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2 Strategies for Mastering Emotions: Fruit and Roots

May 26, 2016

HEALING (PHYSICAL-EMOTIONAL), PRAYER AND MINISTRY

What do you do when stuff happens? Do you get stressed or depressed? Do your emotions take over? How hard is it to get free of the negative ones? What is your strategy for mastering your emotions and returning to the river of peace Jesus provides? Many Christians are held captive by their emotional life. If this is you, there is hope, but you will have to learn how to fight for your freedom. Be forewarned, I don’t mean fighting…

What Causes Addiction? (It’s Not a Chemical Hook!)

May 3, 2016

Healing Streams

ADDICTIONS, STRONGHOLDS TO OVERCOME

What? Substance abuse isn’t due to a chemical hook? You may have heard this all your life, but it isn’t true. There are four excellent reasons why it’s not and the first three of them are already known to most of us. Somehow, the facts don’t register like they should. Even the men in our yearlong recovery program typically come to us programmed (by culture) to believe that the substance itself was all-powerful. They should know better, they need to…

How Our Worst Things Become the Best (Thanks to God’s Promise of Redemption)

April 8, 2016

Healing Streams

BELIEVING THE TRUTH, KNOWING GOD

Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead our Father displayed a power which goes beyond forgiving our sins and getting us safely to heaven. I have no desire to diminish these well-known works of the cross—they are stupendous sources of joy impossible to reduce. I do, however, want to draw your attention to an all-too-often overlooked and unclaimed power always available, ever at work…

The ABCs of Emotional Intelligence (How to Live Free of Negative Emotions)

March 11, 2016

Healing Streams

HEALING (PHYSICAL-EMOTIONAL), INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM

Everyone has emotions. The question is: Do they have you? Are you the head, or have you mostly been the tail? Do your emotions feel like a pack of wild dogs that require a lot of effort just keeping them under control, or are they like a herd of reindeer moving as one? If they’re like wild dogs, your first need is for recovery. If they’re like the reindeer, you have already passed into mastery. Learning how to get free…