Gabe and Amy’s relationship was almost destroyed when Amy discovered Gabe’s use of pornography. But where sin abounded God’s grace much more abounded and here they tell the story of how God delivered Gabe and reunited them as a couple. They want to share their story to encourage other couples to confront pornography with honesty, courage, and grace.

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Pastor David and Jo de Blois discuss how to deal with a painful past. We talk about abuse, trauma, PTSD, etc, exploring how bad memories affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. But we also suggest ways to heal and hope in the future.

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A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness: Answers to 30 Common Questions by Tom Karel and David Murray https://amzn.to/3F1FV6o

Pastor David and Pastor Jean discuss how to change our family’s story by discipling our children.

Real Life Discipleship https://amzn.to/46bwyw5

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Pastor David and Pastor Jean discuss the discipleship series of sermons at First Byron and how God uses discipleship to change our stories.

Questions covered include: What is discipleship? What is a disciple?
– What are the different kinds of discipleship?
– Why do so few churches/Christians prioritize discipleship?
– What are the benefits of discipleship?
– Who can be a disciple-makers?
– How would someone start discipling someone?
– What would a discipleship curriculum look like?
– Can you explain how First Byron is discipling people? What’s different since you came?

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Pastor David and Jo discuss how they are learning to love God by loving their brains. They cover subjects such as renewing our minds, caring for our brains, loving God with all of our minds, stewardship of our bodies, reframing our thoughts, how brain science and biblical truth interact and support each other. Lots of helpful positive ways to change our stories with God’s story.

A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness: Answers to 30 Common Questions https://amzn.to/45R1TUR

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David Murray, Senior Pastor of First Byron CRC, interviews Jo de Blois, Chief of Staff at PRTS,.

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A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness: Answers to 30 Common Questions by Tom Karel and David Murray https://amzn.to/3F1FV6o

Jo de Blois, Chief of Staff at PRTS, interviews David Murray, Senior Pastor of First Byron CRC www.firstbyroncrc.org

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A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness: Answers to 30 Common Questions by TOm Karel and David Murray https://amzn.to/3F1FV6o

Unbiblical models include:

Mr. Passive never takes a step forwards. If he can maintain the status quo or manage gradual
decline, he’s quite happy.

Mr. Dictator aggressively pushes his own agenda with little thought for others.

Mr. Crisis thrives on drama, especially when the spotlight is on him.  He’ll lead through the Red
Sea, but he’s not so keen on the wilderness. 

Mr. Inconsistent is up and then he’s down. Completely unpredictable and unreliable.

Mr. Fearful makes all decisions based on what people will think. 

Mr. Pessimist always thinks the worst. Growth in other churches is suspect. A cheerful Christian
is a shallow Christian.

Mr. Boastful is an expert with numbers – attendance numbers, budget numbers – which are
always bigger than anyone else’s.

Mr. Academic has read every book you’ve ever read and twice as much again.

Mr. Sociable loves socializing but not shepherding.

Mr. Administrator loves paper and pixels. People and preaching, not so much.

Follow all the biblical models and avoid all unbiblical models.

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To fully grasp the good news, we need to know the bad news first.

God created us in his image, but we rebelled against him.

God now has a problem with us. Since he is righteous and just, he must judge all evil.

The penalty for our sins is death: spiritual, physical, and eternal.

We can do nothing to make ourselves acceptable to God. Good works won’t work.

But here comes the good news. God so loved the world that he provided a way to rescue us.

A substitute: someone able to live a sinless life to die for our sins.

Who is this substitute? Jesus Christ, true God and truly human.

Jesus died on the cross to pay our debt and rose from the dead to give us eternal life.

Jesus is alive

Jesus is the king and savior of the world.

Jesus is coming back to judge the living and the dead.

To enter his kingdom and be saved, he calls us to turn from our sins and put our trust in him.

And there is more, by his Spirit, Jesus is renewing us to be like Him and empowering us to win others for Him until he returns.

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We live in a sin-denying culture.

We don’t like to talk about sin.

Most people erased the word “sin” from their vocabulary.

Yet, we need to continue to talk about sin because it’s an important concept to understand how God’s story changes our story.

So what is sin? We may talk about sin as the lacking and corruption of good.

God is good, and only good things can flow from him

God is not the author of sin. Sin is not a creature of God but a perversion of what God created very good.

So sin is an intruder.

It’s like rust corroding a metal.

It’s like a parasite feeding on a good creature.

Sin has no nature for itself. Sin needs the good to exist. Sin is spoiled goodness

Like darkness is the absence of light

Like cold is the absence of heat

Our sins tell us that we lack God’s presence

Our sins tell us that we corrupted the life God has given us

Our sins tell us that life’s not the way it’s supposed to be

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