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How to Find Your Way Through a Hard Conversation
As promised in my last post, “How to Kill Bitterness Before it Kills Your Heart,” I’m here today to provide a follow-up on how to have a hard conversation with an offender in our lives. Allow me to use the following words of Jesus as our guide for much of what I will share today…
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How to Kill Bitterness Before it Kills Your Heart
I don’t know what this says about me, but I’m a murder mystery junkie. One of my favorite pastimes is to watch shows like Dateline or 20/20, where the prosecution makes a case against the defendant. Sometimes I root for the one on trial and other times I can’t wait to see the judge and…
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Overcoming Defeatist Thoughts by Kelly Balarie
I’d like to Welcome Kelly Balarie to Worthy Bible Studies today! She’s a gifted author and speaker and I know you will be encouraged by her message of hope and healing today! I could hear the laughs of the other girls about 10 feet away from me. They were having fun. I was alone. They…
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When God Changes Your Plans
When my husband Zack and I got married back in 2011, we had no idea what God had in store for us. We knew what he had planned, of course. We would have the ideal marriage. Date nights every week, no arguments, an everlasting honeymoon phase, and a house full of fun, rambunctious (but well-behaved)…
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How to Deal with Unwanted and Lingering ‘Grief’ this Christmas
Christmas time can be a time to make and remember sweet memories even as it also triggers grief because of those very memories or lost opportunities. Typically, this is because of the loss of loved ones either because they died near Christmas long ago or because it’s one of your first Christmases without them. Sometimes…
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How to Make a Change for the Better that Lasts
Months ago, I introduced you to my Heart Healing Prayer method which allows you to prayer journal and process through a struggle in your life. It’s one of the most effective and transformative ways I know, as a biblical counselor and prayer warrior, to respond to a problem in life or marriage. Happen to have…
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10 Questions that Can Improve Connection on Thanksgiving
This is a seven years old post that I’m pulling out of my vault and defrosting just like you would a turkey! I hope it gives you something encouraging to focus on around the table rather than politics, the pandemic or other uncomfortable subjects. I know that many of you are busy shopping, cooking, cleaning,…
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How to Accept it When God Says ‘No’ to Your Prayer
When we process through a problem or confusing decision with prayer, we do so to find answers. To find relief, right? But, like the Apostle Paul, God expects us to come at these prayer times with an open hand. With hands that are not so much waiting for a handout as much as being lifted…
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Want to See My Recent Travels and Some Vintage MM Videos?
Over the past two weeks, my husband and I traveled to see several family members in Tennessee and North Carolina. My husband’s parents live in a cabin my father-in-law built at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Dandridge, Tennessee. A very scenic spot to enjoy some R&R. We also visited with our youngest son…
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How to Rely on God in Troubles Like King David Did
Knowing how to rely on God can be a rather elusive issue, not to mention being hard to know how to do. So, as promised today, I will continue to unpack in my “Surrender Series” the final step in the Heart Healing Prayer method, “RELY.” As in Rely on God! One of the best…
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