In a previous post, passive aggressive behavior was explored and some examples given of what it can look like. Passive-aggression is a dysfunctional means of communicating anger or resentment through procrastination, sullenness, pouting, obstructing, feigned forgetfulness, and other methods that avoid direct confrontation. Passive aggressive people may be seething with ...
Read More »What Is Evil Really? Who is the Solution?
The world is full of evil and we have no way, it seems, to stop it or effectively deal with it. But what is evil? Evil is defined as “morally wrong or bad; wicked”, but what does that even mean, to be morally wrong? To be morally wrong is to ...
Read More »Mind Games: “Abstain from every form of evil”
A friend who comes from a family with a long legacy of generational witchcraft once said, “If someone plays mind games with you, it’s completely evil.” His cautionary advice stayed with me as I saw it played out in work situations, extended family relationships, and even the church. Over the ...
Read More »Questions Atheists Tend to Ask Part 6: Why is “Thou shalt not rape” Not Part of the Ten Commandments?
Why is, “Thou shalt not rape,” one of the Ten Commandments? That is a question I’ve heard asked by atheists more than a few times. Well it is contained in the 10 Commandments, one just needs look deep enough to understand that the Ten Commandments cover every moral situation there is. In the case of rape, that ...
Read More »A “Bag of Hope” for the Hurting
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ~John 15:12 “Pajamas”. It seems like a strange word to hear from the Lord, yet to Pebbles Thompson, founder of Project Ignite Light, this simple earthly object has become something greater for the Kingdom. Prior to ...
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