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Will You Please Help Me? I Do Not Like My Spouse Anymore
A Good Husband Is a Job for Superman, Not for Lesser Mortals
How to Tell If a Person In Trouble Is Genuine about Wanting Help
Learning How to Trust God With Your Communication Problems
Do You Know How to Use the Unwanted Sin In Your Life Sinlessly?
There Are Times When You Have to Get Into Conflict
It's Not Are You Busy, But How Do You Spend Your Time?
I Challenge You to Live 25 Years After You Die. Will you Accept?
To Recover from Broken Expectations, You Need to Know This
Here Is the Untold Story of God Using One Man to Change Thousands
How to Navigate the Quiet Contours of the Non-Talking Husband
How to Overcome Our Most Damaging Response During Frustrating Times
One Positive, Powerful Purpose For Your Disappointments
Warning – There Is an Algorithmic Version of You On the Internet
Ep. 269 Huge Changes, and All the Reasons We're Doing It
The Best Reason to Change Is So You Can Reach and Help More People
How Does Your Faith Govern Your Heart This Election Season?
Letter to God - I Need to Die, Wil You Help Me?
Trusting God Is Good, But You Need More When Suffering Comes
How to Respond to a Gossiper Who Wants Me to Do More
Does It Really Matter Who Becomes Our Next President?
What Is the Best Kind of School That Your Child Should Attend?
7 Conditions That Make It More Difficult to Help a Child
How to Respond When Someone Introduces Your Child to Bad Things
How You React to Fallen People Reveals What You Think About God
A Practical Message to Help You with That Toxic Person In Your Life
How to Live Your Best Alien Life Today
Here Is the Perfect Goal for Your Child and How to Do It
Thinking of Yourself As a Victim Is One of the Worst Things You Can Do
Do You See How Similar You Are to Caitlyn Jenner?
Every Person Who Withholds the Truth Is Not Lying
Comparing Yourself May Make You an Accidental Pharisee
7 Things to Know If You Want Me to Counsel Your Teen
How to Know If Your Victimhood Has Become Your Identity
When the Abuse You See Clouds Biblical Interpretations
Not Sure Who to Vote for This Year? Here's the Perfect Candidate
Abuse Is Not the Best Way to Talk About the Problem With Abuse
Why Should You Talk to Your Children About LGBTQ+?
The Abuse of Abuse Is Complicating Legitimate Abuse
How to Help People with Different Opinions When Both Are Right
Learning How to Encourage Disappointing People to Change
Are You Attractive? A Way to Know Is If Sinners Hang With You
The Need to Know How Choices to Feel Better Are Addictive
7 Surprising Ways a Christian Acts Like the Far-Left Liberal
How Am I to Know When or When Not to Respond to a Fool?
Why I Am Number One and Look Out for Myself Most of All
Four Things to Know When Working Through Abuse
What Are Your Expectations and How Do They Manage You?
How Do I Begin a Counseling Ministry at My Local Church
Vital Teaching for Releasing Your Children to the World
Learning How to Keep What You Want From Controlling You
You Have No Choice But to Resolve Conflict With Others
How to Experience Future Glory In Present Difficulties
Thinking About Those People Who Are Not Like You
Your Love Should Not Be Tough: It Should Be Merciful
You're Only As Strong As That Which Provides the Most Hope
Why You Should Live In the Freedom of Knowing the Future
Fellowship Is the Missing Link In Most Relationships
How to Create the Aroma of Gratitude In Your Home
Connecting the Gospel to a God Who Is Silent
The Remarkable Way God Uses Brokenness to Heal You
What Is Gaslighting, Its Effects, and How to React to It?
Change Me: Chapter Five, Only Four Problems In Life
Change Me: Chapter Three, Perfect Self-Help Book
Change Me: Chapter Two, First Unique Step
Change Me: Chapter One, Make the Most of It
Change Me: Introduction
Is It Wrong to Show Emotion When Helping Someone?
What Is the Best Way to Work Through Personality Differnces?
The Best Way to Connect With Someone to Help Them Change
You Need to Budget the Expectation of Sin Into Your Life
Here Are Three Powerful and Practical Parenting Strategies
7 Things That Will Bring Change to Any Angry Teen's Life
10 Things That Will Motivate Your Teen Child to Change
Should People You Know Confess Their Sins to You?
