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Lists
We like lists of do’s and don’ts. If we can boil right and wrong down to a list of rules, we feel we have a better idea of where we stand and where we need to go.
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Shame
There is a lot of inappropriate guilt that holds people back unnecessarily. But shame can serve a purpose, and I think it is a mistake to try to banish that feeling altogether.
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Pride v. Shame
I was a schoolgirl know-it-all. People praised me for being smart and that made me feel good about myself… until I would say something foolish, make a mistake, or meet up with someone smarter than I. Then my pride began to buckle under the weight of another emotion: shame.
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Good Influences
Recently I asked the women at the jail to think of two or three names of people who had been a good influence on them. You can try it too. It might be a family member, or a teacher from your school days, or neighbors, like the old couple who lived next door to my…
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Why God Wanted Children
In family relationships, including our relationship with our heavenly Father, we often say and do foolish and selfish things. When a child becomes estranged or a spouse commits adultery, there will be sorrow, anger, jealousy. It is no different for God when we reject Him. (After all, where do our emotions come from?)
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Discretion Advised
I have often wondered whether Old Testament Joseph meant to brag in telling his dreams to his family. He was quite young, maybe 15 or 16 at the time. At that age did he have any experience with dream analysis? Maybe he really had no idea how his dreams would come across to his parents…
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Religion As Mental Illness
If the modern day atheist wants to say that believing in the resurrection of the dead or in an all-powerful invisible Being in the sky is lunacy, let them. We’re in good company.
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Learning Obedience
“Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 Now wait a minute! What do you mean Jesus learned obedience? He never disobeyed. We have to learn to obey God, but Jesus always obeyed the commands of God. Jesus “was in all points tempted as we are,…
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Forsake Me Not
One of our elders recently asked us, before partaking of communion, to think of someone we are really close to, someone we trust and rely on, like a spouse, a parent, or a child. Then he asked us to imagine the pain we would feel if that person turned on us.
Walk Worthy 