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Keeping Relationships Focused Outward
All relationships matter to God. He is even concerned with how we treat strangers and travelers. But some relationships matter far more than others. If we ignore this truth, we always get hurt.
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Finding Joy in Confident Living
Are you willing to take some small risks to discover the much greater, hidden treasures still buried deep within you? What will it take to develop the inner confidence to help you make your fondest dreams come true?
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Making Healthy Choices During Anxiety
You—not anxiety—must choose the types of food and drink best able to fortify and strengthen you physically as you heal from the ravages of anxiety.
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Rebuilding After Childhood Abuse
When Doug first started counseling, he was an expert at beating himself up. He was unbelievably quick at finding fault with who he was and what he did. As quick as he was to find fault, he expected a similar velocity at finding a fix.
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Recognizing When Counseling Becomes Sexualized
Whether the counseling situation is a professional one or an informal one, it is vital to recognize its potential to become sexualized.
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Having Faith During Times of Anxiety
Saying no to anxieties can be a scary activity. Anxieties appear to provide an answer, a way to know what the future will hold.
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Understand the Way Your Children View Technology
Your children may view that cell phone or game console or tablet or whatever-comes-next like a part of themselves, but you are still the parent. Even if you didn’t buy the device, that device is in your home and under your authority.
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What Does Stress Do To Us?
We were created with a stress response that was meant to help us recognize and escape danger. We were not created to stay stuck in that stress response.
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Ask God to Increase Your Faith
It is my prayer that you will ask God to increase your faith and help you see his bigger, better plan for you — a plan that has no room for burnout or emotional exhaustion, but instead one that promises a life of balance, courage, and love for yourself, for others, and for your heavenly Father.
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Childhood Abuse and Feelings About God
“Why didn’t God protect me? Why did he let this happen?” These are the devastatingly personal equivalents of the age-old question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” and its mirror image, “Why do good things happen to bad people?”
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Technology and Our Need for Instant Gratification
With technology, we decide what we want to do, where we want to go, whom we access, and who accesses us. Some pieces of technology is, itself, a controller. It controls some part of our world and gives us access to that power.
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Teens: Why Would God Want to Help Me?
As you get older and older, believing that God loves you gets harder and harder. God’s love for you is not based on you; God’s love for you is based on God. God decides to love you, to call you his child, and to consider you special and give you a unique purpose in the world.
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