Lance Brown
How Life Feels: Envy
Envy’s greatest work is to produce discouragement, but we rarely see the connection. The secret to understanding envy is to see what envy exposes in us. The very thing/person/condition/station we are so envious of IS an IDOL of our own making! Our heart places that person/thing/condition in the place of God. “If only I had THAT,…
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How Life Feels: Anger
Sometimes we just can shake our feelings of anger. Our efforts to deal with anger are usually as effective as cutting weeds down at ground level. If the roots aren’t dealt with weeds grow back. The same is true with anger. So we ask ourselves: Why do I keep getting angry over the same things? Why am…
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How Life Feels: Rejection
This week we are looking at the light topic of rejection. We have all experienced the pain and isolation that comes with being rejected in some way or another. Let’s take a deeper look at what rejection is, and how to overcome it.
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How Life Feels: Discouragement
Discouragement is all about misplaced hopes. But why do we deal with it? What causes it? Prov. 13:12 says that “HOPE deferred makes the heart sick.” Your battles with discouragement will not change that much without God exposing our false and futile hopes and changing them to certain hope.
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Re-opening
There has been a lot in the news this week about reopening. One of the things that seems to be fueling the lifting of stay-at-home orders, is a letter/petition sent by 600 doctors, to president Trump. It wrote about the lock-down as a “mass casualty incident.” They point out that cancer screenings are way down. …
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How Life Feels: Like a Mystery
Sometimes life seems VERY confusing! Big questions arise, like: Why is God silent? Has God abandoned me? Or even, is God attacking me? During times like this it seems as if God is doing nothing. In truth He is doing two very important things! This week we’ll look at what two of those things are, and…
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