Farewell to Bill Irwin
On March first this year, at 6:34am, our Executive Director Bill Irwin went home to be with Jesus. He fought a valiant battle with prostrate cancer. It can be said of him that he was not dying with cancer but living with cancer. Despite his pain, he continued to minister freedom right up until the end. We have lost a wonderful man and dynamic leader. In his memory, I want to leave you with three basic principles that he lived and taught as the basis for living free. First, focus on the fundamentals. The keys to freedom are extremely basic and must be practiced and repeated until they are mastered. Some of these basics include a disciplined thought life, accountability and gratitude. The next principle he taught was compassion. Bill taught his staff to be gentle,...
Freedom from the Pit
Proverbs 23:27 says, “for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,and a wayward wife is a narrow well.” This verse can be understood figuratively to describe the allure of explicit imagery and pornography that saturates our culture. By nature, sexual sin is designed like a trap that is easy to get caught in and difficult to get out of. A person can make many attempts to get free and find themselves sliding right back to the bottom. Over time, every scheme to get free from the pit fails. A man finds himself right where he started exhausted, alone, in the dark and hopeless as to how to get free. Getting out of the pit is difficult, but not impossible. The Coaches at Free Indeed Ministries have all been at the bottom of the pit. We could not get out alone....
