My failure to forgive my father for all the abuse and humiliation he inflicted upon me acted as a barrier to greater healing within me. For years I was consumed with anger, hatred and bitterness towards him. The years of beatings with belts, electrical cords, wooden...

In my last blog I had mentioned that one of the major blocks to receiving the love of God and finding our being in God involves a breakdown in the early mother child relationship. A friend of mine came and shared with our Healing Path group last Monday night and told...

Now the Birth of a Child is an event to celebrate! Your birth was a celebration – if not here on earth, then in heaven… God, the creator, loves His creation! When I say that it makes me wonder if my parents celebrated when I was born. Were they looking at me with...

Over the last three months I've been wrestling with how our knowledge of God affects how deeply we relate to Him. Now some of us have a head full of information but lack the revelation that the apostle Paul prays about in Ephesians 1:17, "... may give you the Spirit...

In our second week of going through Gordon Dalbey's Fight Like a Man we were challenged in the area of how well do we know God the Father. Gordon dropped this nugget on us, "The most gaping hole in men's armor today is our not truly knowing God as our Father....

I recently started meeting with some guys to read through Gordon Dalbey's book, Fight Like a Man. In the first chapter, "First, We Surrender" the author talks about the difference in surrender and obedience. Because of many painful experiences throughout my childhood...

Mark 5:25-34, And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind...

Now, what about the “good boy,” what do we do about him? Constantly jumping through hoops for God and man trying to impress them with “good” works. Constantly rising up for the approval of all by saying and doing the good thing, giving the good response. People...

I ended my last entry defining the "good boy." I'll pick it up with how the empty way of life handed down to me by my father led to a search for gratification. Growing frustrated in my natural need for love, acceptance, and tenderness, I began a restless search for...

  1 Peter 1:18, “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.” In my...