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?
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.
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.
Now regarding your question about food that has been offered […]
God wants us to have friends we can be completely ourselves with, but this can only happen if we let go of control.
The “Transparency Quiz” is a simple set of questions whose purpose is to sensitize and make us aware of our level of transparency. Find out where you are at and figure out how to get to where you want to be.
“Deep Transparency” is a spiritual state of security with God, where we overcome our fear of being emotionally honest with him and people.