5 to Live By: 5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
How Addiction Works
Paul Tripp writes:
“The dynamic of addiction is that if you look to something that God created, to give you what it wasn’t intended to give you, either you get discouraged quickly, and wisely abandon those hopes, or you go back again and again, and in so doing, you begin to travel down addiction’s road.”
Read the rest at How Addiction Works by Andy Naselli.
7 Ways to Survive a Cultural Crisis
In light of the seismic changes in our culture’s moral perspective on same-sex relationships, Mark Dever ponders How to Survive a Cultural Crisis.
Adultery and Counseling in the Local Church
At the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Grace & Truth site, Jonathan Holmes writes about Adultery and Counseling in the Local Church.
Caring for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Finding the courage to voice your story of sexual abuse can feel impossible: too exposing, too embarrassing, too painful, too taboo. Tragically, sometimes the hardest place to share such stories is within the church. “Why is this so,” asks Scotty Smith, “and how can the church do a better job of giving men and women the voice to tell their stories of shame?” In this eight-minute video, Smith is joined by Justin Holcomb and Trillia Newbell to discuss how congregations can practically recognize, love, and care for victims of sexual abuse.
View the video in Caring for Victims of Sexual Abuse.
Global Trauma Recovery Intensive
Phil Monroe’s shares insights from a class on Global Trauma Recovery Intensive.
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