Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
I am expanding last week’s post “Struggling to Forgive.” I talked about misconceptions (lies or myths about forgiveness) and explained that even when we truly want to forgive, we pay a huge price for the wrongs others did to us. Those wrongs hurt badly and make forgiving much harder, since it comes at such a … Read more Struggling to Forgive, part two
Why do we struggle to forgive some people? I find most people easy to forgive, except people who got close to me and then wounded me badly. If I knew these people for a long time, or if I still have to relate to them, I struggle with forgiving them more than I do forgiving … Read more Struggling to Forgive
Our sinful flesh causes many problems, but we might only be aware of the obvious areas, the “lusts of the flesh,” (over-eating and sins of lust.) I had not realized how many aspects of our lives are actually ruled by our flesh, until I struggled with my temper while dealing with inanimate objects. God showed … Read more Hidden Problems the Flesh Causes
In last week’s post “Deceived by False Doctrine” I discussed some specific false doctrines, about God, that have deceived me and other people. Whether a church directly teaches errors or people misunderstand the truth and come up with wrong ideas, the false doctrine pulls them away from the true heart of God. This week I … Read more Fighting False Doctrine, part two