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PTSD and Our Core Story
The robbing of our lives occurs when the core story of who we are—created as “very good” (Gen 1:31) and never downgraded, and “beloved” of God (1 Jn 3:2)—is taken through specific memories and twisted... -
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We Learn from Reflection on Experience, not Experience Alone
One simple sentence, from my first pastoral supervisor, has significantly shaped how I seek to discern God’s personal will. Each Wednesday during my first year of congregational ministry, we met to re... -
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Becoming the Person God Wants Us to Be
Each one of us is called to live the truth of our unrepeatable uniqueness. We are not meant to model ourselves after others, however wonderful they may be. A delightful Jewish parable makes this point... -
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Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffe... -
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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. -
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Self-Discipline Transforms our Motivations
George Garrett, a novelist and amateur boxer wrote about a transformation that often takes place for fighters who stick with the sport. Throughout their journey to boxing excellence, in which they mus... -
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Fostering Shame in a Little Girl
I was standing in line in a crowded public rest room engaged in one of my favorite hobbies, people watching, when I observed a brief interaction between a mother and daughter. Mother looked harried an... -
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The Most Important Thing About Us
The twentieth-century writer A. W. Tozer made a stunning claim: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Really? The most important thing? M... -
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The One Ring and the Failure of Willpower
Nearly everybody knows of at least one sin habit in their life that they wish to leave behind them. Yet, no matter what they do, it seems impossible for them to be free of this habit, character flaw, ... -
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Searching for a Screwdriver
The following story by professor and author A. J. Swoboda is a vivid example of how shame works in our lives, often causing us to hide and run away from the pain and embarrassment: One of the greate... -
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A Shaman Decides to Practice What He Preaches
There once was a popular shaman in India whom people would seek out for advice. People would stand in line for hours, waiting to hear the choices they should make in their lives or the changes that wo... -
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Now You Do It: A Good Parent Enables the Child
[M]y husband, Nick, tells a story of when he was a teenager riding his bike with his friends, and his chain came off his bike. Nick took the bike to his dad, who said, “I'll fix it, you watch”. Hi... -
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -
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Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our need, a joy in total dependence. The good man is sorry for the sins which have increased his need. He is not entirely sorry for the ... -
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I think the most selfish, self-centered individual in this world is not an unsaved person. It's a Christian who accepts the salvation God offers freely and goes out and lives for himself. -
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God uses the nobodies to show himself to be somebody. God uses the nothings to show himself to be something. And maybe you feel like a nobody, a nothing. My friend, you're the one God's chosen... -
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Sabbath for Pastors: Why Is It So Hard to Rest?
If you are a pastor…this one’s for you. Sabbath. So many things have been written. Most of us have taught our people or preached about Sabbath, and underscored how busy people in our churches re... -
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What is the Shape of Your Pain?
What is the shape of your pain? Is your pain a gaping wound? Is it stuffed into the back corner of a closet, or is it neatly categorized and filed away with annotations that no one but you understand?... -
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COVID and Learning to Wait Well
With the global coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020, life stopped. Overwhelmed by the threat of a disease we couldn’t stop and for which we didn’t have the hospital capacity, everyone moved work and s... -
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Alcoholics Anonymous has a great definition of how we change: We change when the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing . -
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To change one’s life: start immediately, Do it flamboyantly, No exceptions. -
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The person striving for superiority is “always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinion of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgm... -
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Different Seasons, Different Challenges
