Anxiety

A classic example of people pleasing is Julia Roberts in the Runaway Bride movie. She keeps changing her mind about how she likes her eggs depending on who she’s involved with at any given moment. She doesn’t seem to even know her own likes and dislikes and experiences anxiety as a result. Another way of people…

PART 1 OF 2 — Is it a sin to talk too much? After reading verses from Proverbs that address the issue, it might seem easier to just stop talking all together! That would be too easy. Taming our tongue is difficult. The right response is the discipline of self-discipline. It is the application of…

By Embracing Difficult Truths, We Can Ward Off Anxiety In Our Lives While harsh, facing life’s hard truths head-on ultimately sets us free from struggles with anxiety and worry. We realize that instead of being at the mercy of injustice and external forces beyond our control, we have power over our reactions, mindset, priorities, and…

Social media has changed our world. Chances are that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube have become primary go-to sources for news, and interaction with family and friends. Currently, 3.2 billion people worldwide, or 42 percent of the population, use one or more social-media platforms. Each spends approximately 2.3 hours daily on one or more…

The renewing of our souls will extend no further than our honest acknowledgement of our inner brokenness. PART 2 IN A SERIES The Poor Physical poverty has existed in varying degrees since the beginning of time.  There have always been those without food, water, shelter, clothing, and countless other needs. But as troubling as this…

Research has found that the most satisfied individuals in life are those who have a place to belong. In other words, our deepest satisfaction comes not from achieving personal autonomy but through acceptance into unconditional love and in unbreakable belonging to a people. A Biblical View Of Belonging Belonging has deep roots in the biblical…

The human soul is constantly struggling to choose between the prompting of the Holy Spirit and the inciting of our fleshly desires for the world.  Through the renewing of our mind, we become equipped to distinguish the “false beliefs” of this world from the “absolute truths” of God. “I do not understand what I do….

FIFTH IN A SERIES OF SIX BLOG POSTINGS The Supine Temperament is not found in any other study pertaining to the subject of inborn behavior. This temperament was identified and researched solely by the National Christian Counselors Association (NCCA). Supines are very hard to pick out in a crowd of people mainly because they appear…

FIRST IN A SERIES OF SIX BLOG POSTINGS God’s word in the Psalms speaks to how He fearfully and wonderfully knit together in our mother’s womb each one of us was.  We have no difficulty grasping the idea that every person has a unique fingerprint.  Or how we have a one-of-a-kind appearance.  No two of us are identical…

Identifying False Guilt While we may have legitimate sin issues in our lives that Satan plays on, sometimes we experience false guilt.  False guilt is based entirely on a lie.  It tells us we are to blame for something that was not our fault or that we played no part in.  When we allow false…