If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]
Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you c...
Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don’t have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husban...
Our liberation comes through a person, not a system of ideas and principles. Everything we need for life and godliness ultimately comes through our knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:3).
When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God meets his peopl...
Therefore, we cannot rightly say, My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love. Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin onl...
1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. Thes...
If your lifestyle makes you wonder if Jesus really is your King, that is actually a good thing. You are understanding the truth. But you should also be amazed that the King never stops inviting you to...
Do you believe that it is impossible for the Holy God to love you and even delight in you? If so, you are believing Satan's lie that God loves you because of what you do. The truth is that he loves yo...
The language of shame is extreme. Hear it enough and you believe it. You are told you are disgusting and unclean, and eventually you believe you are.
To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our s...
Anxiety asks for more information so it can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. It also asks for more information so it can manage the world apart from God.
Once we get over the mild jolt to our pride—I would like my spouse to love me because she thinks I am the greatest male alive—we couldn’t ask for anything better. The character of God is the basis for...
Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optim...
Depressed people avoid people and church commitments, but they can also complain about abject isolation. The answer is to humbly accept your purpose. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are i...
Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.
Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.
The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When
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