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Taking Responsibility
Romans 14:12 says ” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.” In Taking Responsibility, The Quite Place, Nancy shares how she didn’t get along with her mom as she was growing up. Do any of us? Her dad’s nugut of truth is 1) you must honor your mother and…
Read MoreDon’t let the sun go down on your anger…
In A MORE EXCELLENT WAY, I am starting chapter Seven, Fear, Stress and Physiology. Wright quotes Proverbs 17:22, ” A Merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones”. A broken spirit or a broken heart could have an impact on our health. Ephesians 4:26 says, “Be ye angry, and…
Read MoreEnvy and Jealousy, & Rejection
Today as I read a section in A MORE EXCELLENT WAY, Dr. Henry W. Wright is talking about Envy and Jealousy, & Rejection. You know, we know this behavior is bad but we seem to let things like this slip in anyway. As we look at what it means more closely then we really get…
Read MoreDisobedience leads to consequenses
Today Dr. Henry W. Wright in A MORE EXCELLENT WAY (pages 117 – 118) asks, ” Why have people gone into captivity?” He shares that there is consequence to disobedience. As long as we are sinning, hell has power over us. Wow! God says, My people are destroyed because you have rejected knowledge. We have…
Read MoreJungian Psychology vs Word of God
Jungian Psychology teach us that the soul and the spirit are the same thing. He talks of the dualistic compartments of the soul called the conscious and the collective unconscious. In the collective unconscious you will find archeteypes and dark shadows. The Scripture teaches that the archetypes and dark shadows are in fact evil spirits,…
Read MoreAsk for Healing….
Reading A MORE EXCELLENT WAY Be in Health, Wright shares that God does want to heal us. (PG 27). 3 John 2: says “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in Health, even as they soul prospereth.”. I love it. Wright says that we have been separated from God in…
Read MoreSelf Esteem Issues causes illnesses
Continueing our reading from A MORE EXCELLENT WAY Be in Health by Dr. Henry Will. Wright talks of depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. Depression med’s like Prozac are designed to increase your self-esteem. A lack of self-esteem is the root problem. Lack of self-esteem, self-hatred, and guilt are very damaging to the human…
Read MoreGenuine Love
Today I am reading in THE ROADLESS TRAVELED about genuine love which implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. In a consturctive marriage, the partners must regularly, routinely and predictably, attend to each other and their relationship no matter how they feel. Peck defines love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of…
Read MoreThe Healthiness of Depression
The feeling associated with giving up something loved – or at least something that is part of ourselves and familiar – is depression. Scott Peck in The Roadless Traveled says that to spur growth a proportionate amount of “the old self” must be given up. Giving up or loss of the old self is an…
Read MoreI Know The ONE
” But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. (2 Timothy 1:12) Paul has entrusted the gospel to Timothy. Timothy has entrusted the gospel to you and me. “I appointed…
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