The Igniting Hope Blog

Jezebel or Strong Woman? By Steve Backlund I believe we need to be careful with the word “Jezebel.” Certainly, there are people who misuse strength and influence through control, manipulation, and intimidation. (We see that clearly in the Jezebel in the Bible.) At the same time, I think we can too quickly use the Jezebel label for women who are confident, assertive, influential, and sometimes immature in how they express those strengths. A woman can be confident, opinionated,

When Helping Doesn't Help By Steve Backlund Enabling is behavior that unintentionally shields someone from the negative consequences of their harmful actions, often under the guise of help. Have you ever helped someone only to realize later that your help actually kept them stuck? Has anyone “helped” you, but it just prolonged a dysfunction? Most people don't enable others because they have bad hearts. They do so because they have compassionate hearts. We see someone hurting