Self-criticism is crushing, but God can free us from it. All we have to do is be teachable.
Nine promises from the Bible about the healing power of honesty
Four steps you can take to let God transform you from the inside out.
Eight signs of attention-seeking and how to break free from it.
It’s important to constantly work at having the faith to be ourselves.
In our most difficult moments, in our most hopeless times, and in our darkest days, prayer is the way out.
The Bible gives us a lot of examples of people who found the courage to be themselves by believing that God loved them for who they were.
Because God has unlimited mercy, we can feel confident that anything we bring up to him will be met with compassion, understanding, and forgiveness.
This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home.
But how do we become a light that shines brightly before others? The first step is making sure we choose not to live in darkness ourselves.
God wants honesty and closeness; he doesn’t just want to hear the right answers.
When we learn to make God a personal friend, he will become real to us, and in doing so teach us how to become a “true friend” to others.