God wants to give us lasting confidence and teaches us how to get it through his early disciples.
How do we get out of the constant cycle of comparison?
God is relational; he wants a friendship with us, not a religious performance.
The Bible is full of people who have learned from God how to be friends that understand, connect with, admire, challenge, and love each other.
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.
How I learned that truth is my friend, not my enemy.
Transparency is one of the best weapons we have against the loneliness the world around us is experiencing.
Vulnerability is key to building real and meaningful relationships
The following are three traps we can easily fall into that will weigh our hearts down, followed by three conversations we can have that will help ensure that we come out of the holidays stronger than we were when we went in.
Do you understand yourself? God knows who we really are and can help us get to the root of things. We just have to be willing to let him.
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God wants us to have friends we can be completely ourselves with, but this can only happen if we let go of control.