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“If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.” 1 John 3:20 NIV “Observe with compassion rather than judge with condemnation.” -Harold W. Becker, Unconditional Love Remember the great Toilet Paper famine at the beginning of Covid? Something was wrong with our hearts. Am I aloneContinue reading “Condemning Heart”

Here come the holidays! “Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind,    and the fool will be a servant to the wise of heart.” Proverbs 11:29 ESV “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” George Burns Cain killed Abel. David’s son, Absalom, rebelled against him. Joseph was sold into slavery.Continue reading “Got Family Stuff?”

He is able to make you stand. “Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV “Injury brings pain and loss, then fear and anger,Continue reading “Good Posture”

“My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 NLT “Indeed, in the early stages of spiritual development, we couldContinue reading “Genuine Change is Twisting, Yanking and Straining”

“How long, Lord, must I call for help,    but you do not listen?Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’    but you do not save?Why do you make me look at injustice?    Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?Destruction and violence are before me;    there is strife, and conflict abounds.Therefore the law is paralyzed,    and justice never prevails.The wicked hem in the righteous,    so thatContinue reading “Asking Why”

Quick! Fix me! “And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.” Galatians 6:9 NASB “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that youContinue reading “I Quit!”

Denial is Demanding “And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, ‘Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times’ And he went out and wept bitterly.” Matthew 26:75 NIV “The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.” ― Gabor Maté A wife was caring for her husband in theContinue reading “Denial is Demanding”

Feelings and Thoughts Always Go Together “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” Mark 7:Continue reading “Feelings and Thoughts”

“If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else.” Galatians 6:3-4 NIV “Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.” John Wooden NewContinue reading “Goody-Goodies, Phonies, Snake Oil Salesmen and other Pretenders”

“Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.” Colossians 3:2 NLT “I think and think and think, I have thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer If there’s anything I do more than anything, it’s overthinking. The belief that the more IContinue reading “Overthinking”