Shame-Based Thinking

Shame-Based Thinking

Romans 12:2 reads, “Let God change the way you think.”   When you’ve been physically, emotionally, or sexually abused, it undermines your self-worth. You think, “If someone did that to me, there must be something wrong with me.” You feel...
Shame-Based Thinking

Protect Your Home

Genesis 2:15 reads, “The Lord…took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to…
keep it.”   The Bible says God put Adam into the garden “to work it and take care of it”. So even when you have a great home environment, you’ve...
Shame-Based Thinking

Not Out, But Through

Isaiah 43:2 reads, “When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned.”   Before God changes our circumstances, He often uses our circumstances to change us. Yes, He has promised to deliver us from our troubles, but not necessarily on our schedule or...
Shame-Based Thinking

Sharing Your Life With Someone

1 Corinthians 7:33 reads, “A married man has to think about…how to please his wife.”   When 4-year-old Sarah attended her first wedding, she had lots of questions. At the reception her mom explained there were 2 cakes – a groom’s cake and...
Shame-Based Thinking

Only Jesus Can Satisfy Your Soul

John 4:14 reads, “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.”   The line from an old hit song goes, “Looking for love in all the wrong places.” That was true of a woman Jesus met at a well in Samaria. Here’s her...