Waiting for Your Ticket: The Courage of Corrie ten Boom
Despite the horrors they faced, Corrie and her sister Betsy held onto their faith, and Corrie learns that God gives her strength at exact moment when she needs—not before.
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Fear of Change
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Romans 5).
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How to Have Courage Through Self-Doubt
We can either see self-doubt as our mind’s way of telling us we aren’t good enough; or we can see it as our mind’s way of telling us that we can get better.
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Remembering the Courage We Have in Christ
Everything that I could ask for, Christ has already done.
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How to Use Your Imagination for Hope Instead of Fear
I have come to believe that overcoming fear requires training our imaginations and letting them be redeemed.
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Should We be Striving for Purpose?
What if our purpose isn’t about having purpose? What if it isn’t about what we do but who we are?
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How Peace Surpasses Understanding
When we take our anxieties to God, we are not just asking that God takes away our fear. We are remembering that there is a God who listens and who cares about every detail of our lives, and this alone washes away our fear.
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How to Know if You’re Dating the Right Person
As an over-thinker, it was difficult to let myself like anyone, date anyone, or even reject anyone without feeling like I could “mess up” God’s plan.
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How Suffering Produces Hope
2020 has been a reminder for many that the security systems we have trusted don’t hold up. Now that we are preparing to celebrate Christmas, let it be a reminder that God enters into our fear and brokenness.
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Finding Abundance Where I Am
We need less than we think, and there is abundance–and the possibility of abundance–all around us.
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Restore to Me the Joy of My Salvation
When you grow up in church hearing the same stories, they can become dull. Or when you have prayed to God many times without hearing a word or being filled with a feeling, you can begin to feel complacent.
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Practicing What I Believe #6: Embracing Hypocrisy
One day we’ll be able to perform perfectly, but for now we’re still in rehearsal.
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Where is Your Faith?: Directing Your Fear to the Only One Who is Worthy of it
Today I want to share a podcast interview that has been one of the best messages on fear I have ever heard. I hope it inspires you as much as it inspires me!
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Do You Want to Be Healed?
I believe the danger in identifying with a mental disorder is that we can begin to embrace our thoughts as though they were not disordered–as thought they were a healthy, normal part of us that don’t need to be challenged.
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Practicing What I Believe 5: Religion
In James, the “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (1:27).
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When Fear is Love
What if being safe and listening the CDC guidelines is not an act of fear at all but an act of love?
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Practicing What I Believe 4: Morning Prayers
Sometimes we feel like the world is falling apart. Like the disciples panicking in the storm, we look at the waves and wind and wonder when the boat will sink.
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Practicing What I Believe 3: Waste
The problem is that waste is a part of our daily lives. We can’t go to a party or a restaurant without receiving plastics and styrofoams. This is an issue that is constantly creating cognitive dissonance in me.
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Practicing What I Believe 2: Meat
First… If you missed last week, I’m hoping to write a series on things that I have been trying to do to practice what I believe. I want to share these thoughts and ideas with you, not only to have a space to keep me accountable, but also to have a discussion about the best…
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Cognitive Dissonance, Despair, and Practicing What We Believe
Whenever we have a conviction and cannot or do not live by it, we create a mental distance between our beliefs and our actions–we are singing two notes that don’t go together. To protect ourselves, we mute the noise. As the distance grows, so does our guilt and despair.
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