I’ve always thought of boundaries in relationships as drawing a line to keep unhealthy behavior at bay. You know, such as needed for an abusive spouse or a friend who keeps infringing on your time and space. So when I got to the “Boundaries and God” chapter in Cloud’s and Townsend’s book , I was […]
Personal Responsibility
God Will Make a Way, But We Gotta Walk it Out
God seems to speak to me in themes, getting my attention by repeating the same concepts in different ways. Recently, the fact that God will make a way where there seems to be none — moving mountains and parting the sea, so to speak — has been prevalent. Even more recently, a follow-up concept hit me […]
How to Have Peace in Any Situation
In a world where things go wrong, where evil is present, and where we don’t have full control, is it possible to have peace in every situation? I would say it is. But it depends on our choices, especially in response to what we can’t control. In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he gave […]
Moving Past Failure to Freedom
Everyone fails. That reality should free us, but it doesn’t. We believe too many lies that keep us from moving past failure to freedom: We believe our failure is unredeemable. We believe failure defines us. We believe it is unforgivable. We believe others caused it. We believe we have to live in the defeat of […]
