Tina Webb - Culture Changers: Understand the Roots of Brokenness and Help Heal Your Family and Community

Tina has served as an associate pastor, worship pastor, and prayer ministry director. After homeschooling for twenty years, she began writing while continuing to serve in lay ministry. In 2020 she was certified as an Apprentice Facilitator in Classic Trauma Healing through the American Bible Society. She and her husband have six children and live in Central Virginia. Her other books are Cultivating the Souls of Parents: Facing our Brokenness; Embracing His Likeness. She loves DIY projects and cooking.

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I am a Journey Teller,

From desert sands to mountain peaks,

imaginary worlds to lifes realities,

I record to remember.

I reflect to discover where the Divine intersects my world.

Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp

Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend (and other books)

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Created for Influence by William L. Ford

Culture of Honor by Danny Silk

Deep Faith by Rob Reimer

The Happy Intercessor by Beni Johnson

Intentional Parenting by Bill Johnson

Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets

Keep Your Love On by Danny Silk

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Original Intent by David Barton

The Physics of Heaven by Judy Franklin and Ellyn Davis

Prayer Portions by Sylvia Gunter

Soul Care by Rob Reimer

SOZO by Dawna De Silva and Teresa Liebscher

Switch on Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson

Watchman On The Walls by Bruce Anderson, Stephen McDowell, and Mark Beliles

With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray

Brene Brown - Researcher, Storyteller

Mike and Lori Cramer, Young Life and Young Lives

Ingrid Davis Certified Leadership Coach, Speaker

Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary Researcher, Author

Will Ford - Author

C.S Lewis - Author

Dr. Keith McCurdy Speaker, President of Total Life Counseling

Stephen McDowell Author, Speaker; The Providence Foundation

Rev. Dean Nelson - Speaker, Natl Outreach Director for The Human Coalition

Star Parker - Political Activist, Author, President of C.U.R.E

Dr. Rob Reimer - Author, Speaker, Professor at NYACK

Dr. Gayle Rogers - Founder and President of Forever Free, Inc.

Ravi Zacharias - Author, Christian Apologist of RZIM

https://drleaf.com

ingriddavis.com

https://wewillgo.org/missionaries/david-and-amy-lancaster/

8thmountain.com/about/

Epigenetics and Neuroplasticity

Generational Sin Patterns

Racism and Discrimination

Emotional Maturity and Wellness

Comparative Religion

Intercession

Spiritual Warfare

Conservatism, Liberalism, Progressivism

Effects of Social Media on Families

Relativism and Morality

Quantum Physics

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them .
E PICTETUS

One humid day in August 2017, the climate of my town shifted. The KKK and Antifa were coming.

Later, some would say that day destroyed the image of Charlottesville and repairing it would take decades. Others said it merely revealed the racism that was already here but ignored. I describe it like this: August 12, 2017, was the beginning of an unraveling .

We stayed at home. There was no way we, as an African-American family, were going anywhere near downtown.

That was the plan, anyway, but ironically something came up, and I had to make a quick drive to the downtown area a few hours before the KKK rally was supposed to begin.

I could feel the tension without even getting out of my car, and I prayed as I drove. If Id been able to see into the spiritual realm, no doubt I would have seen angels on one side with swords in their hands and a demon army on the other, laughing as they invited violence, hate, and murder into my beloved city, where I was raising my children.

There was a murder. A white KKK member ran down a white female protestor with his car. White-on-white crime. Go figure.

I believe that day in 2017 would have been much worse if not for the children of God and their prayers for protection. In advance of the rally, several people gathered at the downtown mall to pray. The storm built threateningly on the horizon, but there they werefollowers of Jesus, inviting Him to come and change the situation.

Brokenness permeates our world. It affects all of us, no matter our race, family, or the city or state we were born into. Its a curse passed down through bloodlines. Brokenness builds empires and meets some of us right at our front door. Sometimes literally. I laugh to myself when I recall the house appraisers face as I answered his knock on our front door. It looked like he didnt expect to see someone who looked like me living here.

My life has given me a unique point of view about race. Although my parents proactively involved us in clubs and events that celebrated our rich African-American heritage, most of my life, Ive been immersed in a predominately white world. I homeschooled my children for twenty yearsa viable option for many ethnicities. Still, back when I started, it was rare to find a black homeschooling family. For much of my life, my closest friends have been white or Latino, and Ive found that what we share bridges our differences. We have many things in commonthe desire to be loved, for example. Faith. And brokenness. Ive been able to see that white folks have as many issues as black folks. At the same time, I understand the truth of white privilege, and the white friends Ive discussed this with, recognize it as well.

When it comes to emotional needs, we are all the same. All of us face internal struggles, some of them severe, and understanding this one similarity helps us embrace each other. No matter what a person looks like, what club or church they belong to, no matter if they have a college degree or barely made it out of high schoolthat person is like us . Imperfect, but worthy of attention and kindness.

Human brokenness has coursed through history. The issues we face today are not new or modern but have been a part of our history since Cain killed Abel. Racism, poverty, and elitism started way before Africans were stolen from their homeland and enslaved. Humanity has been brokenmentally, emotionally, spiritually woundedfor a long time, and this brokenness can show its face in a variety of ways.

Several years ago, a close friend stopped by after work. On the verge of tears, she sat at my kitchen island. She told me about the verbal and emotional abuse she regularly endured from her black co-workers. They called her names, ignored her, and spoke rudely to her. Her attempts to stand up for herself went nowhere.

They hate me because Im white, she said, but I have personally not done anything to them. They dont even know me.

Yes, my friend, I understand. She grew up extremely poor; her parents didnt go to college, and one of her brothers had been in prison. She worked her way through college and cleaned houses after her full-time job each day to help pay her bills. In other words, my white friend understood poverty and struggle, and now she understood the unfairness of being hated based on the color of her skin. For a moment, I felt myself growing angry that those who should know better did this to her.