Healing

"true" freedom can only be found in Christ

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Last news: January 3, 2012 04:08:34

“Anyone who comes to Christ becomes a new person.  The past is forgotten and everything becomes new”  — 2 Cor. 5:17 It’s officially 2012.  Pastor Rick Warren tweeted today, “The calendar gives us a new year but only Christ can give us a new life: ‘I make EVERYTHING new!’ – Jesus Rev.21:5.” If you’re anything like me, [...] - [Read more]

God, grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time,

enjoying one moment at a time;

accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;

taking, as Jesus did,

this sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it;

trusting that You will make all things right

if I surrender to Your will;

so that I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

OUR STORY Our Book (God, my many mentors, and I), Overcoming Life’s Monster’s and Beasts:  A Practical, Biblical Guide to Overcoming Life’s Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits (this title may change),  is about my struggle to obtain the freedom that Christ died for me (us) to have.  I was praying some time ago about what God wanted me [...] - [Read more]

1.  We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” (Romans 7:18) The first step of recovery includes [...] - [Read more]

Everyone has issues — although many of us are either totally unaware of them, don’t want to admit them for whatever reason, are afraid to admit them for fear of dredging up the past, or think that repressing or suppressing them is the Christian thing-to-do and that by doing this they will somehow just magically resolve themselves.  The truth [...] - [Read more]

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” — 1 John 1:9 We all screw up from time to time in our Christian walk.  We fail.  Perhaps we don’t obey God’s voice, fall into an old addiction or hangup, or fail in [...] - [Read more]

Many of us who have accepted Christ as our Savior and Lord, because of patterns of besetting sin or addiction in our lives, view ourselves as sinners saved by grace.  However, the truth is, we are saints who sin. Birth, not performance, dictates nature.  The world’s definition of a sinner is performance-based; if a person sins, [...] - [Read more]

Many Christians (myself included) have not been able to fully surrender themselves to God; holding nothing back, no reserves.  I suppose that there may be many reasons for this but I want to expose one particular reason – we tend to think that our Heavenly Father wants to make us miserable.   Below is an excerpt [...] - [Read more]

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. — Phil 1:6 (NIV) Many times I have become as Joyce Meyer says, “Holy Spirit Jr.”  I feel as though I have to witness to everyone, pray for everyone, and [...] - [Read more]

“THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.” — Romans 8:1 AMP Many of us hear a sermon or read something and feel guilty because we feel [...] - [Read more]

Many of us have lived in the dark dungeons of fear, anxiety, depression, pornography, lust, drug or alcohol addiction, unforgiveness, contempt of God, contempt of oneself (self-hatred), pride, co-dependency, and ________ (fill in the blank) for far too long. The good news is that freedom is available. This “true” freedom can only be found in Christ. - [Read more]