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Category Archives: Enabling
Forgiveness is first about God
When I forgive, I bring the matter before the one who is both Judge of all the earth and my faithful and merciful High Priest. No moral neutrality involved here! Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Behavior, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Conflict, Counseling, Enabling, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Relationships, Repentance, Restoration
Tagged Forgiving others, Reconciling, Relationships
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Do Christians understand forgiveness?
When people share their stories with me, I find that,
Some have sinned in ways that make them feel beyond the reach of God’s forgiveness. Trapped in a prison of regret and guilt, they’ve lost their joy.
Others have been so badly hurt that they find it hard to forgive. Engulfed in the pain of their past, they don’t know what to do with their hurt and loss. Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Christian Counselor, Christian life, Christianity, Counseling, Enabling, Forgiveness, Marriage, Reconciliation, Relationships
Tagged anger, bitterness, enabling, Forgiveness, Hurt
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Listen. Learn. Live.
7 short clips from my daily programs on WJTL 90.3 FM Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Audio Resource, Broken Relationships, Church, Church growth, Church Leadership, Church membership, Enabling, Family life, Fathers, Forgiveness, Leadership, Parenting, Parenting Groups, Pastors, Prayer, Radio Ministry
Tagged Does prayer help, Father's Day, Forgiveness vs Enabling, local church life
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How can I forgive?
Is forgiveness a feigned act of erasing or ignoring the action of the one who wronged us?
Does it require us to become morally neutral about right and wrong?
Does forgiveness require us to place our hurt in an imaginary zone of forgetfulness? Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Counseling, Difficult people, Enabling, Forgiveness
Tagged forgive, Hard to forgive
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Beware of the jerks (and jerkettes)
Are you a pushover for predatory jerks? This author suggests that, “we are living in a jungle and its full of hungry jerks.” Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Accountability, Anger, Antagonists, Conflict, Counseling, Difficult people, Discernment, Enabling, Jerks, Parenting, Parenting Groups, Parenting teens, Self love, Selfishness
Tagged Abusive relationships, Dating, Jerks, Marriage
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A helpful guide for parents
The description of love in I Corinthians 13:4-8 provides a helpful guide for parents. Think about it this way: God is love, therefore, to be godly is to live out the qualities of love. Conversely, if you exchanged the word … Continue reading
Posted in Enabling, Family life, Fathers, Love, Parenting, Parenting teens
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Where were you 20 years ago?
I’ve had the privilege of traveling to many conference centers and retreats to speak on forgiveness and reconciliation. Inevitably someone will come up to me in each setting and ask, “Where were you twenty years ago?” Then they tell me … Continue reading
Moving from anxiety to peace
Anxiety can trouble our minds and distract us from the normal flow of life. Anxiety can be anything from annoying to distracting to debilitating. It can also be caused by and effect physical conditions. Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol addiction, Anxiety, Behavior, Christian life, Comfort, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Counseling, Depression, Despair, Divorce, Drug addiction, Dysfunctional, Emotions, Enabling, Fear, Fear of death, Freedom, God's control, Guidelines for living, Holistic ministry, Medicine, Mind, Mind Renewal, Pain, Peace, Pride, Psychology, Radical love, Restoration, Sanctification, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Social work, Suffering, Trials, Unresolved issues, Wisdom, Worry
Tagged Anxiety, Fear, panic attacks, Worry
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Finding it hard to reconcile
When a husband speaks harshly to his wife in a way that is out of character for him, his acknowledgement of wrong doing should be received with forgiveness and restoration. This kind of offense can be covered in love. The … Continue reading
The first step in restoring a broken relationship
For genuine reconciliation to occur you must be as certain as possible of your offender’s repentance—especially in cases involving repeated offenses. It’s hard to truly restore a broken relationship when an offender is unclear about his confession and repentance. … Continue reading
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