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November 24, 2018

Not This Year

Did the "old you" eat with abandon at office parties, special family meals, holiday get-togethers, and of course all those treats that are fun to make at this time of year – only to grieve later over the rising scale? Not this year! Starting today,...

October 27, 2018

They Know What Lights Up Your Eyes

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Deuteronomy 4:9 Yesterday we started discussing how to help your children off the path of overweight, obesity, or any slavery to any stronghold in the world today. It all starts with the mom and the dad. If the hearts of the father and mother are turned toward God, where God is their everything, then there will be a natural understanding of how to avoid overindulgences in anything. In other words, there will be no greed for extra food, or unnecessary material possessions, overindulgences in alcohol or drugs, anger, gossip, or any stronghold. With this fact in mind, my first encouragement is to just absorb God’s basic truths for your OWN heart, soul, and mind...

July 29, 2018

The Allure Of Sympathy

The conversation or thought process of many people who want to make the choice of depression is predictable. They want to think that others can get out of depression, but that they cannot. They put themselves in a category that cannot repent, for “others have not had as hard a life as I have,”...

July 28, 2018

How Do You Repair a Relationship?

How do you break a relationship? You disobey. How do you repair a relationship? You repent and then you obey. If you are alive and can read this and you have even the slightest holy fear, then respond while you have a chance...

July 27, 2018

Turning Guilt And Depression Around

What we have learned so far is that guilt-depression is real and it hurts. However, the choice of sympathy from self-pity, victimization, and projection take you off the true path and simply numb the guilt, so the only option is to eradicate the initial guilt..

July 25, 2018

How to Deal with a Dysfunctional Family History

As we have discussed before, the world’s first family was dysfunctional: Cain killed his brother with a rock! Any sin in a family member affects the other family members. All have sinned, therefore all families are dysfunctional. We must no longer continue to let the label “dysfunctional” serve as an excuse for our behavior...