masters of misdirection

Post published:May 31, 2019
Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
Post last modified:March 13, 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.

Head shot of boy with white cap running into water, mouth wide open in a cry of delight

Exhaling the life and breath of God

Post published:May 16, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:December 31, 2023

Spiritual exhaling releases what God breathes into you, for the building of his kingdom and the honor of his name. Exhaling the Breath of God, you release life.

Inhaling the life and breath of God

Post published:May 1, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:July 16, 2024

As you inhale, you’re filled with breath. As you inhale spiritually, you’re filled with the Breath of God. Spirit-to-spirit, you receive his life.

Newborn baby taking first breath, uttering first cry

Spirit to spirit: A matter of life and breath

Post published:April 24, 2019
Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:July 16, 2024

In Scripture, God makes a direct connection between breath and spirit, and so, between the act of breathing and the act of relating to him. He shows us: As breath is to the body, being filled with the Spirit and living in the power of the Spirit are vital to life in Christ.

Bullying in the church

Post published:February 1, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:June 30, 2024

It’s agonizing to be bullied. And in the church? The agony multiplies exponentially when victims have believed deceptive abusers to be godly Christians.

Heart-shaped water drop surrounded by swirling blood-red water

Spiritual schizophrenia and the two-headed snake

Post published:January 23, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:October 24, 2024

"How long will you try to go both ways?" Elijah cried. Where people identified with God cling to deep double-mindedness, they empower a two-headed snake.

Old black-and-white photo of a Piper PT-1 airplane, sitting on the ground, with a neighborhood set among mountains in the background

The dream

Post published:January 7, 2019
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:November 3, 2024

Fifteen years ago, I began a journey of awakening. The end of that journey exposed the beginning of my life. At long last, I saw the hard-to-face realities and easy-to-embrace fantasies in my childhood that led to everything else.

Pink flower with long green stem, fallen, bruised, petals closed, lying on strange green soil

Defender of the forsaken, The Sequel

Post published:December 30, 2018
Post category:Knowing and Going with God Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:March 12, 2024

God identifies himself as Defender of the forsaken - especially women forsaken in any number of ways by their husbands, children forsaken in any number of ways by their parents, and foreigners forsaken in any number of ways by the citizens of a land. This same God counts it crucial that his people defend the cause of those who are easiest to abuse.