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You Are Not Your Feelings: Finding Emotional Maturity
Our culture encourages us to trust our feelings above almost everything else. But what if our feelings aren’t telling us the whole truth? Drawing on Scripture, Viktor Frankl, Arthur C. Brooks and the example of Jesus, this article explores what emotional maturity looks like and why followers of Jesus can acknowledge every feeling honestly without allowing those feelings to become their master.
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I miss my mate, Phil.
My mate Phil passed away in the early hours of Sunday the 29th of December. I miss him. I don't know why some people are healed and others are not. Phil had so much more to give.
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The Christianity that I don’t really like
There is an aspect of Christian discipleship that I am slowly, and unwillingly, coming to grips with. I have made the mistake of reading a lot of N.T. Wright, and have found that the way he frames the journey of Christianity is deeply and personally confronting – mainly because I know it is true, and I don’t like it! Wright points out that some Christians focus on the cross and God’s grace. For them, what was important was that he was born, and then he died and was resurrected. His life was simply the interval between those two great events. For others, Wright asserts, the major focus is on Jesus’…
