Hold Fast to Your Boundaries—The Tongue
The tongue is a little member and boasts of great thing things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The [...]
Hold Fast to Your Boundaries—Time
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Many people have a negative thought when they think of the words “rules” or [...]
Hold Fast to Your Boundaries—Honesty
And as for what fell in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the Word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with [...]
Hold Fast to Your Boundaries—Drinking and Drugs
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and move among them, [...]
Creating Environments Where it is Safe to Be Vulnerable
For who is God, but the Lord? And Who is a rock, except our God? —the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe. Psalm 18:31-32 In [...]
Vulnerability
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or [...]
Empathy –Getting In the Sufferings of Others
On one of those days, as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and [...]
Managing the Things that Cannot Be Changed
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hopes does not disappoint us, because God’s love [...]
Mental Illness
Cast all your anxieties on Him, for He cares about you. I Peter 5:7 One of our prayer team members asked me to write on how to live as a [...]
Coming Out of the Dark: It Can’t Happen Here. No, It Can and It Does
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress; He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder. Let [...]