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2022 (2)

Jan 13 -- The Shame of the Bleeding Woman (guest post by Helena Knowlton) (15)
Jan 6 -- Paul’s Word for the New Year: “Holy Amnesia” (7)

2021 (35)

Dec 31 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2021 and Looks Forward (10)
Dec 28 -- False Teaching: How Bad Theology Almost Killed My Faith (guest post by Ann-Marie Ferry) (11)
Dec 24 -- When The Psychopathic Megalomaniac Wants to Thwart God’s Plan (21)
Dec 16 -- I Don’t Deserve God’s Love (or Maybe I Do?) A Thought for Advent (9)
Nov 22 -- To Church People who Think Husbands Should Rape Their Wives (23)
Nov 8 -- Here’s How You Can Tell When You Should Listen to Your Feelings (13)
Nov 5 -- Paul Sure Did Confront Peter a Lot in This New Book (10)
Oct 18 -- Let’s Compare Potiphar’s Wife with Tamar, Shall We? (32)
Oct 6 -- Here’s How “Choosing to Believe” Differs from Actually Believing (16)
Sep 5 -- That Time I Tried to Be Like George Mueller: Reflections on My 64th Birthday (14)
Aug 17 -- What Did Jesus Mean When He Said “Turn the Other Cheek”? (17)
Jul 26 -- When Does Sin Become Idolatry? A New Perspective on an Old Question (12)
Jun 30 -- Did the Bereans Think Paul Was a Charlatan? (11)
Jun 22 -- If Someone Offends Me, Should I Not Talk About It? (10)
Jun 14 -- “If you can’t say something nice” . . . in Colossians 4:6 (8)
Jun 8 -- Two Bits of Big News about Untwisting Scriptures (0)
May 31 -- Yes, We Really Do Have Authority in Jesus Christ (4)
May 25 -- The Parable of the Talents, for a Fearful Abuse Survivor (14)
May 13 -- How to Come Out of a Cult and Find Jesus (7)
May 9 -- A Prayer for Anna Duggar on Mother’s Day (23)
May 5 -- Those 365 “Fear Not” Verses in the Bible (11)
Apr 19 -- Casting Out Fear by Whistling a Happy Tune (7)
Apr 8 -- Does He Look Like He Loves You? (Guest Post by “Mara”) (4)
Mar 31 -- 6 Ways “The Gospel” Is so Much More than You’re Usually Told (9)
Mar 25 -- Is Empathy Still a Sin? The Joe Rigney / Hannah Anderson Conversation (24)
Mar 17 -- The Amazing Grace Cycle (Guest Post by Deborah Brunt) (5)
Mar 10 -- Restoring a Pedophile, According to Jay Adams (4)
Mar 3 -- Here’s the Link to that Zoom Interview with Me about Patriarchy (6)
Feb 26 -- Two Time-Sensitive Messages (4)
Feb 22 -- “We Are Just as Vulnerable”: A Response to The Gospel Coalition (28)
Feb 18 -- 4 Effects of Rules Without Relationship (From the Book of Romans) (23)
Feb 10 -- How Pedophiles Are Forgiven, From the Teachings of Jay Adams (21)
Jan 26 -- Second Untwisting Scriptures Book Finally Coming Out! (18)
Jan 18 -- 5 Reasons You Need to Come to the CTPM Retreat in May 2021 (5)
Jan 5 -- How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile (83)

2020 (19)