How to Practically Help Non-Christians With Marriage Problems
The Ultimate Solution to All Your Problems, a Cross Examination
How Your Unguarded Strength Can Become a Double Weakness
How to Connect the Gospel to Your Music Choices
How Paul Connected the Gospel to Personal Suffering
How to Connect the Gospel to Parental Discipline
How to Connect the Gospel to Physical Suffering
How to Connect the Gospel to Being Left Alone
What Influences You the Most Is What You Love the Most
The Deadliest Infection and Greatest Cure You Can Have
Six Practical Thoughts When Helping Friends and Enemies
What to Do When You Can’t See What You Should See
When You Finally Realize That God Is Not an American
Speaking to the Practical Role of Fathers with Children
Four Stages to the Christian Life. Where Are You?
Here Is a Useful Way to Connect the Gospel to Arguments
Sometimes It's Better to Say Nothing When You're Right
How Do I Help My Teen When He Does Not Want My Help?
These Five Words Are the Most Life-Altering You’ll Ever Believe
Excellent Ideas That Will Help Your Church Before It’s Too Late
Being Honest About the Limitations of Social Media Relationships
Responding to Friends Who Do Things That Make You Uncomfortable
The Ironic and Liberating Truth About Feeling Conviction
Gay Logic: How In the World Did You Ever Believe This?
When the Slave Battles His Master for Ultimate Control
Reflective Study On Victimhood and the Need for Hope
The Destructive Force of Empathy, and Why You Need to Know
If You Do These Things, You Will Be a Missional Friend
How to Disciple Someone So They Will Care for Others
Lazy People Aren’t Lazy Primarily, But Have a Pleasure Disorder
The Revolutionary Cure for Shallow Small Group Frustration
What Can I Do About Being Fearful of Discipling Others?
People Learn About Jesus By the Things You Say
The Unintended Danger of the Principle-Driven Life
What Are Your Thoughts About Wolves and Weeds In the Church?
The Perfect Remedy for Those People Who Annoy You
The Victim of an Unwanted Divorce Learns to Forgive
How to Make Sense of Today’s Sexually Confused Culture
Should My Church Change Its Practice On Alcohol?
When You Worry About Your Sin, You Hinder the Gospel
Practical Advice for Discerning the Differences In People
Why You Can Trust God When He Withholds Your Desire
How to Move Your Marriage from Hostility to Harmony
An Educator Shares Her Perspective About Our Training
Knowing You're Bad Is the Beginning of Being Good
A Good Goal for Husbands: Stop Trying to Be a Good Husband
What To Do When Your Counseling Is Harsh
This Worldview Will Change Everything About Your Life
The Sobering Truth for Why Some Peope Do Not Change
The Purpose of Suffering Is to Grow Your Confidence In God
How to Have a Relational Adventure with Someone You Love
Parental Discipline Is Born Out of a Heart of Love
A Weak View of Love Will Damage Your Relationships
The Trap and Escape of the Christian Idolater
How to Love a Difficult Person Without Them Controlling You
Do Your Friends Permit You to Be Imperfect?
People You Love the Most Can Hurt You Quicker Than Anyone Else
Manipulating Others With the Things Than Have Happened to You
Here Is Some Motivation To Love That Pain In Your Neck
How to Help Christians Who Do Not Act Like Christians
Struggling With Sin Is One Way the Lord Strengthens You
If You Knew the Backstory, Would It Make Any Difference?
Breaking Down My Heart When It's Breaking Bad
Seven Keys That Will Transform Your Life
How to Change a Home from Job-Centered to God-Centered
Do You Qualify to Have a Spouse?
The Insightful Advantage of Comparing Yourself to People
The Intricate Reasons Why a Teen Boy Rejects His Mother
Quick and Dirty Tips for Building a Relationship
How Can I Get My Husband to Talk More?
How to Respond When a Spouse Will Not Meet Expectations
How To Motivate Church People To Volunteer
These Six Things Want to Control Your Life
Dear Daddy, I’m Not Your Little Girl Anymore
Knowing What to Do But Not Doing It Is a Problem
When You Are Discouraged You Need Your Soul Restored
What You Believe You Need Will Control You
Adversity Is the Condition that Teaches You Contentment
What To Do When Your Spouse Disappoints You
Does Your Marriage Look Like This?
