People talk about forgiveness as if it's a once-off event. I prefer the term living forgiveness. The thing with pain is that once the shock and raw pain subsides, it starts to only hurt when you’re triggered to remember it. Each time that happens, I forgive the person who hurt me again. And again. And [...]
When you feel abandoned by God because of the hatred and unforgiveness in your heart toward someone, and you feel you can't reconcile with God because of it... Nothing is irreversible with God, and you’re now at the doorway into opening your heart to everything he has to give or keeping it closed. The biggest [...]
People judge all the time, and then they post their judgments online for all to see. Religion, lifestyle, clothing choices -- assumption after assumption about people they have usually never spent the time talking or listening to. Public shaming for those posts, or creating more rules to stop them, is not the answer though. Neither [...]
I've always been interested in the word fullness, because to me it signifies the longings of the heart. Because of that, I've always loved Ephesians 3:14-19, so I thought I'd take that interest a little further and look up the word fullness in the Greek. What I saw blasted me in the best way, because [...]