Dec 24 -- Hope for the Weary at Advent (Guest Post by Teri Zalk) (4)
Dec 14 -- Here’s Why “Gratitude Motivation” Isn’t Biblical—and What’s Better (18)
Nov 13 -- [FREE GIFT] Here’s What to Do When You’re Too Frazzled to Know How to Pray (7)
Nov 10 -- Your Pastor Isn’t Moses: A Response to John Bevere’s “Under Cover” (69)
Oct 22 -- Small to Great (Guest Post by Rochelle Sadie) (9)
Oct 7 -- Do You Always Have a Log in Your Own Eye? (6)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 63rd Birthday: The Box of Things I Don’t Know What to Do With (22)
Aug 2 -- That “Obey Your Leaders and Submit to Their Authority” Scripture: Examining Hebrews 13:17 (24)
Jul 20 -- An Update on My One-on-One Ministry (6)
Jul 13 -- Why You Need to Listen to Your Emotions (5)
Jun 23 -- “Loyalty” Is Not a Christian Virtue (24)
Jun 1 -- Bill Gothard’s Umbrella Heresy in a Day of Protests Against Police Brutality (15)
May 12 -- Christians and Conspiracy Theories: A Response to The Gospel Coalition (45)
Apr 28 -- What The Truman Show Can Illustrate About Church (8)
Apr 12 -- Rejoice in the Resurrection of Our Lord! (0)
Apr 9 -- The Arrest of Jesus Reminds Us That We Need to Understand the Pharisees (13)
Mar 13 -- Untwisting Scriptures About “Your Rights” (a Video) (11)
Feb 17 -- A “We Care About Sex Trafficking” Initiative Parable (By Anonymous Guest Writer) (12)
Jan 13 -- That Time I Tried to Be Transparent in a Small Group . . . (43)

2019 (37)

Dec 2 -- Blessings Are Not Sweet Little Things (Guest Post by Deborah Brunt) (1)
Nov 26 -- What’s the Best Way for Us to Bring Glory to God? (5)
Nov 25 -- Is God Glorified Through Our Suffering? (22)
Nov 21 -- Why the Jeffrey Epstein Case Matters to Christians (45)
Nov 12 -- Did I Do All I Could for My Siblings? (Guest Post by Erika Smith) (22)
Oct 28 -- “The Return of the Daughters” Meets Rachael Denhollander (39)
Oct 14 -- Here’s What’s Wrong With God Looking Through the “Filter” of Jesus to See His Children (28)
Oct 7 -- “Your Greatest Problem Is Your Own Sin” (Guest Post by Valerie Jacobsen) (12)
Sep 23 -- What Does “Loving Your Enemies” Look Like With an Abuser? (21)
Sep 16 -- “Look To the Cross More”: A Response to the “Gospel-Centered” Movement (12)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 62nd Birthday: “What if Your Life Were Written as a Story?” (20)
Aug 19 -- The Best Counsel I Ever Received—It’s Not What You’d Expect (Guest Post by Ruth Harris) (10)
Aug 6 -- Are Wolves Proliferating in the Churches? (22)
Jul 29 -- A Gothard Girl Testifies About the “Root of Bitterness” (Guest Post by Lauren Rose) (20)
Jul 22 -- Can God Be in the Presence of Sin? (12)
Jul 15 -- Have You Been Philippians 4:8’d? (27)
Jul 8 -- “Why Are You So Fearful? How Is it That You Have No Faith?” (9)
Jul 1 -- For Those Who Don’t Want to Waste Your Lives . . . (17)
Jun 24 -- “It’s Not About You” (25)
Jun 17 -- “Your Empathy Is a Sin”: A Response to Desiring God (110)
Jun 14 -- A New Church Parable of the Good Samaritan (14)
Jun 10 -- “Better Than I Deserve” (21)
May 30 -- Will God Send Leanness to Your Soul? (3)
May 27 -- Three Fingers Pointing Back at You (34)
May 21 -- What Does “Fear of Man” Really Mean? And Other Observations About Fear (11)
May 20 -- Is Your Fear Sinful . . . Or Actually Pleasing to God? (18)
Apr 25 -- Faith in All It’s Splendor (17)
Apr 23 -- The Good News About Biblical Bitterness: A Short Talk (10)
Apr 11 -- Those “Renegade Bloggers” in the Christian Post (27)
Apr 3 -- That Forgiveness Talk at Harvest Bible Chapel (50)
Apr 2 -- Because It’s Appropriate for a Victim to Name Her Offender (0)
Apr 1 -- New Book for Help With Praying When You’re Under Spiritual Attack (5)
Mar 26 -- You Should Come to Church to “Give” and Not to “Get” (8)
Mar 18 -- When God Is Not Disappointed With You (20)
Feb 4 -- When “Moral Failure” is Redefined as “You Didn’t Submit to Church Authority”: Thoughts on the Harvest Bible Chapel Scandal (7)
Jan 28 -- 5 Things Needed More Than Theology for Unity in the Church: A Response to Al Mohler (20)
Jan 23 -- The Secret to Living a Life That Pleases God (5)