When the Weight of Your Sin Weighs You Down
When a Para-Church Ministry Tries to Run the Church
Why and How Does God Bless Us?
When You Mix Suffering and Sovereignty Into Your Life
Do You Leave Folks Better Off Than When You Found Them?
Proactive Dads Keep Working After Coming Home from Work
Don’t Tell Folks What to Do Because They May Do It
What You Communicate in Crisis Communicates the Real You
Being Afraid of Your Daddy May Make You Afraid of God
How Do Your Friends Help You Mature In Christ?
How to Be Awesome in Three Easy Steps
Impacting Lives Near and Far, at the Same Time
A Quick and Simple Way to Know a Person
How to Agree to Disagree and Still Enjoy Each Other
Seven Tips for the Parent Who Blew It with Their Children
Start Here When Working through Your Personal Hurt
How to Keep from Being Overwhelmed by People Problems
I’ll Do My Own Thing Since God Does Not Have My Back
Being Honest about ADHD
Slow Down Before You Map Your Experience Over Others
The Powerful Upside and Downside of Habits
Take the “Am I a Counselor?” Test
Should I Count My Mean Husband More Significant than Me?
Experiencing Extraordinary Favor During Disappointment
Practical Steps on How to Walk in the Spirit
Which Do You Need for Your Maturity: a Bible or a Mentor?
A Note to Quiet People: It’s Time to Start Talking
When I Won’t Forgive Someone
Warming Butterflies, or How to Treat Your Wife
I Am Unable to Believe God
Whose Reputation Is Most Important to You?
I Failed as a Parent—Now What?
Give Your Children Fewer Rules and More Attitude
Three Stages to the Christian Life. Where Are You?
I Want to Talk You Out of Becoming a Christian
Why It’s Not Wrong to Expect Love in Return
The Shallowness and Incompleteness of the DISC Model
The Problem Letting Religious People Know The Real You
When Your Children Are Constipated (Spiritually Speaking)
If You Have Limited Time and Friends with Unlimited Needs
My Brother Was Murdered in 1997
Unkind Dads Tempt Children To Be Afraid Of God
Letter to a Counselor Counseling a Rebellious Teenager
Helping a Girl Who Longs for a Relationship with Her Mother
Should Your Child Go to College?
A White Guy and Black Guy Talk about Racial Issues, Part Three
A White Guy and Black Guy Talk about Racial Issues, Part Two
A White Guy and Black Guy Talk about Racial Issues, Part One
Whine Meter Question – I Want Life on My Own Terms?
If You Exported One Thing To Your Child, What Would It Be?
Being Divorced Is Like a Man in a Tux and Brown Shoes
Creating a Critical-Free Community on Facebook
How to Tackle the Biggest Battle in Your Soul
One Reason Children Rebel Against Their Parents
How to Find Answers Today for Tomorrow’s Problems
A Common Marriage Problem: I Don’t Like You
To Be the Man You Must Nourish and Cherish Your Wife
Three Keys When Confronting Someone
Submitting Your Life to the Foolishness of God
An Appeal from a Former Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastor
Addressing the Little Bit of Narcissism In All of Us
How to Assess Yourself to See If You Are Mature
The Wisdom of Boasting in Your Weakness
I’m Divorced and Want to Date – What Are Your Thoughts?
Connecting the Gospel to Evil and Unfairness
Diagnosing Disappointment with God When Trouble Comes
Mid-Life Crisis: A Story of Redemption
Generational Curses – Are You Cursed?
Mean Husbands and Wives Who Want to Love Them
The Critical Difference Between a Log and Speck
Four Reasons You Cannot Reconcile with Someone
Two Ways to See If You Are in the Faith
The Necessity and Danger of Wise Risk-Taking
Can God Use Me: the Non-Disqualifying Grace of God
Cynicism Is a Response of the Disappointed
I Trusted God, and My Life Fell Apart
Do You Wanna Be Happy?
