Dear Slavic Christian, If you look at God through the lens of your relationship with your parents, you will struggle to love, trust, and accept His love. God is unlike your mom and dad in the painful, rejecting, critical, conditional, unforgiving, impatient, angry, and/or dissatisfied...
Dear Slavic Christian, just because you have an intrusive thought or feeling doesn’t mean you must act on it. Let’s explore this further with a personal example. I’ve struggled all week. My negative thoughts preyed on my insecurities. The parts that are vulnerable and healing,...
“The food finds the table, the money finds the vacation fund, the family even finds a church every Sunday, but somehow our hearts are undiscovered by the two people that most need to know and love us-our parents.” -Curt Thompson When I heard this quote,...
Dear Slavic Christian, How often do the following govern your actions, thoughts, and feelings? Self-sufficiency, self-confidence, self-love, self-admiration, self-pity, self-righteousness. As long as you’re driven by “self,” you are god. It won’t be until you get off the throne that He can take His rightful...