Well, the truth of the matter is, most people don’t think that have guilt and then this week’s lesson on confronting it, might easily be avoided. Until we turn the page and realize how truthful, and close this message hits home. This week in chapter 11 of Enemies of the Heart, we get some direction…
Last week we finished Part Two of our journey through Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley. revealing the Fantastic Four; guilt, anger, jealousy and greed, with the basic principles of: Guilt: “I owe you” Anger: “You owe me” Greed: “I owe me” Jealousy: “God owes me” Now that we have the foundational principles, what…
As we go into part two of Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley, we are presented with the foundation of the book. Debt. Our heart can grow weary. Things impact our physical heart, such as high cholesterol, triglycerides, and hypertension, to name a few. As devastating as these can be, there are four other…
We continue this week in our journey through the book, Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley. This week we learn a bit about our behaviors, our motivations and a bit of insight about the hand we have been dealt. For most of us, we are expected to play well with others and to get…
How’s your heart We begin our journey again through the book by Andy Stanley titled “Enemies of the Heart”. The basic idea of the book is to grasp the idea that there is opposition to our happiness. That we have this internal aspect of us that gets impacted by others and by our selves. The…
This week we look at how boundaries can help resolve many work-related problems, as well as how they can help us to be happier and more fulfilled at the work we do. The fact is that we do get some of our identity from what we do. We are labeled by what we do, or…
A wonderful chapter in Boundaries by Townsend and Cloud this week, on how things could have been and should have been. The reality of it is that each of us has been a child and we have survived. Whether we learned healthy boundaries or not, we survived. Now the result of our adolescent exposure to…
Boundaries are a topic guys can listen to. They are something that deep down we know we need to pay attention to, but the one most important is also the most avoided and most painful to implement. It is rooted in fear, fueled by anxiety and mostly dreaded by all married men, boundaries with their…
Many of us have thought that boundaries were needed only for enemies or those we don’t get along with. But the fact of the matter is that we have boundaries with everybody we interact with. Some are more strict and demonstrated boundaries, others are more laxed and fluid. Nonetheless, we do have boundaries with friends…
Boundaries, ours, theirs, and definition of space. We have heard over the years about “our space”. In life we can visually see this all the time when individuals all adjust and adapt to personal space with others. We have experienced ourselves, all the time, everyday. Even this morning when we arrived. There were strangers, there…