Pretend your tongue is a paintbrush, and your heart is a bucket full of paint. You dip your brush into your bucket so you can paint a picture on a canvas for the world to see. The picture that you paint reveals your relationship with… Continue Reading …

One of the most effective leadership opportunities that you will have is to ask those close to you how they perceive you. And because we all struggle with anger, asking if they see you as an angry person is an excellent query for them. It… Continue Reading …

Mable met Biff when she was seventeen. He seemed to be the perfect guy, at least to her. Biff showed love to her, and she liked the idea of someone loving her. Within a year of dating, they were having sex. She realized her “value”… Continue Reading …

The motivation for change must be a singular desire to glorify God while giving lesser thoughts to the things happening in your life and relationships. Transformation starts in the heart that is relating to God first of all and refuses to make excuses for why… Continue Reading …

It is common for there to be other participants in any relational conflict. Whether they want to be involved or not, bystanders will have more than a passive role in the problem. How will you respond? Listen to the podcast Our podcasts are on iTunes,… Continue Reading …

All Christians bring parts of their past lives into their new salvation experience with God. If they do not see these things, they will accommodate their old practices (Ephesians 4:22), and the consequences will be awful. This case study teaches how to escape those old… Continue Reading …

Anger brings with it a visceral internal unsettledness, energy, and volatility that drives your actions. You cannot leave it alone because the natural processing of righteous anger through “self” will use this energy for selfish purposes, resulting in sinful anger (James 4:3). Read the Series:… Continue Reading …

Member Question – I was once asked the following: “How do you encourage someone toward the Lord when they are angry at God for past difficulties? They are mad because God did not protect them or deliver them from their problems. Listen to the podcast… Continue Reading …

God is calling you to trust Him. There is a plan, and you are part of that plan. It is so easy to want to be the author of the narrative rather than trust the Author of your story. Will you trust the Author, especially… Continue Reading …

Every child to varying degrees is treated poorly by his father. I wish I had another story to tell you. Victimization not okay, but it is a fact about the fallout of our fallenness. And the temptation for the child is to grow up bitter.… Continue Reading …