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Category Archives: heart
Pro-wise-choice
Don’t follow your heart when it tries to lead you into bad choices. Choose to make your life a wonder, not a blunder. When you let your feelings make your choices, you’re in for a reckless ride. Choose thoughts, words, and actions … Continue reading
Posted in attitude, bad habits, Bible, emotions, feelings, habit, heart, heart care, heart is deceitful, positive attitude, sin, thoughts, Uncategorized, wisdom
Tagged choice, choices, consequences, decision making, decisions, life skills, prochoice
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At the intersection of hope & despair
At the intersection of hope and despair, take the uphill road to hope, not the downhill road to despair. You’re alive; be delighted. Let God shine in and delight up the darkness in your heart. I’m not interested in apathy. I … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, comfort zone, compassion, drunk in the spirit, drunkenness, heart, heart care, Holy Spirit, inner Light, involve me and I learn, joy, joy unspeakable, light, new wine, spiritual drunkenness, thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged apathy, Christianity, conscience, depression, encouragement, hope, mental health
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Is there too much agreement in church?
Passive agreement is overrated and often bland. Connecting with people heart-to-heart is much more powerful and fulfilling. Social media trains people to be interactive while church continues to insist on keeping people passive and silent. However, when most of the … Continue reading
Posted in conscience, happiness, heart, heart care, heart religion, heart-felt love, hearts on fire, inner joy, joy, joy unspeakable, paralysis, paralyzed, Uncategorized, unhappiness
Tagged agreement, alternative church, Christianity, church, joy of the Lord, religion, square dancing
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If you haven’t heard, perhaps your being herded
If you haven’t heard Christ’s living words burning in your heart, it’s easy to follow the herd. Are you being herded? When God blazes a new trail in your heart, it often creates a mismatch with religious tradition. Jesus’ way or … Continue reading
Posted in following Christ, heart, heart care, heart connection, heart strangely warmed, heart-felt, I am the way, Jesus is the way, sin, smoke, smoke and mirrors, spectators, spiritual warfare, tradition, Uncategorized
Tagged Christianity, creativity, follow the herd, inner light, innovation, pioneers, religion, trailblazers
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Need a life reboot?
When you’re continually bombarded by destructive words and images, refuse to be swept up in their raging current! Toxic people use toxic words. Hopeful people use hopeful words. When there is a system error in your heart, don’t shift into denial … Continue reading
Posted in choice, choose life, Christianity, compassion, cultural taboos, each one has a psalm, God's voice, hearing God's voice, heart, heart monitor, inner listening, IT, listening skills, listening to God, power of words, taboo, transformation, Uncategorized, words
Tagged church, cloud storage, encouragement, heart care, hope, meditation, reboot, wisdom
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The body of Christ grows, nose to nose!
Jesus said: “The light of the body is the eye.” So let’s turn around and Look into each other’s eyes With unveiled faces, And experience Christ, The hope of glory, Living in other believers. Oneness in Christ Is a matter … Continue reading
Posted in burning heart, fire in the heart, heart, heart care, heart religion, heart-felt, heart-felt worship, hearts on fire, Jesus in my heart, pure in heart, the door of your heart, Uncategorized
Tagged Body of Christ, Christian, hope of glory, light of the body, Oneness in Christ, poem, rivers of living water, unveiled faces
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