“For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.” Proverbs 24:16

We will fail. It’s not we might if we have a weak moment, we might if someone tempts us, we might if we just are not righteous enough, we might because God is not happy with me. It’s a forgone conclusion, we will fail. God knows that. When He says in Leviticus 19: “Be...

I heard a statement a long time ago that has stuck with me. “You will never make any changes unless you see the need to make them.”

Seems simple enough. We are creatures of habit. Most people don’t like to change things when things are going well. Sometimes we don’t even like to make changes when things are not going well at all. Another saying I’ve used is “There is security in bondage.”...

This post is following a great post by Jeff Fisher of Porn to Purity titled, “10 ESSENTIALS FOR THOSE NEW TO RECOVERY FROM SEXUAL SIN.”  I would like to expand on a couple of the 10 points made by Jeff.

First, number 5: “Recovery has little to do with our outward behavior.” Obviously that in no way means it doesn't matter what your behavior is. It’s a wee bit difficult to be in recovery...

The following are lyrics from "More Like Falling In Love" by Jason Gray. Every time I hear this song it brings tears to my eyes. It so well describes what we need in our world today and in our lives when we are struggling with life controlling issues like porn. I need this for me. I need to live this and hang on to this when the times are tough, when it seems like everyone is against me, when...

frus·trat·ed/-frəs-trātid/Adjective

1. Feeling or expressing distress and annoyance, especially because of inability to change or achieve something.

Everybody is familiar with this emotion. Especially if you are struggling with an addiction or any life issue that seems to hang on. I’m sure there have been plenty of screams, a few holes punched in walls, quite a few gasps of...

How many times have you said this? Or have you said, “It’s impossible, I will never be able to do this!” This feeling is such a feeling of hopelessness and fear. It is a painful feeling. “Am I just meant to be this way the rest of my life?” This may come up in the struggle to battle sex addictions, drug addictions, food addictions, struggles in marriage, struggles with children, struggles in...

It's been hard to wrap my brain around that statement. What does it mean? We so often struggle with acceptance and forgiveness when we deal with our struggles and addictions. If we are honest with ourselves we have to see that we are far from perfect. In fact, sometimes we struggle with even feeling that God would love us in the middle of our unfaithfulness and repeated failures. But according...

I recently saw the following quote somewhere, not sure where it was, but it sure impacted me.

“I will love you with all the pieces of my heart.”

So often in our relationships we deal with things that have fractured our heart. In our struggles with things that create conflict in our relationships it is often all we can do to muster up the strength to not react to the other person with great...

I recently saw the following quote somewhere, not sure where it was, but it sure impacted me.

“I will love you with all the pieces of my heart.”

So often in our relationships we deal with things that have fractured our heart. In our struggles with things that create conflict in our relationships it is often all we can do to muster up the strength to not react to the other person with great...

As happens so frequently, I was repairing my infected PC the other day and was setting there, patiently watching the progress bar crawl across the screen. It seemed that it was never moving. I am waiting for the repairs to be completed as my system was being restored to it's "pristine" state. I will digress a bit to say I am a Macintosh person. I used to sell them 20 years ago, I love...