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The Psychology of Betrayal: What Trauma Does to the Brain

Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn through a biblical and neurological lens and how husbands and the church should respond

Jan 15 • James Menendez

When Trust Shatters: Understanding Partner Betrayal Trauma

Why relational betrayal is trauma, not “hurt feelings" and how husbands and the church should respond.

Jan 13 • James Menendez

Partner Betrayal Trauma

The Reality of How Spouses Experience Trauma When Betrayed and Require Patience and Grace to Heal

Jan 8 • James Menendez

Evil — Series Recap

What We Have Covered and Where We Are Going From Here.

Dec 9, 2025 • James Menendez

Open Borders are Evil

The War on Immigration - Defining Counterfeit Compassion and Empathy that Exploits Migrants for Political Gain

Dec 4, 2025 • James Menendez

Judicial Activism is Evil

The War on Justice - Defining Counterfeit Compassion and Empathy that Substitutes Justice for Activism

Dec 2, 2025 • James Menendez

Legalism is Evil

The War on Grace - Defining Counterfeit Compassion and Empathy that Values Piety Over Love

Nov 27, 2025 • James Menendez

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Partner Betrayal Trauma

The Psychology of Betrayal: What Trauma Does to the Brain

Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn through a biblical and neurological lens and how husbands and the church should respond

Jan 15 • James Menendez

When Trust Shatters: Understanding Partner Betrayal Trauma

Why relational betrayal is trauma, not “hurt feelings" and how husbands and the church should respond.

Jan 13 • James Menendez

Partner Betrayal Trauma

The Reality of How Spouses Experience Trauma When Betrayed and Require Patience and Grace to Heal

Jan 8 • James Menendez

Identity

Identity — Series Recap

What We have Covered and Where We are Going From Here.

Oct 2, 2025 • James Menendez

How Identity in Christ Is More than Personal Growth, it is a Commission to Redeem the World and Restore it to Eden

Sep 30, 2025 • James Menendez

As Christians, We are not Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, but Saints in the Hands of a Loving God

Sep 25, 2025 • James Menendez

How We Live in the Present Reality of in Jesus's Victory on the Cross, the Life of His Resurrection and the Authority of His Ascension to the Throne.

Sep 23, 2025 • James Menendez

The Gospel: Part II

How the Resurrection Shows that Accepting Christ is More than the Forgiveness of our Sins but an Entry Into New Life

Sep 18, 2025 • James Menendez

Apokalypsis

Apokalypsis Recap

What We have Covered and Where We are Going From Here.

Aug 26, 2025 • James Menendez

The Antichrist Has Come

What Can We Discern From the Number of the Beast and How Is the Church Compromising With the Beast?

Aug 14, 2025 • James Menendez

Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the “Little Horn” of Daniel 7

Has the Prophesy in Daniel 7 already been fulfilled in the 2nd Century BC and How Does this Affect Our Understanding of a Future Antichrist?

Aug 12, 2025 • James Menendez

How the path of De-creation and Destruction forged by Injustice is Undone by the Worthy Lamb who was Slain.

Aug 7, 2025 • James Menendez

Sardis — The Hollow Reputation

How the Apocalypse Church of Sardis Had the Appearance of Righteousness But It was a Facade and How We Do Today

Aug 5, 2025 • James Menendez

America vs. Babylon

America vs. Babylon Series Recap

What We Have Covered and Where We Are Going From Here.

Jul 8, 2025 • James Menendez

Make America Great Again

Was America Ever Great and If So, Why? And How Do We Make Her Great Again?

Jul 3, 2025 • James Menendez

Live Free or Die

Babylon Believes They Can Control You With Their Earthly Power, but Heavenly Power Trumps Earthly Power

Jul 1, 2025 • James Menendez

No Taxation Without Representation

Babylon Believes They Have a Right to the Sweat of Your Labor

Jun 26, 2025 • James Menendez

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

The Strongest Weapon We Have Against Babylon is Liberty

Jun 24, 2025 • James Menendez

Poetry

The Woes of Decreation

Aug 10, 2025 • James Menendez

Aug 3, 2025 • James Menendez

The Feast that Numbs the Soul

Jul 27, 2025 • James Menendez

Jul 20, 2025 • James Menendez

The Sevenfold Cry

Jul 13, 2025 • James Menendez

Addiction

Breaking Free: A Recap of the Creation Awaits Addiction Series

What We Have Covered and Where We Are Going From Here

Feb 11, 2025 • James Menendez

He Turns Shame Into Glory

How Does the Suffering and Humility of Jesus Relate to Overcoming Addiction?

Feb 6, 2025 • James Menendez

Purpose Through Brokenness

How Can We Find God's Purpose For Us Within Our Addiction?

Feb 4, 2025 • James Menendez

The Voice of Our Shepherd

How Can Hearing Jesus's Voice Help Us Overcome Addiction?

Jan 30, 2025 • James Menendez

My God Fights for Me

How Does Surrendering Protection to God Help Us Win the Battle Against Addiction?

Jan 28, 2025 • James Menendez

The Full Armor of God

Full Armor of God Series Recap

What We Have Explored and Where We Are Going From Here

Dec 27, 2024 • James Menendez

The Christmas Spirit

A Biblical Guide to Spreading Christmas Cheer

Dec 24, 2024 • James Menendez

The Sword of the Spirit

How to Choose God's Spirit over Your Flesh

Dec 19, 2024 • James Menendez

The Vain Pursuit of Self-Righteousness

A Biblical Guide to Resting in the Finished Work of the Cross

Dec 17, 2024 • James Menendez

The Helmet of Salvation

How to Retain the Rational Understanding Of Salvation

Dec 12, 2024 • James Menendez

Bablylon

What We Have Explored and Where We Are Going From Here

Nov 6, 2024 • James Menendez

How Not to Support Israel

How Dispensationalism Has Led to Christian Support of Violence, Atrocities, and War

Nov 5, 2024 • James Menendez

The Gun and the Garden

Rejecting the War of Babylon

Oct 31, 2024 • James Menendez

Do You Have Hatred for Members of the Opposing Political Party?

Democrat or Republican, We are All One in Christ and Should Start Acting Like It

Oct 29, 2024 • James Menendez

The Exclusion and the Embrace

Rejecting the Hatred of Babylon

Oct 24, 2024 • James Menendez

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