1. Is God your crutch?Many claim Christians use God as a crutch. The weak hearted, down trotted, cling to this so called greater power like: an addict to his drug in time of need, a man of wealth to his status in time of failure, a woman to her sexuality in time of insecurity. And in fact at the time of crying out to God many of us are broken. Our lives are in shambles, we’ve had, affairs, eating disorders, drug addictions, sexual addictions, gambling addictions. We’re, depressed, ill, abandoned, broken hearted; heck we’re even everything we’re supposed to be: rich, handsome, beautiful, fit, thin, successful, but we are utterly and completely empty.

In fact it wasn’t too long ago I myself was a few of these things, and the same God who rescued you, rescued me, and the same God who rescued us, can rescue you.
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2 Definition of a Real Man
What is my role as a man? What is a real man? Where are the real men? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions but may not have had much prospect of answering them.
I admit that my motive for writing this article is to stir up the “men of God� and call them back to God’s Word, God’s methods, His message, and to be in the rightful place in his home and his community. If ever there was a time when we needed the true men of God to stand up and be counted, now is the time.
In today's society, Men have been fooled into believing many false things about what it means to be a man. Real men are defined as being macho, athletes, entertainers, and action-hero types. However, God's view of a real man is quite different as stated in Ephesians 5:23.

The Godly view of a real man is rooted in Christ, the ultimate model of human perfection. Each person, created in the image and likeness of God, is bestowed with dignity, freedom, intellect and will. St. John 15:5 says "I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing."
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3. Forgiving the Unforgivable
Ten years ago, I became one of the over 300,000 children who are sexually abused every year. Like so many others who have felt the guilt and shame of abuse, I remained silent. For six years I kept this part of my past hidden until my husband Chris and I were engaged and going through premarital counseling.

I wasn’t sure how to forgive the man who abused me, but through the counseling I knew it was something I had to do. Not only for the health of my marriage, but because I wanted to follow Christ’s example of ultimate forgiveness. I no longer wanted to be a slave to the negative emotions in my spirit. And choosing to forgive him meant learning the truth about forgiveness.
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