Hiding and Intimacy: They Cannot Coexist
Are you aware of how you are hiding? You are hiding, you know, whether you think you are or not.…
Spiritual Struggle
Why do I Keep Sinning the Same Way?
There’s something you keep doing that you know you shouldn’t be doing. Or perhaps you’re not doing something you know…
Single Christian, Are You Struggling with Sex and Intimacy?
If you’re a Christian and you’ve been in church, you’ve probably heard the message “sex is for marriage.” But you’re…
How to Ditch what is Holding You Back from Your Purpose
You’ve heard, “God has a purpose for you.” But many people are frustrated, wondering why they’re not finding or experiencing…
Don’t Let Your Pain Go to Waste
Do you sometimes feel that much of your life is a waste? Things that have happened to you, decisions you’ve…
How to Access God’s Plan for you to Become Whole and Stay Whole
You get really sick. What do you need to become whole and stay whole? You may need to visit the…
How to Stay Resilient During a Blue Holiday Season
Holidays are supposed to be “happy and bright,” right? But every year I hear from people for whom the holiday…
Are You Praying for a Miracle? Or for Magic?
You pray and pray and wonder why your prayers aren’t answered. If God loves me, why doesn’t He answer me?…
How to Fight the Sense of Powerlessness in Your Marriage
There’s little that impacts your wellbeing more than the quality of your closest personal relationships. Your marriage in particular, as…
Finding Breakthrough from Guilt as a Parent
When you’re hoping and praying for a breakthrough for your child, most parents struggle with a measure of guilt. If…
When You Need a Breakthrough For Your Child
If you’re a parent, there’s little you care about more than the wellbeing of your children and your relationship with…
Why Not Every Marriage Can be Saved
Yes, God does miracles! He can and does transform the most destructive and hurtful marriages into shining demonstrations of His…
Five Things You Can Do to Hear God’s Voice
Last time we talked about some important characteristics of God’s voice, that will help you distinguish when it’s Him who…
Are You Hoping or Doing for Your Breakthrough?
When you feel stuck and little seems to change, humans tend to fall into one of two ditches. Some people…
How to Experience Breakthrough That Actually Lasts
Problem solved! Your prayers are answered! That thing you needed God to address; He’s done it. God showed up. Hallelujah!…
When Your Marriage Needs a Breakthrough
Marriage is a good thing, as God designed it. But as with every good thing from God, your marriage is…
How You Can Follow Jesus in a Time of Political Division
This is election season in the United States. The rhetoric and unrest show how our country is perhaps more divided…
Can Any Good Come from Your Marriage Problems?
Your marriage is the union of two sinners. What a setup for problems! There are the “usual suspects” – money,…
How Divine Discontent Drives You to Your Purpose
God does not want you comfortable. He doesn’t enjoy your pain, but becoming satisfied with the way things are is…
The Power of Going First in Your Marriage
If your marriage relationship is great, you already understand what I’m going to talk about here. But if your marriage…
Becoming a Recovering People-Pleaser
The trap of people-pleasing is an easy one to fall into. I’m sure personality has something to do with it.…
Living Well through Long-term Trauma
Things are not as we want them to be. They are not as God wants them to be. For the…
The Resurrection that Follows Death
Death is not the end. That’s the message of the gospel, the good news. The paradigm of death followed by…
What Dying to Yourself Can Mean for your Christian Walk
The kingdom of God turns many of our human assumptions upside down. The way to power is through service. The…
How to Hold to Truth Without Being Judgmental
Jesus was full of both grace and truth. (John 1:14) But we as humans tend to easily fall into the…
Solid Ground in Times of Change
A wise professor told me once, “You can never step in the same river twice.” Each time you step in,…
8 Ways You May Have Broken Trust With Your Spouse
You can’t have a healthy marriage without trust. It’s comparatively easy to trust each other when the emotions are running…
Is It Healing? Or Is It Deliverance?
Give a boy a hammer and the whole world looks like a nail. And Christians can fall into the same…
What Should I be Outraged About?
Outrage seems the order of the day. And if you’re not sufficiently outraged at the current politically correct evil in…
What Sex Does for Your Wife
You want to be a good husband, the kind of husband God wants you to be. You love your wife…
Three Steps to Overcoming Your Insecurity
Feeling insecure lately? Welcome to the club. Your brain may be saying, “Nobody would want me if they really knew.”…
What Sex Does for Your Husband
You want to be a “good” wife, the kind of wife God wants you to be. You love your husband…
Fighting the Spiritual Battle on 21st Century Battlefields
Pandemic. Racism. Riots. Economic uncertainty. And that’s just those things that are recently top-of-mind for most people. There’s an uncovering…
When You Care More Than Your Spouse
Feeling as though someone else doesn’t care as much as you do hurts a lot. You want things to work…
What Does Breakthrough Look Like?
Something is going on, and you want a breakthrough. You need God to come through for you in your finances,…
Learning to Pray for a Breakthrough
Have you felt stuck in your prayer life? Does it seem your prayers don’t get anywhere? Things are really bad,…
Why Free Will?
Couldn’t God have created us all to automatically love Him? Why did sin ever come into existence? Why free will…
The View from the Top
Perspective matters. You know that. A good leader regularly reminds herself and those she leads of the bigger picture, especially…
What Forgiveness Does NOT Do for your Marriage
Your spouse is messing up BAD. He/she is having an affair, getting drunk, hiding out-of-control spending, using pornography, or engaging…
What God Wants More than your Happiness
Have you said, “Doesn’t God want me to be happy?” In the forever sense, certainly He does. But what about…
Has Lockdown Hurt Your Marriage?
The different world we are living in today places more pressure on everyone, and on your marriage. Like a tube…
How Knowing Who Your God Is Helps You in a Crisis
Who is your God? What kind of a God do you serve? How does knowing Who your God is make…
Three Ways to Pray During the COVID-19 Crisis
Praying is a good thing. Always! For the believer prayer should be the first thing we go to. And yet…
When You’re Questioning Your Salvation
You said Yes to Jesus. The honeymoon of your spiritual journey was wonderful! But now God seems far away. Those…
Finding Spiritual Intimacy with your Spouse
God designed marriage to be an object lesson of the intimacy He desires with each one of us. That includes…
Why Can’t I Stop Sinning?
You’re still frequently angry and bitter. Curse words are still coming out of your mouth. You keep satisfying your sexual…
How to Deal With the Control Freak In Your Marriage
We all know a control freak – that person who has to micromanage everyone and everything around them. Such a…
How Messy is Always Part of the Process
Jesus accepts you just as you are. Unconditionally! And if you let Him, He has promised to take you to…
How I Decided to Marry a Divorced Man
Remarriage after divorce is one of those topics that can make otherwise “good” Christians become prickly, self-righteous, or downright vindictive.…
How to Deal with What’s Under the Surface
What’s under the surface in your heart will continue to define you until and unless you deal with it. All…
