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Balancing on the razor thin wire of Grace and Truth
Your kingdom is built in what is right and fair. Love and truth are in all you do. Psalm 89:14 100% grace, 100% truth, no compromise. I learned this motto of Where Grace Abounds very early when we came to the ministry. It is the motto and the ideal that this ministry...
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Painful Obstacles for LGBTQ+ Youth: The Results
In my last blog I described what it was like growing up struggling with issues around gender and sexual identity. What is still heartbreaking to me about this is I was navigating these complex issues mostly on my own. I was too fearful about what would happen if I...
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We Have An Enemy! Be Alert to It! Resist It!
Q-- Who is our enemy? A--Principalities and Powers of the Dark World. Job 1:6 - and Satan also came with them part of God's creation, fallen angel, apparently Satan has access to God's presence Eph 6:12 - we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against the powers...
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The Cycle of Addiction: Ritualization
In my last blog, I introduced the sexual addiction cycle from Patrick Carnes, as shared in his book Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction. I shared about the first part of the addiction cycle, called preoccupation and some helpful things to consider when...
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Painful Obstacles for LGBTQ+ Youth
Growing Up Gender Dysphoric and Gay I was already at a disadvantage from the word “go” growing up. I began struggling with confusion about my gender around age 5. It started off in small ways. I wasn’t rough and tumble like the other boys, but more emotional and...
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Whatever Became of Repentance?
Mark Galli’s article in Christianity Today last September asks, “Whatever Became of Repentance?” The article is well worth reading, and it is so relevant to the WGA mission. I want to highlight and comment on a few of Galli’s comments. MG (Mark Galli): “… the...
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It Still Hurts, Even After All This Time
It’s been over a decade since we learned that our son is gay. You’d think I’d be used to it by now. I’m not. I’m sitting in Sunday school and a man several rows back brings up the “sin of homosexuality” and declares that the church isn’t “hard enough” on that sin. It...
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The Cycle of Addiction: Preoccupation
In his book Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, Patrick Carnes introduces the “addiction cycle” as it relates to sex addiction. He shares 4 components to this cycle. They are preoccupation, ritualization, sexual compulsivity, and despair. For this...
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Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth – Out of the Echo Chamber
Echo Chamber—A situation in which people only hear opinions of one type, or opinions that are similar to their own—Cambridge Dictionary Definition In the Comfort Zone If you’re like me, you like to be comfortable. It’s nice and easy being in a space where everyone...
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Loneliness—A Heart’s Cry for Love, Pt 3
In Part 2 of this series, I talked about three kinds of loneliness. For a bit of discussion on the first two, Simple Disconnection and Absolute Loneliness, click here. Existential Loneliness The third kind is Existential Loneliness, defined as the “unexplainable...
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