Looking inward and changing is a hard teaching. The nearer that Jesus got to the cross, the fewer the people who followed Him. His disciples said: “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it..."
The conversation or thought process of many people who want to make the choice of depression is predictable. They want to think that others can get out of depression, but that they cannot. They put themselves in a category that cannot repent, for “others have not had as hard a life as I have,”...
How do you break a relationship? You disobey. How do you repair a relationship? You repent and then you obey. If you are alive and can read this and you have even the slightest holy fear, then respond while you have a chance...
What we have learned so far is that guilt-depression is real and it hurts. However, the choice of sympathy from self-pity, victimization, and projection take you off the true path and simply numb the guilt, so the only option is to eradicate the initial guilt..
As we have discussed before, the world’s first family was dysfunctional: Cain killed his brother with a rock! Any sin in a family member affects the other family members. All have sinned, therefore all families are dysfunctional. We must no longer continue to let the label “dysfunctional” serve as an excuse for our behavior...