2018 (59)

Dec 31 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2018 and Looks Forward (4)
Dec 26 -- Joseph Wasn’t Afraid of “Rebellion, the Sin Like Witchcraft” (10)
Nov 27 -- Looking For “Evidences of Grace” in the Life of an Abuser (19)
Nov 22 -- At Thanksgiving, Here’s One of the People I’m Thankful For (5)
Nov 19 -- The Vision of James MacDonald, Mega-Church Pastor Who Sues Bloggers’ Wives (29)
Nov 14 -- What Place Does “Striving” Have in Sanctification? A Response to Heath Lambert (10)
Nov 13 -- Reconciling the “Resting” and the “Striving,” With Some Thoughts From Heath Lambert (10)
Nov 12 -- Struggling With “Striving”: When Should I Strive and When Should I Rest? (10)
Oct 31 -- What Is Real Christianity? (5)
Oct 28 -- For My Mother (1927-2018) (56)
Oct 24 -- New Website Page: The Beliefs Behind the Blog (0)
Oct 9 -- Is Exposing Evildoers a Violation of the Ninth Commandment? A Response to Tim Challies (Part Two) (11)
Oct 8 -- Is Exposing Evildoers a Violation of the Ninth Commandment? A Response to Tim Challies (Part One) (6)
Oct 4 -- What About “Repressed Memories”? A Response to John MacArthur (31)
Sep 26 -- “Why Are You So Negative?” A Response to “Positive” People (15)
Sep 25 -- A Message to the Wounded Helpers: What Would Jesus Do? (5)
Sep 17 -- “You Can’t Argue With Success” (Guest Post From a Former Pastor’s Wife) (7)
Sep 14 -- If You Were Harmed, Does That Mean You’ll Blame God? And Other Questions for John MacArthur (30)
Sep 12 -- Social Justice is Not the Gospel: A Response to John MacArthur (16)
Sep 10 -- No “Digging Up the Past” Allowed: A Response to Nouthetic (“Biblical”) Counseling (37)
Sep 5 -- Reflections On My 61st Birthday: “Why Don’t I Ever Meet Those People?” (37)
Sep 3 -- Should The Master’s University Insist on Loyalty to Authority More Than Care for the Oppressed? (10)
Aug 14 -- Thoughts On Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theorists, Inspired by the Thomas Chantry Trial (6)
Aug 10 -- Are You Exiled From God? (0)
Jul 27 -- Cleanse Your Guilty Conscience, Get Grace, and Other Solutions to the Noisy Soul: A Response to Jim Berg (Part 3) (8)
Jul 25 -- The Solutions to the Noisy Soul: A Response to Jim Berg (Part 2) (19)
Jul 23 -- Quieting a Noisy Soul by Jim Berg: A Response (Part 1) (21)
Jul 17 -- An Absolute Must If You Want to Deeply Help Others in the Church (21)
Jul 17 -- “The Unbelieving Spouse Is Sanctified by the Believer”? Examining 1 Corinthians 7:13-16 (Part Two) (8)
Jul 16 -- “The Unbelieving Spouse Is Sanctified by the Believer”? Examining 1 Corinthians 7:13-16 (Part One) (18)
Jul 12 -- Are You the Prodigal Son or the Older Brother? (8)
Jul 2 -- Why We’re Glad We Considered an Alternative to Four-Year College (11)
Jun 17 -- My Dad In the 1960s: Integrity vs “Virtue Signaling” (5)
Jun 15 -- The “Slippery Slope” of Victimization (13)
Jun 12 -- The SBC Sexual Offender Database That Isn’t: My Inside Peek (10)
Jun 10 -- Behind the Broken Wall, Beyond the Torn Curtain (4)
Jun 7 -- The Most Important Time to Stop Going to Your Church: A Response to the Gospel Coalition (37)
Jun 4 -- Making Sense of the Church World’s Epidemic of Abuse (18)
May 26 -- Commentary on JD Greear’s Facebook Live Statement (11)
May 24 -- A Letter to the Washington Post Revealing Abuse at an SBC Seminary (16)
May 23 -- What Students Thought About Paige Patterson’s Forced Early Retirement (4)
May 17 -- 5 Reasons For Church Small Groups to Replace “Transparency” With “Integrity” (15)
May 15 -- Reason Trumps Emotions? 90% of Evangelicals Say Yes (22)
May 13 -- Happy Complicated Mother’s Day (19)
May 4 -- Paige Patterson and a Culture That Breeds a Generation of Abusers (27)
Apr 30 -- Sin and Holiness: A Poster (7)
Apr 27 -- When Is it Wrong to Be a “Living Sacrifice”? Reexamining Romans 12:1 (2)
Apr 20 -- Are All Christians Hypocrites? A Response to a Bill Hybels Supporter (12)
Mar 30 -- Defeat That Roaring Lion (3)
Mar 19 -- No More Karma Christianity (17)
Mar 5 -- How to Handle Those “Forgive and Forget” Scriptures (19)
Feb 12 -- Should You Love Yourself? A Response to Desiring God (13)
Jan 26 -- Rachael Denhollander, SGM, and Bob Jones University (10)
Jan 25 -- Rachael Denhollander Lost Her Church Over Her Advocacy for Abuse Survivors (52)
Jan 22 -- Turpin Tragedy: Is Homeschooling the Problem? (26)
Jan 16 -- David and Louise Turpin: the Picture Perfect Homeschooling Family (126)
Jan 10 -- Let’s Look Beyond Those Generational Labels (6)
Jan 5 -- That “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” Question: A Response to Ryan Fullerton (14)
Jan 2 -- Prayers for Those Who Haven’t Prayed in a Long Time (5)

