Hoarding Gifts

Hoarding Gifts

Do you like receiving gifts? “Receiving gifts” is actually a love language. Gary Chapman, the author of Five Love Languages writes, “Don’t mistake this love language for materialism; the receiver of gifts thrives on the love, thoughtfulness,...
Hoarding Gifts

Fixed or Open Mindset

Faculty of Vanderbilt University led a study on trust and how implicit beliefs moderate trust erosion. Harvard Business Review wrote an article about the issue of trust, “When Trust is Easily Broken, and When It’s Not.” The study shared that scholars...
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Relationships and Experiences

Love cannot exist without relationship. One of the powerful components of the Trinity is that it shows us how God exists in relationship, and it is all about love. The way that Jesus, Sarayu, and Papa relate to each other in The Shack give us ideas of how we can...
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Circles versus Chains

How different would our relationships be with one another if we were in a circle of relationship instead of in a chain command or “great chain of being?” What if we examine our existence with one another? It’s probably something we don’t like...
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What happens when we “Go Straight?”

And if we are looking for something FROM the other person, that isn’t humility. Relationships are messy. A relationship is “the state of being connected.” In our day to day lives, we are connected with other people. And when we are connecting in day...
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Freedom Takes Time

Freedom Takes Time. We are all “held” by something in our lives and that something often comes in between us and God. Whether it is our pain, our shame, our fear, our anger . . . unless we truly have experienced full atonement (at one with God), something...