https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/#comment-23433 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:10:12 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2315#comment-23433 Pastor Ted, I hope you get your website up so that those of us who want to encourage you have a venue to do so. You pastored me for 4yrs and you were the best pastor I had ever had up to that point. I guess what i want to say is this: the world and the church are fickle. One minute your up the next you are down. Jesus turned the world upside down because he was the genuine and authentic answer! When your healing is an authentic miricle from God, filled with resurrection life and divine transforming power, the world will listen. The church and the world will listen because deep down inside they know it is their only hope too! There is something about truth and the authentic that people, both saved and unsaved, smell it! They sence it! The mark of a true champion is that you always, always get back up! It’s not over till it’s over!

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/#comment-23432 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:55:32 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2315#comment-23432 I believe the man; I understand only too well what inappropriate sexual contact during childhood does to a person and how that can lead to SGA and acting out on SGA so many years later.
My heart breaks for Mr. Haggard and I pray that he finds peace and healing and is able to live in freedom from his internal struggle and the condemnation of others.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/#comment-23431 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:41:56 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2315#comment-23431 I do not believe a word that comes from his mouth. All he has done is make excuses for his actions in the past. I’m sure he was prompted to find such an excuse anyway.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/#comment-23430 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:05:03 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2315#comment-23430 Ah – okay. Thank you. I do hope for his own sake and that of his family that he continues to recieve care for himself and resists the urge to get in front of the public before the foundation of his healing has taken sturdy root.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/12/ted-haggard-preaches-personal-sermon/#comment-23429 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:54:04 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2315#comment-23429 Being an ex-member of this church, I can speak with complete positivity that he was not paid. Pastor Chris Byrd and Ted Haggard are simply very close friends.

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