Does accountability work? Why is it important, if accountability actually is important? What does it look like to have healthy accountability, not flawed?
How to Create Accountability That’s Healthy and Successful
Spiritual Formation
Articles that address the process of being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ for the glory of God and for the sake of others (II Corinthians 3:17-18).
3 Flaws in the Concept of Accountability
When it comes to moral victory, we commonly talk about accountability. Yet, for many, accountability has become a dirty word. They get an overwhelming sense of hopelessness if someone suggests they need more accountability. Why is that? Because most accountability doesn’t work.
“Should Christians draw a line of fellowship?”
“Where do we draw the line of fellowship with those who say they believe in Jesus but practice and teach things different from what we believe, such as going to war, being divorced, don’t wear head-covering, and so forth?”
Why Most Churches Fail to Make Disciples
I stood there dumbfounded. I didn’t know what to say. These dear kids had been through far too much in their young life. How in the world do I connect with them?
Americanism, Immigration, and a Low View of the Gospel
While Americans celebrate two hundred and forty-two years of independence and freedom today, thousands of immigrants are being held in “immigration detention.” How should Christians respond to this?
Is It The Holy Spirit, Or Just Me?
We have dreams or thoughts that they feel like revelations, but their meaning alludes us. We feel confused and lack confidence in what God has spoken to us. What’s frustrating about this is that Christians should be able to tell when God is speaking to them. Why does it seem so hard, at times? Here are a few things my wife and I are learning that help us better discern when God actually is saying something to us.
Do We Have a Male Dominated Expression of Faith?
What is a woman’s role in church? What place are women given in faith communities today? What place should they be given? Do men dominate the faith scene in America? These are the questions we’re diggin’ to answer in this post.
Passive or Powerful?
None of us want the bondage of pornography. Yet, unless we have something practical we can do with our sex drive that is not also sin, we will continue struggling with moral failure. It doesn’t matter how much we resist lust, or how much we rest in God’s promises that He will give us victory and remind ourselves of God’s truths concerning His plan for us. If there is not something we can do meaningfully in living out our sexuality, it looks pretty hopeless.
3 Lies Men Face That Derail Sexual Breakthrough
I have learned that even if I am living in greater victory than ever before, Satan will continue throwing accusations at me. Finding lasting freedom means dealing with those accusations so they don’t become the terms of life I agree to. In this post, I look at how I have personally dealt with three specific lies I have faced.
The “F” Word
Forgiveness is almost like a swearword in Christianity. We spit it at people as the solution for any kind of relational problem. And probably because it is. However, those of us who have had that word spat at us likely resent it because we don’t really know what forgiveness means. When we remember how God forgives us, we can find it in our hearts to forgive others. And that releases us from bitterness, and bitterness drives lust.
What “All Things Work Together for Good” Really Means
People often quote Romans 8:28 when tragedy strikes. And while we can look at other parts of the Bible and see that God can work tragedy for His glory and use it for good, I do not believe we are being fair to the message God is speaking through Paul here in Romans. In fact, I will go so far as to say what Paul is talking about has nothing to do with tragedy. It might actually have more to do with porn.
Reckless
What happened that causes us to wrestle with lust and pornography? Why is it that we experience pain and sometimes hurt others, ourselves? Because we have chosen to listen to another person’s voice instead of God’s.
But instead of giving us what we deserve (death), God has taken personal responsibility for restoring us back to His original design. He’s done something reckless, in our human way of looking at it. Without it, we have no hope.
