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- Stuck in the Heartache of Deferred Hope
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- It’s Simply a Matter of Time
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- One Thing You Lack: Finding the Joy in Giving (until it hurts a little)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- The Good, the Bad, and the… Hey! What's that Monkey on my Back?
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A Bipolar Experience
- Under My Skin (when the answer is “NO” in the Age of Grace)
- Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
- What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
Applied Recovery
- And Justice for All… When Love Isn't Fair (Recovery from Entitlement)
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- Listen with LUV … It's Not About the Nail
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- Power of the Least Interested Party (Recovery from the "Need" to be Right & in Control)
- Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Step by Step… One Day at a Time (A 12-Step Study)
- Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
- When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
Revolutionary Faith
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Doubt in the Madness of the Perfect Storm
- Heaven, Hell, 3-Foot Forks, and My Problem with Hank
- If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
- Justified… Just if I'd Never Needed a Root Canal
- Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)
- Mustard-Seed Faith: What’s so moving about that mountain, anyway?
- Open Sesame… The Way Out is the Way In
- Revolutionary Transformation (Evidence for Faith)
- Stock Exchange: Sound Investment Strategy
- Strike It Rich… Oil that Is!
- The Problem of Pain… A Study of the Father's Discipline
- Thirsty? (Never Thirst Again!)
- Trapped in a Life on Fire! (and still playing with matches)
- Walk on Water Lately? (“Faith is an ocean you can walk on”)
- What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes)
- Whoosh! (A Testimony of Divine Intervention)
Beware
- "Do I Know You?" (Beware of Dogs)
- Are You Numb to the Glory? (Beware of Complacency)
- I Can "Manage" Just Fine (Beware of Illusions)
- My Way or the High Way (Beware of the Idol)
- Romancing the Stone (Beware of What You Worship)
- To Believe or Not Believe? (Beware of Cynics Preying on Faith)
- Who is Born Again? – "Secret password, please…" (Beware of Self-righteousness)
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Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. So they … Continue reading
Posted in ADMIT: Accept and admit that my life is out of control, BELIEVE: Accept and believe that God is in Control, COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged ambivalence, ambivalent, discontentment, emotional distrust. supernatural, failed expectations, intellectual faith, power struggle, resistance, two dogs, two wolves
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Stuck in the Heartache of Deferred Hope
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” —Public Domain Of course, we have all been disappointed a whole bunch in our lives. Something didn’t work out. It didn’t come on time. Someone let us down. … Continue reading
DUI: Desire Under the Influence
“What can this incessant craving, and this impotence of attainment mean unless there was once a happiness belonging to man, of which only the faintest of traces remain, in that void which he attempts to fill with everything within his … Continue reading
The Problem of Pain… A Study of the Father’s Discipline
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom for MEdom Project …also, consider reading the sequel to this article, “Doubt in the Madness of the Perfect Storm” There is physical pain, psychological pain, and spiritual pain. Jesus said that we are to love … Continue reading
What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes, what happens?)
Can you see the forest for the trees? by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project The King is indeed Coming! When we’ve been here ten thousand years… bright shining as the sun. We’ve no less days to sing God’s … Continue reading
What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes, will love be there?)
Can you see the forest for the trees? Give me a word – give me a sign Show me where to look – tell me what will I find? Lay me on the ground and fly me in the sky … Continue reading
Power of the Least Interested Party… When Love Isn’t Fair
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Ever wonder why it seems someone usually has the upper hand in a relationship? Between spouses? Between friends? Between teacher and student, employer and employee? Between parents and their children? Who has … Continue reading
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Tagged authentic love, equal, fair, faithful, forgive, forgiveness, giving, grace, gracious, jealous, jealousy, just, justice, leverage, leverage in relationships, love, mercy, power, power of the least interested, power of the least invested, sincere love, submission, submit, surrender
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And Justice for All… When Love Isn’t Fair
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him. Ecclesiastes 10:12 (HCSB) Why is it that it tends to be so difficult to … Continue reading
Posted in ADMIT: Accept and admit that my life is out of control, BELIEVE: Accept and believe that God is in Control, COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged control, control in relationships, equal, fair, faithful, forgive, forgiveness, giving, grace, gracious, jealous, jealousy, just, justice, leverage, leverage in relationships, love, mercy, power, power of the least interested, power of the least invested
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When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Is trust something to be earned or is trust something that is lost? One person might say, “How could you? I trusted you, completely. I don’t think I can trust you anymore.” … Continue reading
Posted in BELIEVE: Accept and believe that God is in Control, COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged abandoned, abused, betrayed, broken, disappointed, disappointment, failure, family problems, guilt, hurt, neglected, pain, rejected, relationships, shame, trust
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Jonny Lang’s Turn Around Testimony
Jonny Lang: Finding Peace in Amazing Grace by Amy Hammond Hagberg Excerpt from ‘How Do You Know He’s Real: Celebrity Reflections of True Life Experiences with God‘ CBN.com – Jonny Lang has been called a prodigy, a virtuoso, and a … Continue reading
Pop Goes the Weasel… Managing Conflict, Anger, & Resentment
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “We will sacrifice anything on the altar of our anger, the rage that is slowly building from a lifetime of thwarted desire—our marriages, our child’s self-esteem, someone’s very life. —John Eldredge, author, The … Continue reading
Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project We tend to be the most vulnerable with the ones we love the most. With vulnerability comes risk. With risk comes suspect expectation. With failed expectations comes disappointment. With disappointment comes pain. … Continue reading
Under My Skin (When the answer is “NO” in the Age of Grace)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project In order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it … Continue reading
What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him. John 6:66 (NLT) Much of the world these days lives in perilous times; a sign that we are likely in … Continue reading
Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “To live with desire is to choose vulnerability over self-protection; to admit our desire and seek help beyond ourselves is even more vulnerable. It is an act of trust. In other words, … Continue reading
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Tagged ambivalence, ambivalence in recovery, ambivalent, ambivalent about recovery, better than it was, do you want to be made well, do you want to get well, good is the enemy of great, Jesus heals the paralytic, Jesus is a role model, slave to sin, stop sinning or something worse may happen, the truth will set you free, transformed by the renewing of your mind
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Are You Under the Influence?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “I can to some extent control my acts. I have no direct control over my temperament. If what we are matters even more than what we do—if indeed if what we do … Continue reading
The Joy-Integrity Connection
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 1 John 1:5-9 (NLT) In a seminar I … Continue reading
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Tagged integrity, joy, obedience, obey
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Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project If you have mostly turned your will and your life over to the will of God in your life, mostly surrendered to His plan for you, have you truly surrendered? If you … Continue reading
“I Hate Myself… or Do I? (Restoring Self-Esteem)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Often central to the war within the mind is the notion that feeling unworthy and undeserving of love reflects the absence of self-love. The reality is that if we did not love … Continue reading