2017 (68)

Dec 29 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2017 and Looks Forward (4)
Dec 27 -- “With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael” Celebrates Thirty Years (My First Book) (14)
Dec 25 -- A Christian Carol (or, Living in the Spirit Present) (0)
Dec 20 -- Husbands, You Don’t Need to Get Her Ready for Jesus: A Response to Desiring God (19)
Dec 19 -- A Better Motivator for Christian Service than Gratitude (6)
Dec 15 -- Happy 33rd Anniversary, Mr. Reasonable (6)
Dec 12 -- Encouraging Thoughts on Forgiveness and Grief (4)
Dec 4 -- You Want to “Suffer Well”? (A Poster) (5)
Nov 30 -- Getting Help With an “Angry Husband,” According to “Biblical Counseling” (20)
Nov 29 -- Don’t Be a Martyr, but Do Suffer in Your Marriage to an Angry Husband (and Other “Biblical Counseling”) (16)
Nov 28 -- Should the Texas Church Shooter’s Wife Have Gotten “Biblical Counseling”? #ChurchToo (22)
Nov 27 -- Grandma, Can I Tell You About My Rape? A Message to Kind Christian Grandparents #YouToo (6)
Nov 24 -- She is “Undiminished” (Guest Post By an Abuse Survivor) (2)
Nov 22 -- Thankful . . . for the Protectors (9)
Nov 20 -- John Piper’s Gossip Post Needs Part 2, to Address Double Standards (14)
Nov 15 -- Untwisting “You Should Surrender Your Rights” (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick) (5)
Nov 8 -- It’s Unbiblical to Surrender Your Rights (6)
Nov 3 -- “Erring On the Side of Grace” When it Comes to Repentance? (7)
Oct 30 -- Does God Crush You Like a Rose to Make Perfume? (17)
Oct 22 -- An Authority Covering Umbrella of Protection Parable, to Celebrate the Reformation (13)
Oct 16 -- Speaking at a Domestic Abuse Conference in Raleigh, NC, in November (0)
Oct 10 -- Tullian: Jesus + Nothing = Everything? (28)
Oct 6 -- “(Adult) Children Obey Your Parents”? Part Two, for Adults Raised in Patriarchy (24)
Oct 5 -- “Children Obey Your Parents”? Part One (5)
Sep 30 -- Here’s an Abuse Survivor’s Plea about Nouthetic “Biblical” Counseling (31)
Sep 29 -- If “Jane” From The Master’s University Were to Seek “Biblical Counseling” (25)
Sep 19 -- Nothing Like The Sheep Sermon to Make You Feel Stupid, Disgusting, and Useless (24)
Sep 12 -- In Which I Have a Small Argument With a Puritan About Suffering (25)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 60th birthday: Reframing My Name (17)
Aug 29 -- Maybe It’s Time to Stop Praying for God to “Use” You (6)
Aug 27 -- “Jesus as Intercessor”: Barely Restraining God’s Wrath? (14)
Aug 22 -- The Problem of Excommunication: A Response to Desiring God (73)
