Sometimes the job is so enormous that you can't do it alone. You don't have all the right gifts, the personality, the strengths, or the necessary know-how. It's at these moments when you need something (or someone) more fabulous than you, a person who can deliver. Being a husband is like this. None of us have what it takes to "do husbandry" well. It's a job for Superman.

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A Good Husband Is a Job for Superman, Not for Lesser Mortals

When you fall out of love with your spouse, your marriage takes a drastic turn that few couples can alter. Long before the love sets sail, there are signs that point to a future disappointing season. Mable saw the signs but did not reach out until her love ship vanished over the horizon. There is still hope. What about you? If your love boat is adrift, I recommend you take heed to what I have to say.

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Will You Please Help Me? I Do Not Like My Spouse Anymore

There are instances when Christianity’s baggage can entrap a person, and they never realize it. They never connect a lack of consistent joy, constantly trying to control how people perceive them, and hiding longstanding flaws to the Christian life they live. They genuinely love God, but there is an oppressive weight that feels more like religion than the freedom Christ offers. Mable was this person.

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How God Delivered an Entrapped Soul from Christianity's Baggage

Understanding the other person in any relationship is foundational to building a life with them. If you don't know them at a soul level, all your efforts to connect in an in-depth way will fall flat. You will end up as acquaintances, perhaps business partners, or maybe functional friends, but the joy and appreciation that flows from deeply knowing each other won't be there. As you might imagine, Biff and Mable had this problem.

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Understanding Someone Is Hard Work, But the Only Way to Build Well

This episode is our final Your Daily Drive podcast. I will continue to produce, but they will be on our Life Over Coffee network. If you wish to continue following us and enjoying great content, please subscribe to our Life Over Coffee network.

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This Is Our Final Your Daily Drive Episode

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Eight Signs of Spiritual Abuse

This podcast chronicles the first 15 years of Rick's life as he walks through his relationships with his alcoholic and abusive father and the drugs and violence that made up his early growing-up years.

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Rick's Story: From Birth to Jail, Pt. 1

A stronghold is a thought fortress of arguments that takes the mind captive and holds you prisoner; a belief that contradicts the person and power of Christ.

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How To Take Every Thought Captive

There are specific and practical steps necessary to break free from porn addiction. It is called progressive sanctification, which is born out of a right understanding of the addiction.

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Mind Mapping How to Break Free from Porn Addiction – 2.0

Why God blesses some and does not bless others is a complex and sensitive issue requiring theological carefulness. Without that kind of carefulness, you might have a misunderstanding of the Lord and His purposes in your life. Recently, a supporting member wrote me asking why God does not bless everyone similarly. It’s a valid question.

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Why Does God Bless Some, But Not Others?

Sarcasm means to cut the flesh. It's cutting away the parts of the meat you don't value. Our students are to help a church member with a sarcastic leader.

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Case Study: Freddie, The Flesh Cutter

Your phone rings. A stranger who has your name says she wants to commit suicide. Our mastermind students must develop a practical plan to help this person.

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Case Study: Suicide

The insecure husband and critical wife is a complex relational problem but not one without a gospel solution. This case study and Mind Map will carefully walk you through how to untangle this marriage problem.

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Mind Mapping the Insecure Husband and the Critical Wife

Grace and gospel go hand-in-hand. You cannot have one without the other. The first is the means to the second. Grace is the undeserved favor that permits you to enjoy the gospel. The danger with these two doctrines is the "grace mistake."

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The Danger of the "Grace Mistake"

Let’s say that you’re discipling an individual. How would you know when you’ve finished the process with them? What does comprehensive and completed discipleship look like practically? This mind map gives you a step-by-step process that takes you through a full discipleship process.

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Mind Mapping Christian Maturity – Are You Mature?

God’s Word is perfect for helping non-Christians. Learning how to use it to serve unbelievers is critical to your evangelistic efforts. Here are a few ideas to assist you in bringing God’s Word to bear on those who do not know Jesus.

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How to Counsel Non-Christians With God’s Word

Let me go ahead and say what many of you are thinking: trusting the Lord does not mean everything will go okay for you. There is a thing called “disappointment with God,” and if you do not know how to navigate this truth when your difficult time comes, you will have a hard time recovering.

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I Trusted God, and My Life Fell Apart

I wrote this piece seven years ago, and I’m republishing it today with a few edits since the events of this sad saga continue to unfold. I was part of Sovereign Grace Ministries from 2003 to 2008, and four of those years, I served as a pastor.

