Misfit Ministry Misfit Ministry: Responding to Misguided Spirituality 25 Jan 201925 Jan 2019 Sometimes people leave the church because they are looking for something that is not genuine Christianity. They want something more worldly, less moral, or less bound by Biblical guidelines. At…
Marriage Confessing the Temptation to Be Unfaithful to Your Spouse 24 Jan 201924 Jan 2019 Last week I wrote about the need to confess your secret temptations. The more a temptation hides in the dark the stronger its pull on us remains. So, we should…
Discipleship… The Bible Questions Us 22 Jan 2019 Good reading involves asking questions of the text. Any effort to understand must wrestle well with the words on the page, and the relationship between ideas. We must seek to…
Books A Review of “Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?” by Ian Osborn 21 Jan 2019 Psychiatry has not always been open to the role of faith in the treatment of mental disorders. In fact, in some circles, religion is credited as the cause of certain…
Counseling The Danger of Secret Temptations 16 Jan 2019 It's embarrassing just how corrupt and wicked our own hearts are (Jer. 17:9). It's bad enough that we sin and are forced to address our failures with those we love…
Books A Review of “Think Again” by Jared Mellinger 15 Jan 2019 All people know the discouragement of self-critical thoughts, but some of us have a deeper struggle with consuming and enslaving introspection. Self-reflection run amok is a common trouble among Christians…
Counseling What is Keeping You From Being Patient? 11 Jan 2019 "And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all." (1 Thessalonians 5:14) We use this passage often in counseling training.…
Misfit Ministry Why “Misfit Ministry”? 9 Jan 2019 Every year I pick a subject that I am going to study for the next 12 months. I have a general rotation of subjects to try to keep a balanced…
suffering Jesus’ Bones and the Sovereignty of God 8 Jan 2019 It can feel overwhelming from a theological perspective to wrestle with the complex nature of God's relationship to evil, but it is made all the more difficult by our experience…
Books Best Books of 2018 7 Jan 2019 I love to read and for the last several years I have set my annual reading goal at 50 books. Narrowing that list down to my top five favorites on…
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