Aug 18 -- Mr. Charming and Miss Target (a Guest Post at A Cry for Justice) (1)
Aug 8 -- What If You Married a Nazi? (0)
Aug 7 -- “You Just Need to Be Content”: A Response to Desiring God (22)
Aug 2 -- Two Book Recommendations—Funny, Outrageous, and Inspiring (1)
Jul 25 -- Standing Against Evildoers: A Poster (3)
Jul 23 -- A New Website Exposing a Cult (0)
Jul 21 -- My Letter to the Man Who Said Your Marriage is Designed to Kill You (11)
Jul 20 -- Dear Christian, Find Your Life in Jesus Christ (5)
Jul 19 -- Dear Christian, You Are Called to Spiritual Life, Not Perpetual Death (10)
Jul 18 -- Dear Christian, Stop Trying to Die (4)
Jul 17 -- Dear Christian, Your Marriage Is Not Supposed to Kill You (26)
Jul 11 -- Pronoun Trouble in Romans 2 That Can Keep the Oppressed in a Place of Bondage (6)
Jul 10 -- A Bit of News (With a Video) (0)
Jul 7 -- How Easy It Is to Appear Righteous: A Poster (2)
Jul 6 -- To Those in “Biblical” Patriarchy: Return to God (16)
Jul 5 -- “Biblical” Patriarchy: Here’s How You Replaced God (33)
Jun 27 -- Our Only Hope: A Poster (4)
Jun 26 -- Righteous Anger or Sinful? A Response to the Women’s Study Bible (14)
Jun 23 -- Dear Michael Pearl, This Is What Righteous Anger Looks Like (38)
Jun 21 -- If You Know Someone Who Can’t Hold Onto Hope . . . Yet (8)
Jun 20 -- Maybe Your Bitterness Isn’t Really Sinful: A Video Interview (5)
Jun 14 -- There Weren’t Any Wicked People in MY Part of the World (0)
Jun 6 -- The Other Kind of Radical (a Guest Post for Give Her Wings) (7)
Jun 3 -- A Video Interview on the Topic of “Yielding Rights” (4)
May 31 -- The Other Kind of Hypocrisy (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick) (25)
May 22 -- Dear Sister I Read About on the CBCMoscow Blog Post (25)
May 16 -- The Defiled Conscience: Should We Lovingly Help or Sharply Rebuke? (4)
May 8 -- Thoughts for the Hopeless from Isaiah 40 (12)
May 1 -- “The Evolution of This Blog” Updated (0)
Apr 20 -- “Conscience” in the Bible: Insight Into Abusers and Their Targets (13)
Mar 21 -- 4 Ways Teaching Christians to Embrace “I’m the Worst Sinner I Know” Is Harming the Church (35)
Feb 25 -- On Calling People Out Via Social Media: A Response to Jarrid Wilson (1)
Feb 2 -- Why “Moral Injury,” Like “PTSD,” Is a Term That Applies to Far More Than Our Soldiers, and Why That’s Important to All of Us (10)
Jan 26 -- New Book: Tear Down This Wall of Silence Now in Its Second Edition (1)
Jan 18 -- Rethinking the Idol Factory: Challenging the “Idol” Construct as the Explanation for All Sin in the Lives of Christians (37)
Jan 4 -- Tullian Tchividjian, Tom Chantry, BJUGrace, and Gossip (2)

2016 (22)

