Tag Archives: Encouragement

“Don’t Feel That Way?” Why Encouragement Doesn’t Always Work

It happens all of the time. Someone is hurting, overcome in anguish and loss, and the natural response is “Don’t feel that way.”  Haven’t we discovered that feelings are not so easily controlled?  Don’t feel that way?  Too late, I already do! What happens next can be classic.  When another does not “receive” our encouragement we can begin to experience… Read more »

I Timothy Leadership – Part 1

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Read through I Timothy chapter one – but read it differently.  How does Paul “lead” Timothy?  This is a personal letter we are invited into by the Lord.  Most of us read scripture from the vantage of how we may be taught in our lives without the full power of entering the story and becoming the characters.  Sit in Paul’s… Read more »