XXXchurch: MENS BLOG
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...
Who were you today? Who were you on Sunday? Who are you going to be tonight? Those questions may sound a little crazy but in reality they are quite eye opening. For instance, Sunday is one of the craziest days of the week. Especially Sunday morning, getting the kids up and ready for church, they start fighting, you are irritable because you can't find your shoes and your wife is upset because...
John Chapter 8 is one of my favorite bible stories. This is the story of the adulteress woman. Here the scribes and Pharisees had brought this adulterous woman, but obviously not to justify the law, if so they would have also brought the man. He had broken the law just as much she had. The law required that both be stoned to death.(Lev. 20:10)
They were simply using this woman as a trap hoping...
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...
A new year is just a few days away and many of you reading this are looking forward to another year of sobriety. To those, I applaud you on your determination to stay sober. I know this has not been a easy road to travel. I want you to know that I will be praying for continued success throughout this new year.
There is another group of people I want to focus on and those are the ones who are...
Having lived in a completely different culture for 10 months now, yesterday I found myself really stressing over some of things people do here. Here in Bogota they have something called “transmilenio” which summed up would be the bus equivalent of the London underground or the New York Subway. I have to say I’m impressed with the system here as it seems to be really organized (compared to the...
“You have been given the choice between war and dishonor. You have chosen dishonor, and you will have war!” - Winston Churchill to the English Parliament, 1938
After the English Parliament’s 1938 appeasement in Czechoslovakia, Churchill saw the danger of choosing peace, when honor and common sense called for battle. History, of course, would confirm his point: Refusing to fight an honorable...
The other day I was going through some of my things and found a video of a band I use to be in. As I was watching it I came across one of our songs called “I Cant Forgive, What I Can’t Forget” As I listened to the song I started thinking about the title of the song which was also the chorus. Many times in our lives we are faced with situations in which we are to forgive someone. I'm sure...
Before I moved out to Colombia I finished a distance learning course in youth work and informal education. The bulk of the work was based on reflective learning, so I would do a session with some young people and I would then walk away and reflect on what happened. I have to say I felt like I really thrived when it came to reflective learning mainly because I’m an over thinker which is great...
One of the biggest struggles I have in gaining the upper hand in anything I struggle with is my own guilt and inability to believe that God loves me and forgives me when I habitually fail.
Every one of us has said the following: " I can't believe I did it again, I know I don't want to do it but I seem unable to resist." Then the guilt and loss of hope sets in. It seems especially so with...