Radical Marriage Conflict Resolution Tip
A Practical Plan to Rise Above Your Trouble
Can You Be Quiet? – Ten Keys to Noise Reduction
Discipleship Is Not Primarily About Changing Circumstances
The Secret That Will Change Your Life Forever
When Hope Drives You Insane
Six Questions When Engaging Others, Especially Those Who Hurt You
How to Care for the Professional Victim
God and the Bible Are Not All You Need to Change
Can’t the Local Church Do This?
A Good Discipler Is a “Rent-a-Friend”
Four Absolute “Musts” If You Want to Get Along
My Child Is LGBTQ+ Will You Help Me?
Open Letter to My Culture: I Have an Identity Too
Engagement Without Understanding Leads to Violence
A Gospel-Centered Response to Criticism
Do You Believe a Sinning Christian Can Change?
A Strong Appeal to Disciple Your Wife
A Believing Believer Lives Practically What They Believe
Are Christians Supposed to Have Fun?
Will God Get It Right: the Accusation of the Worrier
Should I Say Something about Someone Who Is Messing Up?
Should I Honor My Parents or Obey My Husband?
Four Excellent Parenting Tips You Can Implement Today
Seven Solid Tips That Will Change Your Life
Why I Do Not Believe in God Any Longer
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar: Thoughts on Feminism
The Confession of an Imposter
Secret-Keeping Destroys Lives and Relationships
The Best Thing Some Parents Can Do Is Stop Parenting
Some Days You Need to Feel Like a Counselee
Three Reasons God Is Not Able to Help You
Too Much Truth Can Keep You from the Truth
Revenge: When Evil Comes to You
A Discussion with Daddy and Daughter About Justification and Sanctification
Sometimes God Makes You do Things You Don’t Want to Do
How to Counsel Non-Christians With God’s Word
You Hurt Me, So I Don’t Love You Anymore
How to Think about and Respond to the Unchanging Person
Discipleship is Mostly about Prayer and Prophecy
The Simplest Counseling Advice You’ll Ever Receive
Do You Want My Attention or Do You Want My Care?
The Gollum Interview at IABC Conference
Counseling Is Not the Best Option For Change
Is It Necessary to Use Biblical Categories to Problem-Solve?
There Is a Blessing Found in an Unconcerned Wife
My Ex-spouse Is Ruining Our Children. Please Help!
Counseling Can Be a Lying Profession
Why I Can’t Tell My Spouse Everything I’m Thinking
Rick, Why Won’t You Counsel Another Way?
Let Me Tell You about My White Privilege
A Good Listener Listens on Two Levels
Do I Need to Be Certified to Become a Counselor?
Have You Fallen For the Being Understood Trap?
The Gay Guy Said, “I Was Born This Way.”
Are Children Better Off with Divorced Parents?
How to Stop the Fallout of Fatherlessness
Upside to Smoking Weed and Making Out at Church
Counseling Is Not the Best Context for Long-Term Transformation
Storyboarding Marriage – from Dysfunction to Restoration
Striving for Character Is Better Than Making A’s
Shame: I Don’t Want Anyone to Know What’s Happening
How to Divorce Well
Nine Tips for Managing Your Life and Calendar
Competitive Communication – Winning Is All That Matters
A Proactive Plan to Care for Others
Gossip: When Someone Says Bad Things About You
Personality Tests Are Like Psychological Selfies
Deadbeat Husband – Wife Left To Ponder Her Future
Should a Wife Submit To an Unrepentant Husband?
Let Me Teach You How To Predict the Future
The Most Blessed Relationship Two People Can Have
Can a Person's Family Become an Idol?
A Good Reason To Remember Sin
Dear Christian: Are You a Christian?
