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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Last week I wrote about reflections on Ravi Zacharias’s story. Ravi was an apologist and speaker with a worldwide ministry. After he died in 2020 it came out that he had been molesting female massage therapists and others for the 10 years prior to his Read More
It’s late at night. She rolls over and sees her husband is missing. She gets up, walks down the hall, and sees light emanating from the bottom of the door to their office room. She opens the door and walks in. He is bathed in Read More
“He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” For there were so many people coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat.” Mark 6:31 Rest is a critical part of the Christian Read More
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
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
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
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
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
Blazing Grace began in 2000; at the time it was just me leading a Christ and grace centered support group for men in Colorado Springs. In 2004 I put the Blazing Grace website up. Most of the original content was for men, with some added Read More
Many of you are familiar with our 8 week course for men who want to recover from porn addiction, and our 10 week course for wives to help women heal from porn and adultery in their marriage. In both courses, group participants are paired up Read More
The following are two chapters from my book The Road to Grace for Couples, a Workbook for Healing from Porn and Adultery. The workbook provides content and assignments for a couple to work through who are recovering from porn addiction and adultery. We begin with Read More
The following is an expanded version of a chapter from my book 100 Days on the Road to Grace; a Devotional for the Sexually Broken. Depression Chapter 59 from 100 Days on the Road to Grace But he himself went a day’s journey into the Read More
Several days ago, I got hit with an intense pull of lust. Initially I got discouraged, and was baffled, as to why my flesh was screaming. Then the Holy Spirit stepped in and showed me I was being attacked by a spirit of lust. After Read More
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw Read More
The following is a chapter from my book The Road to Grace for Couples; A Workbook from Healing from Porn and Adultery. Each chapter provides a topic for a couple to work through. The following chapter, on taking ownership, is critical for a marriage to Read More
Yesterday, as I prepped for our radio show, I ran across Pornhub’s Christmas stats. Pornhub, which claims that 150 million active users visit their site every day, saw visits to their site drop by 32% on Christmas Eve, then jump by 15% above normal on Read More
Prior to 1999, receiving the love of God in my heart had been a frustrating mystery. It’s not until His life-changing love resurrects a stone-cold heart that we find the love, joy, and peace we’ve yearned for. What follows is an edited version of chapter Read More