Category: Feelings
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Where Are You?
One of the words that freaks out many of my fellow liberal Christians and people abused by religion or even the people who qualify themselves as “spiritual but not religious” more than anything is “REPENT!!!” Sometimes I imagine myself saying it in a sermon and seeing people’s eyes bug out. They might say, “Oh crap!…
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5 Ways To Interpret Jealousy Inducing Behavior
As a youth, I remember people saying in church that God was a jealous God while at the same time saying that God was the only God. That was confusing to me, because I did not know who God could possibly be jealous of. To tell the truth, it made God sound like a schizophrenic.…
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Don’t Hate Me Because I Love You
It has been my experience that when people do not love themselves, they will secretly hate the people that love them. Seriously. I’ve seen it and experienced it too many times for it to be a coincidence. I’ve literally had people tell me that they hate me for loving them. They essentially are saying, “Something…
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And Then Comes Spring
In the winter season, it is easy to forget that in spite of gray skies and lifeless looking trees, there is something wonderful happening. Life is begetting life even when we cannot see it. The same is true for the winters of our souls. In each of our lives we experience seasons. Things grow, blossom,…
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You Won’t Like Me When I Am Angry
In Ephesians 4:26, 27 it says “‘Be angry, and do not sin’:do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” This is a verse that I have had to remind myself of more frequently in the past few years than I ever have before. In general I am…