Subject: [Christian Concepts] Is Your Emotion an Obstacle or a Bridge?
[Christian Concepts] Is Your Emotion an Obstacle or a Bridge?
March 23rd, 2019 at 11:48 am EDTHi, Friend! Whether emotion is a positive experience for you or a negative one, depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? Everything has a purpose. Rough, calloused hands and fingertips are a sign of hard work. Your body forms a protective l ...
[Christian Concepts] Are You Trying to Solve a Problem You Don’t Need to Solve?
March 16th, 2019 at 10:14 pm EDTHi, Friend! Life doesn't have to make sense for you to have peace. Your understanding of your life situation is probably missing important pieces. God has those missing pieces. Proverbs 3:5 says to “lean not on your own understanding.” But Prover ...
[Christian Concepts] Friend, Are You Feeling Anxious About Your Future?
March 15th, 2019 at 11:35 am EDTHi, Friend! Do you ever feel anxious? Everybody becomes anxious once in a while. But what about a lingering feeling of hopelessness? What about rejection knocking on your door... every day for days and weeks and months? Years of feeling immobilized? ...
[Christian Concepts] What Do Feelings, Brownies, and Pumpkin Seeds Have in Common?
March 9th, 2019 at 12:48 pm EDTHi, Friend! Your feelings are part of the complete package God provided. You have a body with five senses. You have feelings and you have thoughts. There isn’t anything wrong with your feelings. But you might be interpreting or emphasizing them t ...
[Christian Concepts] Sean's New Reality
March 3rd, 2019 at 1:21 pm EDTHi, Friend! Last week, I ended part two of Sean’s story with him receiving a new bicycle from his small group. This experience, led by God, allowed the truth of the scriptures to sink into his heart. Now he could not only say that he knew the truth ...
[Christian Concepts] Sean's Healing
February 24th, 2019 at 4:20 pm EDTHi, Friend! Sean continued to act out in high school. Once the victim, he now became the bully. When anyone taunted him, he fought back swiftly. He hunted down those who harmed him, including those that he hadn’t spoken to in years. One day tho ...
[Christian Concepts] Sean's Bicycle
February 16th, 2019 at 12:52 pm EDTHi, Friend! Sean loved the bicycle he got for his 7th birthday. It was his favorite color: red. He rode it everywhere he went in the neighborhood. He especially like to ride his bike to the local store where he could purchase his favorite treat. ...
[Christian Concepts] Eternal Security - How To Work Out Your Salvation
February 9th, 2019 at 8:31 pm EDTHi, Friend! As Christians, are we under the law or are we under grace? If we are under the law, we are obligated to obey the whole law to achieve righteousness (see Galatians 5:3-4). If we are under grace, we have no obligation to obey the law (to ac ...
[Christian Concepts] Eternal Security - How To Work Out Your Salvation
February 3rd, 2019 at 2:42 pm EDTHi, Friend! Does Philippians 2:12 mean that you can lose your salvation? No, it doesn’t. This becomes clear when you consider the immediate context and the rest of the Bible. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as ...
[Christian Concepts] Eternal Security - Remove the Roadblock to Security
January 26th, 2019 at 4:25 pm EDTHi, Friend! Without a standard to keep people honest, they might get the wrong idea: You can sin all you want and it doesn’t matter. They advocate that it is possible to lose salvation. The possibility of losing salvation becomes the incentive to k ...