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October 2024

October 22, 2024

Navigating Self-Inflicted Storms: A Journey of Hope

Have you ever wondered if you would survive during a time of trying to navigate...

October 15, 2024

Reflections On Loss And The Unstoppable Reality Of Change

Everything changes—every relationship, human system and structure, organization, organism, and cell in our body. Even...

October 08, 2024

Why The Cancel Culture Isn’t Christlike: Grace Over Judgment

We live in a world where rejection and revulsion are far too common. The cancel...

October 01, 2024

Surviving The Storms: When Life’s Pain Feels Unbearable

Life is hard sometimes. I don’t mean splinter-in-your-finger hard. I mean, you’re in so much...

September 2024

September 15, 2024

Broken But Not Defeated: Finding Hope In The Darkness

We are all wounded. All. Of. Us. I’m not bringing this up to minimize my poor...

September 03, 2024

The High Cost Of Marital Failure

From the outside, my marriage looked fine. We didn’t fight or scream, curse at, or...

August 2024

August 20, 2024

Beliefs That Bamboozle And Betray Us

Most of us have a plethora of lies etched into our souls. As a result...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

How To Deal With Depression Before It Deals With You

Is it possible that God wants to use our pain, even our self-inflicted agony and...

July 23, 2024

Why You Mustn’t Live In The Land Of What Ifs

People who constantly stress about what-ifs are problematic because they typically go to a place of worry...

July 10, 2024

What You Can Do About The Rise In Teen Suicides

More teenagers die from suicide than from cancer, birth defects, heart disease, pneumonia, and influenza—combined....

July 02, 2024

The Unmasked And Naked Truth About Humans

Our way of life is far from perfect on this side of eternity. The unmasked...

June 2024

June 26, 2024

What To Do When A Relationship Is Broken

Relationships make life worth living despite stress or a less-than-fun situation. The importance of relationships...

June 19, 2024

You Don’t Have To Like Me

The desire to be liked and approved by others runs deep in most of us—maybe...

June 14, 2024

Why You Shouldn’t Listen To All The Religious Voices

Many things in the Bible are not as black and white as we would like....

June 07, 2024

How To Find Hope Despite A Broken Relationship

Sometimes, failure stares me in the face and seems to mock my very existence. In...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Life After Divorce (Yes, It’s Possible)

Divorce is costly. Though not an unpardonable sin, when we fail at marriage, we will...

May 25, 2024

What I Hate About Christians (Us/Me)

Christians, like all humans, are far from perfect and subject to the same idiocy as...

May 15, 2024

Why Weird Is Wonderful (Seriously)

No one is truly normal. Everyone has quirks. Everybody has something somewhere in their past...

May 08, 2024

Why Defining Moments Matter For All Of Us

Defining moments in life can happen fast and unexpectedly or result from something planned. Perhaps...

May 03, 2024

What You Must Remember About Getting Old(ish)

We, collectively as a nation, are getting older—much older. About one in four people fall...

May 01, 2024

Three Ways to Handle Religious Bullies

A lot of Christians reacted in anger when I posted on my social media accounts...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Are Divorced People Stupid?

Despite how many in the Church treat divorced people, divorce is not an unpardonable sin. Nonetheless, it’s...

April 25, 2024

What An Unexpected Death Can Teach You About Life

Death is not a topic many of us want to think about or read about....

April 22, 2024

How To Resolve Conflict Without Nuking Your Relationships

Conflict happens, and no one likes to hear this, but healthy conflict is good in...

April 19, 2024

Why Shame Is A Problem And What To Do About It

When it comes to relationships, shame is a silencer. When overwhelmed by the shadows of...

April 16, 2024

Why You Must Check To See If Your Friends Are Laughing

When someone is wounded and hurting, they stop laughing. When someone is suffering, smiling is...

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