Since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, it seems our country has exploded with riots, twitter nation is blowing up daily, and the Hollywood echo chamber has hit an all-time high decibel level. The hyperbolic response to his presidency surprised some individuals. They knew America was divided but did not realize the severity of the polarization. The truth is that nothing has changed.

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Last week the Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship game for college football. One of the star players for Clemson said that God wanted them to beat Alabama. Did God want Clemson to beat Alabama?

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The best discipleship soul care happens in a community, not in isolated, artificial settings where the person is disconnected from the community. God can change lives in one-and-done meetings but the most effective soul care needs time, people, and contexts.

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Let’s free associate: when you think about rest, what goes through your mind? What does rest mean to you and how do you obtain it?

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The interplay between our physical and spiritual selves does not seem to get enough talk time within the Christian community. Especially how a conflict between two people can lead to diminishing health.

I have counseled some couples in which the wives have declining health problems that parallel the acrimonious relationships they have with their husbands.

In nearly every case the husband is verbally abusive, by being demanding, angry, manipulative, controlling, and other forms of selfish anger, including relational passivity and neglect.

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Earlier this week (January 2017) a young man was abducted by four young people in Chicago. They tied him up and tortured him. They ran a live stream of the violence on Facebook Live. Does this surprise you? What do you expect from a culture that makes light of violence?

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You like smoking. It's your habit, but you know it's an addiction because you can't walk away from it. Smoking controls you. You also love Jesus, but you're not sure how to connect the Gospel to your smoking habit. Where do you begin? How do you kick the habit?

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Rose was a member of my small group. She asked me one night what I thought about smoking cigarettes. I said, "It's not what's between your fingers that I see as a problem; it's what is in the smoker's heart." At that moment, the LORD did the miraculous inside Rose. Over the next few months, her heart changed. Rose tells the story this way:

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Doing things without thinking is one of God's greatest favors to you. Great habits free you to image God more effectively because they enable you to focus on the better things in life.

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Do you have a friend who does not mind telling you what’s wrong with you but he never admits any of his personal mistakes? It is challenging to work through and sustain these kinds of “inequitable” relationships. In this podcast, I walk you through ten ways to respond to the friend who is more willing to admit your faults than his own.

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