Rick Thomas | Your Daily Drive

Overcoming past disappointments are hard enough in themselves. But sometimes, our inability to move forward is self-inflicted, as we use our past disappointments to gain acceptance, love, respect, and pity from others. Biff was such a person. Clinging to the past, not only gave him an identity, but it was a manipulative method to control his friendships.

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Let’s free associate: name two people in your life that you cringe when you think about them. They are a pain in the neck. How about the person you would rather not be around? Do you have a person in your mind? A friend? A church member? A relative? Great!

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Do you know of any Christians who do not act like Christians? Are they your friends? How would you help them? A friend asked me this question, and I gave him nine ideas that provided some clarity on how to help those who claim to be believers, but their lifestyle contradicts their profession. Perhaps these things will serve you too.

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It is typical for all local church members to struggle with fear of man issues, including how to help others that this sin has captured. This problem has a two-part solution: we must teach on the issue and create contexts so we can help each other overcome our universal problem with fear, shame, and guilt.

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Two people have a similar struggle. Both of them struggle with discouragement because of their ongoing patterns of sin. Rather than seeing sin as an opportunity to lean into God, they are heading farther down the path of frustration and fear. Sinning plus struggling with ongoing discouragement about your sin is a double-sin-paradigm.

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The backstory is the story behind the story. There is always a backstory to every story. The story that you know is not all there is to what is happening. Behind every story, God is mysteriously working. How does not knowing the whole story affect how you think about the Lord and what He’s writing into your life?

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How would people know you if you had no filter on your inner person? How would folks experience the authentic you? We live in a duality: our authentic self and the person we present to the public. Closing the gap between the two happens when the power of the gospel starts transforming us from the inside out.

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If you read approximately 4.25 chapters a day, you will be able to complete the Word of God in a year. Okay. But the more significant questions are, “How much of that reading is changing you? Is God’s Word transforming you, or are you a duty-reader, assuming you read the Bible at all?

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A man’s job was never meant to be like the tail wagging the dog. In this illustration, the tail is the job, and the dog is his family. When the job becomes the most significant thing to a man, the family will become a lesser thing. This problem is what happened to Biff and Mable.

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It is not unusual for a marriage to be out-of-balance or spiritually off-kilter. There are many reasons for this problem. Here are a few ideas of how two partners can be so “in love” at the beginning of their marriage and drift apart within a few years.

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