Responsible freedom knows others have their own choices. So, you limit your freedom because love pursues the best for others. Each time you sacrifice some of your time, money, or ...

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Responsible Freedom or Irresponsible Freedom?

Be careful, if you promote individual rights without humility and, especially without love. When you do, you encourage irresponsible freedom. Your “flashing ME” will always see your rights as more ...

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Individual Rights and Freedom Used Incorrectly

The world, especially western culture, is drowning in gender confusion. What is a REAL man or REAL woman? How would you teach that to a child or anyone searching for ...

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REAL Men and Women Are Rare

When you think about yourself (thoughts about ME), you tend to be self-absorbed - and that is seldom something good for you. I speculate that 95% or more of the ...

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Thoughts about ME – Are They Always Bad?

Freedom is great! It is one of the highest and dearest principles for life and relationships. It is also similar to grace in some respects. Yet, it is not the ...

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Freedom Is Great – But Not Best!

Men and women are obviously different, which is part of the reason they disagree about getting relationship help. Not knowing the foundation for or why the following seven items are ...

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Relationship Help – 7 Reasons Couples Disagree About Getting Help

Have your heard someone say, "I just can't forgive myself?" It is a popular concept nowadays, but stop and think about it.How will you forgive yourself? Which part of you ...

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Forgive Yourself? How Will You Do That?

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs (1648) is a must-read book. I find it from time to time on Amazon. One of the great benefits of the book ...

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Contentment Is A Rare Jewel

 The Proverbs 31 woman is considered an excellent example of a godly woman, wife, and mother. Some believe this was not a real woman. Whether real or not, the statements ...

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Proverbs 31 Wife or Woman

Your sin nature has a short time frame for satisfaction, so satisfaction is temporary. Much of the problem comes from the judgments on men and women. The primary desire of the ...

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Satisfaction Is Temporary Because of the Judgments

Go back with me to the Garden of Eden. Remember when God told Adam that he was free to choose the fruit from all but one tree of the Garden. ...

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Free to Choose Bad Consequences

Do godly parents have godly children? It would help if you had a truth table to help you answer that question. The answer is significant for your freedom. While you ...

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Godly Parents Have Godly Children – True or False?

While many control people are bad, my speculation is control people often have good intentions – they are usually GOOD PEOPLE UP TO NO GOOD.I am probably the poster child ...

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Good People May Be Up to No Good

Paul's list of bad behaviors in 2 Timothy 3 starts with “men will be lovers of self," then ends it “lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.”The list speaks ...

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Lovers of Self Rather Than God

God is THE model for freedom in relationships. He is entirely free of any control. So, it is accurate to state that freedom is divine. God is the only being ...

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Freedom Is Divine and Hard to Understand

Is the Image of God easily and simply stated as "Powerful and Relational?" If that theory has merit, it will be supported by God’s Word. That is the best source to ...

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Powerful and Relational – the Image of God in Scripture

Stating we are god-like can be misleading. We are created in the image of God which is the foundation for men's and women's designs. When you see the image of God ...

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In the Image of God? Are You God-like?

The image of God, hormones, and God's attributes don't seem to go together. But, there is a connection; the last two help us understand the first. Then God said, “Let us ...

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Image of God, Hormones, and God’s Attributes

Man's judgment focuses his attention on work and activities, leading him to abdicate leadership in the home and try to control his work. Most of what we said about the ...

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Man’s Judgment and the PROBLEM

The woman's judgment drives her to misuse her God-given relational ability to meet her needs rather than the needs of others. God's design of women gave them a special ability ...

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Woman’s Judgment and the PROBLEM