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To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 When you have a clear conscience, it lifts a great weight off your back. Dread gives way to joy, and you can know you’re in fellowship with God Himself. How can we remain in that place of joy each and every day?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Those with addictions are usually blind to how addicted they really are. Denial goes hand in hand with any kind of addiction. Jesus had much to say to the religious leaders of His day about spiritual blindness, and we need to take His words to heart.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Compulsive behaviors eventually become addictions. Whether it is drugs, alcohol, gambling or pornography, people can become trapped. The grace of God provides the way out that all of us need.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Guilt and shame can drive people to kill themselves, as Lady Macbeth did in Shakespeare’s famous play. There is a way back from the precipice, and it’s found in the Word of God. What is the way God has provided to bring hope to the hopeless?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 It’s tragic. All too many people find that the only way out of a miserable life is to end their lives through suicide. But no depression is so deep that any of us have to kill ourselves to stop it.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 When the conscience goes dead, a person quickly becomes a narcissisttotally self-absorbed. For those close to such a person, this makes life very difficult. How should we relate to a narcissist?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 When we live or work with someone whose conscience is dead or defiled, the evil latent in every human heart is on full display. How do we cope with people who seem to be beyond hope? Let’s look into a hardened conscience and see how to handle it.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 When you bear shame for something you did not do, the shame is there nonetheless. Thankfully, the Bible gives us a way to be free of guilt we did not cause. Maintaining a clear conscience is possible!

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Much of the shame we carry is our own doing: bad decisions, wrong choices, and the inevitable fallout. But sometimes we carry guilt for things that are not our doing. Let’s understand that distinction and get on the road toward a clear conscience.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 When sin entered the human race, our consciences were defiled. We all move into the shadows, hoping to hide from the consequences of what we’ve done. And when our deeds are exposed, our first instinct is to blame someone else.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Deep in every human heart is a conscience: a sense of right and wrong that we cannot shake off. When our conscience is clear, we have freedom. When we violate it, we’re in bondage. Can we clean up our lives and our consciences?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 We cannot win in life’s race without agreeing with God about our basic condition. We need His grace, not to supplement our goodness, but to save us from our depravity. In this message, we hear some straight talk about how badly we need the grace of God.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Many philosophers believe that good and evil naturally coexist in humans, fighting for ultimate control. The Bible paints a different picture, one of a basic depravity that can only be remedied by the grace of God in Christ. In this message, we will see a big picture view of who we are, and how we can be made good in the eyes of God.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Coming clean before God has infinite rewards, including being able to run life’s race without the weight of accumulated sin. In this message, we turn to the book of First John and learn what is involved in coming to the light.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Under cover of darkness, criminals steal, kill and destroy. But the light cuts the darkness like a knife. It reveals that our hearts are full of deception, even if we are not convicted criminals. In this message, the light of God’s Word cuts through our illusions and shows us what God sees when He looks into our soul.