It’s a place no one wants to be–facing your worst case scenario. What makes this so scary, so devastating, is that you can’t see past it, through it, or beyond it. Life is hard to fathom if this fear becomes a reality. Time is spent contemplating every possible scenario for what might solve the problem. …
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Three Words That Bring True Healing
You must be looking for true healing? Consider this verse: Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow. Psalm 51:7 Imagine living in total isolation from your family and friends. Over time, your once smooth, clear skin slowly becomes covered in pale blotches. Sores begin …
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The Lie I Believed and the Fear it Created
I’m afraid I’m going to be all alone. There, I said it. It sounds stupid, doesn’t it? When I was a child, I was told I’d be all alone someday. As a result, I have been carrying this truth with me the last 30+ years. I thought it was truth, but in reality it was …
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The Servanthood of Marriage
If I could go back and sit down with myself sixteen years ago and speak some truth into that young, naïve bride to be, this is what I would tell her: Hollywood lied. This person is not going to complete you, even if they had you from hello. Our society teaches us how to go …
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Five Quick Thoughts on Revelation
In Revelation, the Apostle John is standing at the door on every level as he writes his “famous last words.” He was not expecting ever to leave his prison island of Patmos. He was the last of the surviving apostles, and in this recorded series of visions, he is being given a preview of last things, a glimpse …
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Dealing With Conflict: Hurtful Words
The other day I got a text from a friend that was pretty sarcastic. Now we all know that texts can be ambiguous. They are condensed, and they can be conveying something different than what we want because spell check can change a word here and there until we wonder what we really were trying …
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