Family is the backbone of society. By: Susan Deborah Schiller I have a dream of building a community, offline and online, where every member is loved to life through the sharing of our stories. Storytelling, in an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance, heals our bodies, minds, and souls. I envision within the whole, many smaller circles […]
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Delayed for a Greater Glory By: Susan Deborah Schiller Photo Credit Something truly big and wonderful is coming and Evil has decided to push back a lot harder. You may be experiencing this, too, when the relief so desperately sought is delayed for yet another day… or month… or year. This week I've been dancing with […]
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I Call Upon the Lion of Judah By: Susan Schiller "You will meet evil face-to-face and you will not like it. You will be betrayed and abandoned by the people you love, even those you thought were your best friends. Most of all it will be lonely, very lonely. Do you still want to follow […]
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Beware of the Marriage Trap By: Deborah White Dove Modern wedding vows may be a sign of marriage dysfunction. Marriage vows can be a license to steal, kill, and destroy a woman's soul, along with the children. Marriage vows are not biblical, but making a marriage covenant is. At the heart of love is a covenant […]
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If you're the victim of a religious sociopath, I want to assure you that it's not because you're an ordinary victim of domestic violence. Don't let anyone tell you that it's because of your low self-esteem or whatever… it's definitely not that! By: Susan Deborah Schiller In a dream, I learned what caused me to attract […]
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Rak Chazak! Our War Cry! By: Susan Schiller Have you ever felt like your soul was under heavy fire for intense periods of your life? Times as intense as any military battle, maybe more intense… That's when we most need the war cry: "Rak Chazak!" Throughout my life I've had dreams that have helped me to […]
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The Accidental Tourist: A Parable By: Susan Deborah Schiller "You've been living as a tourist in the Kingdom of God," said the voice I've learned to trust as my Father God's. It was a dream, but full of truth, what I call a "dream parable". Like an ordinary child, I argued back, "Oh no, that's not […]
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Name Your Adversary: Your Core Identity is at Stake By: Deborah White Dove While there are voices who tell victims to "be nice, don't mention names, and only talk about your issues and problems, not his," I now recognize those voices as siren calls luring me BACK to silence, back to the same victim mentality […]
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Knowing Your Enemy Matters By: Susan Deborah Schiller I was scared, depressed, and ready to give up. Middle of the night interrogations, gaslighting, and more made my home like a prisoner of war camp. No one saw what was happening, for it was all behind the doors of a "successful ministry" led by a popular […]
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It was the 6th day of a week long water-only fast and I hadn't heard anything from God. The fast seemed useless, so I ate a small meal. Just a soda cracker, but even with the first bite a small voice rose up from inside saying, "No! God has something for you! Don't quit." On the […]
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Silence the Abused – Cover Up the Crime By: Susan Deborah Schiller I was married to a sociopath for two decades. We were active Christian leaders and from all outward appearances we were "normal". That's the scariest part about sociopaths – they look like normal Christians. Like tares in a wheat field, they blend in perfectly. […]
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10 Red Flags You May Be Marrying a Sociopath By: Susan Deborah Schiller This is a follow up to "The Perfect Prey" Lee Grady, at Charisma Magazine, posted "10 Men Christian Women Should Never Marry". As I read through the list I thought about Bethany Deaton, dead at the age of 26, and how a […]
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What Does the Bible Say About Pastors who are Sociopaths? By: Susan Deborah Schiller When you know authentic love, the many varieties of counterfeits are simple to spot. The family of Christ Jesus was not well known or wealthy, and Isaiah tells us that Jesus was an ordinary man – that there was nothing about him that […]
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By: Kimberly Dimick Arise worship warriors, arise! For your God has seen your low estate and He has heard your cries from on high. Right in the midst of the taunting of your enemy there is coming a roar and loud cry in the heavens over your lives that will drown out the voice of […]
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The words you speak become the house you live in. — Hafiz A life story chapter by: Susan Deborah Schiller Many of us are living as widows and orphans while God has promised us abundant life. Could it be that the experience of poverty, whether in finances, opportunities, or quality of our relationships […]
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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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Adultery, Hypocrisy, and Spiritual Deception By: Susan Deborah Schiller Image Credit In the series, "Naked and Unashamed" R-rated. This is reading is for 18 and up. It also carries a trigger warning. Oh the many masks of sociopathy! When you first begin to get free of a pathological love relationship your eyes open to the […]
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Tracking a Psychopath, Part 2 By: Susan Deborah Schiller Part 1 Part 3 Trigger Alert: This article is intended for mature audiences and specifically for those who want to understand the inner working of sociopaths. It is not ideal for survivors who are working through the healing process. Please read with discretion. The […]
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How Do You Fly? By: Susan Deborah Schiller “The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Author unknown I flew the coop. I broke up with "normal" and I'll never go back. I will not play the Game anymore. I once asked, "This ocean […]
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The Dream Maker By: Susan Deborah Schiller This is Part 2 of "From Widow Maker to Dream Maker" The Dream Maker (versus the Widow Maker) is the source of our joy, the source of our creativity, and the source of our lives. We learn to call him "God" – it's a man-made label and there […]
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