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When someone like Ted Haggard is exposed as the same kind of broken human being I know myself to be, it's tempting to redirect my own shame and fear onto the wounded sinner.

After outlining “25 Myths” in Monday’s blog, I thought it equally important to follow it up with “25 Truths” to address why each of them is considered a myth. So here we go with a few thoughts on each that can be used in general conversation, not...

How to find out if you are enabling your adult child and ways to stop

Any system that surrounds our childhood can be extremely difficult to escape. How can you heal from legalism and embrace Jesus life-giving grace?

At the time of Hosea’s ministry, Israel had experienced a period of economic prosperity and growth. On the inside, however, they had become corrupt, morally decrepit, and adulterous, one of the major themes Hosea was called to address.

This is the Lord’s purposeful guidance and gracious provision. It’s completely outside our influence and control. We pray in secret, God surprises us, we praise Him, and we know again (even more) that God is in our lives.

"He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" What does this verse mean for Christians and showing our faith in action?

Though Jeroboam doesn’t gain the seal of divine approval as Northern Israel’s first king, a credential withheld from every northern king who followed, there are several things we can learn from his leadership and those like him.

Performance orientation is everywhere, and it does help motivate us to do our best. The problem, however, is that people carry that performance mode into their love relationships, and they try to earn the love of God and others.