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Boundaries: Guard Your Heart
We were created to be who God designed us to be, to love who God calls us to love, and to accomplish what God tasks us to accomplish. That is ...
Practicing Boundaries: Love vs Enabling
We all want to care and help those in need. But how do you know when you are being loving with someone, or are actually enabling them? When you are ...
Jesus: Our Example for Living
For the longest time in my life, I (John) didn’t know where to put Jesus. As a child I can remember seeing God the Father as someone who could help ...
People Fuel: God’s Energy Source for Life
Life places many demands on us: the demands of navigating our careers, marriages, parenting, dating lives, friendships, self care and service, to name a few. The demands aren’t bad things, ...
The Entitlement Cure: The Path of Jesus
There is an Easy Way.It is the yoke of Jesus, and it is identical to God’s Hard Way.This is no play on words; it is real and true. From God’s ...
God With Us
Have you ever thought about how different your life is when you are alone, versus when you are connected deeply to others?We all face difficult challenges, such as issues in ...
Enter the Hard Way
There is a solution to entitlement, which I call the Hard Way. The Hard Way is the entitlement cure. It is a path of behaviors and attitudes that undo the ...
Say "I Was Wrong"
The Power of ConfessionWhat’s the big deal about saying, “I was wrong”?I have noticed a pattern in my work with people, a sharp contrast between successful individuals and those who ...
Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships
Dr. John Townsend introduces Beyond Boundaries The Draw To RelationshipYou and I are “drawn” to seek out relationships with others. We have an internal drive that propels us toward others. ...
Author Chat with John Townsend Replay
Got Relationship Questions?What if you could get some of your most pressing relationship questions answered by a true expert? That’s what happened during our live video chat with Dr. John ...
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No
Above all else, guardyour heart, for everything you do flows from it. – Proverbs 4:23What Do You Mean “Boundaries”?The parents of a twenty-five-year-old man came to see me (Dr. Townsend) ...
Raising Kids with Character: The Goal of Parenting
Good kids are a product of the real goal of parenting: mature character. When children grow up with mature character, they are able to take their place as adults in ...
Great Leadership: 3 Keys to Self-Observation
My experience with leaders is that what helps you as a person almost always translates to helping you as a leader. When you transform as a person, you engage in ...
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Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!
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