Your Enemy Is God’s Kindness To You
The Joy-Depleting Problem Of Being Reared In a Christian Home
Self Pity Is A Window Into the Soul
Surviving Suicide - When You're Left Alone
Spiritual Abuse – When It Is Time To Leave
A Progression From Pain To Purpose
Foster Children – The Forgotten Victims Of Abuse
Four People Types Who Get Stuck In a Rut
God Is An Extravagant Lover In Your Suffering
Abuse, Suffering, and Other Painful Disappointments
How To Argue Well With Others
Emotional Abuse: Its Origins, it's Cure
"You Are Suffering, and I Am Glad" - Jesus
Why We Should Embrace the Crucible Of Suffering
Ten Things To Know If You Want To Be a Counselor
Great Advice - Date Your Wife Forever
Ten Ways To Find, Develop, and Enjoy Wonderful Friends
A Cry For the Victims Of Sexual Abuse
The Wisdom In Handpicking Your Friends
The Wisdom In Giving Your Friends Room To Sin
Rick’s Counseling Notes On Guilt and Fear
The Necessity of "Critiquing" Authority Structures
A Marriage Living In the Freedom Of a Forgiven Past
When You Love Your Children Better Than Your Wife
Is God Harassing You?
Three Keys That Will Make Your Small Group Dynamic
Make Your Friends Help You If You Want to Change
The Danger Of a Man Providing For His Family
The Danger Of Trying to Be Perfect
The Danger of Pragmatic Parenting
The Danger Of Guilt, and the Need For Good Friends
The Danger of the "Grace Mistake"
An Excellent Way to Assess a Person't Authentic Faith
The Danger of Trying to Make Someone Change
The Reward Of Doing It In the Dark
Loving God When You Don't Get What You Want
Five Helpful Tips for Arguing Well
Three Steps to Becoming the Excellent Husband
Heaven Awaits While I Grieve Today
Nine Questions For the Overworked and Ready to Quit Pastor
Book Review - The Heart of Anger by Lou Priolo
A Child's Call to Disciple Her Daddy
Six Keys For Enduring An Unwanted Divorce
Counseling Today Standing On Jay's Shoulders
Christina Heffernan - My Story of Infertility
How to Do Family Worship, the Basics
Take the Manly Man Test
When Confidentiality Is Smuggled Into Christianity
The New Unpardonable Sin-Racism
Having Sexual Conversations With Your Spouse
Seven Ways Facebook Is Similar to Porn
The First Thing to Know When Caring For Someone
I Had Sex As a Teen. Will God Forgive Me?
All Your Soul Care Activity is "Speck Fishing"
Cigarettes, Jesus, and My Self-Righteous Soul
What To Do When Your Life Is Turned Upside Down
Double Confession: How to Respond When Sinned Against
A Dad Is a Powerful Picture of God the Father to His Child
You Must Find Your Starting Point Before Helping Others
What Am I Missing When I Get Angry?
I Had Breakfast With A Prostitute
Budget Sin Into Your Small Group Experience
Recovering, Rejoicing, But Refusing to Forget the Pain
Why It Is Easier to Lie Than Tell the Truth
The Danger Of Asking Jesus Into Your Heart
Facebook Is the Worldwide Leader In False Intimacy
From Despair to Hope - Grieving the Death of a Loved One
The Secret to Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down
Should We Use Non-Bible Language to Talk About Problems?
Five Things To Know When Unbelievers Die
Two Reasons Why You Should Start Writing Today
Regret: Lingering Reminders Of Our Humanity
Watching Tiger – Watching Me
Day 15 - Parental Discipline Comes From A Heart Of Love
My Mother Died Last Night--A Few Thoughts After Life
The Difference Between a Wife and a Mother
Is It Wrong To Critique Your Pastor’s Sermons?
Do You Have Good Micro Rhythms With Your Friends?
Why Do I Keep Doing The Same Sin Over And Over Again?
When Christianity Disappoints You: The Death Of My Brother
Picture This: Portrait of a Beautiful Marriage
My Job Robbed My Wife of the Intimacy She Deserves
Husband’s Dilemma: I Lead You – I Sin Against You
How to Rebuke Ann Voskamp and Other People Not Like You
Why Do You Criticize Ann Voskamp?
Five Keys to Move Your Relationships From Shallow to Deep
Should a Fallen Leader Be Restored Back to Ministry?
Beauty and the Beast, and the Gay Agenda
What Is Discipleship? How Do You Do It? Why Does It Matter?
Why Does God Bless Some, But Not Others?
Twenty Questions When You're Hurt By Your Church
Husband, How Is Your Wife Doing?
BONUS EPISODE: Write a book review, help a life
Our Nation Is Not More Divided Today
Did God want Clemson to beat Alabama?
Facebook Live Violence. Are You Surprised?