Someone once quipped that we spend the first half of our lives struggling with the sixth commandment ( Thou shalt not commit adultery ) and the second half of our lives struggling with the fifth comma... -
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The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man. -
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Freedom vs. Independence
“Christianity promises to make man free,” Anglican priest William R. Inge writes; “it never promises to make them independent.” Freedom and independence are polar opposites. The former leads to wellne... -
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The Pew Research Center study showed that millennials had far more negative views of their generation compared with Generation Xers, baby boomers or other age groups. More than half of millennials, 59... -
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Our Emotional Lives are Complicated
So, how are you feeling? It’s not a trick question. But it’s more complicated than it sounds. We’re always feeling something, usually more than one thing at a time. Our emotions are a continuous ... -
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The Origins of Emotional Intelligence
In 1990, Peter Salovey and John Mayer published a landmark paper, “Emotional Intelligence,” in a little-known journal (after it was rejected by multiple top-tier publications). That article has since ... -
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Our Father, Lord, the world is sometimes a dragon
Our Father, Lord, the world is sometimes a dragon with teeth set to devour the dreams of our children. Help our little ones go softly from our homes remembering all we taught them of your great love a... -
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The Kinds of Being Spiritually Lost
The second lesson this group of new believers has shown us is that the postmodern path to faith is organic. Lostness, of course, looks different depending upon your perspective and personality. It is ...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (15)
- Ps 2 (3)
- Ps 3 (1)
- Ps 4 (4)
- Ps 5 (3)
- Ps 6 (4)
- Ps 8 (9)
- Ps 9 (3)
- Ps 10 (1)
- Ps 12 (1)
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- Ps 19 (24)
- Ps 20 (1)
- Ps 22 (5)
- Ps 23 (38)
- Ps 24 (9)
- Ps 25 (20)
- Ps 27 (37)
- Ps 28 (1)
- Ps 30 (11)
- Ps 31 (2)
- Ps 32 (18)
- Ps 33 (6)
- Ps 34 (90)
- Ps 36 (3)
- Ps 37 (40)
- Ps 38 (1)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (5)
- Ps 41 (3)
- Ps 42 (17)
- Ps 45 (2)
- Ps 46 (32)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (1)
- Ps 50 (1)
- Ps 51 (50)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 53 (1)
- Ps 55 (5)
- Ps 56 (7)
- Ps 57 (2)
- Ps 61 (2)
- Ps 62 (7)
- Ps 63 (3)
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- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 70 (1)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (1)
- Ps 73 (15)
- Ps 75 (1)
- Ps 77 (1)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (2)
- Ps 82 (6)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (3)
- Ps 86 (5)
- Ps 88 (2)
- Ps 89 (1)
- Ps 90 (22)
- Ps 91 (5)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 96 (4)
- Ps 98 (2)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (10)
- Ps 102 (2)
- Ps 103 (31)
- Ps 104 (4)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 111 (3)
- Ps 112 (1)
- Ps 115 (3)
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- Ps 117 (1)
- Ps 118 (2)
- Ps 119 (45)
- Ps 121 (7)
- Ps 122 (4)
- Ps 126 (4)
- Ps 127 (15)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (11)
- Ps 131 (4)
- Ps 133 (9)
- Ps 135 (1)
- Ps 136 (4)
- Ps 138 (1)
- Ps 139 (35)
- Ps 141 (4)
- Ps 142 (1)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 145 (8)
- Ps 146 (8)
- Ps 147 (40)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (8)
- Prov 2 (6)
- Prov 3 (50)
- Prov 4 (16)
- Prov 6 (4)
- Prov 8 (4)
- Prov 9 (5)
- Prov 10 (2)
- Prov 11 (12)
- Prov 12 (12)
- Prov 13 (5)
- Prov 14 (15)
- Prov 15 (22)
- Prov 16 (35)
- Prov 17 (14)
- Prov 18 (14)
- Prov 19 (11)
- Prov 20 (7)
- Prov 21 (9)
- Prov 22 (16)
- Prov 23 (3)
- Prov 24 (10)
- Prov 25 (6)
- Prov 26 (6)
- Prov 27 (18)
- Prov 28 (10)
- Prov 29 (10)
- Prov 30 (1)
- Prov 31 (8)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (22)
- Isa 2 (3)
- Isa 5 (5)
- Isa 6 (28)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 8 (1)
- Isa 9 (11)
- Isa 11 (2)
- Isa 15 (1)
- Isa 25 (3)
- Isa 26 (12)
- Isa 28 (2)
- Isa 29 (2)
- Isa 30 (21)
- Isa 33 (1)
- Isa 35 (4)
- Isa 40 (72)
- Isa 41 (48)
- Isa 42 (17)
- Isa 43 (41)
- Isa 44 (1)
- Isa 45 (1)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (6)
- Isa 49 (7)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (1)
- Isa 52 (2)
- Isa 53 (26)
- Isa 54 (4)
- Isa 55 (36)
- Isa 57 (8)
- Isa 58 (22)
- Isa 59 (2)
- Isa 60 (4)
- Isa 61 (27)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (2)
- Isa 66 (5)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Zephaniah
Haggai
Matthew
- Matt 1 (9)
- Matt 2 (3)
- Matt 3 (5)
- Matt 4 (21)
- Matt 5 (93)
- Matt 6 (87)
- Matt 7 (40)
- Matt 8 (6)
- Matt 9 (17)
- Matt 10 (11)
- Matt 11 (59)
- Matt 12 (8)
- Matt 13 (25)
- Matt 14 (14)
- Matt 15 (8)
- Matt 16 (24)
- Matt 17 (3)
- Matt 18 (34)
- Matt 19 (12)
- Matt 20 (8)
- Matt 21 (3)
- Matt 22 (19)
- Matt 23 (26)
- Matt 24 (6)
- Matt 25 (44)
- Matt 26 (10)
- Matt 27 (1)
- Matt 28 (24)