In Sunday Live, we dig into boundaries with dysfunctional and unhealthy parents, neediness, borderline personality disorder, religious OCD, scrupulosity and more! I start off with why Paul was able to break through the fear of death and end the broadcast addressing a 68-year-old pastor who has spent decades tormented by the fear that his past sin permanently separated him from God. We also get into:
🔹 OCD + Borderline Personality Disorder — What happens when these two collide, why the emotional storms feel constant, and how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) principles can help you stop being a victim of your own mood swings
🔹 Blasphemous and intrusive thoughts — Why God is NOT mad at you, and how to stop interpreting every anxious feeling as spiritual condemnation
🔹 Frozen in indecision — A woman dealing with chronic illness, a traumatic medical experience, and spiritual abuse from prosperity gospel teaching asks how to include God in her decisions without becoming paralyzed by fear of “missing His will.” I challenge a common distortion Christians carry about what God’s will actually looks like — and why you have more freedom to make decisions than you think
🔹 Rejection wounds and attention-seeking — Why the obsessive need to be seen or noticed isn’t something to shame yourself over, but a wound pointing to places that need healing — and why the answer is never suppression
🔹 Parenting a teenager with ODD and addiction — The one principle I keep coming back to: all change happens out of a bond, and like Emmanuel, God with us, the path forward is entering your child’s world, not forcing them into yours
🔹 Boundaries with difficult people — Four levels of relational boundaries and how to navigate toxic or narcissistic relationships with grace and wisdom Throughout, I keep coming back to something that shapes everything I do: the body of Christ is full of people who are suffering and hiding in shame.
Whether it’s a pastor who is struggling with religious OCD, a woman frozen by trauma and bad theology, or someone tormented by thoughts they can’t make stop — you are not alone, and there is hope. And this is exactly why Melissa and I show up every Sunday.
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