Take Two Minutes to Change Someone’s Life
Where would you be if it wasn’t for Jesus? What difference has He made in your life? Somebody helped you…
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What Your Spouse Really Wants for Christmas
Gift-giving can be complicated. What does he/she want? How much money do you spend? You may feel pressure to “top”…
Don’t Settle for a Miserable Marriage
Marriage affects your wellbeing. If your relationship is healthy you are happier, healthier, and generally live a longer more productive…
What Restoration Actually Looks Like
A marriage that’s damaged through infidelity. A public figure who betrays the trust of those they lead. A pastor caught…
Dealing with the Roots of Sexual “Stuff”
If you’ve been mowing the weeds of troubling, unwanted, or ungodly sexual thoughts or behaviors and they keep growing back,…
How to Reconnect with Your Spouse
You are feeling seriously disconnected from your spouse, and it’s just plain awful. You’ve determined you will no longer ignore,…
Getting Unstuck.. Past, Present, and Future
Some people get stuck in the past. They respond as though the trauma or other challenge they experienced decades ago…
3 Things NOT to do When You Feel Disconnected From Your Spouse
Getting married, you were hoping the fireworks between you would continue. The bond was real, and it felt good. But…
How to Come Out of Hiding
How we love to hide! It’s been that way ever since the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3:8-10) Wounds create shame.…
Marriage in the Real World
The marriages you saw and experienced growing up were a mixture of good and bad. If your parents were happily…
How to Escape Unnecessary Suffering
No human being escapes all suffering. While perhaps unkind, it would have been true for me to say over the…
5 Steps to Take if you Messed Up in your Marriage
Marriage is the union of two sinners. You can be sure your spouse will mess up; that’s what sinners do.…
What Kind of God Do You Serve?
You are a theologian whether you realize it or not. Theology is nothing more than what you believe about God.…
What to Do When You Feel Lonely
Pain is perhaps the loneliest thing in the world. That goes for emotional pain, physical pain, spiritual pain. It becomes…
3 Things You CAN Do in a Bad Marriage
Some marriages are just plain bad. Words like sharp knives pierce tender hearts. Affection and sex are demanded, withheld, or…
Take Jesus There With You
God doesn’t simply rain down healing or transformation from “on high.” Instead, He came to be with us. And in…
Is God For Me or Against Me?
Your picture of God makes a difference. In your heart of hearts, what do you believe about Him? Not what…
How Loving Others Changes You
Ask almost any Christian believer, and they will say Yes to the question, “Are you interested in becoming more like…
Community by Design: How God Uses People to Transform You
Few people experience lasting spiritual growth in isolation. God never intended us to grow alone. He created us with the…
3 Guaranteed Ways to Change Your Spouse
Oh, if it were only that easy! I hear every day from a husband or wife who says, “I can’t…
Change(d) Conference: You Won’t Leave the Same!
You found your fixer upper! Your creative soul has imagined this moment for years. But finally, there it is in…
How I Experienced Transformation
I’m not the same person I was before. Some feedback from friends recently has pushed me to reflect on my…
Undo the Shame, Unlock your Transformation
Hiding is human. But if any part of you wants things to be different, it’s time to undo the shame…
Can Your Feelings Change?
Feelings color everything we do. Some feelings are wonderful. And sometimes worry, anger, loneliness, depression, irritation, overwhelm, fear, or other…
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Transformation
Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. The end.…
5 Questions to Get Your Transformation Back on Track
You believe that Jesus has something better for you. Your heart has felt the Holy Spirit put His finger on…
Why Trying to Change Your Behavior Doesn’t Work
What if you received Christ’s forgiveness, and then never committed a sin ever again? Suppose you never killed anyone, looked…
From Christ’s Resurrection to Your Transformation
Easter means nothing if you’re fully satisfied with the way things are. But if your heart, your emotions, your memories,…
Quit Looking Back; Transformation is Ahead
Nobody gets through life without a past. Everyone God has used, is using now, or will use has a past.…
How to Partner with God for Your Transformation
God is after your complete transformation. He desires to apply the redemption Jesus paid for on the cross to every…
15 Things YOU Can Do Toward Your Marriage Transformation
If you answered YES to our recent question Do You Need a Transformed Marriage?, you’re already on the road. Perhaps…
What Transformation IS and ISN’T
Your marriage is a mess. You’re struggling with an addiction. Fear or confusion or sin has sunk its hooks in…
How to Transform your Marriage Communication
The communication in your marriage could certainly be healthier. You fight, nag, yell, criticize, or give your spouse the silent…
Transformation Brings Dead Things to Life
The change true transformation brings is as different as life is from death, white from black, light from darkness. We’re…
Jesus Wants Your Transformation: Forgiveness is Only Step One
Jesus accepts you just as He finds you. Always. But He’s not satisfied with leaving you that way. Jesus did…
How to Take Charge of Your Marriage
There are two opposite and equally destructive strategies many husbands and wives fall into when it comes to seeking marital…
When Your Past Complicates Intimacy
People who research such things say that somewhere around 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men have been…
How God Uses Marriage to Heal You
God uses marriage to heal you. It’s one of the most important and effective tools He uses to bring you…
How to Experience Permanent Freedom
Wouldn’t it be nice to live completely free – permanently? Imagine how it would feel to not have to expend…
Pornography and your Christian Marriage
If the gospel is good for anything it must have an answer to the worst problems humans face. As believers…
Avoid these 8 Mistakes in Communicating with your Spouse
“Honey, we need to talk.” How does that work out for you? Do you end up in a screaming match?…
Why Marriage Is So Hard
Sometime after the preacher pronounces you man and wife the unwelcome truth hits you; marriage is hard! That realization may…
How to Know if it’s Right or Wrong
You’ve heard the questions. You’ve probably asked them yourself. “Is it a sin to drink alcohol?” “How far can I…
You’re NOT Stuck in this Marriage
One of the most common sentiments I hear from married people is, “I feel stuck in this marriage.” Yes, you’re…
Two Times when Anxiety may be Useful
Anxiety is uncomfortable. You’re keyed up inside. You wonder if you can trust your thinking. And your body may experience…
7 Things to Do the Day After Christmas
It’s the day after Christmas. The presents are unwrapped. The Christmas decorations may still be up. Christmas dinner leftovers are…
7 Steps to Freedom from Pornography and Compulsive Masturbation
How do you find freedom from compulsive sexual behavior? What does it look like? What does it take to get…
Being WITH is Not Enough: What Comes After “God With Us”
Jesus came to be “God With Us.” He responded to our hopeless situation not by shouting truth at us, but…
How you should Vote as a Christian
Yes, I’m going to tell you how to vote as a Christian – without apology! [guestpost]For today only, I am…
Heavenly Perfume: How to Smell Good as a Christian
Jesus smelled good. Do you? I don’t mean Jesus showered every day; He didn’t. People used various methods to try to…
