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PODCAST: Hope + Help for Pornography Addiction – Solid and really helpful counsel for Christian men and women from Deepak Reju. How to Read the Bible Better – Many of us started reading the Bible shortly after becoming Christians, but
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Having a Meaningful Christmas on a Tight Budget – “The key to celebrating well is to plan early and ignore the world’s take on Christmas. The example we, as parents, set for our children is enormous. Many of my sweetest
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How to Talk to Your Depressed Child – I enjoyed listening to this radio interview with Christine Chappell, author of the forthcoming mini-book HELP! My Teen Is Depressed (coming March 2020). Parenting and the Bullied Child – On this Truth
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When Should I Buy a New Car? – Thinking of buying a new car? Read this wise and helpful counsel. Should I Give or Get Out of Debt? – Another wise and godly response from Chuck Bentley. 12 Benefits of
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Here are two articles and two podcast episodes that are filled with sound counsel: Manage Your Household Well – “One of the greatest needs wives and children have, and all the more in our relentlessly distracting age, is dad’s attentiveness.”
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Insufficient Evidence that Cannabinoids Improve Mental Health – “The most comprehensive analysis of medicinal cannabinoids and their impact on six mental health disorders — combining 83 studies including 3,000 people — suggests that the use of cannabinoids for mental health
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“What Do Christians Put on Their Headstones?” – Rosa and Lydia’s growth in grace and their sincere desire to honor the Lord is a tremendous encouragement. But their story is also emblematic of the question faced by first-generation believers all
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Want to Be like Jesus? Be Gentle. – “As we picture what it means to man up and be a leader in the home and in the church, gentleness isn’t, for many of us, a defining element of that picture.”
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Seeing God’s Goodness in the Midst of Grief – “Seeing new life in the shadow of death points us daily to the bigger reality of redemption that paints God’s glory in bold, bright colors over a world darkened and grayed
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For the Baby I Didn’t Get to Hold – This choked me up. Even if you have not experienced miscarriage or stillbirth, you need to read this so that you learn to be compassionate, to weep with those who weep.
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Here’s a handful of articles that I encourage you to check out this weekend. 5 Marks of a Pharisee – “More than good deeds and longer quiet times, God desires a broken and humble heart. He asks us to repent
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Laziness Is Profoundly Unchristian – “Christianity, emphatically, does not make men lazy. It makes lazy men, at long last, into serious workers.” Why Does Paul Forbid Women to Preach to Men? – I love Boardies from the ministry of WordBoard.
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Beware of Taking Your Sorrows to Alcohol Before God – “Using alcohol intoxication as a coping mechanism for melancholia can quickly become a matter of life and death.” The Last Battle: The Final Words of David Powlison’s Final Book –
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What Pastors and Congregations Need to Know About Suicide – “Pastors and congregants must both work together against this tide as this story becomes more and more common.” Is Suicide a Brain Issue or a Heart Issue? – “In the
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Once Abused by the Church, Now I Love the Church – “I must not allow my painful story to inform me about Christ or his church. Instead, my painful story has to be informed by Christ’s good character and by
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“I can accept God’s forgiveness, but I just can’t forgive myself.” How often do we hear this in today’s world? Yet, is this a biblically correct way to think about forgiveness? This week, I helped a counselor-in-training think through this
Continue readingA Biblical Understanding of Psychotropic Medication – “We should be well-informed medically. But as Christians, we also need a biblically-based philosophy to guide the use or non-use of psychoactive medications.” When Medication is Helpful in the Life of a Counselee
Continue readingHow Not to Fall Away – This is a humble warning to all of us concerning apostasy, in light of Joshua Harris’s renouncing of Christ. The Gospel According to Essential Oils – “I don’t need Jesus + oils. I need
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
