One day in the early 1990s, psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen had a hard day at the office. He met with several patients, including four people who were suicidal, two teen runaways and two married couples who couldn’t stand each other. He came home that evening to a kitchen infested with…
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All too often I speak with people who mourn their past. And I get it. My past wasn’t full of rainbows and unicorns. I wasn’t served up opportunities on a silver platter. (In fact, any silver platters I’ve ever had, I found for a bargain price at a thrift store…
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You’ve probably heard 1 Corinthians 13 before. It is often called the “love chapter.” You’ve probably heard it read at weddings. I grew up hearing it in songs. I colored pictures in Sunday school with it printed on the bottom. But it’s something I have to remind myself of, when…
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There is no shame in this needing each other; need is our greatest need. This is how we live the love story of our dreams. This is the way of all the epic love stories: Dependence deepens attachment. Vulnerably tying hearts to each other isn’t tying us down; it’s pulling…
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The enemy’s attacks on an unbeliever are very different from his attacks on a believer. In the lives of people who have not put their trust in the saving work of Christ, the devil’s goal is to keep them from doing so. Ultimately, he wants to keep people eternally separated…
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A love letter to the exhausted, the beaten down, the spread-too-thin, the ones who feel like giving up. This one is for you. That light in you hasn’t gone out, my friend. You only think it has. You only sit there in the darkness, surrounded by the smoke of a…
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A well-known writer once wrote, “The essential thing ‘in heaven and in earth’ is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Ask any marathon runner —…
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One of my favorite verses, and lifelong prayers, comes from Mark 9:17-24 where Jesus encountered a man whose son suffered from seizures. When the father brought him before Jesus, the boy fell to the ground, convulsing and foaming at the mouth. The father begged, “If You can do anything, take…
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