Trauma and Recovery
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New Video/Addiction and Recovery: The Night God Took My Life
My previous video on addiction, depression, and recovery has gotten good views, at least for the size of my channel, and comments. So I’m following up with this offering. Perhaps you may not be a user or in recovery, but could still find a blessing in my story. That’s my prayer. Continue reading
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Trauma, Sexual Abuse, and Recovery: Jesus On The dignity of Children
The teaching of Jesus regarding the dignity and honor shown to children was in radical contrast to the Greco-Roman attitudes of the day and even different than what the Jewish culture had become. For children, abuse, neglect, and infanticide was common place. This was even more so for females. I’ll explain more about that in Continue reading
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For Sasha / Sonya Sargent Hitchens
Dear Sasha….this will be my open reply to your blog. I write it here to share with others too. (You can read Sasha’s blog here.} Christmas blessings, again. Thank you for the mention in your blog today. I am thankful to have met you too. We share in spirit if not in all our interests. Continue reading
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Complex Trauma: Dr. Diane Langberg Video
I first read Diane Langberg’s, “On the Threshold of Hope”, around 2006. It was hard to read. Trauma is contagious. I was a pastor in Newport, Wales. A young black woman from the Caribbean who had outstayed her visa in England came to me for counseling. She and her two sisters were sexually abused by Continue reading
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Recorded yesterday, this is a full message, 30 minutes, in the form of a personal testimony of my experience with the love of God in Christ. I briefly talk about my addictions and multiple marriages, the nature of my fall, briefly of my childhood to the present, and how the love of God heals my Continue reading
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A Place For You
Every journey must begin from where we are, not from where we wish to be. Without a present location we have no destination. Until we fully accept the reality of where we are in life, of who we have come to be, no matter who we are, no matter where that place is, we will Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
Crucified Hearts 