CounselingChristians

Q: Needing advice on how to deal with “backlash” from family and friends about living a biblical marriage. My husband and I are far from perfect, but our basic biblical foundation is that he is the head of the household, and while I have a voice and my voice is heard, my husband gets the last say. My husband would prefer if I didn’t work, but I absolutely have the choice to. I also like to consult my husband before I make decisions or do things to be respectful and because I care about his guiding lead.  My family does not take to this very well. My younger sister and her bf have a very modern, anti-conservative, non-Christian relationship structure and don’t want kids or to be ruled by the “misogyny” of the Bible. She’s made comments that if I don’t have dinner ready by the time my husband gets home he’ll be mad. My father has the mindset that a woman who doesn’t work is worthless and he has told me a few times that my husband will leave me for a female coworker who is more of a h...

Q: I am Christian but I am pretty sure my brother just joined a cult (that claims to be Christian).  The way they are doing things is evil and wrong. Their beliefs are twisted and not of the Bible. They call it a CLUB but they are mentoring people & teaching them some modern messed up version of the Bible that is false.  Its not a popular group. Its a small local group. I cant even find it on Google or anything. He calls it a 9-5 group. They somehow combined Christianity & modern day spirituality with an added & massive amount of greed and ignorance. He is blocked on every social media acct and phone # etc that I have. He abused me as a child so we have gone no contact a while ago, but I still talk to his children’s mother and my mom talks to him. Like I already disowned him. I asked them to keep him away from me and out of my life, and not to talk about me to him or about me, and I don’t want to hear about him either.  He claims he is praying for us all to lo...