Lisa Murray
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Does God Want Me to Stay in an Unhappy Marriage?
If happiness is your primary expectation of marriage, you will most likely find yourself disillusioned and disappointed. Let's talk about God's view of marriage.Thursday, November 14, 2024
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3 Lies about Pornography That Could Be Destroying Your Marriage
Josh never thought he had a problem. He was like most other young teens who discovered porn while surfing online. I’ve got this, he told himself. No harm, right? No one will ever know. What he...Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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4 Ways to Embrace the Power of Grieving
How the Power of Grieving Prepares Us to Dance Death. It is an inescapable fact of life. Ecclesiastes 3:2,4 (NIV) describes that there is a season for everything, a time to be born and a time to...Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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Alcohol Addiction Recovery: 8 Critical Commitments to Minimize Relapse
To understand why relapse occurs as well as what individuals can do to minimize relapse, it is vital to look at several key contributors to addiction that can prove challenging to anyone’s...Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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8 Tips to Foster Resilience in Your Kids
Giving our children the belief that life “should” be fair only cripples them from focusing on their strengths or their goals, and leaves them feeling helpless to achieve their hopes and dreams in...Monday, June 10, 2019
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6 Strategies to Help You Thrive after Divorce
Few people walk down the aisle at their wedding, thinking about divorce. But it happens. The reality is that 5 in 10 marriages will end in divorce, and 3.8 in 10 evangelical Christian marriages...Friday, April 12, 2019
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4 Truths People with Mental Illness Need the Church to Know
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 1-in-5 adults in the U.S. — 43.8 million people — experience mental illness in a given year, and 21.4 percent of adolescents age 13-18...Monday, March 18, 2019
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Should You Take Care of the Parents Who Abused You?
The CDC estimates that 20 percent of children will be the victims of such maltreatment. These victims should have never experienced abuse. They never should have been at the firing end of a word or...Monday, October 8, 2018
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5 Powerful Un-Resolutions You Need to Try
Here we go again. It’s only been a few weeks into this new year and I’ve been inundated with an onslaught of goals, expectations, and resolutions I should have for myself this...Friday, January 5, 2018
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Three Lifelines That Can Help You Win the Battle Against Anxiety and Panic Attacks
While medication is necessary for some people, here are several strategies that can turn the tide and help you win the battle over extreme anxiety and panic attacks.Tuesday, October 17, 2017
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3 Ways to Cultivate Authenticity and Let Your Real Self Shine
Authenticity at its core is transparency and admission of failure. It's the rejection of insincerity and hypocrisy. It's truth-telling about all areas of life, even our soul spaces, where our...Monday, September 25, 2017
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How You Can Make Anxiety Work for You Instead of against You
We’ve all had moments where we were afraid. Fear is a natural emotion, a normal response to a real threat.Monday, September 11, 2017
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4 Ways to Embrace the Power in Grieving
Nothing in life can prepare us for the death of a loved one. Whether death results from a sudden accident or a sustained illness, it always catches us off-guard. Death is so deeply personal and...Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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Is Emotional Health a Spiritual Issue?
I learned the hard way. Just because I was raised in the church and was a passionate follower of Christ, that didn’t mean that I was whole on the inside. The truth was, I was an emotional wreck.Thursday, June 22, 2017
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Let the Church be the Church
Yet for many families dealing with mental illness within the Christian community, finding any kind of support or spiritual guidance can be challenging.Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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Why Gratitude Should be a Gift in Every Season of Your Life
When we give ourselves the gift of gratitude, we no longer live life running from the negative and fantasizing about the positive, obsessed with a utopia of perfection that doesn’t exist.Thursday, April 20, 2017
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Why Falling Down is Never the End of the Story
No matter where you are, no matter the struggles you face that have knocked you to the ground, or frozen you in your tracks, God hasn’t forgotten you. He hasn’t left you behind. He loves you – no...Tuesday, April 4, 2017