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An Appeal from a Former Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastor

From the New York Times Magazine article, Coveting Luke’s Faith. This commentary provides excellent insight from a practicing atheist rearing a son, Luke, who is not embracing her atheistic faith. She is “open but cautious” as she strains to understand what is happening with her son.

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I Am Unable to Believe God

There are not many things that will happen to a person more perplexing and painful than finding out that your spouse committed adultery. How do you survive?

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Surviving Adultery

In God’s mind, your life is over. He sees the end from the beginning. The Lord stands outside of time—a macro view, looking inside your timeline, which has a start and end date, and He’s helping you navigate your journey. You’re not sure where you’re going or the pitfalls along the way, but from His vantage point, He does. You must know that your story ends well, which is the antidote for fighting off fear while living in the freedom and power of a secure future.

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Why You Should Live In the Freedom of Knowing the Future

One of the hottest trending terms the last decade is the word woke. It means to be aware, as in, “I have woke up to [this cause].” Formerly, you were not aware; now, you are. The word woke is most often used in the context of oppression, and within this group of woke people, you will find a spectrum of adherents. On one end, there are the innocent idealists, and on the other, there are angry activists.

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Two Degrees of Woke: The Innocent Idealist and Angry Activist

An algorithm is a formula for collecting data about you to make your life better, so they say. It’s a collection of data bits that reflects your Internet habits; it’s a cyber-reflection of you. In marketing, an algorithm on a person helps sellers target specific demographics and individuals, which is why they have created an algorithmic version of you in cyberspace. The tech gods want to know about you so they can help you, so they say.

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Warning – There Is an Algorithmic Version of You On the Internet

Disappointments come into our lives nearly every day. Getting what you want, how you want it, when you want it is not always possible in a fallen world. One of the essential assessments you could ever make about yourself is learning what your disappointments reveal about you. It’s God’s mercy to use those challenging moments in our lives to make us better people. The world does not know this type of grace.

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One Positive, Powerful Purpose For Your Disappointments

Most relationships begin with a lot of talking and not so many frustrations. As the communicators continue in their relationship, complexity increases. Sometimes one of the partners becomes silent. He becomes quiet while the other partner is left to speculate on what happened. In this case study with Biff and Mable, they are at that place, but not without hope. There is a way for them to navigate the quiet contours of the non-talking husband.

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How to Navigate the Quiet Contours of the Non-Talking Husband

What expectations have you had that did not come to fruition? How did you respond when you did not get what you had hoped? All of us have had dashed expectations. To expect stuff is human. So is not getting life the way you planned, on your terms. When misfortune comes, what is the process of recovering from the disappointment? Let me tell you where to start.

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To Recover from Broken Expectations, You Need to Know This

Sometimes in life, you have to get in a conflict with someone. This dreaded reality is not a wish, desire, or prayer request, but a common-sense perspective that comes with living in a sin-cursed world. It is impossible to have two humans living close to each other for an extended period, and not have relational conflict. Sin does not accommodate our desires for peace or a hope for the path of least resistance.

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There Are Times When You Have to Get Into Conflict

Are you able to use sin sinlessly? I am asking how do you respond to the inevitableness of sin in your life, whether it is your’s or someone else’s? When wickedness comes, it will drive us in one of two directions. We will either fixate on the cause of or the solution for the problem. Another way of saying it is that our doctrine of sanctification will either be sin-centered or Christ-centered. The sin-centered reaction is a setup for ongoing complications.

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Do You Know How to Use the Unwanted Sin In Your Life Sinlessly?

Children should not work for affection. Christian parents imitate God; one way to do this is by loving them just because they are their children. We are not perfect, and there is a time to deal with their imperfections, but love should be an uninterrupted expectation in a child’s life. When it is, you have a foundation that shapes them toward God-centered maturity. If we don’t love them well, they will be like the four complicated kids in this story.

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When You Make Your Child Work for Your Affection

There is a problem trusting God when His ways seem foolish, and we have a well-worn habit of getting what we want through our self-reliant means. Of course, when we choose human wisdom and strength over God’s, it will have a debilitating effect on our lives and relationships. In this case study, I present to you how trusting God practically can alter your relationships. Let’s take a deep-dive into the hearts of Biff and Mable.

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Learning How to Trust God With Your Communication Problems

You have a friend in trouble. They appear to be at the end of themselves, but you're not sure. You're not uncharitably judging them, but you know that the only way they can experience restoration from God and satisfaction in Him is by being at an authentic end of themselves and willing to do anything—biblically speaking—to change. How do you know your friend is genuine? What are the things you're looking for to assess them the right way?

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How to Tell If a Person In Trouble Is Genuine about Wanting Help

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