Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn...
Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language...
Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God).
Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.
My wants are what concern me. That’s where the battle must be fought. I
Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.
If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.
Humility means that you acknowledge you don’t know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
Hiding. Covering up. Self-protection. Feeling exposed. They are telltale signs of shame.
He says I love you first, even when we respond with an indifferent shrug or the equivalent of a passing, Oh, thanks. And in this we discover why it might be hard for us to move toward others: the one...
God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
God really does speak in our suffering, and we have good reason to believe that the words he says are good and powerful enough to lighten our pain.
God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.
Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.
9:10). Since the fear of the Lord is the great treasure of life, Proverbs tries to woo us to it. It tries to make the fear of the Lord as attractive as possible. Those who fear the Lord will fear noth...
The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
You can’t have a deeper relationship if you won’t allow yourself to be known. All
Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?
When psychological needs, rather than sin, are seen as our primary problem, not only is our self-understanding affected, but the gospel itself is changed.