Articles
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches? We've seen the news stories and heard the rumors. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcis ...
Understanding Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Ministry Leaders and Survivors
It is said that the true test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. As many as one in four girls and one in six boys experienc ...
Welcoming Strangers: Church Revitalization through the practice of Biblical Hospitality
Dr. Craig Kraft's dissertation on Welcoming Strangers.
Lebanon, a fruitful field
The Bible mentions Lebanon more than 60 times, often with acclaim for its natural beauty – towering cedars, forest shade, snow on mountain summits, ...
Prayer blog on hold
The Pray for the City prayer blog is temporarily on hold, as we are in the process of re-structuring the Network so that we ca ...
Want to see what a porn-addicted missionary looks like?
Look pretty normal don’t I? Ok, I admit I was a bit scrawny but I come from a long line of skinny people and it was 95 degrees with 90% humidi ...
Raised on a Diet of Internet Porn: The Neurological Consequences of Long-term Addiction
This presentation was given at the 2016 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit in Houston, TX, hosted by The National Center on Sexual Exploit ...
How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)
Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes tha ...
Addiction is a response to emotional pain - BBC Ideas
Addiction specialist and author Gabor Mate says dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction in this BBC Ideas video.
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Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life
Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him ho ...
Video Game Addiction - The Case for Mobile Gaming
Mobile gaming addiction is a serious issue. The craving and reward feelings that occur from gaming are no different than drug and gambling addictio ...
Pediatricians warn against pot use: Not your dad's marijuana
An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana's potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use ...