Dec 28 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2016 and Looks Forward (1)
Dec 22 -- A Guest Post on A Cry for Justice (0)
Dec 16 -- What Hypocrisy Is and What It Isn’t and Why That’s Important: A Lesson From Tullian Tchividjian (3)
Dec 13 -- Just Call Me Mr. Knightley (0)
Dec 6 -- Power Over Porn (1)
Nov 30 -- What Does It Mean to “Serve the Church”? (7)
Nov 24 -- The Picture On My Grandmother’s Wall (4)
Nov 16 -- Why Do They Tell You to “Surrender Rights” That Aren’t Even Rights at All? (2)
Nov 1 -- In the Messy Middle of the Story (11)
Oct 24 -- Behind the Scenes at “Untwisting Scriptures” (2)
Oct 17 -- Do You See How Significant This Is? (3)
Oct 11 -- Do You Pray for God to “Break” You? (17)
Oct 3 -- New Book on the Way: “Untwisting Scriptures” (11)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 59th Birthday: A Warrior’s Tale (10)
Aug 29 -- Bible Journaling Before Bible Journaling Was Cool (0)
Aug 22 -- Why Did David Lift His Eyes to the Hills? A New Perspective on an Old Question (34)
Aug 15 -- Bitterness in the Bible? It’s Not What You Thought It Was (4)
Aug 3 -- The “Gall of Bitterness” in Acts — It Isn’t Resentment (2)
Jul 27 -- The “Root of Bitterness” in Hebrews–It Isn’t Unforgiveness (10)
Jul 6 -- “You Give Them Something to Eat” (0)
Jun 30 -- Greenville Woman Cannot Bear Evil, Leaves Primary Love. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. (3)
Jun 23 -- Not Really Six Months of Silence (2)

2015 (10)

Nov 22 -- Lessons From Blind Men and the Elephant in the Room (1)
Nov 15 -- Searching For the One Who is Worth Searching For (3)
Oct 6 -- What Kind of Salvation Did We Get? (5)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 58th Birthday: Found Faithful (3)
Jul 15 -- Let’s Pray Right Now (4)
Jun 23 -- Patience Right Now (3)
Apr 14 -- Note to Self: Stop Saying “I Can’t” (2)
Mar 2 -- If Necessary, Use Words (2)
Feb 17 -- What Kind of Help Do You Need? (0)
Jan 7 -- So Where’s the Fruit? Thoughts on John 15 and the Sower and Seed (0)

2014 (15)

Dec 2 -- Sin? Holiness? Legalism? Hypocrisy? Defining Terms (0)
Sep 24 -- Replying to One Who Says Christians Should Have No Rights (20)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on my 57th Birthday: Stepping Heavenward (2)
Aug 23 -- How Much of a Day of Rest Should Sunday Really Be? (7)
Aug 7 -- Airing My Dirty Laundry at Bob Jones University (2)
Aug 1 -- Psalm 131: How Can I Have a Soul Like a Weaned Child? (7)
Jul 25 -- The Heavenly Man: Revival in China . . . and Iran (1)
Jul 15 -- What Does It Mean to Live in Community? (6)
May 25 -- Letter to an Abuse Survivor Friend (0)
Apr 4 -- The “Peace Child” Story for a New Generation (0)
Mar 26 -- Free From Sin (3)
Mar 13 -- Waging Warfare Through Psalm 18 (1)
Feb 11 -- Taking Up Offenses (8)
Jan 26 -- How Can I Be Strong in the Lord? (5)
Jan 15 -- Is Satan Really a Defeated Foe in My Everyday Life? (1)

2013 (18)

Dec 8 -- For Shame, Beautiful Botkins (29)
Nov 18 -- Ephemeral and Everlasting (2)
Oct 21 -- Who Is Jesus Christ to Me and for Me? (0)
Sep 19 -- Should We Refuse to Talk About the Sins That Are Done in Secret? (7)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 56th Birthday: Thoughts About Moving Into the Basement (17)
Jul 28 -- Ask Him What it Means (0)
Jul 14 -- Checking My Motives (0)
Jun 12 -- Is the Bible Really My Daily Manna? (13)
Jun 5 -- A Song I Love to Hate (17)
May 23 -- Maintaining a False Unity (A Commentary on the SGM Scandals) (4)
Apr 26 -- Is Church Attendance Pleasing to God? (5)
Mar 29 -- The Lion Roared (0)
Mar 10 -- We Are Not Able (0)
Mar 3 -- What Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Dead and Alive? (5)
Feb 9 -- Changing Perspectives (1)
Jan 27 -- The Thick Darkness Where God Was (17)
Jan 13 -- The Prayer of Jabez, Revisited (2)
Jan 6 -- Godliness Through Discipline by Jay Adams: A Response (5)

