Six Tips for Finding Help For Depression
Getting help for depression starts with a glance, then a look, then a small step, and then another. When you’re struggling to get up in the morning, feeling low energy and discouraged, it can be really hard to build up the will or enthusiasm or the motivation to ask for help. So, what should you do? Well, try to visualize help for depression in your [...]
Dealing with Stress Surrounding Positive Change
We tend to think stress goes hand in hand with times of struggle. It’s expected when a spouse has a chronic illness, a child’s grades are slipping, or there is financial strain. However, did you know that stress can also accompany positive change? Dealing with stress in times of growth or change is just as important as during negative circumstances. It’s easier to overlook [...]
Making Sense of Anger in the Bible
Some superheroes from comic books and movies have odd powers. some can shrink or grow their bodies at will, while others can manipulate the weather, and still others can heal even the most grievous of wounds. One fascinating hero is Dr. Bruce Banner, a mild-mannered scientist who was exposed to gamma radiation that now causes him to transform into the Hulk, a green monster powered [...]
24 Quotes on Married Life to Encourage You and Strengthen Your Marriage
A significant portion of the United States is married and adding the people across the world that are married now, and those that have been married across the ages, and you have yourself a deep pool of wisdom about marriage to draw from. There are many passages of Scripture that address husbands and wives, and that shape our understanding of marriage. This article is focused [...]
10 Bible Verses to Help You Cultivate Gratitude
Did you know that gratitude has been proven to lift your spirits? Study after study shows that people who practice daily gratitude have more joy and peace in their lives. You can have greater joy and peace too if you make a practice of showing God gratitude for the blessings in your life. How Gratitude Can Lift Your Spirits Gratitude can lift your spirits because [...]
4 Tips for Dealing with Ongoing Anger Issues
Most people have had at least one brush with anger in their lives, whether they’ve felt it themselves, or witnessed someone else feeling and expressing anger. There are plenty of things in this world that are worth becoming legitimately angry over, but people also get angry over things and in sinful ways. Anger can intrude in our lives unawares, as when a stranger erupts [...]
The Dangers of Over-Exercising
There are hundreds of different options a person can choose from to help them stay fit. And we no longer need to go out to stay fit, though the human interaction and fresh air outdoors are a definite plus. We now have apps by which our instructors can show us how to do the perfect one-minute plank, our phones and watches can track how much [...]
When It’s Not the Movie: Night Terrors in Children
There are few things in this world as frightening as a terrified child in the middle of the night. If your child is experiencing night terrors, you are not alone. An estimated 30% of children between the ages of three- and seven-years-old experience the phenomenon. But what causes night terrors? What is the difference between these scary episodes and nightmares? The Difference Between Dreams [...]
The Deep Value of Forgiving Others
When someone wrongs you, one natural response is to want to see justice (or vengeance) done. We want to hurt them as much as they’ve hurt us, if not more. The desire to pay back an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth runs deep within us. However, as someone once said, an eye for an eye will leave the entire [...]
When Doubt Comes: Wrestling with Your Spiritual Beliefs
It’s a terrifying yet fascinating thing to watch a tornado and the path of destruction it carves as it moves. Buildings and objects that we would normally consider to be immovable get picked up and thrown aside like leaves. Such awesome and terrifying power makes us question our significance and place in the universe. With the psalmist, we ask, “What are human beings, that you [...]