Do you have good heathy boundaries in your life. We are going to introduce to you what boundaries are and how you can start implementing them.
With Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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Do you find yourself complaining? Here is our conversation on how to overcome complaining.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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In today’s episode we talk about grief and loss.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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On Our Lips And In Our Hearts
Did you know that fewer than half of adults read scripture? According to the Pew Research Center 35% of adults read the Bible at least once a week. 10% read once or twice a month. 8% read several times a year, and 45% seldom or never read the Bible. There are 1-2% that do not know how often they read the Bible. These percentages show that there is a large majority of people who rarely read the Bible, and it is safe to say that we are living in a time where the majority of all adults do not read or study the Bible.
In the book of Joshua, chapter 1, God told Joshua to be strong and very courageous; to carefully obey all the law He gave Moses; not to turn to the left or right; to keep the law on his lips; meditating on them day and night. God said that Joshua and the people will be prosperous and successful. When Joshua died and the Israelites entered the time of the Judges, they forgot God’s law. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes, and God’s favor and protection departed. There was no peace. Horrible things happened to the Israelites from both themselves and their enemies. Even though God raised up judges to save them from the hands of their enemies the people turned away from God. His words were not on their lips or in their hearts.
How many of us are walking through this life without the Word of God on our lips and in our hearts? We want to encourage you to make the scriptures a daily diet. Consume the Word of God, so that He can direct our lives, renew our minds, and give us peace.
We are continuing our conversation on worry and anxiety.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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Today’s episode we talk about worry.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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This is Part 2 on a talk about Grace.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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This is Part 1 on a talk about Grace.
With Kevin Phillips, Laura Dahne, and Joseph Ferreira
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Setting The Trajectory
Kevin Phillips
Have you ever asked yourself, “where am I going in life, what’s my purpose, what do I want to accomplish, what kind of person do I want to be or become?” Growing up I always marveled at people who somehow inherently knew what they wanted to do in life. My daughter for example has known since she was in elementary school that she wanted to be an elementary school teacher. In high school I could never relate to other students who knew what they wanted to do and what they wanted to study in college. I felt like I was on the outside looking in. I didn’t understand why I had no idea what to do in life. It was so frustrating and at times I kind of felt like a loser. I really didn’t know that my calling was to be a therapist/counselor until my late 30’s, wow talk about a late bloomer. But after I reflected on this meandering way of settling upon a profession, I realized that all my frustrations and confusion and life experiences gave me the ability to become a better, more effective, real therapist that could relate to people. Then I started to realize that as individuals we need to set a trajectory for ourselves. If not, where are we flying to, where are we going, what do we stand for, what’s the purpose?
Anger Is Not Necessarily Bad
Kevin Phillips
The following is a quote from T.D Jakes in his book entitled, Let It Go, “Often anger helps us to confront what we would otherwise ignore. Occasionally, I hear people teach others to simply move on from an offense and forget it. But the truth of the matter is it’s difficult to move on when you haven’t had your say. The lack of closure can become a sticking point that keeps you attached to an incident from which you need to be free”. Anger is a natural emotion, an emotion that can either be bad and destructive or good and constructive depending on how one expresses it and acts upon it. Let’s be honest for a minute; if we have lived a few years, we have probably seen ourselves use anger in a right and constructive way and we have probably seen ourselves use anger is not so good ways. Hopefully in our lives the good greatly out-weighs the bad. It only takes seconds for anger to get the best of us. Anger can move us to do and say some pretty stupid things and create great pain. Anger can destroy parent/child relationships, rob marriages, zap work-place camaraderie, create drama. Anger can destroy sports teams, organizations and just about everything else man puts his hands too. Anger is often borne out of our trauma, broken relationships, from our parents’ neglect and craziness, failed opportunities, people cheating on us and otherwise letting us down. It becomes apparent, as we mature and gain insight and perspective, that we as individuals deserve and need to eradicate unhealthy, painful and destructive anger out of our character before, like Covid, it infects everything around us. If we’re not careful, we’ll wake up one day and discover that our unhealthy anger has destroyed the better parts of what we long for.