The Unlovely Truth

Create In Us a Clean Heart: S6E14


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I’m so glad you’ve joined me at the intersection of faith and true crime here at The Unlovely Truth. Security issues are hiding in every church - do you know where to look for them? I’m your host, church safety advocate Lori Morrison. Our churches need to be the safest places in our communities, so our mission here is to find actionable steps that will make our churches sanctuaries of physical, emotional, and spiritual safety. To give you tools to help make that happen in your church, we’re going to investigate real crime stories from real churches. I’ve got three cases for us to investigate today, so let’s dive right in. 

 

Highlights from this episode include:

 

  • Watch out for what gets posted on your church’s website
  • Church employee arrested on child porn charges
  • The Episcopal Church gets it right
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    Church website publishes application for militia

     

    Church worker arrested for possessing child porn

     

    Go Episcopalian Church!

     

    Hebrews 4:12-13 (CEV)

    God's word is alive and powerful! It is sharper than any double-edged sword.

     His word can cut through our spirits and souls and through our joints and marrow, 

    until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Nothing is hidden from God! 

    He sees through everything, and we will have to tell him the truth.

     

    I was so happy to happy a good story to share today! Even so, it occurred to me that each of our three cases had something in common. Each one pointed to the heart condition of each of our main characters. In the first two cases, it was a heart full of evil intent disguised by an association with a religious group. In the last, it was a man with a heart bent towards justice and a willingness to actually do something. 

     

    I’d like to think that God’s word is the deciding factor here. His Word itself describes the power that it has, even the power to discover what is in our hearts. We can’t know for sure what is in these people’s hearts, but God can, and we can certainly evaluate the fruit they are producing. If you are seeing the kind of fruit our first two cases brought to light, I hope you’ll speak up. That will show amazingly good fruit being produced in your life, 


    Let me know what you thought of this episode! Send me an email a [email protected] or message me on social media. I love it when people are willing to have hard, but impactful conversations that strengthen physical, emotional, and spiritual safety at the intersection of faith and true crime.

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