Have you ever really blown it? Like really blown it… Did you find it difficult to move on from that, even after you’ve confessed and repented before God and with whomever you may have offended? Does it haunt you at night and follow you throughout the day? Sometimes, it seems impossible to shake the guilt…
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One year ago last week I stood at a Holocaust grave in Stolin, Belarus. However, it has taken me until now to be able to put words to that experience.That summer of 2016 was the 75th anniversary of World War II’s impact on Belarus, when they lost about a third of their population. This was…
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Shame. The unforeseen enemy. We all deal with it, it takes you after you sin and says that you will never be free. It has a way of sneaking up on us and pouncing right when we mess up. It comes after our weakest moments, when we are feeling guilt for our sins and it…
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We are happy to have Phylicia Masonheimer, writer at Phylicia Delta Blog, share her testimony with us. Originally she posted her story on her blog and has allowed us to repost it here. It shouldn’t have happened to me. I was a little girl. I was at a garage sale. It wasn’t fair. For years I asked…
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This world is a really tough and hard place. When we are exposed to it, we find there is so much pain and suffering. We hear about all the people facing cancer and death, and all of the hungry and starving children of the world. We have to deal with rape, abuse, human trafficking, and…
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Sometimes that’s how it all feels. We feel like Humpty Dumpty. And his story seems to match ours. We’re up high, doing well, and then one day it just…
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It’s a new year. It’s a new start. This is when everyone sighs in relief at the blank page in front of them. Then we will all make commitments to do better, to change this, to quit that, because it is January 1st: a blank slate. There are many different milestones we have in our…
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To my Christian friend who struggles with pornography, who is ashamed of the past and who is afraid to share their struggles for fear of being condemned. Before I break into the main point of this letter, I would like to give you a little bit of backstory of my life. I’m a 17 year…
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Hi. I’m Amanda. So why am I so passionate about discussing the issue of pornography? Well, because I’ve been there. This is my story… Now, if you watched my life as I grew up, I may very well be the last person you would expect to fall like this. I had a great home life….
Continue reading →Forgiving oneself… sometimes the hardest person to forgive… is you. No matter who you are and no matter what you’ve done, at some point in your life you’ve likely dealt with this when one of your little mistakes ended up hurting someone else or when you fell for the millionth time. A lot of us…
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