The Freedom Series | Bound No More: When the World and the Word Both Name the Cage

She sat across the desk from her therapist and said the same thing she’d been saying for three years: “I know why I do it. I just can’t stop.”

The secular world is not wrong that bondage is real. Therapists, neuroscientists, and sociologists have mapped its terrain with impressive precision — and Christians would be foolish to dismiss what they’ve found. But the biblical view of bondage goes somewhere the secular map cannot follow. Not because Scripture ignores the psychological or the systemic, but because it insists that beneath every visible chain lies a spiritual root.

Part 3 of the Bound No More series holds two truths in tension: the world often gets bondage right, and the Word goes further. Where they overlap, where they diverge, and why it matters — that’s what we’re here to work out.

What Hard Seasons and Scripture Taught Me About Feelings | Daily Bread

Your brain is constantly scanning, analyzing, and assigning meaning to your circumstances, and then producing a feeling based on that interpretation. The feeling is real, but the interpretation is not always accurate. In short, our brains often lie to us. Feelings are data, but they are not always reliable data. This is not just theology. It is neuroscience. And it matters enormously for the Christian.