Tag: Forgiveness
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Managing Your Anger – Part 3
| 1:21 min read | Has anger ever gotten the best of you? The answer is likely, yes for most, if not all of us. Anger is one of the most dangerous and destructive emotions we can experience. It produces bad actions, poor decisions, hurtful words, and broken relationships. The effects of a brief moment […]
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Managing Your Anger – Part 2
| 1:27 min read | Has anger ever gotten the best of you? The answer is likely, yes for most, if not all of us. Anger is one of the most dangerous and destructive emotions we can experience. It produces bad actions, poor decisions, hurtful words, and broken relationships. The effects of a brief moment […]
Monday, March 2, 2020
Managing Your Anger – Part 1
| 1:28 min read | Has anger ever gotten the best of you? The answer is likely, yes for most, if not all of us. Anger is one of the most dangerous and destructive emotions we can experience. It produces bad actions, poor decisions, hurtful words, and broken relationships. The effects of a brief moment […]
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Getting Even
“Even” is an interesting word. It means, “on the same level; equal in measure or quantity” (Dictionary.com). The concept of “even” is often applied to our relationships. When hurt or offended by something someone says, does or fails to do, we often want to get “even.” We want to equalize the pain. The thought is, “Whatever measure of problems or hurt you’ve caused me, the same should come back to you!” It’s called “getting even,” and we all have the tendency to desire and seek it.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Getting Even
| 1:39 MIN READ | When was the last time someone offended you? Perhaps their actions or words hurt you deeply, left you bleeding emotionally and ignited anger in your soul. Now you can’t get the situation out of your mind. Something inside of you, if you’re honest, longs to pay them back for what […]
Friday, February 22, 2019
The Power of Resolution
| 1:45 MIN READ | It’s a great relief any time a knotty problem or a relationship tension is resolved. It’s a weight lifted from our souls. It frees up energy we were expending, consciously or unconsciously, on the situation. Far too often we live with internal closets filled with unresolved issues. We have lingering […]
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Grace Changes Things
| 1:09 min read | I appreciate grace. Grace is far more than a Bible concept. Grace is a real-life experience. When you receive it, you know it! When grace shows up, forgiveness flows, condemnation and judgment go, fresh starts happen, the mistakes of the past are released and hope for the future rises. When […]
Friday, July 27, 2018
Grace That Shows
| 1:16 min read | God gives us his grace and expects us to share it with others. We are called to be agents of God’s grace in our world. Today we are looking at the practical implications of being a gracious person. In Matthew 10:7, 8 Jesus gave His disciples a set of instructions […]
Monday, July 16, 2018
God’s Grace
| 1:17 min read | One of the most important concepts in the Bible is the unfolding story of God’s grace. This week we are looking at several things about the grace of God. To live a successful Christian life, we need to both understand and experience God’s grace. What is God’s grace? Grace is […]
Friday, June 8, 2018
How To Pray For Your Relationships
| 1:49 min read | A Beginner’s Guide to Prayer: How To Pray For Your Relationships All too often we complicate things in life. We make them harder than they really are. This is true with prayer. Many people don’t have a consistent prayer life because they don’t really know how to have one. They […]
Friday, May 18, 2018
Forgive First
1:58 min read | “You hurt me!” This is a common statement in relationships. If it’s not spoken, it’s most certainly felt. Serious problems in relationships can almost always be traced to one common root—hurt. When our feelings get hurt, when we feel rejected, judged, disrespected, unloved, or are treated harshly or unkindly, our souls […]
Friday, March 30, 2018
Power in the Blood
This week we’re preparing ourselves for the remembrance of Good Friday and the Celebration of Easter Sunday. With this in mind, we will turn our attention to a very important part of the story of Jesus, His sacrificial death on the Cross. Jesus’ death was the fulfillment of the Old Testament event called the Passover. […]
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Failure
Jeremiah 8:4 (NLT) Jeremiah, say to the people, “This is what the Lord says,: When people fall down, don’t they get up again? When they discover they’re on the wrong road, don’t they turn back?” One of the realities of life is failure. You can’t go through life without experiencing it. It’s something that comes […]