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November 10, 2023 Shame is a Signal One takeaway for me is that shame is a signal. Whether that signal is productive or not depends on our response. Our natural reaction to shame is to run and…

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October 20, 2023 What Good is Beauty in a Time Like This? But dark hours are not illuminated by dark thoughts. Christ himself was sustained in his suffering by meditating on joy, not evil (Heb. 12:2).

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March 17, 2023 Praying Our Pain Voice our troubles in prayer isn't about giving Jesus information. He knows. It’s about giving him access to the broken places in our life so his love can flow…

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August 5, 2022 Transforming Toxic Self-Narratives The wonderful news is that healing is possible. The false narratives about God and self can be rewritten—not by force or will, but by willingness and…

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January 15, 2021 Healing and Habit Healing, because we all have untreated traumas of commission and omission that only God can set to right. And habit, because the mind doesn’t automatically…

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December 11, 2020 Why God Delays When we wait for something good and it is delayed for whatever reason, one thing is clear: if we offer our waiting to God, if we accept our current state…

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September 11, 2020 Mining Treasure from Dark Times When the bottom falls out, she points us to things we can do to move toward healing: starting with admitting our powerlessness and looking to Jesus our Source,…

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September 20, 2019 Redeemed Pain And then, if healing delays, we choose to be present without platitudes or presumption to those who are in pain, as Richard Foster encourages. And though these…

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September 29, 2018 On the Spot This metaphor of the training athlete is often used for spiritual disciplines. Rightly so. But it's worth noting that the metaphor carries an assumption: being…