Counting your Blessings
On this Thanksgiving, I would like to pause to remember the blessings God has showered me with over the year. I am so glad that I have the opportunity to physically stop life and have a day in which to…
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Life Conquering Through Christ
On this Thanksgiving, I would like to pause to remember the blessings God has showered me with over the year. I am so glad that I have the opportunity to physically stop life and have a day in which to…
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I deal with anxiety on an ongoing basis due to my generalized anxiety disorder. The triggers are varied and come often. My morning could be going great then one of my triggers will set my anxiety off like a match…
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I do not know how long I have had my mental illness. It wasn’t until December of 2007 when I was finally diagnosed with having bipolar disorder. Trying to find stable ground since then has not been an easy road…
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In Luke Chapter 5, Jesus was invited to a different sort of party with a different kind of crowd. Jesus had just called Levi, the tax collector, to become one of His disciples. In celebration of Levi’s new calling, Levi…
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How healthy is your prayer life? Does God know when you are afraid of that test result? Does He know when you are overjoyed because you are expecting a baby? Do you ever offer a prayer just to talk about…
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When I have been in the valley of bipolar depression and surrounded on all sides by hills of anxiety and fear, I like to remember one of my favorite passages in scripture, “I lift my eyes to the hills, where…
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When difficulties come your way, do you rely on your family, friends, money, career or health? Or is there something else? These things are not inherently bad. However, if we look to these God Substitutes to support us in the…
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After spending some 400 years as slaves in Egypt, the Israelites spent another 40 years wandering in the desert. In the end, that generation of God’s chosen people were not permitted to enter the Promise Land. “So we see that…
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As I was preparing to face another work week, I had this overwhelming sense of anxiety that I was about to face a den of lions, much like Daniel in the Old Testament, under King Darius’ reign. My anxiety was…
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“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven” (Matthew 18:10-11). After reading this verse in Matthew Chapter…
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Growing up in an alcoholic home, alcohol robbed me of the only earthly father that I knew and left me wounded and numb. The relationship was nonexistent because my father was absent from everything meaningful. How does a kid relate…
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