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BMA FINANCIAL: Protecting the Flock - Church Safety and Abuse Prevention
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By Steve Crawley, PhD, Executive Director • BMA Financial
At this year’s BMA National Meeting in Waxahachie, Texas, one of the most sobering — and vital — breakout sessions centered on church safety and abuse prevention. Led by David Chase, director of operations at Ministry Safe and Abuse Prevention Systems, and sponsored by James Greene & Associates (represented by Travis Weaver), this session tackled a topic no church can afford to ignore.
David began with a clear-eyed ...
JUST THINKING: Biblica Origin of Some Cliches
From my youth, I have been fascinated with words, phrases and cliches. I was just thinking about some familiar clichés that many may not realize came from the Bible. Here are just a few:
• The Skin of Your Teeth — Used today to describe the experience of a narrow escape from a situation, this cliché comes from the oldest book of the Bible. As Job responded to God about the...