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5 Ways the Church Helps Recovery

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A pastor recently asked me if I thought it was worthwhile for churches to try to run their own “recovery” ministries when they could just refer people to recovery groups, therapists, or parachurch organizations like Regeneration. Without hesitation, I answered with an emphatic, “Yes!” When it comes to life-dominating sins or addictions, thank God for humble church leaders who point their people...

Intimacy and Singleness (Yes, You Can Have Both!)

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The scene is familiar to many of us singles: sitting in church on a Sunday, hearing more about the wonderful gift of marriage and the intimate connection it offers. It’s easy to feel deprived or lesser than, like we’re waiting for the day God will finally give us a taste of that intimacy we see married couples experience. We long for that intimacy, we hunger for it–yet it can seem so...

There Is No Trap

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Our aim as Christians should always be to have compassion on people. But don’t get this confused with having compassion on the delusions that hold them. Sometimes it’s difficult to know the difference between the two. I walked with Paul for a long time. He was a weekly participant in a group for men seeking freedom from sexual addictions, and in a lot of ways, he was an ideal member of our group:...

Podcast: Living a Godless Christian Life

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Join Josh and Kit this week as they discuss when we experience a lack of the presence of God in our lives and some practical next steps on coming closer to Him. Are we living a Godless Christian Life? Highlights: We want to help our daughters learn… I didn’t expect that he would be present, I didn’t think he wanted to be… …He is always with us, we are not always present to Him… …let me...

Podcast: Give Them a Bigger Why

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Episode 80 – Give Them a Bigger Why Join Kit and Josh this week as they welcome Maria Dubois and Dawn Swayne who unpack how they team up to give Christian teenage girls a bigger why around intimacy and sexuality. Highlights: We want to help our daughters learn… “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free, so I think that is the foundation for the bigger ‘why’...

Self-Giving Casts Out Fear

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Do you struggle with anxiety, worry, or fear? I do too, but I’m discovering something that’s making a big difference. I’ve had a life-long relationship with fear and its many faces: anxiety, worry, fright, and a nagging sense of impending doom. Some of my earliest memories are memories of fear: fear of the dark, fear of the first day of school, fear when I was in the water, fear when I got lost...

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