Category: Christ-Centered
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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 that 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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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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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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How 5 Unfair Tasks Can Make Marriage Stronger
Sometimes we bristle at a task because it’s “unfair,” especially when it comes to our marriages. Oh sure, most of us accept this reality in the realm of parenting or even in our jobs. But when it comes to marriage, we’ve somehow bought the lie that there should never be anything “unfair” about it. I […]
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How Praying Scripture Guides You to God’s Best Plan
Several years ago, I allowed two of my sons (about 13 and 10 at the time) to walk home from an event at church without looking at a map or formulating a plan. They wanted to leave early from a picnic that was being held on our church grounds and thought that they could easily […]
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6 Reasons Why It Helps to Examine Your Heart
Are you that person who avoids letting a doctor examine you? Maybe it’s just that you don’t like getting on that dreaded scale! Perhaps you fear that your doctor will diagnose a problem that you’d rather remain in denial about. Maybe the pandemic has you feeling a bit skittish about entering a doctor’s office—a potential […]
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How to Get Results by Praying Through Scripture with Journaling
Sometimes we try to do too much before or instead of praying through a problem. As you might imagine, that typically makes the problem much worse! 😉 However, most of us don’t really take either of these tacks. Most of us do too much, while ALSO praying about it. Then when we grow tired and […]
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How Surrender Unlocks the Door in Your Life and Marriage
God has been taking me on a journey that’s involved more unpacking than packing. That doesn’t mean I haven’t packed my actual bags and traveled on vacation this summer, because I have! 😉 In fact, I just got back from visiting my family and friends in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina. During those times, […]
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