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There are lots of joys of being a dad.  There is something that is unexplainable when my daughter shows her reliance on me.  Recently my daughter woke up from her nap in a very different way.  She usually cries when she wakes up but this time she had a bit of angst in her cry.  Upon hearing her cry I quickly walked into her room and saw something that I was not prepared for.  My daughter stood at the corner of her bed with her little arms stretched as far has she could reaching for someone to save her.  I scanned her crib to survey the situation and I found her diaper lying in the middle of her bed and poop everywhere.  I forgot to put her pants back on her after I changed her diaper before putting her down for bed and the result of my mistake was a mess!  My daughter starts to whine louder because I did not remove her immediately from the situation.  My daughter was helpless.  Even though it was her mess she could not clean up the situation.  That is exactly how our lives are before we enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ.  There are three things that i realized from this poppie mess, I realized that we

1.  We don’t need encouragement – I could have really encouraged my daughter. “Come on Addison you can clean up your mess!”  Same goes for our lives.  Although encouragement makes us feel good it doesn’t help us clean up the mess we have made of our lives.

2.  We don’t need self help – My daughter didn’t need a 10 step program to cleaning up poop.  All though self help programs seem appealing to help clean up our lives…the fact is that they will always come up short because of one key work “self”

3.  We need to be rescued – There was only one way my daughter was getting out of that messy situation, I had to rescue her.  Just like my daughter the only way you will ever clean up your life is to allow Jesus to rescue you from a situation that is destined to produce failure and we can only be cleaned up if  Jesus has our heart.

No matter what situation you find yourself in the only answer is to allow yourself to be rescued.  To learn more about allowing Jesus to rescue your life click here.

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Mark Driscoll the senior pastor from Mars Hill Church, Seattle, wrote a book entitled “Porn Again Christian.”  Mark addresses what is tearing down Christian and non-Christian men across the world.  One of the great things that Mark did was he made this book available online.  You don’t have to purchase this book so what are you waiting for?  If you, a friend or someone you love is dealing with an addiction to pornography send this article to them and have them download or read the book online.

Read the book here

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I had an opportunity tonight to speak to a young man that has been through a lot in his life. He told me of times when we did not have anyone in his life that would show him the little things in life. Basically this young man has struggled with the life of Drugs and he has been in and out of the detention centers his entire teenage life. He mentioned that he did not have any hope for a future and that he was destined to fail. As I continued to talk with him I noticed that there was a recurring theme in his story. His mom was never in the picture and his dad could not even be considered a dad. As I continued to listen to his story I couldn’t help but think of all the boys and girls who end up in this same chair that he was in tonight. As he finished up his story I asked if I could repeat what I heard him say. This was a good choice because I could tell that he has built a huge wall up around his heart because of all the hurt he has experienced in his life. As I was repeating his story to him I summed up stating that is seems like he has experienced a huge void in his childhood due to not having parents that care. As I finished that statement you his head dropped down with his elbows on his knees you could see the tears welling up inside. I continued to say that I knew this was a huge part of his life that he has not dealt with and you could see a sigh of relief come over him. It was almost like that wall fell down immediately. I shared with him that Jesus is the only one that can feel that emptiness that he felt inside. I continued to share that he could experience true peace in his life with a relationship with Jesus. Even though he did not accept Jesus tonight, the seed was definitely planted and I am going to continue to share the truth with this young man.

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