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    You Are Not Your Feelings: Finding Emotional Maturity

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    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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    Why Hope Matters More Than Ever

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    Hope is the conviction that the future is good and worth moving toward. Yet many people today feel uncertain about where the world is heading. The real question is not whether we have hope, but where that hope comes from. When people build their own maps for life, they often get lost. Real hope is not invented. It is discovered.

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