2012 (19)

Dec 30 -- A New Year Filled With Hope (3)
Dec 9 -- What Does Real Repentance Look Like? (15)
Nov 18 -- How Can I Give Grace? (14)
Nov 1 -- Joy in Darkness (2)
Aug 12 -- Are All Sins Really Equal? (6)
Jul 29 -- “If You Died Tonight, What Would You Say to God to Get Him to Let You Into His Heaven?” (2)
Jul 25 -- Chief of Hypocrites (1)
Jul 20 -- Glory, Glory, Glory (2)
Jul 15 -- On Holiness and Human Waste (1)
Jun 24 -- No More Night of the Living Dead (1)
Jun 10 -- Broken Wall, Torn Curtain (1)
May 20 -- The Trump Card of Romans 7 (6)
Apr 29 -- Somebody’s Perfect? (1)
Apr 22 -- That I May Know Him . . . (0)
Apr 15 -- What Would Jesus Do, Revisited (2)
Apr 6 -- Resurrection Now (1)
Mar 27 -- Reading Under the Covers With a Flashlight (1)
Feb 28 -- You Gotta Laugh: Hope in the Midst of Alzheimer’s (3)
Feb 14 -- Fresh Bread, Fresh Words (1)

2011 (21)

Nov 7 -- New Book! What the Bible Means to Me (1)
Nov 3 -- Expecting the Joy When You Can’t Feel It (Joy Part 4) (0)
Oct 18 -- Joy Comes as a Response in the Realm of the Spirit (Joy Part 3) (0)
Sep 29 -- Joy Is a Response (Joy Part 2) (2)
Sep 21 -- Maybe Joy Isn’t a Discipline but is . . . (Gasp) a Feeling (Joy Part 1) (8)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 54th Birthday: Getting Old (0)
Aug 30 -- He’s Still the Hiding Place (0)
Aug 24 -- A Brief Timeline of Redemptive History (3)
Jul 24 -- Garments of Praise (1)
Jun 26 -- Is Praise Really a Sacrifice? (0)
May 29 -- Acknowledging My Inability (7)
May 8 -- Life Lessons from Bill Nye (2)
Apr 24 -- A Resurrection Psalm (1)
Apr 3 -- The Joy of Joy Ridderhof (5)
Mar 20 -- Perhaps Another Opportunity in Japan (0)
Mar 6 -- On Reading Through the Bible in 2011 (4)
Feb 20 -- Leviticus: My Wilderness Book (1)
Feb 8 -- Mother’s Day in February (6)
Jan 16 -- Seeing Beyond the Screen (2)
Jan 9 -- A Tribute to Dr. John Dreisbach, Chapter 2 (1)
Jan 2 -- Thirsty Yet? (7)

2010 (13)

Dec 12 -- “Pronoun Trouble” in Galatians 5:16-17 (2)
Dec 5 -- The Magnifying Glass of God (5)
Nov 28 -- Celebrating Redemption (3)
Nov 6 -- Where Does Your Mind Go? (2)
Sep 26 -- How Can I Be Pleasing to God? (3)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 53rd Birthday: In the Blink of an Eye (2)
Aug 28 -- Should My Life Be Centered Around the Gospel? (0)
Jun 26 -- I Reviewed a Book on Amazon: Free and Fulfilled (0)
May 15 -- Lean Hard (1)
May 2 -- Facing Anxiety Attacks (1)
Apr 16 -- The Welcome Behind the Veil (0)
Mar 14 -- Writing About Triumph Like Charles Dickens (1)
Jan 31 -- So What’s the Point of Prayer? (0)

2009 (7)

Dec 27 -- Lessons from Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
Dec 20 -- The Peace of God at Christmas . . . and All Year (0)
Nov 28 -- A Tribute to Dr. John Dreisbach, 1922-2009 (6)
Nov 15 -- Maturity: Praying in Faith or in Fear? (0)
Sep 13 -- Reflections On My 52nd Birthday: The Opening of the Eyes (3)
Aug 2 -- Reading Tozer’s The Pursuit of God (0)
Jul 13 -- “He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease” (0)

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