Category: Shame
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Scorning Shame
2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 The Romans, during the first century, had perfected the art of execution through crucifixion.…
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The Power of Empathy
From cover to cover, God’s Word speaks about the dilemma of our pain and emotional turmoil. We have an honest record about the people of great diversity and great faith, who also experienced anxiety, fear, and depression. God’s Word does not sweep these accounts under the rug. Read the following…
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Death to Selfie
5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,6 who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with Godas something to be exploited.7 Instead he emptied himselfby assuming the form of a servant,taking on the likeness of humanity.And when he had come as a man,8 he humbled himself by becoming obedientto…
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Weight Watches
Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28 What is shame? Shame is agonising. Shame is an unbearable weight. Shame is burdensome. Shame is heavy. Shame is extra and unnecessary baggage we carry and it is exhausting. I hope to…
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Fragile Jars of Clay
God’s Word is revelation of God’s awesomeness and a narrative of humanity’s unrelenting journey of brokenness and shame. When I started trying to understand shame, i found many examples in God’s Word of the many ways evil tries to shame us. When we read over these, think about your life…
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Enough Already!
Shame. Shame is that ruthless voice in our minds. It is our inner critic that reminds us of all the detrimental and damaging things we have done, said or thought. Shame’s foundational dialect is crippling condemnation. Shame is a lying and deceitful voice. It is the inner critic that shouts,…
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The naked truth
“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”Genesis 3:7 CSB In Genesis, while reading the story of creation, we can acknowledge that the glory of God consumed the Garden of Eden and…
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Where are you?
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him,…
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remorse is not repentance.
I was thinking yesterday about the power of the Holy Spirit in us. I was asking the question: where has this change come from within me? What stopped me from this transformation over the years. I deeply cried out for help and change, but nothing ever seemed to change. I…
It Starts Small 