Withholding Forgiveness enslaves all involved. Free others AND YOURSELF of the bitter shackles that hold you back.
The Freedom Gained Through Forgiveness
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4 Steps for Changing a Toxic Food and Wellness Relationship
I like food. I mean, I REALLY like food. Unless it's okra. Okra is gross. Seriously. It's not food. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld's nemesis, Newman, it’s a "vile weed" - though, to be fair, he said it of broccoli. But this really isn't a post about my dislike of...
Give Real Grace… Even When its Fake as Sh*t
How do you spot a fake? More importantly, how do you realize you're being a fake? Or more challenging, how do you be true to who you are even when you must behave a certain way to be sensitive to others? I grapple with these questions more than most will ever know....
Christian Living, Christian Death, and the Eternal Flow
A post about Christian death is a hard one to draft. As is the case with most, this post culminated in much more than I intended when I started studying it, praying over it, and observing society around me. I also find that I have been in a very gray season of life....
Have Prayerful Confidence that God Works in You and in the World
When it comes to prayerful confidence, most think in the context of God’s willingness to answer. However, we must keep mindful of our own actions and intentions. To that end, I can’t count the times I’ve failed to make a prayer I told someone I would. Or the times...
Why We Must Strive for a Healthy Perspective of Shame
I don’t know how it goes in other countries, but the U.S. culture certainly has an interesting relationship with the concept of shame. On the one hand, it seems that nobody has any shame. In addition, people are constantly thrusting themselves into attention seeking...
The Torments of Hell and Can I Really Feel Your Personal Pain?
It’s unnatural to really feel the personal pain of someone else. You can sympathize, but really feeling the suffrage of another isn’t something we intuitively do. And why does it matter anyway? Well, for starters, it’s a way we can keep our own personal pain in...
True Life Transformation Begins in The Heart, and We Can’t Do it Alone
The idea of life transformation isn’t new. Although, it’s usually mentioned in the context of self-help or motivational speaking, those quests are overwhelmingly fruitless. In fact, there is no shortage of books, videos, blogs, conferences, pyramid scams and the like...
The Fatal Flaws Found in The Greatest Of Sinners
I am the biggest sinner. That's not a title I wear with any sense of pride, however. I wear the title with shame and humility. But the bigger question, though, is why I am the biggest sinner? The answer to that is rooted in the study of Edwards’s resolution number 8....