How Do You Really Feel?

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8 This week we have focused on the emotion of shame. We discovered that shame is one [...]

You’re driving home after midnight and the light at a major intersection is interminable. You look around to see no police car or camera and run the red light. You boast on Facebook about [...]

Then God said,”Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and [...]

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are [...]

Continuing in the Genesis narrative, we uncover the powerful emotion of shame. An emotion that brings about death in ourselves and in our relationships. In Genesis 2:25, we find a young couple standing in [...]

Discontent is a feeling of not being satisfied or a desire for something else (Webster’s Dictionary). It seems worth exploring ‘Holy Discontent’ – discontent from a Biblical perspective. Those centered on pleasing Jesus would [...]

…I have learned how to be content [and self-sufficient through Christ, satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or uneasy] regardless of my circumstances. I know how to get along and live [...]

Many Christians believe that desires are dangerous. After all, it is our desires that lead us into sin. Things like lust and materialism are such everyday struggles in our day. It's not just Christians [...]

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:4 NIV) Whoever is patient has great understanding, [...]

Humans are born with desire. The reason we all carry strong feelings of wanting or wishing is because of another word - need. We all know the feeling of desire and longing because we [...]