Published on August 19, 2024 in Blazing Grace Christian Life by Mike Genung
This week, a major Christian organization sent out a press release trumpeting that “It’s time to get millions of evangelical voters to the polls.” Then what? What if these millions don’t vote like they want? Or what if, in spite of their efforts, hardly any Read More
Published on August 2, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction Wives by Mike Genung
By Sandy England, facilitator of the Blazing Grace wives ministry During our 10 week Wife’s Heart Course, one of the toughest subjects that many wives want to talk about is “I want a godly Husband”. My first question to them is, “What is your idea Read More
Published on July 15, 2024 in Blazing Grace Christian Life by Mike Genung
In Arizona, a monsoon can hit quickly. Last night, around 7:45pm, the sun was out. Within minutes, the sky darkened and the wind whipped into a frenzy, creating a dust storm like one you might see in the middle east. Flashes of lightning laced the Read More
Published on July 5, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction Wives by Mike Genung
Michelle and I have been married since 1989. Over the years we’ve pressed through plenty of trials, pain, sin, and mistakes. The first 10 years of our marriage I was a world class Christian jerk. I was messed up from abuse of the past, including Read More
Published on June 28, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction The Church Wives by Mike Genung
You’re looking at a scan of my brain, taken in 2014. A normal brain is smooth. Those holes and crevices reveal improper blood flow and/or that my brain isn’t functioning properly. This improper function can cause racing thoughts, depression, anxiety, unwanted, intrusive thoughts, or other Read More
Published on June 21, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction Wives by Mike Genung
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” – John 14:27 Perhaps you can relate to this scenario. You go on Read More
Published on June 5, 2024 in Blazing Grace Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
Paul Miller, author of A Praying Church, shares the following story: “An East Indian evangelist described his first experience at an American prayer meeting. He was visiting a megachurch known, even in India, for the pastor’s outstanding preaching. He was thrilled when the pastor invited Read More
Published on May 31, 2024 in Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
The occult and witchcraft are being marketed to youth and adults with abandon and many, including Christians, are watching programs with these themes. I have had men and women who have come out of the occult on Blazing Grace Radio to show the dangers of Read More
Published on May 10, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction The Church Wives by Mike Genung
This is the third of a three-part series on healing the heart. In part one we looked at bringing down the walls and barriers that block our healing. In part two we exposed the lies the enemy hides in the heart, broke those strongholds, and Read More
Published on May 3, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction Wives by Mike Genung
This is the second of a three-part series on healing the heart. In part one we looked at bringing down the walls and barriers that block our healing. Now we move into the heart. With nearly every man and woman I’ve worked with, regardless of Read More
Published on April 26, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction Wives by Mike Genung
This is the first of 3 articles on healing the heart. This first week we will look at that which keeps us from healing, particularly, the walls we build in our hearts. In the early 2000’s I led a men’s support group in Colorado Springs. Read More
Published on March 27, 2024 in Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, Read More
Published on March 22, 2024 in Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
“Out of every one hundred men in combat, ten shouldn’t be there, eighty are just targets, and nine are the real fighters. We are lucky to have the nine, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, he is a warrior, and he will Read More
Published on February 23, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction by Mike Genung
In the past two weeks we’ve walked Into the Valley of the Heart, where our pain, shame, fear, and love-hunger reside. We looked at the places in our heart that have been wounded and hardened by lies in Spring of Life, or Concrete Block? Now, Read More
Published on February 16, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction by Mike Genung
Last week we saw that if we want deep healing, freedom from bondage to sin, and to experience the abundant life Jesus offers, we must go Into the Valley of the Heart. This week, after having stepped into the valley of our heart, we face Read More
Published on February 9, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction by Mike Genung
We live in a time when, as Jesus predicted, “the love of many will grow cold” (Matthew 24:12). Many are coping by shutting down their heart and emotions. Then there is the porn and sexual sin that many are in bondage to, which poisons and Read More
Published on January 26, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction by Mike Genung
The following is from an article posted on January 20, 2024, by the Daily Mail in the UK: “Almost two thirds of young people are now addicted to online pornography, according to a leading mental health and addiction clinic. Paracelsus Recovery said research on patients Read More
Published on January 19, 2024 in Christian Life Freedom from Porn & Sex Addiction The Church by Mike Genung
At the age of 3, our brains have more neurons (the cells in our brain that send and receive neurotransmitters) than we will have for the rest of our lives. From the ages of 3 to 25, our brains go through a process where unused Read More
Published on November 15, 2023 in Blazing Grace Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
Finland is consistently voted “the happiest country on earth”. Yet, why is it that when we visit their country that the spiritual warfare is so intense? Along with our ministry partners there, Jeff and Aura, I spoke at a youth meeting at Evangelical Free Church Read More
Published on October 13, 2023 in Christian Life by Mike Genung
Sunday through Wednesday of this past week I took a trip to the desert alone for the purpose of prayer, seeking God, and rest. I stayed an hour and a half north of our office, in a small community named Carefree. Wirey ocotillos, saguaro cactus, Read More
Published on September 29, 2023 in Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
Anti.Prophet is a Youtuber with more than 1 million followers. In a recent video on AI girlfriends, (a sexually explicit artificial intelligence “girlfriend” that can communicate with the viewer) he shared his experience with AI porn. He stated that “Hearing that voice… and getting (explicit Read More
Published on September 22, 2023 in Christian Life The Church by Mike Genung
It began in the 1970’s with the seeker-friendly movement. Hard topics like sin, hell, the judgement seat of Christ, spiritual warfare, and sexual issues were a turnoff to the unchurched, so they were removed or blunted. Make the music upbeat, and so loud you can’t Read More
Published on August 18, 2023 in Christian Life by Mike Genung
I’m a long hauler; I’ve had long covid for 20 months. The symptoms include difficulty breathing, draining fatigue, and the neurological effects of covid brain, which include depression crashes, anxiety, and brain fog or thoughts that don’t line up with who I am. The symptoms Read More