Category: self-examination
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Manipulation, from the Latin for handful
We are natural manipulators. We seek our own advantage; we maneuver to get what we want; and sometimes we do it in subtle ways that allow us to feel morally superior.
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I Have Been Young And Now Am Old
When the psalmist wrote in Psalm 37:25, “I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,” he didn’t mean he had never seen the righteous suffer. Suffering and being forsaken are not the same thing.
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Separation
That same night at the jail we talked about how easy it is to make excuses and shift blame by pointing out others’ faults. We want to justify ourselves.
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For Those Who Are Contemplating Divorce
So often what leads us to thoughts of divorce is not adultery but simply a cycle of conflict that we don’t know how to break. And so often what we come to hate about our spouse is just another form of the thing we loved in the first place.
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Overcoming Bitterness
It certainly isn’t wrong to lament if we’ve been disappointed or even to be angry if we’ve been treated unfairly. But when we allow anger or disappointment to fester and ferment, eventually we become bitter, thinking of ourselves as victims.
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He Said, She Said
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no…
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Empty Hands
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:5-7 (NASB) Martial arts include…