To find true healing in our lives, we must learn to deal with past hurts.  This is all part of the journey into significance based on God. There is a lot of confusion in Christian circles about what forgiveness is about.  In its simplest definition, it means to “divorce” the other person. Click to Listen […]

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To find true healing in our lives, we often have to go through brokenness.  This is all part of the journey into significance based on God. In this episode, I play a special interview by Paul Young (who wrote The Shack) as he describes his “shack” and his healing in God. Click to Listen “Healing” […]

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Finding our significance in God is a journey … a journey into love.  This isn’t an instance of love … this is a journey.  That means we work this out, step by step, in real life. We have spent several weeks talking about the problem in the fall of man and The Lie.  Now I […]

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Toxic love, unhealthy relationship, toxic relationship, and bad relationship are all different names for the same thing as I see it. Toxic love is a sickness in the hearts of the participants. It is a union of unhealthy and needy individuals. It is a parasite of the human spirit. It uses another person’s weakened spirit […]

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The fact that man has believed The Lie and fallen results in chaos in his life … he no longer knows who he is … he is divorced from any value he had, since his relationship with God was to be the fullest expression of his worth. Today, at the end of the twentieth century, […]

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To understand the goal of salvation, we must look at the original creation.  In so doing, we run across “The Lie” … not just any old lie, but The Lie which is the foundation of all our problems. This Lie is not a call to atheism, but of independence … that we would live out […]

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Father God? Or Daddy God?  A listener recently wrote me and mentioned how they had their “father’s shadow” looming over their lives as they dealt with their self-worth. I can relate. Being raised without a dad, and even having some disturbing encounters with him at an early age, I struggled with seeing God as my […]

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The Significance Journey … to learn a new self-worth based on what God says about you isn’t easy.  We’ve built up years of “stinkin thinkin” that just doesn’t go away over night. The lie of the fall in the Garden of Eden was that man could live independently from God, govern his own life, control […]

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Last week we discussed the Performance Trap part of the Lie in the fall of man:  Self-worth = My performance + Others’ Opinions.  But we left with the problem, and not the solution. In this episode we return to this topic and talk about God’s solution to this problem.  On what basis are we supposed to […]

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Back in episode 5 and 6 of Adventures in Grace, we started doing a series on self-worth and significance that we never returned to. In this episode we return to this topic and talk about the Fear of Failure … or the Performance Trap. Click to Listen “Performance Trap” Show Notes In this episode, I […]

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