Tag: Bible
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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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When God Doesn’t Answer
If you knew for a fact that God was not going to change any of your most negative life circumstances, what would you do?
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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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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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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.
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Yawning In Church
Have you ever fallen asleep during a sermon? We usually assume, if that happens, either the preacher is boring or the person is spiritually weak. But there are many reasons someone might fall asleep in church.
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Hyper-Linked Lives
The number of Bible cross-references is quite impressive, but what’s equally staggering are the innumerable connections each of us has with countless other people throughout our lives.
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When Someone Saves Your Life
Can you think of a time when you said thank you and you really meant it?
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