And we have to walk to do that. Aug 23, David Zailer rated it it was amazing. Ashamed No More, speaks powerfully into a difficult and frightening reality that affects us all, and none are more threatened than our Christian leaders. Sadly, we hold our religious professionals to standards that punish them for admitting common human vulnerabilities, leaving them isolated alone and without the resources and care that could help them.
Ryan steps courageously into this lonely place bringing his own inspired experience as living proof of recovery and transformation. He wond Ashamed No More, speaks powerfully into a difficult and frightening reality that affects us all, and none are more threatened than our Christian leaders. He wonderfully explains how individual Twelve Step recovery work, therapy and counseling, and Christ-centered contemplative disciplines are roadmaps for healing.
He explains how to live in community with deep honesty, guiding us to discover an inner healing that is beyond our wildest religious dreams and expectations. Read this book and share it with others, it will save lives. Aug 04, Lori rated it it was amazing. His honesty and openness has been such a great encouragement to me to try to be the same way. Shame and sin grow in the dark. Love and acceptance have an opportunity to grow in our lives when we aren't afraid to tell the truth about the things we struggle with.
For anyone who's ever struggled with any kind of addiction to anything this book is a source of great help and healing. Jun 07, Candy rated it really liked it.
Very good explanation of addictions of all kinds and how hard it is to fight them alone. Ministry is a very difficult job. I feel like our churches are letting our pastors down by not giving them counseling before they go into full time ministry.
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The church should be a safe place, but it doesn't feel like we give them the safe haven that all sinners need! Mar 18, Sarah Wilcher rated it it was amazing.
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My wife, Crystal, was recently talking with a non-Christian friend of hers. At the time two news stories had gone viral. The big headline was about a Wisconsin company that announced it would be the first to offer free microchip implants for employees. Any Christian who has read Revelation 13 knows what this sounds like: The second story was about a local sex-trafficking ring that law enforcement had broken up in Orange County, California, where we live.
Crystal's friend connected the dots. The friend said that if they were available, she would jump at the chance to put microchips in her children so she could track them and keep them safe from the dangers that lurk about—like trafficking.
The friend's logic makes sense—until we read Revelation. Most of us know about the infamous mark prophesied there, but either shrug it off as fiction or have become numb to it because we have heard it taught so often. We know it is out there somewhere, but there is a football game to watch or a taco to eat or social media to waste our lives away in.
What if this mark is real? What if it is the sign the Antichrist requires for all people who want to sell or buy?
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What if the Bible is right? How about your Millennial child or neighbor or barista? Is he or she ready? Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. With microchips implanted in humans on their right hands or foreheads as Revelation foretells , bitcoins growing as a world currency and Teen Vogue magazine chipping away at moral decency by publishing an article instructing youth on how to sodomize each other, as I see it, the Millennial generation is being prepped to discard traditional norms and embrace the mark.
I am not saying that bitcoin or microchips or Teen Vogue will be used specifically, but the technology is here.
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So is the cultural mindset. This is not some sensationalized scare tactic. The stage has been set. It could happen tomorrow. As Christians, what should we do? Most who have grown up in church or have been going for a while will have a checklist: We know what the manual says. We can recite the Great Commission.
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