Category Healing & Restoration

Dealing With Abuse - healing & restoration

Dealing With Abuse

  When people counsel women (or men for that matter) to stay in dangerous situations in the name of “submission” they need to have their heads checked. A wife was never called to be a zookeeper, a lion tamer, or…

Riches to Rags, Rags to Riches - sex trafficking

Riches to Rags, Rags to Riches

  I went to high school in the early ’70s in the midst of the so-called Sexual Revolution. The motto of our times was, “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”1 Of course, this…

4 Ways to Subdue the Strongholds of Shame - healing & restoration

4 Ways to Subdue the Strongholds of Shame

  As discussed in previous blogs (Silencing Shame and Disconnecting Shame), shame is feeling unworthy. Guilt says, “I did a bad thing,” while shame says, “I am bad.” Shame has many faces, conveying varying messages of ill being, coaxing its…

Disconnecting Shame - healing & restoration

Disconnecting Shame

  Sadly, divorce is ravaging our families and our society. Among the top reasons for divorce are poor communication, arguing, infidelity, and stagnation: Disconnection – Shame. Divorce is a reality in our culture because shame is a reality of our culture.…

Silencing Shame - healing & restoration

Silencing Shame

  Have you ever heard that little voice in your head say…? “You don’t fit in” “Nobody likes you” “You’re stupid” “You’re the only one who has made this mistake” “How could God love you? I mean He really knows…

My Mess Becomes a Message - healing & restoration

My Mess Becomes a Message

A positive pregnancy test? My heart sank. How could this be? I was only seventeen. I just wanted it to disappear. Fear flooded my entire being. They promised I would be okay. They assured me they could “help.” They promised…

Molested As A Child: Seeking Healing - healing & restoration

Molested As A Child: Seeking Healing

Question   Is it normal to be molested? I was forced to do sexual things as a child. I have only mentioned it to two people, both times I felt foolish for saying anything. I was left feeling like this…

Restoration of Love - restoration of love

Restoration of Love

About three and a half years ago, a sequence of events began that would ultimately change my life forever. About that time, I was living with my girlfriend who, in all honesty, I hooked up with in a one night…

Coloring in Your Colorful Past - colorful past moving forward

Coloring in Your Colorful Past

Whatever you’ve done, whatever interesting decision you made in the past, you might be like me: so far removed from the old you, so unfamiliar to your ‘old ways’ that when you recite stories of how you used to be,…

Co-Ruling and Co-Leading With Your Spouse - marriage

Co-Ruling and Co-Leading With Your Spouse

In my conservative, evangelical background, girls were raised to believe that we weren’t as important as men. Only men got the “good” gifts, like leadership and teaching. Our job as women was to teach children’s Sunday school and bake casseroles…

Top Healing & Restoration FAQ - healing & restoration

Top Healing & Restoration FAQ

Forgiveness is key   As an introduction to this FAQ, we need to discuss the importance of forgiveness in the healing and restoration process. The Bible shows us that repentance (a change of heart that leads to a change of…

Top Dreams & Fantasy FAQ - sexual dreams fantasy

Top Dreams & Fantasy FAQ

What’s On Your Mind?   Our dreams, imagination, and thought life play a big role in how we live our lives, and navigate our relationships. Here are the top eight questions Moral Revolution answers about dreams and fantasy. 1. WHAT IS A DREAM?…