Nov 10, 2017 | Godly Living, Unity in the Church
As I was putting my bags of groceries into the trunk of my car on Monday my cart started to roll away when a middle-aged African American woman stopped it for me. My smile was automatic as I thanked her for her caring act. She said to me, ‘We need some kindness in...
Sep 8, 2017 | Godly Living, Godly Relationships, Parenting
Talking about sexual things is uncomfortable. I know. As a child, I looked at the porn I found, yet couldn’t tell anyone. In college, I fit the description of a “good” Christian yet crossed many boundaries sexually. My closest friends had no idea, and I carried a lot...
Aug 16, 2017 | Godly Living, Godly Relationships, Parenting
Do I really need to talk to my son? It seems like viewing porn is pretty harmless and just a normal part of being male these days. Isn’t this just a phase most boys (or young people) go through? Yes, the male brain is wired for visual stimulation. So, yes, it is...
Jul 8, 2017 | Godly Living
We recently got two adorable feral—alias ‘wild’—8 week old kittens from an animal rescue. Every day kittens, cats, and dogs are euthanized because there are too many of them and not enough people to take them into their homes so we choose to get our pets from...
Jun 25, 2017 | Godly Living
Mindy Pierce is a licensed professional counselor for GROW Counseling in Atlanta, GA. Below, she shared with us her answers to some of the most common questions she receives around the topic of porn use and figuring out whether it’s something that needs to be...
Jun 12, 2017 | Godly Living
Recently a friend forwarded a Fox News article that asserted five ways that porn was good for us.¹ It was directed to women. I guess they figured most men didn’t need convincing to head over to their favorite porn site. Statistically a lot of men use porn, but a...
Jun 6, 2017 | Godly Living, Godly Relationships, Hope and Encouragement
by Anne Kerr, Guest Blogger & Founder of TrueNorth Freedom Project “The one thing I didn’t have when I was addicted to pornography was hope.” Last year, my husband spoke these words to a group of supporters of TrueNorth. God set Greg free from his bondage to...
Apr 24, 2017 | Godly Living
My only daughter is leaving in a little over 2 weeks to go on the mission field for a minimum of two years to a nation that is very hostile to the gospel, where there can be severe consequences for sharing Jesus’ love. Many people have asked me, “How can you let...
Mar 28, 2017 | Godly Living
Is there anything in your life you’ve ever regretted doing, or not doing? I think we can all readily think of at least one thing—and more than likely many things that we wish we had the opportunity for a ‘do over’. It’s noteworthy to me that in over 20+...
Mar 14, 2017 | Godly Living
I have often heard it said, “Experience is the best teacher.” That actually may be true for some things. For some things the “hands-on” approach is perfect because if mistakes are made, there are no long-term negative consequences. For other things,...
