Knowing God's Will

Are you trying to figure out God’s will for your life? Well, you aren’t alone, for many years I struggled with this very question. Listen as Evangelist Harold Vaughan and I discuss how to know God’s will for your life.

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Making Decisions

Does having a daily relationship with God make decision making easier? Listen as Tami Heim details how her relationship with God helps her make decisions in her life and her families life. Tami Heim has been the president and CEO of Christian Leadership Alliance since January 2012. Her professional career includes executive leadership experience in the technology, marketing, publishing and retail industries. Learn more about the Christian Leadership Alliance at https://christianleadershipalliance.org/ Check out this episode!

Denial Leads to Depression

Denial and depression are no joke. These are both powerful emotions that we often underestimate in terms of the effects they have on our lives. When left unchecked they have a profound effect on us and those around us. When we're in denial we are avoiding having to deal with something, whether it's a particular situation, person, or responsibility. We imagine what dealing with those things would look like, often blowing it out of proportion in our minds. We put words in other people's mouths and tell ourselves stories about why things are the way they are, and end up deciding not to deal with it at all. Over time, not dealing with those things can lead to anxiety or even guilt as situations get worse. That can lead either to anger or depression. Anger relates directly to denial since it can cause us to blame everyone else, to feel like a victim. Feeling like a victim, like life is just happening to you, robs you of a sense of power and control. That sense of ...

The Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect – “the continuing and spreading results of an event or action” Emotions like anger, blame, and self-centered rationalization all have something big in common. They destroy balance and quite often can lead to depressed feelings. They feed each other because they all stimulate feelings that lead the same place. Being angry all the time tends to encourage blaming everyone else around you. Rationalizing why nothing is your fault reinforces your anger at everyone. I can remember plenty of times I fell into this pattern years ago, before I got my anger under control. When employees didn't understand tasks I'd given them, or didn't complete them to my satisfaction, I'd give out hard criticism as feedback. I told myself at the time that if they couldn't take my criticism they were too weak to be on my team. That kind of thinking made it impossible for me to acknowledge whether my instructions had been unclear, or whether there was any validity to ...

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