Lot’s has been said about words and their power. How we can build others up or tear them down. I’d like to explore how we build ourselves up or tear ourselves down. How we speak about ourselves and our situations. Many of us are our own worst enemies, struggling with self-doubt, guilt, shame etc. And [...]
Tags: build others up · Encouragement · Father God · Guilt · hope · lies · power of our words · same · self-doubt · truth
Evangelism – brings fear and guilt for many of us, I know it does for me. I know I should be more faithful to evangelize, after all, God commands it and people desperately need the good news. But I struggle. I don’t want to be pushy. And, yes, I’m much too concerned about what they [...]
Tags: Acts 8:26-40 · Ethiopian · evangelism · fear · God initiates · God prepares · God's word · Guilt · Holy Spirit’s promptings · Phillip · relationships
As we enter the Christmas holiday season there seems to be two, quite opposite, feelings that are evoked. For some, there is great excitement and joy. But for others, it is a time of stress and even depression. I’d like to focus on the latter response and look at some causes and how those of [...]
Tags: anger · boundaries · Christmas holiday · depression · duty · family duty · gifts · grace · Guilt · help others · holiday · Jesus · joy · loss of loved one · me focused · obligation · payment · stress
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everything worked like it as supposed to? If everything we try is a great success? If every test result is an “A+”? Yeh, right, like that is going to happen. So what do we do with these things that didn’t work out? Failures We can look at them as failures. [...]
Tags: character · condemnation · denial · failure · Father God · giving up · Guilt · Jesus · learning · success · wisdom
Ah Rest – so elusive, so needed, so wanted. I think this goes along with what I said about being task oriented. There is always more to do, more I should do, more I have to do or at least think I do. So taking time to rest, I mean really, truly rest, is hard. [...]
Tags: asking God · Guilt · hearing God · repentance · Rest · task driven
I tend to be a very task oriented person. Getting a task done can become almost an obsession. When I’ve promised to get something done, I’m driven to do it and feel guilty if it isn’t done as promised. Am I the only one with this problem? In case I’m not, let me share some [...]
Tags: challenge · consumed · contol · desire · Guilt · purpose · Relationship avoidance · task · task oriented