Category: Love
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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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These Wounds Can Heal
What if all of those wounds that you are ashamed of are God’s way of empowering you to heal others?
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How Does Healing Work?
I received an email today with a blog post asking whether or not we can heal ourselves. The blog went into some science about genetics and another scientific area called epigenetic control (above genetics) which essentially says that our beliefs actually effect our genes. In other words to a large extent we are shaped and…
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A View From the Mountain
I can honestly say that I don’t know if I would even be a Christian if it were not for Martin Luther King Jr. Even though I was raised with the Bible and church, MLK Jr. was the greatest example of Christianity that I have known in modern times. He lived out his calling and…
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Sometimes Enough Is Tooooooo Much
Do you ever just feel like you can’t take it any more? You feel like you have taken all that you can take but yet it seems like things keep piling up? What do you do? Well for a long time I lived by the maxim that says, “what doesn’t kill you only makes you…
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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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We Are Worthy! A Theology of Liberation
This post is a little more personal than my other posts, but I thought it was worth sharing because for the past several weeks I have been having a difficult time reconciling my past with my present. It started when my Systematic Theology professor gave us an assignment to name our biggest influence on our…
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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…
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Get Rich or Try Dying
Picture this. You’re watching a commercial for luxury cruise travel. It shows happy rich people clinking together champagne glasses, dancing, and dining on the finest foods. The ad implores you not to settle for less. After all, when you travel, you deserve the best. You start trying to project the image of yourself into the…
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