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  • How Do Pastors Tend To Look At Mental Health Issues?How Do Pastors Tend To Look At Mental Health Issues?
    Mental health describes a broad continuum of struggles from the mildly depressed to those with full-blown psychotic and personality disorders. Because pastors are often the first-responders in some of these situations, it's important to understand...helpformylife2011-05-26T08:34:32444 views00:01:40
  • Why Do Christians Struggle With The Ideas Of Mental Health And Mental Illness?Why Do Christians Struggle With The Ideas Of Mental Health And Mental Illness?
    Many Christian struggle to know how to address the issues of mental illness and to define what is good mental health. Some write it all off as being a lack of faith. Others confine it to the realm of the demonic that requires deliverance. And stil...helpformylife2011-05-26T08:34:32631 views00:01:27
  • What Is A Good Mental Health?What Is A Good Mental Health?
    Feeling good about myself and positive about my circumstances is what many people describe as good mental health. But unfortunately, that describes an unbalanced and unrealistic perspective on good mental health. On the other hand, the Bible provi...helpformylife2011-05-26T08:29:35478 views00:01:28
  • Why Do We Worry?Why Do We Worry?
    Even though Christians have been commanded not to worry, we still do. Why? Could it be that we simply don't trust that God is up to the task of providing everything we need to be the man or woman He's calling us to be? Was Oswald Chambers right wh...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:44:29386 views00:02:10
  • What Resources Does God Provide To Help Us Face Our Shame?What Resources Does God Provide To Help Us Face Our Shame?
    Shame is one of the most effective tools of the Evil One for sabotaging meaningful relationships. Shame has to do with our fear of being seen as flawed and deficient and then be discarded instead of loved. God comes along and offers us uncondition...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:39:36400 views00:02:32
  • How Do We Tend To Respond To Shame? How Do We Tend To Respond To Shame?
    When we are truly honest with ourselves, we are all painfully aware of our failings and inadequacies that leave us vulnerable to rejection. The fear of exposure leads to shame, and shame is one of the most powerful forces for shaping human behavio...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:39:36478 views00:01:51
  • What is Shame?What is Shame?
    Shame was one of the first feelings that Adam and Eve experienced after the Fall in the Garden of Eden. The fear of exposure, of being seen as flawed and then being discarded as unlovable is a devastating feeling that not only shuts down the heart...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:34:29729 views00:01:56
  • Can A Person Be Lonely While Married?Can A Person Be Lonely While Married?
    Marriage does provide an end to a certain kind of loneliness that a single person experiences. However, many couples feel lonely in their marriages in spite of the fact that they are not alone. Loneliness can come from a lack of meaningful connect...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:34:28791 views00:02:03
  • What Does Loneliness Tell Us About Ourselves?What Does Loneliness Tell Us About Ourselves?
    From the beginning of the human race, being alone wasn't a good thing. But, we can be lonely even when we're not alone. Loneliness is the experience of being isolated or disconnected from someone that we love. While the experience is pain, we can ...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:29:34569 views00:01:35
  • Why Are We Lonely?Why Are We Lonely?
    Loneliness is a reality that all human beings live with at the core of their being whether they're happily married or single. Loneliness is a constant reminder that we were designed for a perfect relationship with God that was marred at the Fall a...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:29:32466 views00:02:00
  • Is There Ever A Valid Reason To Feel Hopeless?Is There Ever A Valid Reason To Feel Hopeless?
    Many people experience bouts of hopelessness through various stages of their lives. For people of faith who embrace the concepts of faith, hope and love, hopeless seems to be a direct contradiction to the very faith that is to breed hope. Explorin...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:24:31393 views00:01:55
  • Why Do We Hate?Why Do We Hate?
    Hatred just seems to be inconsistent with God's call for Christians to be known for being loving. However, there is a good side to hatred that Christians are called to demonstrate that is consistent with God's imperative to authentically love (Rom...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:24:31402 views00:02:16
  • What Is False Guilt?What Is False Guilt?
    True guilt is what we experience when we do something wrong. But sometimes we feel guilty even though we didn't do anything wrong. False guilt is often tied to a belief that we must perform well in order for us to be loved by the person we're atte...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:19:35660 views00:01:51
  • What Is Guilt?What Is Guilt?
    Lots of people feel guilty. Guilt functions as a warning that there is something wrong with the way you're living and you need to pay attention to it. Too often people want to simply get rid of the guilty feelings. However, whenever there is sin i...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:19:35701 views00:01:37
  • How Does Grief Fit In With James' View Of Joy During Trials?How Does Grief Fit In With James' View Of Joy During Trials?
    There are times when the dark clouds of grief and loss seem to totally obscure any light of the sun. It's even difficult to believe the sun is still shining anywhere because of the gloom and darkness of grief. It's during those times that it's dif...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:19:35472 views00:02:33
  • Why Do We Struggle With Fear?Why Do We Struggle With Fear?
    After the Fall in the Garden of Eden, fear was one of the first human emotions mentioned in the Bible. Our disconnection from God and from one another has resulted in the fear of being alone and on our own, needing to provide for our own protectio...helpformylife2011-05-25T13:14:27551 views00:01:50

Today's Devotional

A Prayer to Help You Comfort Others - Your Daily Prayer - April 25

Have you ever wondered if there is any purpose in your suffering? We certainly don’t go looking for suffering—it comes to us because life is a journey through difficulties and triumphs. Sufferings are a reminder of what Jesus Christ went through and it is a way for us to encourage others.

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