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Category Archives: Bitterness
Expectation→ Disappointment→ Anger → Resentment
Don’t miss seven steps for uprooting bitterness and dealing with revenge. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Anger, Bitterness, Change, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Resentment, Revenge
Tagged anger, bitterness, resentment, Revenge
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When forgotten and deserted
It hurts to be forgotten and deserted. But when faced with such experiences, we only multiply our pain when we choose… Continue reading
Posted in Bitterness, Comfort, Despair, Forgiveness, Resentment, Suffering, Trials
Tagged abandoned, deserted, forgotten, rejected by friends
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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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When you feel like getting revenge
Seven responses when you feel like getting revenge. Continue reading
The way out of resentment
Is it possible to carry deep resentments and not even be aware of the power they hold over you?
One woman learned the power of suppressed resentment fifteen years after a tragic accident. Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Bitterness, Forgiveness, Resentment
Tagged anger, bitterness, Forgiveness, resentment
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No one came to my support
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. It’s natural to default toward self-pity and resentment when we feel forgotten and unappreciated. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Christian life, Comfort, Discouragement, Forgiveness, Jesus Christ, Loss
Tagged abandoned, Alone, bitter, Deserted by others, forgotten, God's presence, lonely, resentful
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Don’t let them drag you down
We don’t want to be in the group identified as “grumblers and faultfinders” (Jude 16). Continue reading
Discouragement – a “dis” on courage
We cannot adequately encourage those who have lost perspective without discouraging them from a frame of mind that binds them to their discouragement. (Read it again).
Getting out of the fog of despondency often requires a little loving admonishment. Caring friends will cross this line with love and sensitivity when they sense we need a better perspective. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Attitude, Bitterness, Christian Counselor, Christian life, Christian worldview, Comfort, Complaceny, Complaining, Confession, Counseling, Depression, Despair, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith, Holistic ministry, Joy
Tagged Counseling, dealing with discouragement, Depression, Despair, Discouraged
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Confused about God in a world of suffering
In our efforts to understand how God relates to the evil actions of humans (or even to His own acts of judgment), we must make some important distinctions concerning God’s will. Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Assurance, Atheism, Atheists, Bitterness, Christian worldview, Comfort, D. A. Carson, Depravity, Despair, Doctrine, Doubt, Evil in the world, God, God's Patience, God's control, God's Heart, God's power, God's Protection, God's Will, Hope?, Jesus Christ, Justice, Origin of Sin, Pain, Problem of evil, Salvation, Seeking God, Sin, Sovereignty, Suffering, Theodicy, Theology, Will of God
Tagged Does God care? God and evil, God's will, Problem of evil, why so much suffering in the world? Evil
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Scene 3 – Life as a prisoner
Often in life we become the object of other people’s passions. Joseph was the object of parental favoritism, sibling envy and hatred and now lust and false accusation by Potiphar’s wife. Continue reading