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Dear Andrea, I have a 28 year old daughter that is living with her boyfriend. She claims to be a Christian, but wants nothing to do with church or other Christians. She has been rebellious for the last 14 years ever since she moved in with her father…. …She says she does not feel guilty about having sex outside of marriage although she does admit she is living in sin. Last May when she moved in with her boyfriend I told her I was disfellowshiping her and would not be going to lunch with her, etc… .…I feel I have been in the fight orRead More →

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Dear Carol,

Your husband is a classic case of how porn poisons a man and robs him of everything he once held dear. He’s also a classic addict, in that he denies having a problem and is in desperate need of an intervention. Since he has refused to hear you, do as the bible says and take one or two others from the church (such as your pastor and his wife) with you.

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Lately, I’ve been reading the book Elysse Barrett assisted her father David in writing, Fathers & Daughters: raising polished cornerstones. I would suggest, besides being a beautiful portrait in which their own relationship is offered up as a model of what a biblical father-daughter relationship ought to look like, more than an excellent bible study examining the biblical models, and negative examples, of father-daughter relationships, more than a parenting book that even fathers of sons and future parents should consider, this is a model of how ordinary Christians can take back their culture by changing the way we parent.

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Gentle readers, I imagine some are either confused or disturbed that this column occasionally fields questions about dreams. Part of the reason for this is our dreams often are us attempting to sort through our waking difficulties, the kind someone might, say, write a stranger with a blog for advice about. 😉 In addition, while nearly lost, in the bible, God spoke to his people in dreams, from Joseph, son of Jacob, to Joseph, step-father of Jesus, and still does today. Even human-inspired dreams are helpful to discerning the heart. As well, a certain segment of the population is going to be curious, and I’dRead More →