Often if you come from a dysfunctional or unhealthy family background (which most of us do) it can distort your picture of God and also How God sees you. The way out for the adult who has been damaged by an unhealthy family background is to be reparented by God the Father. Many adults in the world have to discover God as a good “Dad.” Through that relationship, they will have the opportunity to be encouraged, sympathized with, and confronted with kindness, so that the adult ends up with the mind of a sophisticated adult, but the joyous heart’s freedom of a child. That is what Christianity means by salvation.

The first step in being reparented by God…read the rest

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Breaking the Dysfunctional Cycle by Dr. David Eckman Creating a Healthy Family is a powerful tool to enable a person to enter into adult relationships in a healthy way. It helps the reader understand the influence of their family background, and shows the reader how to proceed from that background to fully functioning relationships. By confronting our dysfunctional background and …read the rest

When the four realities of an unhealthy family are present, as explained in the previous “Unhealthy Relationships” articles, a person’s identity, or the instinctive picture a person carries in the heart, is negatively affected.  It can be affected in one of two ways.  The first way is that the person will not have a clear, nor positive, picture of who …read the rest

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If a person isn’t thrilled with Christianity, it may be because the truth is not understood. The goal of the Bible verses of Paul’s letters, and for such a goal he labored to exhaustion, was that people would be encouraged, being knit together in spiritual agape love. This encouragement and unity would stem …read the rest