The Wonder Woman of Proverbs 31 – Was She a Feminist? By: Susan Deborah Schiller Photo Credit The Proverbs 31 woman could be called a "feminist" today… she wakes up before everyone else, oversees all her household needs and delegates tasks. She buys and sells real estate, makes enormous profits, and with those profits […]
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Fully Broken, Yet Fully Alive By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is […]
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Behind closed doors, nice Christian women suffer silently under the illusion of submitting, standing, and staying in abusive marriages. How can you help? By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the series, "Letters to Readers" Hi Susan, I'm writing to ask your advice. A woman I know is in a very mentally and emotionally abusive marriage. […]
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A New World in the Making By: Susan Deborah Schiller When Jesus landed on this planet he initiated a chain reaction of events that disarmed all evil, even to this very day, in the 21st century on Planet Earth. Jesus calmed storms, walked on water, and raised dead people to life. Death by torture didn’t […]
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Crossing Over By: Kimberly Dimick You have seen the last of dread and the excruciating pain of this ordeal. God is proclaiming a new day over your life. The LORD is coming in, like a flood, to drown your enemies, even as God did at the Red Sea. The horses and chariots of man cannot […]
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Finding Security: New Growth after the Wildfire By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, “Diary of a Battered Preacher’s Wife“ Previous Chapter Introduction: I was once called “the most abused wife” my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of […]
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Creating Beauty out of Darkness & Despair By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both […]
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Finding My People: Christian Pagans vs Non-Christian Believers By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both […]
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Finding Validation: Ding, Dong, the Wicked Witch is Dead! By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, […]
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Part Two of the “Secret Heroes” Saga: A Lakota Rescue For Part One of “Secret Heroes”, click here For Part Three of “Secret Heroes”, click here By: White Dove It was New Year’s Eve in the middle of a freezing cold Wyoming winter and I was recovering from a particularly traumatic episode in my life […]
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When Unreal Becomes Real By: Susan Deborah Schiller One of my favorites, and the only toy I still have from childhood, is my Chattanooga Teddy Bear. He's virtually fur-free from so much loving. I must have been rough with him, because he has a big scar down his spine. My mother performed surgery with tiny, […]
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Finding Truth: Shattering the Facade By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of my […]
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Finding Restoration: The Healing Touch By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of […]
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Finding Favor: Murphy's Law in Reverse By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of […]
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The Benevolent Side of Evil By: Susan Deborah Schiller My second home used to be a suburban Pentecostal assembly. I worked 70-80 hours a week in our local church. It took a spiritual earthquake and ultimately, exile, for me to finally realize it was a closed system – a cult. We used the standard Bible translations, but we worshiped a different […]
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Deliver us from Evil By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the "devotional" series It's pitch dark on the earth right now, yet it's nearly Dawn. We're beginning to see First Light. God's filling the earth with His glory. He's eagerly sarching the whole earth, eager to support those of us who will rise up, in faith. It's our faith […]
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Your Healing Begins as you Write By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of […]
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Be Happy! By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter From my "freedom diaries" … December 11, 2011 I came home from work late at night and received a phone call from M, the mechanic, who had been interceding for me the whole day and had […]
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No Longer A Victim By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of my […]
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Can Anyone Hear My Silence? By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of […]
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