I Resolve to Quit Smoking, a Ten-Step Process
Ep. 65 What your spouse's unkind words reveal
Ep 64 Ten things that will help the person who is rejecting you
Ep. 63 Does biblical submission mean my husbands has final say in all decisions?
Cynicism is a numbness toward life
Ep. 61 Ten great ideas when caring for couples
UPDATE: Lucia diagnosed with breast cancer
Connecting the Gospel to perfectionism
Do you make your spouse pay for her sin?
Silo Christians do not enter the culture - They yell at them
All you need to know for camping on Black Friday
Bonus Episode - Complete Marriage
NFL Ratings Decline Because of the Players
Why people won't listen to you
Your parents were not always boring
Finding God in your mundane life will change your life
Letter to a Teen – Six Things You Need to Know
Does your spouse know you are for him?
One powerful and practical way to give peace to someone
Planning Your Future: What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?
How Authoritarian Parents Rear Legalistic Children
Anatomy of Selfie: What It Reveals About You
The Danger of Hating the Sin and Loving the Sinner
How Cyber Relationships Affect Real-World Relationships
Why I Don’t Watch Football Any Longer
My 13-Year Old Friend Was Divorced 5 Times
What Happens When God Is Not the Center of Your Home
20 Things I Would Tell My 20-Year Old Self
I Got Angry At My Daughter the Other Day
Do You Have the Gospel Edge?
Today’s Christian Replaces Yesterday’s Negro and Gay Person
Leading Husbands, and Their Wives Who Want to Love Them
12 Universal Assumptions You Can Make About People
Muhammad Ali, the greatest of all time?
Helpful Things to Make the Most out of Counseling
The Most Effective Thing You Can Do In Your Marriage
Why I am weary of reading books
It’s Resurrection Sunday. Again. Still Alive
Man Alive! The Problem With The Resurrection
Do better than Bible study: Spend time with God
There Is No Passing Or Failing In Our Program
Ronda Rousey - A Need to Die, a Lesson for All
No Risk. All Reward: The life of a talking head
Ep. 7 How to respond to people with different capacities and competencies
From Dating to Divorce and How We Got There
Why counseling should happen in the church
I’m Living Alone In My Marriage
Dear Evangelical, It's Unwise and Unhelpful to Mock Joel Osteen
Something must come between us or we're going to kill each other
A white guy talks to a black guy about black stuff
Five Ways You Can Love Your Church
The Insecure Wife Who Lives With a Harsh Husband
Why All Other Psychologies Bow at the Foot of the Bible
Interview with Pastor Mike Hawkins about Caring for Others
The danger of opening the doors of the church
The cure for the distracted heart
Your Wife, Your Children, and Other Secondary Considerations
A reason the Word of God does relate
Can a Christian Divorce Another Christian For Abuse?
The Number One Reason You Need Someone
When black churches make wife "co-pastor"
Episode 31 - Abuse, suffering, and other disappointments
A Cool Idea To Do On Your Birthday
What Every Guy Needs to Know About Girls
Open Letter to Any Girl Who Wants to Be Married
Sex Before Marriage Is the Beginning of a Trail of Tears
10 things the black church must stop
Episode 30 - When you are hurt by your church
Your life is shaping your child
A biblical reason to love our bodies
Why you can't fix people
Essential teaching about how people change
Is Planned Parenthood harvesting lives?
You will know you love gay people when
Two rules every parent should teach children
Gays need more than our rebuke; they need our Gospel
From Feminist to Hollywood to Pastor’s Wife, Pt. 3
From Feminist to Hollywood to Pastor’s Wife, Pt. 2
From Feminist to Hollywood to Pastor's Wife, Pt. 1
South Carolina, racism, and that flag
How to Have Authentic and Transparent Relationships
The real reason Dylann Roof murdered
The Bird Show (demo)
50 things I want my son to know
The Gospel Y Chart Illustrated
A way to disqualify your parenting
Working through the pain of loss
50 things I want my daughter to know
What to do when your spouse walks out
Why it is not wrong to expect to be loved
Who is the biggest sinner in the room?
Why I want to be imperfect
When Christianity disappoints you
How to change church's view on alcohol
A world view for reaching the "cyber" world