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The Culture Is in Chaos and Decline.
Where Have All the Tried Prophets Gone?
When the Narcissist Blames You for Reacting to their Toxic Behavior.
The Shame and Invisible Wound.
The Power of the Cadence
The same rhythm that broke you down can build you back up.
This article provides a deep dive into the neuroscience of trauma responses.
The path back to feeling safe in your own skin
Why do we tend to be cruelest to the people we love the most?
The Hidden Psychology Behind Relationship Conflicts
C-PTSD and PTSD in Males and Females as a Result of Dismissive Avoidant Attachment.
A Complex Interplay
When Love feels like chasing Shadows
Understanding dismissive-avoidant attachment
Self-sabotage: The act of becoming one's own worst enemy
Understanding the path from self-destruction to healing
The Effects of Bullying and Verbal and Physical Abuse.
How Trauma Affects the Mind and the Body: Muscle and Organ Memory.
Breaking the Spell: Escaping the Echo Chamber and Reclaiming Truth.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Agur
We’re told nothing about the prophet Agur except the names of his father and a couple of his disciples. Everything else we read—in footnotes, commentaries and Bible dictionaries—is speculation. But we
Change your mind…change you!
Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Well, your brain is an organ; your mind isn’t. Which sounds crazy, but there you have it. To which neuroscientists reply, why are you relying on such a disti
Relationship or religion?
Following Christ should be deleted from the list of world religions, because it’s not a religion. Following Jesus cannot be defined by the practice of sacraments. Anyone can practice them. Anyon
Shemaiah
What is a prophet, and what is he or she supposed to do? Shemaiah was a prophet who lived around 930 b.c. He is mentioned only twice in the Bible but at critical times—just before and during the divis
Christian or Christ-follower?
I avoid the word “Christian” when talking about the church, because the word has become meaningless. According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent of American adults describe themselves as Christia
The Tree of Knowledge is still alive, tempting . . . and deadly
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ~ William Wordsworth S
Some thoughts about prayer
I’ve said before that prayer does not make you a Christ-follower. But, if you are a Christ-follower, prayer makes you an increasingly better one, because it makes you more and more like Jesus. Prayer
Self
We’ve really got to get over our self. Self walks a fence rail, leaning one moment this way toward God’s kingdom and another moment toward our broken and irreparable world. He is finally about to tear
An amazing adventure!
The church has been devolving for centuries, closing in on itself, becoming less the living body of Christ and more a religious organization. Those who have seen it happening thought it couldn’t be tr
Hail ye hollow men!
We are the hollow men We are the hollow men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless. T. S. Eliot wrote this poem in 192
Chosen
Jesus said, “many are invited, but few are chosen.”[1] A Christ-follower is someone who has been chosen by Jesus by choosing Jesus. We need to take off our religious hat in order to appreciate this. A
God’s kingdom or man’s world?
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.[1] Where do you live? We all have two worlds to
Changing our perspective
Eight years after Neil Armstrong stepped out of a rocket ship and became the first human being to set foot on the moon, NASA began its Voyager mission. The twin probes were able to travel nearly 36,00
Come nearer
The image on the right is our Sun! Three hundred thousand times the size of Earth, blazing at nearly eleven thousand degrees Fahrenheit, its magnetic field stretching through interplanetary space to t
Role playing
In theater, a cue is a signal for an actor to do or say something or an instruction for a technician or stage hand. A line is spoken, which cues a response, sound effect, lighting change or the end of
Role playing
In theater, a cue is a signal for an actor to do or say something or an instruction for a technician or stage hand. A line is spoken, which cues a response, sound effect, lighting change or
The world’s not ending quite yet
CNN wrote a piece today about a psychic who claimed back in 2008 that “around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes and resist
Ezekiel’s revelation
As I was praying this morning, I was reminded of the valley of dry bones. In the Spirit of the Lord, the prophet Ezekiel was set down in the midst of a valley that was full of bones.[1] And He said to
Ezekiel’s revelation
As I was praying this morning, I was reminded of the valley of dry bones. In the Spirit of the Lord, the prophet Ezekiel was set down in the midst of a valley that was full of bones.[1] And He said to
Be strong in the Lord
We’ve lost our ability to be objective. And God has allowed this Coronavirus microorganism to come in and give us a reset, an opportunity to transform and change the way we think, the way we see and u
Coronavirus
This was posted this morning: States across the US have reported 2,760 new cases of novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to a tally by CNN. On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. ET, CNN was re
Coronavirus
This was posted this morning: States across the US have reported 2,760 new cases of novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to a tally by CNN. On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. ET, CNN was re
Faith is our eyes on God
“I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith.[1] … Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beauti
Are you a Christ-follower? Sure?
Following Jesus is not about doing something else. Following Jesus is about being somebody else. Not about going to church, singing in a choir, fasting, praying and reading the Bible. Anybody can do t
The restoration of God’s church
Pastors have been spread pretty thin for the past two thousand years or so. But no one notices because, well, it’s been like that for the past two thousand years or so. And how’s that work
Metaphysical misperception
There’s a very interesting little verse in the Bible that few people ever notice. It’s tucked away in a letter that John wrote to some of the first Christ-followers, where he said simply,
You’ve got the goods!
I love Paul’s correspondence with the church in Corinth. Corinth was a wealthy trade city. Its first century public market was bigger than any in Rome. By 50 a.d., when Paul visited, it was the